See, I tend to be of the opinion that if Angharad had decided to scar herself up, she would have gone full-out hideous with it. A woman who'll lean out of a moving truck with people shooting all over the place while about seven months pregnant is not to be underestimated in the willpower department. (Although I agree that what she's got looks rather deliberately placed -- maybe she comes from somewhere there's already a scarification tradition*?) But I like the idea of it becoming a part of her cult, either way.
And I was definitely talking about the guitar truck, yeah. And tearing my hair out over precisely the question of "ARGH FUCK HOW IS THIS EVEN GOING TO WORK." (I think the fascinating/problematic/terrible thing is that they're getting pitched straight into the deep end before they've had the time to work out a viable system of governmental ethics. There's going to be at least one TERRIBLE sitiation with no good answer, really early on -- man, I'm remembering how much I loved this shit back when I was watching BSG.)
* I could see that, you know; if you have a perfectly whole and healthy kid they have to be ritually scarred so the local gods won't notice them and take them away too soon? People do much worse things on shakier logic; the other wives don't seem to have any visible damage going on, but who knows how many distinct subcommunities Joe's been raiding?
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And I was definitely talking about the guitar truck, yeah. And tearing my hair out over precisely the question of "ARGH FUCK HOW IS THIS EVEN GOING TO WORK." (I think the fascinating/problematic/terrible thing is that they're getting pitched straight into the deep end before they've had the time to work out a viable system of governmental ethics. There's going to be at least one TERRIBLE sitiation with no good answer, really early on -- man, I'm remembering how much I loved this shit back when I was watching BSG.)
* I could see that, you know; if you have a perfectly whole and healthy kid they have to be ritually scarred so the local gods won't notice them and take them away too soon? People do much worse things on shakier logic; the other wives don't seem to have any visible damage going on, but who knows how many distinct subcommunities Joe's been raiding?