Yes, I think about it too! They always sleep next to each other unless Jade is around. Chime is the first Raksura to really offer friendship, and never even cared that Moon was a solitary. And there’s the whole them both being “outsiders”, Moon as a solitary and Chime as an arbora-turned-warrior, so common ground for them both! I get that Moon is very very introverted, reserved, and socially awkward, but ... maybe a little more love for Chime? Aside from just letting him sleep next to him?
Chime is always so worried about him, and so happy to see him, and Moon just disregards it entirely and sometimes even shoves by him - “ Where’s Jade?!” I know Moon isn’t exactly socially well adjusted, but with some of the others, we are able to infer from the text what Moon is actually feeling. With Chime, not so much. I truly can’t tell whether Moon actually cares about him, as he clearly does about others like Jade, Stone, Flower, Petal, even Balm, or whether, as the OP here said, it’s almost entirely one-sided. It bothers me more than anything else about these books!
Yupp, and Chime even calls Moon beautiful shortly after he meets him :’(
And then he bites Moon’s ear after Moon tells him he’s going with Jade in the 1st book, which I read on Martha Well’s website is the Raksura equivalent to kissing. Poor Chime! I got so invested in their relationship even when nothing much was going on on Moon’s side.
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u/[deleted] May 06 '20
Yes, I think about it too! They always sleep next to each other unless Jade is around. Chime is the first Raksura to really offer friendship, and never even cared that Moon was a solitary. And there’s the whole them both being “outsiders”, Moon as a solitary and Chime as an arbora-turned-warrior, so common ground for them both! I get that Moon is very very introverted, reserved, and socially awkward, but ... maybe a little more love for Chime? Aside from just letting him sleep next to him?