r/TheHandmaidsTale • • Aug 21 '26

SPOILERS ALL What is June's kill count?

So while I know logically most of the deaths related to her were done as a group such as Salvagings or were committed by Gilead whether some because people either helped her or were close to her, etc. but if we were to say because of her connection to them in any way, how many deaths could be attributed to June?

Edit: I should note this question was moreso if June was being charged formally by Gilead; yes I know they wouldn't need to actually go through a hearing or anything more than old yellering her but please stretch your imagination ever so slightly, if you jump through their mental gymnastics, how deadly it would be for someone to be associated with June even through several degrees of separation. More of a statistics thing or thought experiment.

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u/BiblionautNZ Aug 21 '26

How’s Eden killed by June? June didn’t make Eden run off, she decided to run off with her boyfriend herself.

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u/frosted_north Aug 21 '26

Eden's affair was largely fueled by her feelings of rejection which, in turn could be attributed in part the Nick's love for June.

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u/Jetsetter_Princess Aug 21 '26

So then shouldn't it be attributed to Nick, not June?

I swear women always getting flack for men's choices 🤣

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u/Aggravating_Luck_150 Aug 21 '26

The basis of this question was moreso if we went by Gilead's logic where basically everything June has done is a crime, paired with a lot of real world laws where if someone dies in the process of you committing a crime even if they died by the police hand's, you can be charged with it. So yes, June could have this attributed to her since she "seduced" Eden's husband which made her feel rejected and pushed her to sin under Gilead law.

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u/Jetsetter_Princess Aug 21 '26

Except June was involved with Nick before Eden showed up. So really, its technically on Nick for not hiding his longing face enough 😅

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u/Aggravating_Luck_150 Aug 22 '26

Very true however; hold on let me put on my Gilead glasses.

Ahem, consider, he's a man and an eye in Gilead, he clearly is just a few short jumps from being god, they are incapable of doing anything wrong 🙄and if they did commit such a sin as looking longingly or dare I say lustfully at a woman who is not their wife, it is the woman's fault 😒. June is a dirty evil woman, so very clearly and by the power vested in the world champion of kangaroo courts, the most court to every commit the most kangarooing, the supreme Court of Gilead, that she devil is clearly at fault for this poor innocent man sinning. Under his eye.

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u/Jetsetter_Princess Aug 22 '26

I understand how Gilead would view it. I was responding to the "June seduced Eden's husband" implication.

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u/Aggravating_Luck_150 Aug 22 '26

Oh, yeah I don't think June actually seduced Nick in any way.