Parents’ actions

I think the way the parents move is genuinely so interesting because after they do something negative I’m left here thinking “oh they just don’t care” but then they prove they do. Like when the father sends him away I’m thinking he’s only using his child as a pawn for diplomacy like when he tells him to make friends to strengthen diplomacy but he also told him that so his son isn’t lonely in a strange land all by himself.

Also the fact that almost all the adults tell him to rely on them since they probably see that he’s would be incredibly lonely without his sister and assistant