

The ending symbolizes the culmination of the violent forces put in motion by Iago at the start of the play. Cassio is charged with determining Iago’s punishment, and urges the time, the place, the torture, oh, enforce it (5.2.). But Nick always knew that the sea would claim him, and all of Mattie’s love cannot prevent the tragedy that is their destiny. Notably, Iago is left wounded but alive at the end of the play. Life on Lethe is transforming for Mattie. Motherthrower (Vriska's Good Ending) For Option 0.5: Choose 'Oh sweet a new friend.' (Only choice available.) For Option 0.5.2: Choose 'Take the insult lying down.' (Only choice available.) For Option 1: Choose 'Play FLARP with Vriska.' On Vriska's FLARP sheet, arrange your stats into the various slots. But as Nick and Mattie settle into an intimacy that both comforts and surprises them, Nick feels the inextricable pull of the waxing moon’s tide and the siren’s call of the dolphins that, Blue legend has it, are his brethren.Īnd so it is that Mattie, who only months before felt that happiness would never find her, returns with Nick to the island home that nurtured him and finds herself embraced by a large and loving family and an alluring and sensual landscape. A lifelong fisherman from a remote island off the coast, Nick is haunted by the certain knowledge that the sea will be the death of him (as it has been for all the Blue men) and he has resolved to leave it behind. Nick walks into Mattie’s life having fled his own. Mattie O’Rourke sees Proteus Nicholas Blue and their fate is sealed after only a few shy, stolen glances. I have a page in my notes with some rhomboid symbols, and Norah has written above it, 'Harry scribbled these symbols on the wall, it must be important' or something to that effect. At the Suwannee Swifty convenience store, a sea change envelops her. When her mother dies and, at twenty-two, she finds herself completely without ties of any kind, Mattie takes a chance at ending her loneliness and moves to a tiny coastal Florida town. Emotionally neglected by her mother, abandoned by her father, Mattie O’Rourke spent her childhood starved for the one thing she thought she’d never find: love.
