femmebotnoir:Everything about Strix right here makes me so...

femmebotnoir:

Everything about Strix right here makes me so happy. I needed that extra bit of happiness, too.

She likes the gnome!

I think it’s like this.  Her family was taken from her, and she was used almost as slave labor before being taken in as a Talon for the Court of Owls, where her life wasn’t her own.

This bit about the gnome, I wasn’t planning it (normally I plan out all the small moments), it just went in the script almost without me thinking about it, and I thought it was just an amusing little side moment. But it really seemed to resonate with people (myself included).

So I gave it some thought and I think it’s this…

She had never seen whimsy in her adult life. 

Her toys were knives. Her games were fights. Her playmates were targets. 

The idea of something that’s there to make you smile, whose only goal is to make you grin, that would have been something completely new to her.

I think that gnome represents both her lost years of childhood, and her hopes for a happier life.