jujubiest:

Can we talk about this? Because at first I reacted to this with the same level of eyeroll-incredulity as Trubel. “Don’t make mistakes?” Yeah okay I’ll get right on that.

But then I thought: this is coming from Eve, who is not a perfectionist or Trubel’s boss or anything else that would suggest she’s giving an order. In fact, Trubel and Eve are probably the closest thing either one has had to a friend or equal within Hadrian’s Wall.

So…what if this is Eve’s stilted, robotic attempt at trying to give Trubel friendly advice? After all, who knows better than Eve what happens when you allow yourself to feel emotions and make mistakes? The last time Juliette Silverton felt angry, she made a lot of mistakes…and she lost everything.

And then, too, there’s what she says after this, about how she thinks it’s the reaction to one’s choices that decide whether they were good or bad, not the person who makes the choices (and implicitly, not the intentions, reasons, or even results of those choices).

The really heartbreaking thing is that Eve isn’t just saying to Trubel, “don’t allow your emotions to cloud your judgment or distract you into messing up.” She’s not saying don’t make a mistake. She’s saying don’t make mistakes, period.

Because when she’s sifting through the many mistakes Juliette made, it doesn’t escape her notice that Juliette’s choices were judged and found wanting long before the mistakes were big, and deadly, and irreparable. Long before her intentions were anything but good and loving.

So she tells Trubel: Don’t make mistakes. Don’t feel things and make choices because at the end of the day, you’re not the one who controls how people will react to those choices. And all it takes is one choice they don’t like to bring everything crashing down.