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You know what I always considered a really weird detail about the Pure Vessel's cut Dream Nail Dialog?
"Do not think, do not speak, do not hope, do not..."
"Do not speak"
Why? Why 'speak'? Why that word, specifically?
"Because it references back to the "No mind to think no will to break, no voice to cry suffering" thing, duh.
Well, yes.
But the other two parts of PV's DN dialog directly contradicts two of the requirements the King gave for a "Pure Vessel" -
Hollow CAN think; the dialog itself is proof of that.
And Hollow, by the very fact that they need to tell themselves NOT to hope, suggested that they did have some sort of hope they were attempting not to experience. To hope is to have a will for something, a desire, a wish. A will that the Radiance HAD broken to infect them.
So that just leaves us with "Do not Speak" and "No Voice to Cry Suffering"...
And if Hollow has a mind and a will...
Do they also possess a voice as well?
Why else would the word "Speak" be used as the direct contradiction for "No Voice"? Why else would the Pure Vessel need to remind themselves to not speak?
It makes me wonder if the King was wrong about even that aspect of the Vessel(s).
And the other thing that I find interesting: What is the Pure Vessel refraining themselves from saying? What do they want to say that they aren't allowing themselves to?
Just some food for thought