Originally posted by: ReadLo
When I talk about denial, I'm talking about the fact that Rey thinks he can manipulate Dadi and hope to win. That's where I'm talking about denial.
I'm not talking about his feelings for Prani, because he's already accepted it, and he's accepted it for a long time. His jealousy was already a revelation in itself.
Yes Rey protects Prani from Dadi, he tried to make her run away, he told her to run away. He knows very well that nobody in his family lets strangers live in peace and even among themselves they are toxic.
For me Rey and Prani's relationship is very special.
1: They knew each other during their immaturity phase. Prani was a dreamer (first love) and Rey was a rebel (running from one girl to another).
2: A child came into the equation, for a woman it's always difficult to make a choice, but for a man it's very easy and there Prani faced the reality of her situation, love can't save everything!
3: Archit is not in the middle, but for both of them he is a person to be taken into consideration. Prani doesn't want him to become the father of a child that is not his own and for Rey he has to accept the fact that a man can raise his daughter (the child he didn't want at first) to be raised by another man.
4: A child is in the middle of their "I love you, neither do I". Characters, feelings, resentments, old wounds go that nothing could really be serene between them.
You know the reason I watch PB is because for once the characters in PB are "human", you don't feel like you're seeing one cliche after another (although there were).
Prani is strong, she does what is right.
Rey, although a prisoner, he can escape from his reality from time to time.
To come back to the denial I was talking about.
Several times Rey tried to manipulate Dadi so that she couldn't lose patience before the 10 days he gave her. But each time he lost out. So he thinks "naively" that he can manipulate a dragon who holds all the cards in his hands... That's the denial he's going through now, just hearing him think "I told Dadi that, but my heart doesn't accept it...". In the end it is also cowardly not to be able to say things openly .