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I've been WAITING for someone to talk about this, this is gonna be so interesting in s2 as most of ireland despised Britain. Another thing is he says how he gave them the mercy of not seiging them and then mentioned starving children. In his mind having lived through a time period were there was no food this to him truly was a mercy.

"My country's history is one of manufactured suffering. I was a boy when the Tudors burned any food the rebels under O'Neil might think to eat. We starved; everyone starved. Mouths on the dead stained green from chewing nettles. You get resourceful in a famine. My parents... died early, left me and my sister - catching rats. The rats ran out quick... fed my sister on my blood... kept her alive an extra, two weeks. I didn't sleep for three days to protect her body from the starving til the ground thawed. I cut out her kidneys... and buried her. Fat cap on 'em like a pea. I haven't eaten a single meal, since, my mind didn't go to that bite. Was the last thing I ever did because I had to. I control my life now.

Every bite."

This quote from Fowler has been on my mind for a week or more and I only found time to research it now. I thought for sure, this was something I'd have learned about, being British and learning about the Royal family and the Tudors in particular being one of those things that British kids learn about.

I was in secondary school in the 2000s so it might've changed since, but we never learned about the Irish famines or the Nine Years War. Considering I'd already checked that guns existed in Japan in the stated time frame and that the borders were closed by the shogun, I figured this was based in reality, but maybe with an artistic exaggeration.

Turns out it's not. Like, it's not even close to exaggeration.

I love things that make me research things, but I didn't think I was gonna read so much unbelievably awful information. Much, much more in the source:

No wonder Fowler is the way he is. Talk about serious, SERIOUS trauma.