I do feel like Dorothy and the narrative are being ungenerous to the King. Yes, he is rather self-absorbed, but at the same time I haven’t seen any indication he asked for this, and what he argued last time is true; Glinda took a bunch of animals she though were cute and uplifted them in a single generation, made one king, then forbid him from leaving a situation he’s clearly unsuited for. Even if he’s somehow the only one with any trepidation over this (as opposed to the only one with enough social clout to speak openly), he has a right to have mixed feelings about all this!
"When a rabbit gets a habit
Of living in a city
And wearing clothes and furbelows
And jewels rare and pretty,
He scorns the Bun who has to run
And burrow in the ground
And pities those whose watchful foes
Are man and gun and hound."
Scenes from the class struggle in Bunnybury.
I do feel like Dorothy and the narrative are being ungenerous to the King. Yes, he is rather self-absorbed, but at the same time I haven’t seen any indication he asked for this, and what he argued last time is true; Glinda took a bunch of animals she though were cute and uplifted them in a single generation, made one king, then forbid him from leaving a situation he’s clearly unsuited for. Even if he’s somehow the only one with any trepidation over this (as opposed to the only one with enough social clout to speak openly), he has a right to have mixed feelings about all this!
Ha! Highly predictable, but still satisfying.