Editing Heywesh Tal: Friendly Game (section)

==How is Heywesh Tragic?==
Heywesh is trapped between several dysfunctional relationships.

On the one hand, there is his father.  Heywesh deeply desires his father's approval, but it does not appear likely that Mxura will ever head in that direction.

On the other, there is his wife.  Heywesh does not merely care for Lura.  If that was the case, things would be quite good: a platonic friendship qualifies as relatively functional for Ven marriages.  However, Heywesh has confused caring for Lura with controlling her.  She is his sweet and innocent possession worthy of protection and happiness (so long as he is the one making her happy).

As almost an escape from these, Heywesh is a rather idealistic senvu.  He has taken his school's philosophy as his personal ethic, and venerates the Suaven of Duels and everything he represents.  The problem here is that Ven law is simply not robust enough to be taken as an ideal in and of itself.

We thus see Heywesh trapped not only by his loved ones, but by his ideals.  How he escapes from this, or if he even tries to, will be what makes him tragic.  For the Ven, there is no escape.