sometimes i think about silas bc he was a little bitch but he also was only 16, only 2 years older than jeannemary – who gideon AND harrow both thought as disgustingly young (which she was!). and he was still two years younger than gideon. he was one year younger than harrow. idk. 16 is so young and he was so annoying but also like. he was right? in a lot of things? and he isnt given like any narrative sympathy.

he distrusted dulcinea (cytherea) and he was right to do so!!! he challenged proteselauris to a duel bc pro literally punched silas so hard it knocked him out. which is reasonable, honestly. and he was like, the only one of the house scions to not accept cytherea’s “it was a seventh house leadership descision to make proteselauris a beguiling corpse” explanation, which as we learned, was a load of hot garbage.

he distrusted the ninth, who had not only killed his house’s people (sister glaurica, and depending on how they viewed it, ortus as well) horribly in cold blood, had also killed 200 of their own children. he hated the ninth and distrusted the ninth and that is… a perfectly understandable response? frankly, it might all be a bit of an underreaction on his part.

and he saw right through the lyctor trials. i have some feeling that the way siphoning is viewed outside the eighth is a bit different from how it is viewed within it, but…. regardless silas is a soul siphoner. from how he, the eighth house, and soul siphoning in general were described in GtN, he should have been the most willing of all to ascend. but he refused!!!! he did one trial to see what he was up against and then he decided he would not play this game. when ianthe revealed the full method, he immediately rejected it. even if he might have been trained to view his cavalier as just a battery he….. didn’t. idk. i hope we learn more about what his soul is getting up to.