Can you explain why you think that basira is a mix of the dark and eye? It sounds REALLY interesting, I just don't quite understand how it makes sense :/
so I don’t think she’s literally a dark avatar, but she’s put in close proximity to dark-related escapades a few times and I feel like the narrative is asking us to draw connections between her approach to life and the ethoses expressed by various dark avatars.
a lot of her dynamic with daisy is about knowing exactly what daisy gets up to and deliberately ignoring it, think about that “we can’t hunt a monster you refuse to see” line from mag 178. she describes the way she got out of the unknowing as reasoning her way out, but if you listen to the actual words she said, before she can get to any concrete reasoning she first closes her eyes and ignores everything in her surroundings. jon and daisy tell her multiple times that their situations aren’t completely different, she knows this perfectly well, but she selectively accepts what information she’s willing to internalize.
in mag 140, she tells jon that her whole encounter with maxwell rayner really stayed with her, and beyond the literal meaning of that being a big traumatic event that played on her mind I think there is also a symbolic meaning that the dark stayed with her.
tl;dr: basira said “I am looking away, I do not see it”
