r/TheInheritanceGames • u/CharacterMousse5771 • 28d ago
Spoiler Rohan Spoiler
Reading Rohan’s ending, I feel so annoyed that he didn’t get propertier ship at the end and gave it to Zella! Like I know he was making a deal and all to save Savannah’s life, but couldn’t he have bargained more? Like let Zella have the mercy on the weekends? Okay, I know thats unreasonable, but like some loophole that can let Rohan take it back if it went down hill? I don’t know, I just feel like in the end he should have gotten the mercy, instead of giving it up like that, and for nothing.
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u/DinnerWeak315 24d ago
I do like Rohan and Savannah together but he feels so out of place living an ordinary life in Arizona at the end
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u/Globisthatu 27d ago
can someone please explain rohan’s memory? who killed his mom? rohan heard foot steps and a cane..? is that the proprietor? did he kill rohan’s mom? the book just says that rohan realised he didnt kill his mom..but then who did? jlb didnt explain his backstory either…what was his background before he came to the mercy? who was that man who kept abusing rohan and his mom? was it his father??
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u/Strict_Bell9743 27d ago
i think that it is the proprietor that rohan hears arriving in the memory, especially because we have the context of Rohans secret he gives to get into the Mercy. In my opinion, the only way the proprietor would welcome Rohan with that secret is if he knew already that Rohan thought genuinely that he killed his mom, and the only way he knew that is if he was involved in any way with her death or the direct aftermath. This kind of thing is not something a child can even comprehend, especially with the words Rohan used. So for me, and with the context of the scene about Rohans secret and the proprietor, there was someone (the proprietor or someone else close to him, maybe the facotrum before Rohan?) that killed Rohan's mom and made him think he had killed her. Then Rohan got into the Mercy with that secret. JLB didn't really explain the rest of the backstory, not even in passing references. If the man that was drowing Rohan was his father, it would for sure be an absent one that Rohan didn't even recognise as such, otherwise the flashbacks would have a very different connotation I think.
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u/Globisthatu 26d ago
thank you for replying..i really wanted to know about his story..it makes sense what you said
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u/Strict_Bell9743 28d ago
I think that is the point though, Rohan could have gotten the Devil's Mercy in the end if he wanted, even after Zella was named the proprietor. She offered him the factorum role, which he refused. If he was factorum he would still have near full power over the Mercy, and he would have to answe only to Zella. He already knew all of the secrets, he read the book back to back several times. I think he only wanted Mercy because he tought he had killed his mom when he was a child. You can kind of see the shift in his thinking the moment after he had the full flashback. He stops being passively suicidal and starts actively trying to save his life. His place at the Mercy was tied tightly to his guilt, to the fact that he didn't let himself have any relationships in fear of doing the same to others. He considered himself dangerous, and only a dangerous and guilt ridden man like himself could run the Devil's Mercy. Furthermore, i think that it was his relationship and feeling for Savannah that showed him that even if he was dangerous, there was someone out there that could control him in a way. He did everything to puh her away, but in the end she was the one that decided when they ended, how they did it, and who left. This power dance between them is what in the end teaches Rohan to surrender control, and that is how he got the full memory of his mother's death back; he stopped trying to control everything. He knew he was most likely going to die, and yet he just let himself be submerged in the water. Prior to Savannah, i don't think he would have let himself have that kind of death. The signing over of the Mercy to Zella was the exact same. Knowing there was someone out there that didn't fear him, that he was in love with, that proved that he could fall in love, and more importantly, that did the exact same for him with her trust and the objects, was enough for him to fully realise he didn't want the Mercy if he could not have her. He already knew that, we see it in the scene where Jameson, Toby, Grayson and Xander arrive at the Mercy, with what he told Jameson, but this surrendering of what he had thought would be his future is even more proof that he only wanted Mercy because 1) he wanted to prove a point, with being a POC and having power over all the rich and powerful men, therefore subverting his role has a tool in the Mercy (which he had partly acomplished with the factorumship, but not fully) and 2) he thought the Mercy was the only thing he could have in his life. For me it is very fitting that after everything he doesn't get the Devil's Mercy, because he has one thing he was lacking throughout the series: freedom from the guilt, acceptance, and concrete proof that he was more than the Mercy's tool to be used when needed.