Maggie Stiefvater’s The Scorpio Races tells the story of countless trainers who race to convert majestic beasts of the ocean into mindless machines for entertainment and profit. To be more specific, the races are composed of catching and selling the horse-like beasts as soon as they mysteriously emerge from the sea. They’re then trained using tactics that cause them panic and pain, in attempt to break them of their own free will. These creatures are strong and fierce; far too powerful for a mere human to bond with as if it were a horse. They’re larger, stronger, faster, smarter, and much more bloodthirsty than typical horses. That’s why, despite the cruel training they endure, they’re still able to remain as wild as when they were first caught.
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As the book states on page 387, “But it’s not me he stabs. He slides it along the piebald’s neck, slicing a scarlet line. She is furious with pain.” This character has spent years of his life being compared to the protagonist, even by his own father. He attempts to sabotage his opponent multiple times to no avail. However, he eventually reaches his breaking point. Once he’s next to his nemesis in the race, he cruelly stabs his horse with a knife. In turn, this infuriates the creature and causes it to attack everything it can. It brutally injures several beings, and, in the end, drags its attacker into the sea. Mutt, who was the saboteur, appeared to have planned that turn of events. While there are many sickening aspects of his plan, wielding this creature of the sea as his own knife is perhaps the worst. While Mutt accepted that he would likely die pulling off his plan, the capaill uisce never agreed to be forged into a weapon, and probably would not have been willing to give it’s life for it’s tormenter, had the situation come down to it. However, since Mutt was given control of the aquatic beast’s life, he considered it to be a weapon at his own disposal, rather than a living, breathing, being. He became intoxicated with his new power to the point where this legend of the ocean was just an expendable life, a tool to be used in the destruction of his enemies and
As the book states on page 387, “But it’s not me he stabs. He slides it along the piebald’s neck, slicing a scarlet line. She is furious with pain.” This character has spent years of his life being compared to the protagonist, even by his own father. He attempts to sabotage his opponent multiple times to no avail. However, he eventually reaches his breaking point. Once he’s next to his nemesis in the race, he cruelly stabs his horse with a knife. In turn, this infuriates the creature and causes it to attack everything it can. It brutally injures several beings, and, in the end, drags its attacker into the sea. Mutt, who was the saboteur, appeared to have planned that turn of events. While there are many sickening aspects of his plan, wielding this creature of the sea as his own knife is perhaps the worst. While Mutt accepted that he would likely die pulling off his plan, the capaill uisce never agreed to be forged into a weapon, and probably would not have been willing to give it’s life for it’s tormenter, had the situation come down to it. However, since Mutt was given control of the aquatic beast’s life, he considered it to be a weapon at his own disposal, rather than a living, breathing, being. He became intoxicated with his new power to the point where this legend of the ocean was just an expendable life, a tool to be used in the destruction of his enemies and