Late to the party (because I just found the comm) but may I say oh hell yes? I think this makes perfect sense, given both their pasts.
I think, that though Mildmay's not afraid of becoming Kolkhis, she does influence to a greater and subtler degree than Malkar does Felix. Felix seems to be at least semi-aware of Malkar's influence in shaping him and his fears and acknowledges it several times throughout the books. Mildmay, on the other hand, just relays what Kolkhis has said about him or told him and takes it on face value, hence the way he kept using Milly-Fox at himself throughout The Mirador. Kolkhis might not inspire the same amount of...fear and anger an defiance and passion that Malkar does in Felix, but I think she definitely got her claws in a lot deeper into him.
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Date: 2009-05-03 03:37 am (UTC)I think, that though Mildmay's not afraid of becoming Kolkhis, she does influence to a greater and subtler degree than Malkar does Felix. Felix seems to be at least semi-aware of Malkar's influence in shaping him and his fears and acknowledges it several times throughout the books. Mildmay, on the other hand, just relays what Kolkhis has said about him or told him and takes it on face value, hence the way he kept using Milly-Fox at himself throughout The Mirador. Kolkhis might not inspire the same amount of...fear and anger an defiance and passion that Malkar does in Felix, but I think she definitely got her claws in a lot deeper into him.