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[sebastienne]

Avon to Blake, in "Space Fall", the first episode where we meet Avon: "Don't try to manipulate me, Blake".

Blake to Avon, in "Space Fall", the first episode where we meet Avon: "I'm offering you the chance of freedom".

Oh hai, crushing inevitability </3

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[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

It's a nice piece of foreshadowing, because Avon has a need to be manipulated. Anna did it. Blake does it. Cally does it very occasionally. Tarrant attempts to do it. Orac occasionally manages it - and so does Servalan. For all I know, his brother did it too. As inamac put it, "He has all these dangling strings that just ache to be pulled."

When there isn't someone there to manipulate him (and keep him human) Avon generally messes up big time. It is why, for my money, he keeps looking for Blake - he knows there is a big something missing in his life - emotional direction.