9. the thing is that Horseriver was really, genuinely good to him, in ways he really needed and had never gotten before, and also automatically framed things in feudal fealty terms and Jedao had the HUGEST kink for it. can't go around dissing his pocket king liege!!!
so it was very easy for Jedao to overidentify with Horseriver even when he was lashing out in genuinely terrible ways Jedao would normally be judgey about
people keep earnestly trying to tell Jedao that Horseriver's secretly problematic. Jedao looks over where Horseriver is on hour three of his rant about [insert here]: king
pocket kingliege!!!