OK, OK…so this is the third time in a row that I’m going to say: “With this, Mopey’s return to her old self is complete”…but this time, I really mean it.
It’s just that I really had forgotten about her most characteristic and enduring personality trait: her ability to conjure giant wooden (or sometimes even metal) mallets/hammers out of thin air (or some personal pocket dimension of hers).
Showing this ability restored is not pointless, since it proves that she has, indeed, reconnected to the mythical font of spiritual Mopeyhood which I suspect to be located in some lightless spot under the deepest roots of the oldest mountains, right next to (but not directly connected with) the upper lawyers of hell*.
And there’s another point to it, which is just being a character moment. There just wasn’t any way she was not going to try to do this at the very earliest opportunity…any lingering doubts in her mind regarding her ability to do this would have weighed so heavily on her that it just wouldn’t have been bearable.
Plus, the Thor thing… >_>
More on Monday.
*Not a typo. Since there are so many lawyers in hell (essentially all of them, plus a lot of people who only thought about becoming a lawyer), they’re spread out over every layer of hell – even if, rightfully, they should be concentrated on the worst one. Therefore you can use “layers of hell” and “lawyers of hell” interchangeably, since the upper lawyers of hell will be on the upper layers of hell. =P