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fullscoreshenanigans · 2 years ago

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#isn’t there a shirai note somewhere that says that ray loves fantasy stories even though he dislikes studying? #it’s wonderful that ray gets to live one of the stories he loved but thought he could never obtain #and that’s also a huge burden—that story #but it’s his life too #not just emma’s or norman’s #and he doesn’t have to live it alone (via @esthelle18)

One of the thing that I realised is that, by the end of the story, with Emma's sacrifice, Ray is the only one who can tell and remember the entirety of Emma's story and the complete story of the promised neverland (and even he can't tell the the story about how her meeting with Him went).

Norman wasn't there for 3 years. The other Gracefield children were not here for Goldy Pond,Nne of the other were here for the weird world of imagination they went in.

I don't know why but it feels significant considering that he never intended to see and live through all of that and now he is the only one alive being able to remember all of it

#good prev tags that deserve to be included #Memory Keeper!Ray Memory Keeper!Ray!!!#also shoutout to hylialeia's “hoping you're someone i used to know”#for touching upon this in such beautifully melancholic and heartwrenching way #[[“Do you want to forget?” Norman asks. / Ray's gaze turns steel sharp.]]#[[Norman catches it‚ a lifeline that cuts. “It goes both ways‚” he reminds him.]]#[[“Idiot‚” Ray mutters. “You know I can't.” / “No‚” Norman agrees. “You can't.]]#[[What was it like for Ray to feel the shadow of the butcher's knife falling over him from the moment he could walk?#To see it looming over his family‚ each of them unaware and smiling‚ lulled by a lullaby while the blade glinted behind them?]]#[[What is it like for Emma‚ to have forgotten the lullaby and the butcher both?]]#[[That's right‚ Norman remembers. Ray's read every book in Grace Field House‚ cover to cover.#He cleared the entire library before he turned twelve. / It's just sad enough to make him smile.]]#[[Ray tilts his head back to stare at the ceiling his hair falling away from his face. “If I could forget‚” he muses‚ “we'd all be dead.”]]#also SuddenWhispers' “Tethered” they both fucking destroy me (affectionate)#also also v late but on pg26 of the (unofficial) English translation of the first light novel #during “The Ghosts Incidents at Grace Field House” story when the trio's around four years old #Ray implies his affinity for the fantasy genre when Norman asks him if he's read anything in the Grace Field library #and Ray's reply is “I have‚ but they're all fantasy books.”#Post-Canon #Ray #Emma #Rayemma #for tagging purposes

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