#AGHH thinking about the Warriors mourning Fox makes me so sad

[iamnaanda]

Random Thought about Warriors

What happened after Fox's death? And I'm not talking about the funeral or the Warriors' grieving process, but the process of claiming Fox's body.

Imagine that Fox didn't have any identification or anything that could point to her identity that night.

Imagine that the Warriors were so exhausted and shocked that they hadn't even thought about that detail.

Imagine that, through the newspaper, the next day a public call is made to identify the body of a young woman, whose cause of death was having been hit by a train in Union Square, around 6 am.

Imagine that the news gives physical details of the body (height, hair, clothing, possible age, etc.) and each and every one of the characteristics painfully matches Fox. They even mention some very specific detail of her appearance, such as a piercing, tattoo, scar or birthmark that the Warriors knew very well she had, making it undeniable.

Imagine it's Cleon who sets out to identify the body, not only because she's her emergency contact (and technically her guardian, if we stick to the headcanon that Fox was still a minor when she died), but because she claims it's her duty as a leader, and she knows the others probably wouldn't be able to bear to do it.

Imagine Cleon going to identify the body, and she sees the image she hoped she'd never have to see in her entire life: The image of someone from her team dead. She sees before her the image of the shy, intelligent, brave, and persevering teenager she took in and initiated into her gang a while back, but now too pale and with her eyes open but empty.

Imagine that after that, Cleon attends to all the subsequent legal matters in a practically dissociative state, and still manages to keep her composure while delivering all the information to the Warriors.

But she can't break down, there's still a lot to do.