#I still see him as this sort of rebellious and sharp tongued character

[literallynharmonia]

Love the tragic idea of Death still not being able to fully handle sitting with people while they’re dying and taking their spirits to the other realm. It gets even worse if he spends more time with them and gets attached, like I assume he does with the Patient. Like imagine you’ve been dead for decades and it’s your job to sit with people in their final moments from the instant they start to die and you can’t opt out of it. You know you’re going to watch them either wither away or die some kind of painful or sudden death and you just can’t do anything about it

Like he puts on that cynical apathetic facade but in my mind it’s a bad habit for him to make friends with the people he’s supposed to be moving onto the afterlife, and it’s like a gut punch every time he has to say goodbye.

Explains how in his perspective he kinda begs the patient to wake up in sleep i don’t remember exactly where I heard that idea but I really fucking love it. Like holy shit with that plot point in mind I get chills every time I hear that section of the song. Screaming for someone to wake up. Kinda dreading that you’re gonna see them again but it’s in this kind of bittersweet circumstance after they’re dead. It also wraps around to being a bit selfish since the Patient is very clearly suffering and Death just has to accept letting him go.

Like fuck. “Yeah I’m kind of doomed to be immortal and it’s literally my god given job to watch people die, I’m a little fucked up in the emotional attachment department.”