#and not just because theyre the most relatable child-parent relationship ive ever seen put to paper outside of kafka's letter to his father

[beelzeballing]

it pmo so badly when some people are like "awww but ambessa was proud of her in her last moments 🥹" without thinking any further abt it cuz like... mel has spent the entire series, has spent her entire life struggling to be different from ambessa. trying to escape from the ways of her mother and the ways of noxus. we can see how deeply traumatized she is by her upbringing, the moment we see a flashback of in s1 especially. her arc in the first season literally concludes with her taking off the symbol of the the medarda family and explicitly contradicting her mother' wishes. mel does not WANT to be what her mother wants her to be.

and in the end the very last thing her mother says to her is that mel's become EXACTLY what she wanted her to become. it's such a deeply tragic moment because, in killing ambessa, while theoretically speaking freeing herself of her mother's expectations, mel has fulfilled them in their entirety. mel has become the wolf.