#and shock factor won't compensate for murdering a symbol of change and hope

[lilacthebooklover]

the tag limit has foiled me again so i'll paste all of my thoughts on this below instead :]

#these sort of arcs are always so potent and beautiful#these people are broken#they've been systematically taken apart and fractured and warped into something they no longer recognise#they've had so much ripped away from them#so little choice in their own lives#so little to be happy for#only for a new day to come#and a new life with it#where they have support and love and a reason to keep going#and they want to use it#there are people they want to live for#things they want to experience#they have a past to make up for and all the months that have yet to ruin them#there's hope and relief and warmth and comfort#because their experiences don't define them#their trauma doesn't define them#despite what they've been through#they're able to build a better life with the lights who pulled them from a period of darkness that seemed inescapable#they have friends and family and can finally find happiness#can enjoy the little things#like freshly baked cookies or riding a bike or smiling at a friend#all the mundane elements of life that suddenly seem to much sweeter#they want to live#and then that's all ripped away#and for what#what was the point in ridding them of that chance?#in trapping them in a state of existence where they can never truly heal?#there's hope and relief and warmth and comfort and it's all so easily destroyed by the all-consuming inevitability of death#because is anything worth anything when it will all end eventually#they have no control over such things#they've had no control all along#and all that they are#all that they've been through#all that they represent#that entire arc coalesces and implodes in one final moment of helplessness and loss#until there's nothing left at all#and those fragments have been ground to sand#and doesn't it seem so hopeless that this character#this embodiment of what it means to move on#is stopped forever before they ever get a chance to?#because through death they're redefined#as a martyr or a sacrifice or another meaningless fatality#another immortalised corpse who'd only just begun to be loved#i suppose there's some comfort at least#in that now they know#there will actually be someone to mourn them now#when the narrative has finally deemed them worthless#and brings every awful experience together in one final#fatal#bang