#but the constant subtle theme of drowning grgjrghkJGRHRGK GRHGRHRGHRG IM GOING CRAZY

[bonnieisaway]

god i fucking LOVE the openings and endings. there's this constant theme, not even just of the way he's plunged into every life he's lived, that he's a victim of his own narrative with hardly any control, but this constant theme of drowning.

drowning symbolically ended his own life - he did LITERALLY fall into the water underneath the bridge during the final encounter with the girl in white - and he washes up on chicken island but the tides always pull him back. he always gets drawn back in and he always drowns again. it's not even exclusive to his two separate lives, it's to any sort of a lack of control he feels

this moment where he passes out here isn't indicative of like, a switch flipping between an old and a new seven, this is caused by a poison entirely isolated from that, but the lack of control he has over his emotions and body brings him back here and from there the comparison is drawn of the lack of control he generally had over his life

he is here drowning once again and it feels like the way he drowned before. his connection to the ocean is something we need to talk about way more because for a man who lives on a tiny island he is pictured drowning CONSTANTLY. and it's such a good symbolism for the lack of control he has in his life and how inescapable and helpless it all starts to feel.

fortunately i've never drowned before but from the way my friends who have been close have described it and the way i've seen it talked about it is suffocating and it feels near impossible to thrash and scream for help. the closer you get to the bottom the more your body just,, gives up. where you can no longer hold your breath and you're forced to inhale and let the water in.

seven is never visibly pulled out of water - because in the grand scheme of things, he's still always drowning, he's never out of the woods - but it is always the people around him who pull him out of this feeling. it was the girl in white who made him fight the water and desperately try to escape and it was the girl in white who caused him to stop and let the water take him again. it was xiao fei who insisted they pull him out of the water on that beach and yet his life haunts him and his love for these islanders - and it's not even just his friends, his love for any random islanders as you said - throws him back into the water again. and he tries to traverse across the surface, he builds a raft and finds a map and he leaves (notably he isn't visibly UNDER the water in the s3ed, he's thrown under but resurfaces with his hair down) and he ultimately - in this moment with blackbird - is pulled back under, and it is the thought of thirteen that rips him back out, thirteen is the reason he resurfaces again.

the tide ALWAYS pulls him back in. it constantly does. it's such a fucking. expertly crafted metaphor for his absolute lack of control and how exhausted he must be - several times is he nearly at the ocean floor when he's ready to just give up and it's the people in his life that pull him back up. the opening has this explosion out of the water where he finally pulls himself out again, and the ending has this """gentle""" (he is kinda tossed but it's done so slowly in the tone the ending does it in) push back into the water once again , and repeat and repeat and repeat

i fucking love seven's relationship to the ocean and the drowning metaphor/symbolism so much. like actually i think it's one of my favorites in the entire show

Something about the feelings of gently floating s3's ed evokes vs the way he shoots himself out of his old life into his new one in the op.

The way two islanders literally THROW him into is past. The way he just accepts it. The way the eds are often more dream-esc eish fulfilment. While the ops are bombastic action pieces or somber symbolism pieces.