#damage but it’s laudna’s resistance that got them there. every inch gained is another in the decades long war that laudna has been waging | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

funscarypdr · 1 year ago

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elementalladymallorie:

“And in that moment, I feel like the thing I saw was that actually your greatest strength is overcoming all of the pain to just keep trusting. And so I think that's what I'm gonna take and learn from you, with your permission. Or without your permission because I'm a rebel now.”

-Prism’s good bye to Laudna.

"I think what I learned what was that you overcame all this pain and kept on trusting. And I think that's what I am going to take from you."

-Prism's good bye to Laudna.

#this knocked the air out of me it was so surprising and incisive #i think a lot about that moment in the desert outside bassuras with delilah telling laudna that she can’t trust anyone; that people will #only betray her in the end; that she’s better off alone #and i think of her up in that tree in the twisted version of whitestone; telling imogen that she’s not strong enough to fight delilah; that #she hasn’t been able to for 30 years #except that that’s not true. for 30 years her killer in her head showed her the worst of humanity; for 30 years humanity showed her #the worst of themselves #and she fought it. she found a way to still see the good in people; to trust them; to still make agonising room for connection #and somehow she builds herself a little family #and then it happens again. she dies; and wakes up; and relives the whole nightmare #she says she’s not strong enough but when the time comes; fearne puts laudna’s thread around delilah’s neck. her friends might be doing the #damage but it’s laudna’s resistance that got them there. every inch gained is another in the decades long war that laudna has been waging #because despite all the pain; she kept on trusting #anyway; it was a hell of an observation from prism

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