#elodie aftg

[bimafe]

neil and jean are walking in the early foggy mornings. trying to escape each other from their abusive parents. safety only in each other's arms. silly platonic dates in the woods and fields. walking in the rain. sneaking onto the roof through jean's room while his parents are at work. constant teasing each other. studying late into the night because neil is too distracted and jean is too in love with him. it's "if you don't stop smoking, I won't kiss you, you bastard" and "you won't last five minutes without kissing me." making quiet calls in french late at night and talking about where they'd run away to when they grew up. listening to music, mostly on vinyl because "it sounds better than anything on a phone or player". knowing every street cat and planning how they'd take each one home if they lived together. riding bikes to neighboring towns. it's always giving the other one bunches of wildflowers because "it's too long to walk to you, you're too fucking long." they're the epitome of platonic soulmates if you asked elodie and she's glad her older brother has one.

[starrycassi]

What if I tell you I'm writing an AU where Elodie is alive and well. What if I tell you. What if I

Would anyone be interested in reading that? Because I have SO many idea oh god

[hamrikaa]

"Why didn't they love her enough to keep her safe?"

[eeriethacus]

"Did you think you were special?"

[dawnatlas]

"Did you think you were special?"

[kevindavidday]

you guys don't understand how insane the sentence "why didn't they love her enough to keep her safe?" is coming from the protagonist of a series like all for the game. none of the foxes, even in their most delirious state, would have that expectation from the people who had betrayed them. jean is such a deeply genuine and emotional person, so different from the perspective neil provides, that it actually hurts more to know he had any hope at all for elodie's survival

[detectivebambam]

oh.

[daddyduncan69]

Do you think Stuart spent those 30 seconds thinking of Mary and the years he also spent hoping?

[mcmeasle]

anyway if you can’t tell what part of the book made the top three moments that destroyed me

[even-the-devil-has-no-ideas]

Okay, Elodie Moreau is my Roman empire

[changingtidesandtimesss]

If Only

[kaniique]

do you think I have forgotten about you..

[jeanmoreaue]

Jean and Elodie Moreau circa France sometime before both of their tragic fates rip

[purpleelephantsocks]

Oh god, oh fuck, oh no; the parallels between Jean at the beginning of tsc panicking and telling Wymack "I want to go home" and Jean at the end of tsc falling apart after finding out his baby sister has died, telling Neil the same thing.

"I want to go home."

He is only nineteen

[ionlydrinkhotwater]

I mentioned this on another post but

What I think about is that Mary according to Nora was made to marry Nathan (she confirmed it was an arranged marriage to give the Wesininskis and Moriyamas access to Europe and the Hatfords inroads to the States) [it being arranged isn't necessarily an issue if both partners were ok with it BUT she was married off to a dude named The Butcher and was known as the Moriyamas Torture technician and I somehow doubt she actually was given a lot of choice about it to be honest] and based on her age when she died according to Nora's answer on Twitter(she died at 38, and Neil was 17 when she died) she had to have been married off at least by 20 (she would have been 20 when Neil was born) or younger 18-19 and had Neil 1 or 2 years into her marriage.

Same age or around the same age as Jean and Neil now basically (a kid)

And how is forcing her to marry a man known as the Butcher (with his monsterous reputation) and at such a young age, all that different from being sold off the way Elodie, Jean and Neil were?

Mary isn't perfect by a mile, but It does put perspective on her doing everything she could to keep Neil away from that life.

[dawnatlas]

did you go and make promises you can't keep?