#i am having SO MUCH FUN mercilessly deconstructing that one 'wholesome family fantasy' blitzo has here

[anthurak]

“I can handle this one. You know, if you’re not up to it.”

I feel like there’s something INTERESTING about the framing and demeanor of Loona here.

First there is the fact that Loona is volunteering to go slaughter a sweet, innocent, picturesque family. A family that Blitzo even starts seeing himself, Stolas and their daughters in.

But also the fact that Loona isn’t completely oblivious to Blitzo’s discomfort here like you might normally expect in a scene like this. You know, like how Blitzo was completely oblivious and even belittling of Moxxie’s discomfort back in Murder Family.

Indeed, Loona seems PARTICULARLY aware of and tuned into Blitzo’s discomfort and is offering to spare him that. Like she gets that murdering this family is pretty messed up and uncomfortable for Blitzo.

Which I feel really gives this interaction the vibe of something we might see in a very grim horror or war story where a character has to do something very dark and reprehensible, like murdering an innocent family, only for one of their friends/comrades to sympathetically offer to do it themself and spare that character the horror. Sometimes because the friend/comrade has done similarly dark things themselves in the past. A very ‘let me pull the trigger and spare you the guilt’ moment.

Maybe this is more because of the posts I’ve recently done on Loona’s fucked-up backstory, but I can’t help but wonder if this might be HINTING at said fucked-up-backstory.

As in, is this Loona basically going ‘I know this is fucked up because I’ve done this before’…?