#i might be in my chaggie era

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i wonder if vaggie was charlie's first ever personal proof of concept. if charlie watched this razor sharp woman with scars on her back and bandages over her eye slowly come out of her terrified, angry shell to reveal an inner core of fierce concern and loyalty and love. if charlie saw vaggie's emerging softness, her devotion and mercy and protectiveness, and felt a warming affirmation of everything she believed about sinners: that everyone deserves a second chance, that everyone has a sliver of goodness beneath their pain, that hell shouldn't be the end of the road. because vaggie's very existence validates all of charlie's principles and deeply-held truths. and then she learns that vaggie was never a sinner at all.