#if i did get to make decisions there's a death i'd undo immediately

[fonulyn]

Considering that Death Island takes place after Vendetta, do you think this is going to be the first Claire and Leon interaction since Infinite Darkness?

i honestly have no idea. looking back, the RE franchise does not do particularly well when it comes to connecting the different installments. sure there are a few callbacks or minor mentions or such, but in general they often just don't address stuff and handwave it away. forget about characters conveniently when they're not in the spotlight.

so realistically? i think we can expect that Claire and Leon interact "normally" and that they have somehow resolved their issues somewhere in the years between. it has been several years, so...

if they do address it and somehow make the two work out their differences? i'm not entirely sure i trust them to do it well :'D but i would be interested in the angle they take it from. they left off with a big big disagreement at the end of ID (one that I have talked before so I won't dive into now lmao but I still can't even watch that last scene when I rewatch) so resolving it is not gonna be just one "hey sorry" "i'm sorry too" and would require a lot more effort. the kind of effort i doubt that they have the time for in a movie.

especially since it seems it's somewhat Jill-focused (or maybe I'm just too hopeful :'D I want Jill-time, lmao) so they would probably not spend a lot of time with other characters hashing out their differences.

maybe we'll get a callback to it? "remember when we argued and later made up? yeah that was wild" or something along the lines.

but honestly as interesting as it would be to see them work things out, if it really is gonna be the first time they interact after ID then I'm personally gonna be really disappointed tbh. it's been almost ten damn years. if they left the Chip of Destiny argument unresolved for a friggin' decade?? while having been good friends and allies before that?? yeah neither of them deserves brownie points or gold stars for that.

i know that canon is always vague with any and all character relationships outside the actual installments, but from everything we have seen i have always wanted to believe that the shared experience in RC made them close on some level, and if it's really that easy to throw away their friendship? one disagreement? yeah if it ends up being canon, it also ends up in the trash with the rest of the canon i don't like :'D

[thequibblah]

🌟what did lily do in the years following her leaving the village and what was her whole idea of james during that time??🌟 for in pursuit <33

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zomg this is such an interesting question — i feel as though i have a very clear idea of what james was doing (since he was actively seeking something out for much of his immortality) but less so with lily.

obviously immediately following the spell she wanted to get the hell out of dodge; thinking it's just a protection spell i imagine she just put distance between herself and the village (and james ;___;) and either went north to now-scotland or south to now-france. naturally it would've taken her a longass time to overcome the paranoia that someone would somehow trace the death of unnamed asshole villager back to her. she would've avoided attention as far as possible.

but she already gravitates towards knowledge and knowledge centres, as evidenced by her curiosity for her grandmother's history etc, and would probably seek to enhance her knowledge in avenues that were safe for women of the time — nunneries at first, and then vvv slowly courtly life, which i imagine was more concerned with magical theory anyway than god-fearing nuns were (permitted to be).

this is of course a delicate dance — memory at any specific royal court is at least longer than being a fake travelling nun or whatever and it sure would get weird if the marquess's wife's daughter looks a lot like her! and her granddaughter! and her great— now hold on a minute! so i think lily would've dipped in and out of prominence still, being very careful not to be too much in favour with whatever ruler held sway. in the same way james never bothered with long-term relationships, she wouldn't have either, but being a courtly mistress (not of the king!! that's dangerous jdhgk) puts you near enough the action without needing to worry too much about what your spouse thinks you're up to, and she absolutely would've done that a lot. super great too if you could trade away the nice jewellery your hopeful mans gives you and use the cold hard cash to buy rare magical theory books instead

having lived through the misogyny of the western world tee em though jkdhfgjkd not to mention her specific history she absolutely kept people at arm's length for a very long time — which makes her reluctant to trust james as a magician before she even knows who he is. with my vague sense of when european women holding property in their own right got less weird, then, it tracks that she lets her guard down a little with someone like mcgonagall. and by then she's !!! tired !!! she's had the tilney text for like three hundred years, because in typical lily fashion this is a really long-considered decision. by the time she was entering that auction she already was like what happens when the excitement of being immortal runs out and then told herself it'd be a good idea to figure out how to undo the spell in advance so she could go ahead and do it whenever it suited her.

but then obviously she meets mcgonagall and mary and gets a bit more frantic in her research — not because she doesn't believe she'll ever meet people who get her in this way (she's lived too long to think that, unromantic as it seems) but because it's so damn hurtful to wonder how many more people you love will have to leave you

as for james — she thought about him a fair fkn bit. suspicious, lily!!! especially during her first lifetime, when slowly realising her life isn't going to be like everyone else's, she probably spent plenty of nights wondering what life would've been like if she'd taken him up on the proposal. and then, y'know, over the years — what would my mornings and my nights have been like if i'd gone with him?

and i think weighing out the possibilities isn't unrelated to her wanting to undo the spell. at the end of the day — the very very very long day — she badly wants true, honest companionship, and the last time she really had it was his lil visits when they were eighteen!

god wait how did this make me emotional