i know i've posted these screenshots before, but god sometimes the symmetry of the language between the first picture (leon's perspective, describing the creation of his and maria's promise) and the second picture (maria's perspective, as she calls their promise off) really hits me hard
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not to kiss my own ass or anything but i really do love the idea of leon considering maria to be his other half .. his platonic soulmate. like these are two people who the game has explicitly stated have always been orbiting around each other and going everywhere together, from playing together as children to traveling the world together as adults.
which just makes leon waking up all those years later without the one person who has always been by his side all the more painful i feel. lol love <33
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anyway after nearly five years of running this blog i finally have a mostly satisfying answer to my age - old question of ‘ what the fuck was maria actually like lol ’
she was a tsundere.
SJLFKJF LISTEN hear me out !! ... ( lftp spoiler screenshots below cut )
1. her being a spoiled, bossy kid who would cry whenever she didn’t get what she wanted when they were children, leading to leon constantly trying to appease her and the infamous promise they made
2. her harsh - exterior - but - secretly - soft - interior leading to other people always thinking of her as being frigid, hence why leon seemed to be the only one who was close to her and why he’s so quick to defend her from being called cold even years after she’s gone, as well as why people avoided her after he was sealed away. who would want to spend time with that mean, aloof woman who never speaks to anyone and spends all of her time alone at the tower all day ??
3. this would also explain why he never realized her feelings toward him given how vehemently she would be bound to deny them if asked. i’ve always kind of wondered how someone as perceptive as leon wouldn’t have noticed the person closest to him pining after him for 20+ years, and while this isn’t a perfect explanation, i feel like he would have trusted her enough to respect her answer without prying / looking too deeply into it.
the dots ... i am connecting them .... !!
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