#me in highschool wouldve been like 'Ugh its not interesting for luna to be so goody-goody. he needs to be fucked up and succumb!'

[waterfall-ambience]

damien and luna's relationship being fairly healthy despite everything is kind of crazy to me considering that the starting point was ex and xisuma, whose dynamic was a lot of things at once but the major conflict came from xisuma believing (on some level) that ex was doomed to always be 'evil *xisuma*', and not their own person.

meanwhile luna believes damien is their own person despite the gods insisting that they're not. the banishment still happens in perpetua and is fated to happen. it would've been a lot easier for luna to just write damien off as being a twisted version of him or agustin, to put his heart aside and act without mercy, but he doesn't, and the hurt is inevitable on both sides now rather than just one.