#my beloved oc is a cringefail loser in just way. it's truly delightful to write characters like this. i am so fond of them

[saturdaysky]

Midst 19 (season 1 finale)

Crowds rubbernecking the moon blowing apart. Yeah, I would be staring at the moon exploding, too. It would get me.

OHO it's falling into the ocean of the Fold! OHOHO a FOLD HURRICANE! This excites me even though it spells horrible fates for everyone in its way

Lark has gone into Survival Mode. I feel like she's very good at this mode, probably for dark, sad reasons

god i love the descriptions of the slowly-encroaching Fold. "a tsunami of Fold growing closer...its surface roiling, angry"

"Sherman, or what's left of him, in tow" ouch

THE TRUST IS CRASHING! I love shakeups like this. If Valor is worthless, then so is the drive to gain it, which destabilizes the entire profitable, horrible debt slavery economy the Trust has going. If Valor is worthless, Caenum is meaningless. I imagine there will be more Trust escapees after this

Spahr taking charge. He does actually have leadership skills to go with his fancy capelet and gold armor

Moc Weepe trying to escape consequences and IT'S SASKIA WITH A STEEL CHAIR

Moc Weepe getting scooped up and saved (saved?) by Imelda Goldfinch. Delicious. I think Moc Weepe thinks he can escape the tragedy he's trapped himself into, but I don't think he can. He's going to get exactly what he bargained for, and I bet it's going to ruin him

Spahr is MAD and DISAPPOINTED in Phineas, which Phineas is sooo normal about. I'm stoked at seeing real emotions in someone as seemingly unreadable as Spahr. What's his deal! Interested to find out.

"[Phineas] can't give himself time to think this all the way through, he just has to act. There isn't time, and he can't let Spahr say it. He will not give Spahr the time to tell him that he has failed. He will not hear that." Have i mentioned that my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE TRAIT in cringefail loser characters is when they fail forwards from one horrible mistake to an exciting, differently-horrible mistake simply because they can't bear having made any mistakes at all? Sunk cost fallacy, baby, it'll be worth it in the end!! It's gotta be worth it in the end. It has to be.

Oho! Spahr really wants to chase Phineas and make him fit better into the system, but Imelda stops him and he listens. They have a spare seat for Moc Weepe after all! Brutally cold. Love it. I hope Phineas comes back wrong.

"The focus is all he has" yeah, that sounds like Phineas

Oh no, Phineas is going to commit atrocities to get to Lark and Tzila, isn't he

Oh! No, it's just time for him to wholly lose the reason for his existence. I think this will be good for him, actually. It will at least be good for me.