#ortegas the opposite in the way that they are genre aware of tragedy but so fucking stubborn they refuse to accept its a tragedy

[bardicjustice]

Sidestep: this story is a tragedy.

Ortega: not if I have anything to say about it

[chadsuke]

#finally pinned down my favorite part of their dynamic#sidestep is genre-aware (if the genre is tragedy) and genre-blind (if the genre isnt tragedy)#ortegas the opposite in the way that they are genre aware of tragedy but so fucking stubborn they refuse to accept its a tragedy#like they know. they know its a tragedy. they just wont let it BE a tragedy#they hope their love and effort is enough to move mountains and move genres#bc it might be a tragedy. but they wont accept it until they have to (as with many things in ortegas life)#ugh made myself cry like. ortega works so goddamn hard. hoping inevitability wasn't expecting them.#hoping that all it takes is one person telling fate to go fuck itself. bc if theres one person who will say that its ortega

Sidestep: this story is a tragedy.

Ortega: not if I have anything to say about it