#this has been in my drafts for ages but i'm replaying local girl so i'm in my feelings again

[emmaswanned]

thinking once again about saga anderson and how freaking young she is. and how logan has her surname, not david's. (at least, this is the case in the horror story timeline, but i don't think you'd change a kid's surname after a divorce, right? and actually now that i say that i don't think saga and david got divorced until after logan died? they were just separated before that, weren't they?)

anyway, this makes me think saga and david got married after logan was born and probably because logan was born. they'd have been like 21 years old. i'm sure saga doesn't regret anything, but does she ever feel like she lost her youth? :( and does that influence how eager she is to dive into the strangeness and even the danger of the bright falls case? she is very excited to be working a cult case; an excitement her partner obviously does not share. also notable to me that she says she's never taken a case so far from her family before, and i think she's simultaneously feeling guilty and excited about that too.

and then i'm ALSO thinking about how in the horror story timeline saga would have been married, raised a child for 9 years, lost that child, and gotten divorced, all by the age of 30. (and also proooobably lost her mom within that timeline, or perhaps soon after. it's unclear to me exactly when freya died.)

and oh by the way all that while working up the ranks as fbi agent. she and her husband both must've had to make such sacrifices to do that.

(also the fact that as soon as saga meets tor and odin they're calling her sweetie pie and talking about how she's a viking goddess, it's the instant unconditional love of family that saga never had outside of her mom ugh it really gets me in my feelings.)