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good--merits-accumulated · 11 months

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shakes your shoulders the renaissance au is a tragedy because of xyz in-story but ALSO because all three of the triumvirate's lives switch genres halfway through!!! todd goes from political thriller to psychological horror and his very strict moral code can't deal with it so instead it just kills him!!! neil goes from "me vs. the world" to "me and him vs. the world" but he isn't given enough time to unlearn his self-defensive selfishness so the love of his life dies!!!! andrea goes from a people's hero fighting for justice to a tyrannical despot but his fatal flaw is his complete lack of self-reflection, so the narrative punishes him by giving him what he wants only after his actions lead to the murder of the only man he's ever loved/the exile of the man who knows him best/the death of his fucking conscience!! which renders all of his achievements completely meaningless!! o god!!!!

#as you can see. i'm thinking abt the renaissance au again #i don't really ever stop thinking about it of course #andrea definitely gets the most tragedy like.#todd dies but he does so with a clean slate without having to actually solve the moral dilemma that plagues him #absolved of decision #neil is exiled to the countryside but like. at least he's alive. and free from politics which is what he wanted #andrea on the other hand.#he's the most 'successful' - i mean he becomes the duke of milan post-story #but i can't stop thinking about the last scene where he actually appears #like. broken. completely broken. kneeling facing AWAY from the altar of the cathedral #begging for forgiveness from todd's corpse #should've gone to confession shouldn't you bitch!#IS it like a fucked up romulus/remus actually. o god #tristan writes

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