Reasons Why Rosegarden is Canon: #012
Both character's solo arcs parallel off of each other's in many ways. One of the most notable is how Ruby and Oscar both struggle with themes around choice and identity. It's no wonder when their main allusions are Little Red Riding Hood and The Little Prince, respectively. And how both of their stories work as brilliant allegories for the trials and challenges of "growing up". How the people we meet, experiences we have, responsibilities, losses, and grief we carry all shape us as people. And how we don't often have a say in what will influence us or how.
For Oscar, he always knew he wanted to be more than a farmhand, but he never asked for the hand he was dealt. And now, at 15, he feels like the choice and opportunity to become the person he wants to be has been robbed from him. That his only fate is to become just another Oz in the long line of those that came before him.
Whereas Ruby always knew she wanted to be a huntress. A hero, like in the fairy tales her mom read to her. Ruby acts on these convictions, and she stumbles, fails, and loses more than she can bear. When she reaches her breaking point, she tries to throw herself away only to be offered the choice to become anyone she could possibly hope to be.
The parallels between their personal journeys, their shared attachment to one another (and the subsequent fear of loss), as well as how the merge and ascension are very clearly set up as mirrors, foreshadows and builds up to their arc in the coming season(s). Can't explain ascension with Oscar's leitmotif playing in the background and have Ruby undergo ascension after being shown an illusion of his death at her own hands, followed by him speaking to her at her grave about those very themes around identity and uh. Not address it. The Boy Who Fell From the Sky and the Girl Who Fell Through The World will have to face their reflections at some point. And a reunion after the latter returns from the other side of the looking glass is as opportune a time as any. So #greenlightvolume10 pls
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