Imagine you sat between Frost and Torbek, gave them spontaneous scalp scratches and just had one purring and the other just making gutteral mmmmmmm sounds in their throat. Why would you imagine that you sicko? Because I have very specific indulgences in my fantasies that are wholesome with questionable erotic subtext that I shouldn't indulge in but will.
I also just want to brush Hootsie wholesomely by a warm fire for 3 hours and resist lulling myself to sleep despite I specifically did it and continue to do so to enduce it.
I need to talk about that final cutscene. I NEED TO TALK ABOUT THAT FINAL CUTSCENE.
I think the most important part of Shadow and Maria’s conversation here is its ending.
When Maria tells Shadow that “if fate draws us apart, I know I will always be in your heart” his first instinct is to fight it, to tell her to “wait” so that he can think of a solution.
But he hesitates. He allows himself to process her words, after all like Rouge said Maria is the only one who could ever talk him down, and it makes him angry.
He’s angry because he’s listening to her.
He’s angry because he knows she’s right.
He’s angry because he doesn’t want her to be right.
And most importantly he’s angry at himself, that despite everything, despite knowing that this is the last time he will ever see her, he can’t bring himself to watch her go. Not again.
So he sprits off and doesn’t look back, immediately focusing himself on the task Maria has encouraged him to peruse. To help his friends. And the task he promised Maria he would undertake, to follow her wish for everyone to be happy.
I think deep down he knows that includes him too, and chasing after something he lost so long ago will only make that impossible.
He’s finally moving on and it hurts him. But he takes it head on like he always does.
Yet this time he lets himself cry. He lets himself hurt. He lets himself heal and let go.
He’s going to be ok now. Even if it hurts. He’s going to let himself move on now.
Because he knows now, without a doubt, that that’s what Maria wants for him.
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