Do you really think Copia is truly dead? Gone forever? When Sister died, they gave her dignity. They let people mourn her. She was honored, remembered, mourned like she mattered. But Cardi? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. It’s as if he never existed at all, as if everything he was meant nothing. I know it isn’t real, I know it’s all part of the story, but it still hurts in a very real way. Because it feels just like real life, like when someone disappears and the world moves on as if they were nothing, as if they were never worth grieving. And that’s what devastates me the most: how could anyone not care about Cardi? How could they let him vanish like that, forgotten, erased, discarded? He deserved so much more than this. That evil Swedish man couldn’t have chosen a crueler, colder, more humiliating way to get rid of him. It doesn’t even feel like an ending — it feels like throwing someone away like trash.
So, I have complicated thoughts on this. Like, from a realistic POV I think it was a way to keep the lore open-ended as Ghost went into this hiatus. This is where this particular arc ended. It very much felt like typical Ghost fashion to rip a horrible joke when things get too serious and while I was sort of angry when I first saw the chapter I think by now I'm kind of indifferent? Like, is it a bit of a tasteless joke? Yea. But that's also Ghost. Tobias never meant to set out and please everyone, it's just that we all got so attached.
Don't get me wrong, you all know I love Copia, but I already did not feel super into his character arc as Frater, so my investment in the chapters was purely from an entertainment, don't take it so seriously standpoint. (This is a whole complicated thing for me though.) And I think a lot of our perception now has to do with how we added so much depth to the world in fanon that the general expectations for the lore were just way too high. It was never meant to be some grand narrative, it's marketing, it's silly, it's a way for him to throw some of his ideas around.
The depth of the themes is always hinted at but it's never made explicit. It's always been the fandom who did that and I think Tobias trusts us enough to know how to handle, how to interpret and how to expand what he's doing, like a proper artist should!!! He doesn't cater, doesn't dumb down, doesn't explicate.
I don't really love to specuale and theorize. It might be a mask change, it might just be a cliffhanger, it might be a proper open ending. Do I think he's dead? Not really, no, and he won't ever be dead unless we get more lore that states it. That's how narratives work. He's Schrödinger's Copia now, we're doing particle physics over here. Tobias may choose to pick the character back up, he might choose to stop, and until then we're in the limbo.
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