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could snake be alive?

when grell is introduced as a grim reaper, she says “death gods can use cinematic record to relive te memories of those on the to-die list, for assessment. what kind of person is he? what kind of life had he led? whether to let him live on? or to kill him?”.

so they can choose to let a person live.

if anyone is unfamiliar, there is a compositional principle called chekhov's gun. if you hang a rifle on the wall in the first act, then it has to fire in the next one. otherwise, don’t put it there in the first place. and knowing yana, i don’t think she would introduce that plot point without planning to use it later (unless she already has and we just do not know it yet). so it's safe to assume someone will be brought back by grim reapers.

usually when we see a grim reaper with a person’s card, they have already stamped “completed” on it. (chapters 35, 53, 102, 105, 128 and probably many more).

there is at least one time we didn’t see the stamp but it was during the luxury liner arc and we’ve got like hundreds of people killed and showed at the same time so i’d say it’s an exception.

however with snake there’s no stamp saying “completed”. we have a sound for a heavy thud, but don’t see it directly so who knows, maybe they have a stamp with “in progress” or “brought back” or something similar.

at the end of chapter 209 there is the note “that soul is/will be merely judged coldly.” using anything other than the past tense when the narrative wants us to think that his judgment has already been completed is an interesting choice.

“but only souls that can be of use have the right to survive” — but we do not know what exactly awaits snake. unlike the rest of the servants, we never saw him kill anyone on ciel's orders or in his defense. he died protecting a child. in the end, he did not choose either doll’s side or ciel’s. maybe in the future he was meant to do something that would make the grim reapers consider him worthy of revival.

some people hope that undertaker, persuaded by doll, will turn him into a bizarre doll, but that seems less likely to me. a grim reaper is right there on the scene, and i doubt they would leave her running around freely when

he saw her in snake’s memories and know the bond between them, so it is logical to assume she would want to bring him back to life = more work for them

every previous time they encountered bizarre dolls, they attacked them to neutralize them because they are aberrations that should not exist.

perhaps i’m delulu and reading too much into it, but at the same time yana has left subtle clues so many times before that i cannot shake the feeling that all of this was intentional on her part

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Lambda squad doodles, I love this weird little family

I need them to be happy in the human world so badly

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inspired by @kaykayystar's amazing idea! two of my favorite gp characters!! wish we got to see these two animated

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Today's "hyperfix bit I'm chewing on in my brain" is the framing of motherhood among the chosen girls in TPN as despair manifest, as a moment of resignation to the system that dictates you can either give birth to be useful or just die. (Full TPN Spoilers Below.)

Isabella, of course, is a parallel to Emma. Someone who held the same fierce opposition to her place within a system made to victimize her and her family. Ultimately though, given what seemed like a choice to guarantee safety at the 'top' of the ladder, she took it. So tired of resisting was she.

But the Mothers are a means to an end. They are precious cultivators of cattle but nothing more. They're consistently made from the start to view each other as competition to push down, to never bond over their mutual victimhood because rocking the boat will ensure their demise.

The position of motherhood, then, is something of a bargaining chip. To be a mother is to be safe, guaranteed a place out of the way. All you have to do is raise children, right? (Raise them to be obedient food.) Accept this and you'll always have a place (unless you're outspoken.)

It is Emma's wholesale rejection, both of enabling this system to exist, as well as the skepticism of her fellow children (whether as hindrances OR competition) that allows her to view them not as burdens, but as allies. Shouldering the pain to tear down what causes it.

I think it's interesting then, and pertinent to the overall message, that while motherhood is spoken of so much, fatherhood is notably absent narratively until it's brought up by Peter. An arbitrary claim summed up only as "creation", the enabling thereof. An ownership over the children.

And Peter (beyond obviously being a reference to Pan, to endless childhood) is a character so centrally weighed down by this dichotomy of fatherhood, of "making the tough choices for the family", of being a "provider and protector". But he shackles himself with it, and everyone else.

But as is correctly pointed out by Oliver, Peter couldn't be further from real family. Even some reductive view of the domino effects couldn't possibly make him 'family' to the children in any real sense, his words mean nothing. They're hollow.

I think it's fitting then that where TPN lands with family is ultimately with the destruction of its traditional structure. The death of the Father, the defecting from the system of the Mother, and a village to raise itself. A sprawling community of mutual care where no one holds power over another.

Only in rejecting the comfortable illusions we're fed, about what places we should take, and which ones will only cause us pain can we build a world not contingent on it. It's so much more possible than people would like you to think.