It will forever be funny how magicians bait you with a start of like. A privileged typical magical school and you go meh and then there’re like. Small things you keep finding creepy but go meh maybe its just oh so special. Quentin talking about his depression and knowing exactly from which roof to jump to not survive, Julia using her ring to gash open her arm so she wouldn’t forget about magic, beast appearing and burning dean’s eyes, alice’s brother who used too much magic and burned into a wild and cruel spirit. All weird and kinda disturbing but its mixed with so much humour and dumb privileged college kids on weed you kinda ignore the implications of how fucked up magic is
And then it all comes to a head when youre forced to mentally confront the fact that the beast, the main villain, a man who’s face is always obstructed by flies, who has been killing you and your friends for 44 time loops, is a hero of your childhood books which saved you from suicide. Books which were written by a man who sexually abused this boy for years which is why now he’s trying to destroy everything and be the only one left. Like what the actual fuck. And to drive the point home it deals with pregnancy as a result of SA and they go robbing a bank to afford it. This show pick you up by the scruff and takes you on a rollercoaster and shows you that magic comes from pain. That there is no talent, that the strongest mages are those who don’t stop. And then it takes your hand again and shows you that life is still beautiful even with all the horror. That there is hope and love and sometimes love is also hideous and evil and cruel but that’s okay. There might not be a happy ending but love was there. You did it because you loved and because you did something to change the world for the better and even if it turned completely wrong the sentiment was there. You existed and you mattered and maybe that’s enough
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