Eternals Spoilers!!!
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I love Sersi, and I love that Ajak saw the humanity in her and chose her to be the leader. But damn, do I empathize with Ikaris.
Ikaris who knew the truth. Who carried that secret with him, watching his family fall in love with earth and humanity and knowing it couldn’t last. Ikaris who had to watch Sersi connect with people who he knew were ultimately destined to be lost. He knew the truth and he never told anyone, and he clung to the belief that his mission -his faith- was the right choice, the only choice, because acknowledging otherwise would mean that this thing he’s carried with him for centuries, that’s weighed him down and kept him distant, was all for nothing. And then Ajak tells him to forget it, to change from the path that he’s had to cling to because there were no other options. He’s kept this secret for centuries, kept himself from connecting with earth for centuries. For him, there’s been the mission and there’s been keeping his family safe, and there couldn’t be room for anything else because it would all be lost in the end anyway. And Ajak just wanted him to change everything, change his entire path, because she had a change of heart.
But because Ikaris was the only one who knew this secret, who’d been lead to believe the mission was the only true option, he never got the chance to see earth the way Ajak did.
It must have hurt him so deeply to have to resort to the path he did. And then to not even be chosen by Ajak in the end, when his whole existence had been to keep her secret and keep to his mission, and he did exactly as he was instructed. I’m sure Ikaris wouldn’t have truly wanted to be the leader, but it must have hurt him to know that even though he’d done everything “right” he still wasn’t the correct choice in the end. He followed the path he was meant to, being sure never to stray, only to gain nothing. In trying to stick to his duty and protect his family, he ultimately became the one to hurt them the most in the end.
