She dies at 25 in a barren wasteland, no dog tag and no home. Fay is supposed to feel comfort, she’s supposed to feel acceptance but instead she so feels alone.
This is her unmarked grave
Heroes are tragic beings, they are and will always be transcendent of memory, they don’t stay with us forever but what they leave behind is greater than what we are capable of dreaming.
Fay Dunbar is not a hero, however. In fact she’s rather reckless. Impulsive, arrogant, cocky, too brave for her own good. So she’ll die, she’ll die alone. And face the death she longed for only to feel so empty. She hungered for a glory, a legacy to live on and she got nothing.
Countless times she’d been warned and countless times she did not listen. We all know the feeling of escaping fate, we’re cats with nine lives —-we can escape death.
Sometimes, but not always.
There are, 6 memories that Fay Dunbar relives before she dies. 6, only six. Her life is too insignificant for more.
6. Andromeda. Pregnant, one night stand, and she comforts her the way only a mother could ( a mother who has lost everything.) She’s the only real family Fay has ever had….and now she’s gone. No more overtly dark tea, no more brittle hugs, nothing.
5. Riley. A crowded room, a stolen glance and everything feels so pure and so damn beautiful. In a room devoid of poverty she found herself feeling poor, she drowned in that moment. With him, Romeo and Juliet, tragic but happy. He taught her beauty and he taught her grace and she found happiness in something other than love, hope.
4. Mary. Poor Mary, innocent Mary. The death of Cedric—–It ruined her, it broke her. The world comes crashing down around them and Fay knows, knows she must protect her —with everything she’s ever had. Mary was her chance, her chance to be a better person, to be kinder and to be better —and she did that. They did that.
3. Emmett. Toxic, he was toxic, his death was toxic. He made her hate everything and everyone, the moment, he knew —who she was, where she was from, what she had done. That was it, her fate was sealed. And his was too. But he forced her to have strength were there was none and pushed her to be tougher than she really was, he showed her what forgiveness was like…until he took it away and now she’ll join him, in the land of the dead but he won’t forgive her for her sins and neither will she.
2. Ginny. Her best friend, she left her best friend, alone. She made life worth living, she made adventure worth searching. Ginny was her everything, a family. A good one too. It was the moments at 2 am, it was the robberies at midnight, it was laughter she was her eternal laughter.
1. And Tom, it’s always Tom. he ruined her, he broke her and he did not care.
Only one moment, their cataclysmic reaction; the movement of a knife and a stab into the deep, dark abyss. He caused that. He ruined her, he made her like this. War-torn and broken hearted. He destroyed her. Yet she can’t hate him, not even now. I guess love isn’t what we first think it is, neither is hate.
Now she looks back. Between the dust and the hot sun blazing on her forehead. She doesn’t think about her family, not even her mother or her sisters. Is it bad? No, she She feels a clash of colour and hears a siren. And she cries, she cries a lot. No one will come to her funeral, she’ll be reported missing and her practical jokes, her Hogwarts school days —long nights sneaking behind passageways and kissing boys, it’s gone and it’s irrelevant. So meaningless yet so important. Because death wasn’t meant to feel this way, and neither was she. I guess first we feel, then we fall….and then, then we die.
This is the end of Fay Dunbar.
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