I feel like the AoS authors don’t understand - they gave us a play-room full of toys to come and play with, when we wanted to have some fun.
And for a certain part of the fandom, out of all the toys in the play-room - FitzSimmons became a favourite teddy-bear. It gave us warm and fuzzy feelings, gave us a way to escape our own problems, for a little while.
And sure, the teddy-bear got worn down, and lost an eye, the ear got tattered and it started to come apart at the seams in places, but still it was our teddy bear, and all the scars and bruises that we have kind of lived with and worried about are what made it so special and unique. And we remember fondly all the details: the tea-parties we played, the time we left it out in the garden and it got soaked by the rain or when it almost got lost on the bus. We had lots of memories: it made us cry, and made us laugh and made us smile.
AoS writers: We have a surprise for you. It’s possibly the end of an era, we need to close these playroom and we are moving all these toys to a permanent home out of you reach. So, maybe it’s time to say good-bye, but we’ll make it special for all the toys, including your teddy-bear.
FS Fandom: well, we are sad, but maybe finally our teddy will get it’s cute cottage in a fairy forest that it always dreamt of, and it will make us happy if we know our teddy is happy and well taken care of.
AoS writers: LOL… what cottage? Look, we did this other thing instead, because everyone needs to be edgy these days, and because we realized we could….
FS fandom: WTF???? WTF??????
AoS writers: well, that teddy was really torn and tattered anyways.
FS fandom: [gasps] but… but…it was you… you tore out its eyes, and you cut into its ear…. that was our favorite teddy-bear. We thought you were going to fix it.
AoS writers: no, no, we never planned to fix it. That’s why we kept it in this dark corner the last couple of days. But you know it’s stupid to cry about it, because we have another teddy bear, just like yours - same serial number even, except less worn down, shinier, newer. It’s hidden in a drawer somewhere. The only problem is that we don’t actually own the key to the drawer - so maybe you will get to see it or not. But you should be happy to know that there is another teddy-bear out there exactly like yours.
FS fandom: Yes, but that’s not OUR teddy-bear - it didn’t even attend the biggest ever tea-party we held in its honor. Can we have our teddy-bear back?
AoS Writers: no sorry - it’s gone. We threw it in the trash.
FS Fandom: You did WHAT? - so you didn’t even like give it a heroic ending, make it a legendary stuffed animal - sort of like Bing-Bong in Inside Out? Maybe that would help us cope with the loss…
AoS Writers: we wanted to do something shocking in a this-happens-every-day to teddy-bears, simple, horrible, realistic way.
FS fandom: But - but …why?
AoS Writers: We could maybe even make the top 10 horrible teddy-bear death of the year list - don’t you think that would be exciting? We thought you like surprises and twists…
FS fandom: You understand that the whole point of the teddy-bear was to cope with all the horrible reality that happens every day, right? That the hugs and cuddles of our teddy bear helped us get through those really bad days?
AoS writers: Come back next year, we’ll see if we can open that drawer for you….Maybe by that time you won’t care that it’s not EXACTLY your teddy-bear, you’ll take whatever stuffed toy we decide to give you.
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