on the one hand the older i get the less i am able to be invested in teenager ships on the other hand rereading the slippery slope and the grim grotto is really like oh i really do get why early fandom years people paralleled quiglet with beamony and kliona with kitlaf (and later lemony/ellington as well but like, the prev two was before atwq era) and i really can feel the tragedy of it, of them, and to me the time they spent together was pretty short considering the timeline of the books, it's not the kind of, built over long time love, but it is, meeting someone enjoying their company briefly and then abruptly the time comes to a stop, whether by outside forces forcing you two apart or there's betrayal involved, and then you lost contact and possibly never saw each other again and one or both of you possibly died, and if one of you (or both of you lived but never meet again) this memory of having liked this person of having met this person and solved problems alongside them, even just briefly, a kind of happiness amidst your other troubles, a connection with someone that brought comfort to you during a really really hard time in your life escaping from villains and in search of the truth. and then everything was abruptly cut short, like it really just - cut short.
and you may never meet them again, may even not know what happened to them. and you'd always wonder, if things turned out differently, what would today have been like.
and in kliona's case there's also the betrayal involved, of fiona betraying them but also, this is her choosing her family, and the realization of that, for kids like them who do understand choosing family first, because that's what they do. it's not like, a grand love, they've only met a few days, but it still hurt. the chef salad quote also appeared in the grim grotto, along with the story about fernald and gregor and the snicket twins' involvement, and the theme's just, so very chef's kiss. i am a the penultimate peril lover but the slippery slope and the grim grotto are also so interesting reads - the revelation of vfd's full name, all the information about vfd that came through quigley (which in turn came from jacques, directly or not), and the complexities of sides and the schism in the grim grotto and the betrayal and family. i'm just. emotional.
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