Mar 28, 2025
i need to make a dramatic slow motion animatic of the finale set to this
(with flashbacks n shit so it would realistically cover the whole plot bc of how long it is) but god specifically i need rand to throw the grenades as the first chorus starts. yeah right after he talks to rachel during there's a darkness in this house that got the best of us / there's a darkness in this town that's got us too / but they can't touch me now and you can't touch me now / they aint gonna do to me what i watched em do to you
#like like like like okay. there are SO many ways i could communicate the allegory i see in this story#and this is one of the most clear and concise ways bc it's literally just laying the subtext out over the text#you have to kill yourself to survive. you can't save anyone. you can't save your town from poverty OR the bug monsters!#it's about separation right. choosing to separate out of anger or incompatibility or#being forced to separate for self preservation bc you have no other options to live#but the independence will kill you even as it saves you#you can save yourself by leaving town but the town itself will die and you will have killed it and you will have killed yourself#< rolan#you can save yourself by isolating and ignoring your family/community. but it will kill them. it will be your fault. it will kill you too.#< rand#independence day = death. graduation. divorce. leaving home. burning bridges. growing apart over years.#and it's not optional. there is no other way to live. you HAVE to get out. we are all dying here.#we're all going to die out there too.#there's a lot of people leaving town now. leaving their friends their homes. at night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone.#jrwi bitb#yonder talks#bitb meta#sure put it in the meta tag i'm not driving