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[perseid-haunt]

I love ranting about shit on here that none of my followers know about ❤️ Aren't you pissed for me? Doesn't this make your blood boil??

[jamespotterstardis]

Ouat, Se08ep12.

Where's the Dr Facilier and Regina story going, 'cause I don't like it. They have zero chemistry. Infact, she looks down right awkward to be near him.

Now she and Robin Hood, on the other hand, had amazing chemistry.

[perseid-haunt]

Like Suicide by D.arkher reminds me so much of L.acie especially. It's so incredibly L.acie, especially from O.swald's perspective. But I've been underrating the line "Safe outside my gilded cage / With an ounce of pain / I wield a ton of rage / Just like suicide" which is so O.swald.

I've already talked a hundred times before about the Baskersiblings both figuratively and literally killing themselves so I won't repeat myself. Before, I've mentioned O.swald's figurative death. But this line in particular reminds me of O.swald's actions that he knew would lead to his literal death but he did them anyway. Just like suicide 🎶

[perseid-haunt]

L.acie is not trying to destroy the narrative. She is the narrative. Shaking you by the shoulders.

[perseid-haunt]

I'm realizing now that it infuriates me more than any other mistake or disagreement, and I think that's because people are misunderstanding one of my favorite things about my favorite character.

I already posted before about why I think people make this mistake about what the narrative is and who is trying to destroy it, but another reason I didn’t mention is that destroying the narrative seems to be automatically associated with good. But what O.swald tried to do was bad. Therefore the instinctive reaction is that it's not what he was trying to do.

The most mind-boggling thing is how a character can literally not figuratively but literally attempt to destroy the narrative immediately after the narrative is outright explained in a fourth wall break, but all of that be completely ignored because people are so stuck on the idea that 'narrative' and 'status quo' are synonyms.

It's one of the most mind-boggling failures of reading comprehension by PH fans, assuming they are saying these things not based on a failure of memory.

[perseid-haunt]

Oh I know! A tournament for characters who try to destroy the narrative, feat. O.swald and that guy from 1899.

No one understands PH's relationship to the narrative though so he'd never get submitted. If anyone got submitted, it'd just be L.acie again even though, I love her, but she does not fit the title nearly as well and no one gets that bc no one gets how to define the narrative in PH despite the fact--or perhaps precisely because of the fact--it is literally defined.

[perseid-haunt]

Oh yeah since I've been talking about them lately, here's the quickest way to prove everything I say

[perseid-haunt]

There are infinite alternate realities, including happy ones where nothing goes wrong

Because in addition to other things, P.andora Hearts is about stories. The entities that observe each story want unique, interesting ones and this is the version they have logged for us to read because it is the best version. One with tragedy, turmoil, hard-learned lessons, and a bittersweet end.

O.swald wants a stagnant story. Oz wants a happy story. But those things do not make good, interesting stories, and that's the reason they exist as characters: to set a good, interesting story in motion.