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I cannot BELIEVE we are back at this dinner table - the same one echoed in a similar scene between our earlier pair of Sakura and Syaoran. The scene that Lava Lamp remembers vividly, but Sakura can’t remember him being there at all, and can only ever recall seeing an empty chair.
And HERE WE ARE, back in another important scene with a similar premise - another pivotal domestic moment between a Sakura and a Syaoran at this dinner table, one that only the Syaoran of the pair will remember (since the fate of this Sakura is unknown).
Did Lava Lamp recall this moment when he had to watch Syaoran and Sakura do the same thing? Was he just silently suffering his own eternal torture watching ALL of these INCREDIBLY SIMILAR MOMENTS that he had also lived, with a different Sakura, play out so similarly yet so incredibly differently?
Also the SHEER SIZE of these seats compared to the children trying to sit in them. The enormity of the fates they are trying to live up to already, when they are only tiny children.
Oh that IS lovely!
Nadeshiko making special preparations for Lava Lamp’s arrival - not only mirroring her acceptance of the way the future will change, and how she’s not fighting it or trying to prevent it, but also treating Lava Lamp with the trust and kindness that many others wouldn’t if they knew the fate that lay ahead of them.
Nadeshiko MVP
And THIS is what gets me.
If we are to believe what CLAMP are deliberately leading us towards thinking, Lava Lamp is speaking about Cardcaptor Sakura as his mother. WHO DOES INDEED have prophetic dreams about the future, so it fits!
But she’s not the only Sakura we know who has that power, so it STILL doesn’t ENTIRELY rule out anyone else out yet, even though any other option makes much less sense at this point in the narrative.
The odds that your birth is a complicated time travel miracle are low. But never zero!
EITHER WAY, the fact that Sakura stops having visions of the future after Lava Lamp is born has some very juicy implications. Either this is implying that she’s passed on that power and no longer retains it herself, or it’s implying that she doesn’t NEED to have them once she’s given birth to Lava Lamp. The visions of the future are usually a warning - a chance to take the right steps to ensure the best future (See also: Sakura in Infinity). But if, once Lava Lamp is born, the future doesn’t hinge on SAKURA’S actions but Lava Lamp’s? The presumably she would stop having the visions!
I think that’s the option that makes more sense to me at this point, but I’m sure we’ll find out eventually.
