narratively speaking vox machina (vex specifically) helping bring back the poor young woman that died for their war and their games, who was nothing but a pawn, just collateral damage, is fantastic and so tender and devastating at the same time.
the past is never truly buried. violence is relived continuously & is never ending. the dead are alive and the living are dead. your past has risen from the grave and is coming to haunt you unless you resurrect it!!!!!!! and the intense overwhelming guilt of a life long past that forces them to help her because they have to. they did this to her, in a way. vex seeing a few resemblances in laudna, like a twisted broken mirror and feeling so deeply sorry for this woman in front of her that she did not even know the name of until now, but she knew the face, of course she knew, how could she forget? the haunting dark eyes and the nightmarish broken neck.
and laudna! coming back to life (again) in her hometown (again) except this time she does not wake up scared and alone (okay, maybe a little scared, but not alone, never alone again). she doesn't wake up covered in her own blood, beaten and bruised and with a sore broken neck. no. instead, she wakes up clean and comfortable all bundled up in a blanket and she's not alone. never. she wakes up and she's surrounded by SO MUCH love! imogen, and warmth, and all of her friends! she's home! and she's safe! and she's back!
ghosts from the past coming back to haunt you and a girl that is so loved she cannot die!
