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Let's all just take a moment to savour the fact that the Desolation, easily some of the smuggest and most insufferable Avatars to not secretly be Jonah Magnus, straight up FUCKED THEMSELVES by murdering a little kid's helpless pet
And like, if Gertrude was telling the truth, that's absolutely delicious because these basic burning bitches created their own worst enemy, who brought down their Messiah without lifting a finger, doomed one of them to an And I Must Scream fate he could not have been more deserving of, and openly mocked another to his face when she told him about it
and if she was lying, it's even better because she looked at this cult whose whole thing is the spreading of misery, thought, "what's a good and plausible origin story for me on this? and went straight to painting them as the cliche bed-wetting, animal-torturing serial killers that, for all their pretence and all the window dressing of their gooey wax superpowers, is all they fucking are.
Like, fuck the Desolation. In the end they were a bunch of one-episode baddies from Criminal Minds. The entire concentrated power of the Vast couldn't make them more insignificant than they turned out to be.