also totally related to my last post but this is why the Evfra/Sara Ryder ship destroys me emotionally man.
the soldier who lost everything and everyone, who pushes people away now because one more person he's close to means one more person he will inevitably lose. the man who brought them all together, the one who united them, alone, by the shackles of the very title he created for himself
vs the scientist who lost everything but still pushes through with a smile because despite it all, she's alive, and it won't bring them back, and it won't be enough, but better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all, except no one sees her as anything but the Pathfinder, trapped by a title she was never meant to carry
and then they SEE each other? oh my god. oh man.
evfra, who formed the Resistance after losing his family not because he was angry at the kett, but because he loved his family so much that he sought to spare the angara the same suffering he'd already endured.
sara, who became pathfinder in one of her worst moments, who carried the mantle forward because she was needed, and has endured horrors of her own, yet remains positive because the game has a tone problem because misery won't change anything but love saved the angara, and maybe it can save the Initiative too, being living proof that Evfra could've survived future loss if he'd ever permitted himself that closeness.
i am going to be VIOLENTLY ill