nebetta being the da vinci of her time and going on to create such magnificent feats of engineering and being a decorated genius remembered for generations to come really is so gutting there is always something so gutting about genius characters losing the person they love because they are so so desperate to think their way out of it like there hasn't been a single challenge they've come across before that their intellect couldn't obsess a solution out of but this... this isn't something they could fix or solve. and the fact darya dies because of something architectural? when nebetta's speciality is structural? i picture her completely throwing herself into her work in her grief, swallowed whole by blueprints, but she will never be able to build something that fixes that one mistake and she will never be able to figure out the schematics of the one thing that mattered

















