ENDGAME SPOILERS: Can you help me feel better about what happened with Gamora? You seem happy/okay with it but I'm devastated that our Gamora is gone forever and all her healing and recovery and development has been taken away. (I'm also mad at the Clint and Natasha scene essentially implying that Nat deliberately choosing to sacrifice herself to save others is the same as Gamora being horrifically murdered by her abuser but that's another issue.) Majorly looking forward to your next fic.
I mean...I’m not sure if I can? I think I have a different perspective, which is that I really like interesting/compelling story possibilities. I think a part of Gamora IS gone forever and it IS devastating and...it should be? That’s okay, it doesn’t mean we can’t also love getting to know this Gamora and everything she’ll become. I guess I’m looking at this whole thing as a metaphor for trauma and recovery, which isn’t linear and which does change the reality of who you are in ways you really can’t ever erase, you can only move forward. And it hasn’t ALL been taken away, because her family is still better for having had her all along and now they’ll help her. Look at it this way: She sacrificed herself in IW to save Nebula. Now Nebula is going to save her. (Also I thought the Clint/Nat scene was part of showing how the Avengers were getting the Stones differently than Thanos did. They’re the heroes, he’s a monster. But that IS a whole other discussion. ;) )
