One of my main inspirations for durgetash and consequently my arch nemesis the longfic and my pen name as well as the longfics names is D. Gray Man. Some random anime I watched as a kid that I don't remember jack shit about.
Except for one particular scene/storyline/song.
Lala's Lullaby aka 'Lacrimosa'.
Just a doll, singing a prayer for a human.
It's so insubstantial, considering how long the series is. It's such a tiny, minor arc. But holy fuck I'm never gonna get over it.
'Are you sleeping? Then I'll sing you a lullaby.' Just fucking stab me won't you? That would be nicer actually.
So anyway now I'm crying again.
And for those who don't want to break their hearts like me, a quick recap behind the cut cuz yes I'm not gonna spoil an anime that's nearly 2 decades old.
A suffering society built dolls to sing and dance and to distract them from their pain, even if just for a minute. Those dolls very much looked like how you imagine a doll. Either way, the city fell, and the dolls all broke except for one that continued to sing for no one in particular until a child stumbled into the ruins one day (the child, in fact, was an outcast, as it was disfigured).
The doll took care of the child, and the child cared for her. Giving her a name, fixing her hair and putting a bandage over her broken eye. And they just lived in harmony and peace until protagonist came about and wanted to take the thing that powered the doll.
So of course fighting ensued between several parties. Until the now grown up child took the killing blow aimed at the doll. So shit halted and protag allowing the couple to fulfil their final wish, with Lala sending the man off and no one but the man being allowed to stopped lala in the end.
But with her energy spent, her core gona and her time running out anyway, Lala returns to her doll like appearance, becoming unable to utter anything but the programmed sentences. Inquiring if Sir Human would like to hear a song to which the man just begins crying and professing his love with his dying breath. To which the doll replies by asking if he's sleeping and proceeding to sing Lacdimosa, a prayer to send off the dead and beg for mercy for their souls.
As soon as her song finishes, she breaks.
Oh also the man was dying anyway. And despite their appearances being flipped before, he man wearing an inhumane mask and the doll looking incredibly human, in the end he looses his mask and the doll becomes a doll again. And in the end she just calls him sir human again, not by the name she used before. Just offering a song, like the first time they met so many years ago.
I'm so cool about this. I'm definitely not permanently ruined by what's like 10 minutes of television.
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