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one of my favorite things about tlt is how some of the greatest moments of kindness are also the cruelest thing you could do to someone. aiglemene kept gideon from joining the war orphan industrial complex machine by forcing her to stay on a shitty cult planet where no one liked her. gideon killed herself in front of harrow and forced her to choke down her soul so she could live. harrow cut off the part of her brain that remembered gideon, the on thing she ever wanted from harrow was her attention, so that SHE could live. the one time we see palamedes go off without camilla is so he can confront the rogue lyctor and avenge dulcinea, killing himself in the process. camilla carried palamedes with her for 6 months, the process was literally killing her. ianthe refused to eat corona. mercymorn EXPLODED john. i think about this often
The thing that drives me insane about Romeo and Juliet and the age old debate of dumb kids vs violence is
Yes!! They were stupid! They were teenagers with hormones and emotions and not enough experience to temper their feelings. Everything was high stakes, every crush true love, every disappointment a tragedy.
And the tragic thing is that in any other circumstances, they would've moved on! This is a normal part of growing! You hurt each other and you heal and you grow and mature, it's coming of age and it's an ugly process.
But because of the world they lived in, because of the adults who were supposed to protect them, because of the societal frameworks that guided them, they never had that chance. The tragedy is that they were dumb teens, but they never had a chance to grow and learn from those dumb teenage mistakes.
