#and sheng lingyuan tried. and he couldn't. and so instead he killed him.
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lhjc said who needs time loops when you can watch the same character die at your protagonist’s hands, calling him brother with his last breath, three times in a row in canon
#烈火浇愁#and of course said protagonist (deuteragonist? whatever) remains expressionless and unmoved (apparently)#but sheng lingyuan and aluojin's friendship was first formed when sheng lingyuan /saved/ him#and it was destroyed because sheng lingyuan couldn't help saving him again and again#and it was destroyed because aluojin was so certain even in his most desperate moments that sheng lingyuan would save him#and sheng lingyuan tried. and he couldn't. and so instead he killed him.#and now he never gets to escape killing him.#he has to re-make that choice again and again and again#aluojin asks him when they first meet again in the present#whether he would make the same choices if they had a chance to do it all again#and sheng lingyuan isn't even given the mercy of answering theoretically#he has to answer in the affirmative again and again by /doing it/#the tragedy of these two is that killing aluojin is always the lesser of evils#the tragedy of these two is that aluojin does not forgive him but gently calls him brother as he dies#the tragedy of these two is that it always had to (has to) be this way#the tragedy of these two is that if they had never loved each other it wouldn't have had to be this way
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