"May your day be as precious as your smile and only half as beautiful, cause nothing could ever be half as beautiful as your smile.. but if it did, it would be divine. Have a day like that.."
saw a poll about whether you prefer corruption or redemption arcs and i realized that for me it's not really either, it's a distillation arc: when a character becomes the most intense version of what they could be, everything inessential falling away or being discarded so that only the core remains.