i cant stop thinking about mac after the dennis system for men scene. after that was over he probably went to the bathroom and had to hold back tears and maybe even a couple fell. he’s mac and he’s a badass so he doesn’t cry, never has and never will. but if dennis has a system for men then he’s into men but just not into mac. mac’s stupid but he can make the connections there. the last time he felt like crying like that was when dennis left btw
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Maybe I’m delusional but I cant be the only one who believes that the “Rise Again” short story is a parallel to what must’ve happened when Lisa realized what Viren “had to do” to save their son.
Pretty consistently we see that Claudia is a parallel to her father meanwhile more subtly we see Soren as a parallel to his mother.
I believe it is strongest in the scene where Soren makes the decision to runaway and he tries to ask Claudia to come with him. Claudia shakes her head overwhelmed with whats going on and begging Soren to not make her choose between him and their father, much like when their parents asked her to choose which parent she’d stay with.
And so, just like their mother, Soren chooses for Claudia. Telling her goodbye.
I feel like it is especially reinforced with these images.
With that established i want to clarify my thoughts on exactly what happened to Soren when he was a kid.
I know a lot of people believe Soren didn’t actually die and instead was just really sick and about to die but between the symbolism of being turned to stone=death and how whatever spell he did crossed a line even his Mentor wouldn’t to the point of getting into a physical altercation I believed Soren actually died.
It seems to me that to at least to some degree this was resurrection. But why it didn’t require a blood of his child?
Soren was young and small and probably not dead for very long unlike Viren who had been dead for TWO YEARS.
But now onto ‘Rise Again’.
Of course the spell Claudia used wasn’t as strong as bringing something to life. She didn’t actually bring back a dead cat she was just animating cat ashes into the form of the cat she loved but regardless other she and Soren treat it as if the ashes were truly the cat and not a puppet Claudia made. But these snippets stuck out the most to me
If we take this short story as a parallel of their parents after Soren’s death/near death I feel like the language paints a good picture of how it went:
Viren:
“- I know but I fixed it.”
“It wasn’t fair that [he] died. [He] wasn’t even that old.”
Lisa:
“We had a little ceremony remember?”
“Because [Soren] died.”
But I think the biggest one is this scene:
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dyou think vale is tired of following these races every (other) week for his children and seeing his ex whatever on the podium next to his first born every damn time
i’m sorry im not (personally ! live your weirdo truth. freak your bean. go for itttt) a fan of when people nuclearize the rpf family (let them be weird and gay and want to fuck each other at least a little bit… please) and then when people DO they don’t even DO IT RIGHT !! like if we’re doin this then FRANKY is his first born. CLEARLY. to the point where franky had gone ON RECORD talking about how vale and co stepped into that role for him as a teen. like CMANNNNNN
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the way i was WAITING for eddie to throw it in billy’s face that him and camila hooked up
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