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stardustedknuckles · 2 years

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Lack of communication as a source of tension between two people who would readily accept an explanation and assume the best if given the chance: bad. boring. cheap.

Explicit communication provided, needs laid bare, vulnerability given freely but all insufficient to surmount the well-established personal fears and worldviews of a character primed by forces beyond anyone’s control to fall prey to that precise moment of weakness: beautiful. Absolutely delicious. Heartbreaking.

#this is about arcane as much as anything from the last 24 hours #that's how you do a tragedy #in my opinion anyway #i despise when a simple conversation is avoided that could have solved everything #like from a narrative/meta standpoint I hate it #that didn't organically happen you contrived a last-minute thing that prevented something important just to move the plot #it's lazy 90% of the time because there's nothing tragic beyond 'the conversation wasn't available'#but when you can give me the entire conversation and it still can't work because of forces already shown in motion?#oh god that is the good stuff #imogen temult #laudna #cr spoilers #like just in case

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