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what i expected from the silhouette: Sucrose's personality

what i got: Fluttershy's color palette

hey, where else have we seen someone catch a falling feather and reach for the sky? it's not the same pose, and the trailblazer is catching a feather that lands in their hand rather than reaching for the feather. but the first thing i thought of was in fact the cutscene before phase 2 of sunday's boss fight, when robin's feather floats down to us and we catch it and throw our hand up

the thorns come from below him, and they almost seem like they're pulling him down even as he reaches up. i could elaborate but you don't need me to tell you this man has an interesting relationship with religion and his own humanity

and that got me thinking...

what if feixiao encourages moze's "assassination attempts" to prepare him for when the time comes, so moze can kill her?

imagine how painful it would be – the hardest battle moze will ever fight, not just physically, but also mentally. he has sworn his undying loyalty to the general and now he must kill her. this is the last mission feixiao entrusted to him. the last attempt on her life. the first, bloodied success.

and when moze walks away, his "vengeance" finally complete, he feels no satisfaction, only a piercing sense of grief. because the truth is, general feixiao had stopped being his enemy a long time ago. the truth is, she is – was – one of the only friends he had.

(and what about jiaoqiu? when the verdant knights break the news to him, how will he react? he has outlived another patient yet again. feixiao, who is younger and healthier than him, the fiercest warrior he's ever met, the most strong-willed person he's ever known, is gone.)

(he broke his promise. one day, he will leave this world without having cured feixiao. and then moze will be left behind, all by himself. jiaoqiu has failed both of them. feixiao is dead. he will never see her bright eyes and her wild grin ever again.)