Eat from me, devour.

Catch me I'm falling Flying head first into fate

"please look closely and find her before she fades away"

And don’t even get me STARTED on how they’ve warped Gabe’s memory for Natalie and twisted their relationship which could’ve been affectionate (her brother as her guardian angel or something). And this on top of the MULTITUDE of ways they failed Natalie…and yet it’s Gabe she blames for most of the show. Something about Gabe taking the antagonist role when he’s actually the only innocent in the family because he’s not real and the only thing he did “wrong” was die.

and in I’m Alive when Dan says “it isnt always about your comfort, it’s about helping your mother” and Natalie says “as always” because it has never been about her comfort, it has always been about helping Diana and she has always been left to figure it out on her own

and then in Song of Forgetting when Natalie hugs Dan, initiating contact with someone other than Henry for the first (and i think only) time in the show because she’s in so much pain because her mother forgot who she was and he hugs her back until Diana starts to remember when they met and then he pulls away and once again doesn’t offer her the support she needs because he’s too focused on Diana

and how throughout the show Natalie still acts as her mother’s protector (“that’s bullshit, she trusts you!” right before Didn’t I See This Movie, yelling at her dad when he breaks the music box, and driving her to the hospital during I’m Alive reprise) because she still cares about her so much and wishes she would get better so she can have a good relationship with her

and at the end right after I Am The One reprise when she walks in and Dan starts sobbing and she becomes the one that takes care of him by reassuring him and turning on the lights because she knows that he needs it and she’s so used to putting her own pain on hold

i was in absolute awe when i first came across the scrapped cut of the “parents from hell” scene, in which neytiri goes even more fucking berserk on the sea dragon. it was very dark, but i don’t blame her for it, and i would’ve liked to see it in the final cut for atwow. i understand why it was removed though — i’m sure a lot of people would’ve misinterpreted it and started demonizing neytiri for her grief.

this franchise is full of complex, flawed, and utterly traumatized characters; i really wish people (namely the notorious tiktok fans…) would adopt less of a black-and-white perspective on it all.