crazy conspiracy theory time:
in they both die at the end and the first to die at the end, its never said how they can predict deaths… so what if they cant? what if its not that if you’re going to die you get a call, but if you get a call, you’re going to die? like maybe its not that because you’re going to die they call you, but because they call you, you die
think abt it, if mateo didn’t receive the call, he wouldnt have told his neighbor to leave his stove alone, which means that he wouldnt have died because of the broken stove
if rufus didnt receive the call, we’d have one of 2 options: option 1, he’d be in jail, because in the book, the police couldnt be bothered to chase after a decker since there was little point. if he was in jail, he couldnt have been run over. option 2, he ended up somehow in the same position as he did when he died, but since he never met mateo, he wouldnt be sad about his death, which means he would probably look before crossing the street
in the same vein, if death cast didnt exist at all, then delilah (victor’s ex-fiancee) wouldnt have received a call and wouldnt have asked victor about it, meaning that victor wouldnt even be driving towards her anyway. since it is heavily implied that victor (rufus’s death cast herald) was the one who hit rufus, rufus wouldnt have died if death cast didnt exist.
similarly, in tftdate, if rolando didnt work at deathcast briefly, it wouldnt have given him the initiative to tell gloria to follow her heart, and she wouldnt have asked for a divorce with frankie - in this situation the fight wouldnt have happened and valentino would still be alive and if valentino didn’t receive the call, he wouldnt have offered to give his heart to orion and might still have a chance of being saved (which is dodgy but hear me out)
if the pilot of the plane scarlett was supposed to be on didnt receive a call from death case he wouldnt have been so anxious and scared and experiencing such intense emotions that he got a heart attack
which means, scarlett would have been in ny with valentino and they would have been doing something together and it wouldnt have created any of the circumstances that there were for the deckers of that day to die.
if yall read thru that essay tell me what you think because I FEEL LIKE A GENIUS RN
@adamsilvera👀👀👀
NO CUZ THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT LIKE ITS SOME MATRIX PLANNED DEATH YKWIM?? LIKE REMEMBER WHEN VALETINO WAS GOING TO DIE IN TIME SQUARE BUT GOT SAVED BY ORION AND SOMEONE WHO WASN'T PLANNED TO DIE LIKE DIED INSTEAD OF HIM?? SO LIKE ITS ALL LIKE INTER CONNECTED
