⸺ 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄 𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐈𝐓 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆.   ❝ it’s not deep down. i agree with you. i just didn’t say it before because no one actually talked about this with me until now. and i just… don’t want to scare them anymore. ❞ she looked back at the front yard, watching everyone just so calmly going about their day. she remembered what it was like when they had to prepare for an attack they didn’t even know when it was coming. everyone was on EDGE.

          ❝ plus, it’s my fault she got away. AGAIN. it sucks, but it’s true. no one else made it out except for HER. i tried to hit her with ALL my arrows, and i missed every single one. ❞ she was so angry at the time. she remembered just how much she was shaking while trying to aim at lilly, sailing away in that makeshift raft. they spared her, AGAIN, and she killed james. like it was nothing. like it was just what he had COMING.

          she hated her. 

          ❝ if we know they’re coming eventually, then what do we do? we can’t prepare for war again without even knowing for sure if they’re coming or when. ❞

——————  ❝ NOT GONNA ARGUE WITH YA there... ❞ Breathed out in a sigh, he wouldn’t sugarcoat ANYTHING for ANYONE ; it wasn’t the way he did things around here. The sheer fact she didn’t do it when she had the chance was a sign she was slipping away from what mattered: survival. Is it shitty that AJ has to grow up sooner rather than later? Yeah, it is, but he didn’t train Willy and Tenn all those years to prepare for death and learn from it to just have them stop midway through ensuring their safety ; it’s also how he retained their innocence while also teaching them to defend themselves -- but you can’t prepare for everything (he couldn’t prepare for Lilly’s tactics of using Minnie and Sophie to pull Tenn from focus nor could really anyone, but now they knew)... Aj could still be a child while also killing those that threatened him or anyone else with a justified lens that was more than ‘this person did a bad thing once and deserves to die.’

     Clementine knew Lilly and her backstabbing mannerisms...

        ⸺ 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐃 𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 as he very confidently told her what he would have done in minerva’s place. not that she wasn’t impressed by mitch before, but for some reason, that speech just made her admire him more. he was kind of annoying sometimes and definitely could be a huge asshole for no other reason than he wanted to, but… he was LOYAL. he was a survivor and he wasn’t a quitter. 

        and that was something.

        she felt good knowing they were on the same side.  ❝ i think that, in the end, lilly didn’t get to make her someone tough and strong. minerva was still pretty scared. of everything. so much that she sold out her sister to try and not be in trouble. ❞ or, at least, that’s the story clementine KNEW. she still couldn’t really believe minerva did something like that. 

        she did try to kill tenn, though.

        ❝ something else is bothering me, though. lilly managed to get away. ALIVE. do you think she might come back? with a larger group? ❞

——————  EYELIDS FELL HEAVY OVER GREENS, mind already knowing the answer to THAT question long before she even asked it. Ever since his body could move again, he’d been beefing up their security, making traps outside of the norm, and basically rebuilding what was lost -- what had been long thrown aside. The school was larger now, reclaimed more, but it wasn’t what it used to be yet (they still had to fill in windows, reinforce their walls, and work overtime to accomplish that task). ❝ If there’s one thing about assholes, Clem, it’s that they’re bound to come back if ya don’t kill ‘em all... ❞

     Even if Lilly HAD been killed off, he would’ve felt the same.

@gciltyascharged​  ⸺  ( 𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡. )

       ⸺ 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓❟ 𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐍’𝐓 𝐒𝐇𝐄?  ❝ alright, i’ll bite. what? ❞

——————   FAILURE IMPAIRMENT !

You are characterized by feelings of apathy and despair. You feel as if there is no point in making the effort when you are doomed to fail anyway. As a consequence, you may avoid developing skills, tackling tasks, or taking on responsibility – all of the activities that might otherwise enable you to succeed. "What's the use?" is a thought that keeps recurring in your mind. You procrastinate, get distracted, do your work improperly, or mishandle the tasks you take on. To you, this feels like the normal state of things, but in reality these are all forms of self-sabotage.

It is easy for you to be filled with feelings of failure. This is a familiar feeling that you have had for most of your life. As a defense, you may have chosen a career below your potential or avoided taking the necessary steps to get a promotion in your career. It is possible that you feel safe in dead-end jobs.

I always think about how Mitch is tough as nails on the outside, but he’s literally crumbling near constantly internally. The guy has never once felt like anyone was really proud of him or what he does, which is why he’d, of course, love the name MITCH’S MASTERPIECE when it came to the bomb -- it makes him feel like he’s worthy. Legit? someone telling him they’re proud of him when he gets close to them is probably the hardest thing to hear because he’ll choke up and hesitate.