Ad Meliora

My life would be so much easier if I had ~3k word chapters. No. 7-10k chapters for me only

The conundrum of the lore and Torchbearer as a character is that it's deeply cruel to Clancy to not prepare her to fight. They have to get going. If their Banditos do not set her up for the final battle, then they are choosing to doom her to further torture. That makes them just as bad, knowing all of this, and not getting up anyways. Every iteration deserves a shot, even if it's unfair. There's an immeasurable amount of guilt in not giving her a chance because they too are withering away from exhaustion. It may be equally unfair to use her, but what is the alternative? Prolonging eternal suffering? Guilt means nothing if that's the case. Laying down and waiting while she's hurt over and over and over is not an option. Nothing will get done unless she is thrust into something she never asked for, because she didn't ask to be the center of the cycles either, now did she? At least there's hope in this derivative. The night is over and there is work to do. Get up.

Rewatching Levitate for fic reasons and ohhhh Clancy was doomed from the start. But not for reasons people usually point out when it comes to that MV.