Absolute Ace

except The Gifted.

Everyone seen the last ep? Good. You ready to analyze the shit out of Blink? Because I am.

Blink leaps out of a portal, randomly, days (maybe even the next day, it isn’t clear, but definitely less than a week) after being shot. Recovery from multiple gunshot wounds doesn’t happen that quick, not even for John, let alone Clarice. From this we can infer either a) this is a different Blink and the original died or b) this is the same Blink and time moved differently wherever she portalled to.

Blink has gone up a level in skill mastery, now able to condense/contain her portals into small crystalline shards. How did she learn this? She’s had the ability to portal at least since her teenaged years and yet it took John training her for her to get more than 50/50 use out of it. Did somebody train her or did she learn on her own?

Her clothes! Clarice’s style in the final scene is entirely different from anything else we’ve seen her wear. And her hair is once again more deeply saturated in color and straight. 

Her demeanor. We’d expect after all but literally returning from the dead that she would run into John’s arms at first sight. They had missed each other. He had mourned her. But no, perhaps as a testament to the severity of whatever situation she was talking about, she’s all business. No Hello, no smile, just a There’s something you need to see. Also: how long had she been gone for her to already be involved in something deep enough  to come get backup for?

Above all, SHE CAME HOME. No matter where she’d ended up, no matter what state she left her relationships in the Underground in, it’s home to her because, for once, she came back. She didn’t have to, and to me that means she wanted to.

I cry.

Just want to get this out there:

John likes-to-pretend-everything’s-under-control-and-nothing’s-wrong Proudstar didn’t shutdown emotionally when he finally saw Clarice again. His guard wasn’t up at all. 

John was mature and still emotionally invested enough to stress that, despite their breakup, Clarice is still welcome to call him if she needs anything (he’s miffed but he’s not blocking her calls or telling her to eff off)

John is not even remotely over her, but he also knows the issue that drove them apart still stands. And yet he still wants a future with her, someday, when ‘all of this’ is over.

John will not leave her behind, no matter what anybody says.