#{larkin}

Lilly A's mom making a post pretending to be her daughter talking about how perfect the costumes she makes are, knowing damn well most of them aren't appropriate, but I will say the end to that caption is very sweet.

Asha, née Larkin, in trying continually to break with her mother, living only ever as an inversion of the child she would have been. Unable to admit her mother any warmth and yet searching for her endlessly. Faulting the spread of Earthseed for what happened to her, and yet compiling the work which spreads Lauren's story and Earthseed. Refusing her mother's beliefs, branding them a cult and yet leaving behind her obsession with her mother's story as her own legacy. Never being able to grow a new connection, a new perspective between them that is free of Marc's hateful presence, and yet not able to stop writing about their relationship even after Lauren's death. Asha unable to move on, unable to form her life into anything other than the shadow of Larkin, a lost child never found; failing Lauren Oya Olamina's core principle of accepting change as an opportunity to shape your own destiny, over and over and over again every second of her life. Failing her not because she departs from the path set for her but because she refuses to shape her own. Where Lauren burns and buries Acorn and learns to see a different future for Earthseed, Larkin is still there, looking and studying and obsessing but never acting, never growing, never living. Asha as the foil to Lauren not because she is changed but because she isn't.