Sep 12, 2019
dottie telling peggy she can be anyone she wants, she could be peggy if she wanted, not realizing that what she's really saying is i don't want to be me.
#dottie things#dottie underwood#and it's poignant because dottie then tries to mirror peggy#unsuccessfully perhaps#but what she breaks in to get#is something that peggy would probably have wanted anyway#if she'd known to want it#dottie doesn't know who /she/ is#she's a mish-mash of things the red room taught her gone a little bit /wrong/#she doesn't have a stable concept of self so much as she has a concept of#how she is supposed to act in given situations#learned behaviors#most of which center on her mission and her survival#the latter typically more than the former - and that one i think is her choice#in the s1 finale dottie chooses to run and survive instead of to continue her mission#and that MEANS something#anyway
