murphy begged so hard for emori but he never offered himself in her place i love him
Okay so, I KEPT EXPECTING THAT OBVIOUSLY and itās pretty tragic how fast everyone just *accepted* it was gonna be Emori including the two of them. :( But I believe and am kinda glad it didnāt go down that way the more I think about it because-
What the story really called for was for Clarke to be an actual heroine/decent person and put her life on the line above some pawn vs. Murphy doing it for love, which would clear everybodyās conscience a little even though itāsĀ still a completely fucked-up position to put him in and zero other people were jumping in.
I think they sold pretty wellĀ that Emori didnāt want him to do that, and if he died first it wouldnāt save her anyway. They *both* leaped straight to the assumption that now the Forced Human Testing Floodgates were open and they were both fucked, butĀ he had a slightly better chance of getting out okay if he stopped threatening to murder people. (Narrator Voice: He would not stop threatening to murder people.)
FMLĀ āam I next?ā devastates me and see above re: them not really believing there was a āyou or meā choice there, or that it was any less awful for him to go instead/in addition to her. Like you could probably read it a couple of ways, but thereās my survivor cockroach son being scared and bitter for his own sake too. ;___;
