#rott

I keep thinking about how Claire was left alone in the original timeline. She lost one of her closest friends, and her boyfriend in less than ten minutes, with the lingering promise that everything will be fixed by some miracle, only to then realize that the “time” stone is not really a time stone and just created a whole new timeline that ain’t hers.

I mean, how cruel is that? You fought in a war, believing that after this you would have a normal life along with your family, boyfriend, and friends. Just to end up on a couch explaining to Barbara and Nancy that their kids are dead/missing. She probably will have nightmares of that moment. She probably will never go to that bench in the hill again. She probably won’t finish school properly.

And I say that because more than a boyfriend and a good friend, Toby, Jim, and Claire have trauma bonding. They are teenagers, fighting a war that ain’t theirs, almost getting killed every day, suffering from magical creatures/objects, and losing a close connection for that matter. Jim and Toby were the only people Claire would trust the most if she ever remembered when she lost Enrique, or when she got possessed, or when she left her parents to go to New Jersey, or even that time Jim went into the Darklands. She would tell NotEnrique, Blinky, or even Douxie, but it would not be the same comfort, would not be the same comprehension that Jim and Toby would have.