i shall win this race for love

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just some random thing i've noticed because i love this song and i love them lol

Desmond Hume may not have OCD but his time on the island sure gave him the full experience of it. and for Round 2, back at it again and this time with the added realism of incredibly disturbing unwanted thoughts that are both traumatizing to witness and seemingly your moral responsibility to resolve!

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rewatching lost and making it everyones problem ↪ DESMOND AND PENNY HAPPILY EVER AFTERRRRR (4x14)

Desmond Hume may not have OCD but his time on the island sure gave him the full experience of it. and for Round 2, back at it again and this time with the added realism of incredibly disturbing unwanted thoughts that are both traumatizing to witness and seemingly your moral responsibility to resolve!

And then in The Last Recruit you watch sayid grappling with whether to kill desmond because the man in black told him if he did he could be reunited with his love, and Desmond asks him “what would you tell her when she asked what you did to be with her?” Because Desmond has been in that exact same position and has grappled with the exact same conundrum. And ultimately sayid cannot bring himself to do it either, to sacrifice Desmond and let this man die just to be reunited with the love of his life and that’s what ultimately restores sayid’s humanity and now I feel so ill I need to lie down

yeah hi this is Desmond. we found this weird bunker on the deserted island and cracked it open and found the nice guy Jack met on a run several years ago inside. he's not really normal any more but you wouldn't be either after three years in the OCD Simulator. he's a very pleasant Scottish man who just wants to live his life and love his Penny but unfortunately Situations keep happening. he runs off wildeyed into the jungle and turns back up on his weird little sailboat. he blows up the OCD Simulator and promptly gets a new form of OCD that has him following the strange little former rockstar around, wringing his hands in angst and giving him apologetic looks, and immediately darting in front of him all like "no let me" and doing anything dangerous for him. once that whole saga reaches its tragic conclusion he immediately contracts Really Bad Jet Lag™️ and nearly dies. meanwhile, for him Personally there's this whole subplot throughline about how fear of losing what we love can drive it away faster than the things we're afraid of and how loving and knowing we're loved in return is sometimes all we need to keep going and how love bears all things believes all things hopes all things endures all things love never ends. and how that love just might end up being what gets them rescued in the end. also he has just the most INSANE dad lore. just casually dropping into conversations the time he was a monk or when he did bomb squad for a few months before getting kicked out of the army or sailing around the world. also he has a special interest in the works of Charles Dickens. and his favorite song is Make Your Own Kind Of Music by Cass Elliott.