Imagine youโre 7 years old and your mom shows you a clip from a movie coming out soon because it has creatures in it that look like dragons and the people are tall and blue and beautiful and you LOVE blue and theyโre RIDING the dragon-birds and you really like fantasy stuff so you become obsessed with the clip and have her search for it almost every day and replay it and then she goes and sees the movie and you kinda forget about it for a couple weeks and then you, your dad, your mom and stepmom all got the movies and your stepmom and mom go see the cool movie with the dragony things and when you ask your mom later why you had to watch the princess and the frog with your dad instead she says she doesnโt think youโll like the dragony blue alien movie and you can watch it in a couple years
and then a couple years later you do get to watch it and itโs the most beautiful amazing spectacular thing youโve ever seen and you fall in love with EVERY aspect of the world and story and the gut twisting message of humans being the great evil because even at 8 you know as a whole the human race SUCKS and the music is brain chemistry resetting and the narration is crisp and on point! and your little mind in enraptured with the main character because heโs handsome and amazing and his LOVE INTEREST is unstoppable and SHEโS incredible and ferociously protective of HIM and youโve never seen a woman go feral for the man she loves and save him so entirely and nearly every second makes you want to cry from emotions too big for your body, from rage at humans for killing your planet and the one on the screen and you wish for nothing more than to have seen it in theaters in 3d cause youโve never seen 3d and if the movie is this shutteringly impactful on a tv than surely 3d must be like being there with the beautiful blue cat people and you hold some resentment towards your mother for not letting you see it when it came out because now youโll never see it in 3d (whatever that looks like) then slowly it fades to the calm back of your mind and becomes your favorite movie that you never tell anyone about because youโll get made fun of and the idea of people being mean to you about it is soul crushing and makes you want to cry because itโs like theyโre picking away at your very being and over the next decade you see hushed cringy whispers of a second one being made but think nothing of it because eh fandom gotta do fandom stuff and thereโs no official word of anyone and every now and then you read fanfictions for the only movie ship that has ever had a grip on you for longer than the run time of the movie and theyโre wonderful and romantic and in some they have a baby and itโs so perfect and everything you know and hope must have happened to them in their little world of fantasy but a voice quiet and sure keeps murmuring โitโs not real, youโll never know what actually happened to them and that fic with the sweet little son will never be canonโ and you know that but still read some more and then you forget about it even more and it slides further into the darkness of memory and mind
and THEN, one day in 2021 after having the worst year of your life as of yet you see news that they ARE making another movie and you donโt let yourself believe it until you do your own research and digging and oh. my. god. itโs REAL! itโs happening theyโre really really REALLY making another one and from that second on you LIVE for the next bit of content flickering out as you wait for the most anticipated thing youโve ever had to look forward to and no oneโs understanding how you try to explain how this means to you and you canโt comprehend there ACTUALLY being more content and story for these characters that you love so much and then oh my god! itโs revealed they have children! they have FOUR children, babies all their own just. like. you. read. about and dreamed could happen and every little piece of content that comes out you devour and you start to develop an idea of what might be happening and then the first movie from 13! years ago is being released again all remastered and magnificent and you HAVE to see it! this is literally never going to happen again and so you and your mom both buy tickets and see it and itโs perfect and wonderful and now all you want is the second movie but itโs months till that happens and my god your favorite characters are now both parents and you can already see they love their children more than air and you canโt wait to see them as a family because there is no trope you love more than parent/child and close family and theyโre going to be the best parents and the human threat is back and worse and theyโre colonizing these amazing people JUST LIKE THEY DO ON EARTH and the stakes are SO MUCH higher now because the children and you just KNOW the bad guy is gonna be after your shipโs babies and that amazing woman from before is a MAMA now and if she was that protective over her husband you canโt for the life of you imagine how horrifying and magnificent
she will be for her children and you get more clips and trailers and you get so many people excited for it and you share every piece of new media with them and you get more family pics from the movie and theyโre all so beautiful and precious and youโre so happy, blissfully happy, and you still canโt conceptualize that this is real and itโs actually happening, it all feels like a spectacular fever dream and they actually have children and a life and youโll get to see it and learn more about the incredible planet they live on and youโll get to learn about their children and who they are and what they like and how they all work as a family because theyโre so close and amazing and they make you so happy
and then the 2nd movie kills off that first born son that you hoped and dreamed theyโd have and that you read fanfictions about what he might be like and his mother screams and his baby siblings hold and touch him and sob as his parents, that couple you fell in love with so much and want to be happy more than any other๏ฟผ, lowers him to his rest and his mother sings the most heart wrenching and indescribably ethereal song in the world for him and their life and now every NEW fanfiction or piece of media you consume without that son in it feels empty but also more full than any before it because the story is ABSOLUTELY NOT OVER.
