I cannot stop thinking about the scene where barbie first cries and she looks around the park to see the people and she sees loneliness, and fights, and sadness, but she also sees laughter, and love, and hope, and she cries, and she laughs, and she looks, and watches the reality that is being alive. There is ups and downs and it is far from perfect but at its very core, it’s beautiful, and important.
This is the first time she sees what being alive truly is, beyond the side effects she started experiencing, beyond her first interaction she had with the real world. This was the first time she stopped and really watched where she is, WHO she is.
This was THE scene!! The way Barbie was afraid of being perceived as “ugly” and trying to avoid aging just for her to see people in the real world and understand what it really means. The way she softly says “you’re beautiful” and the woman plays along with her by saying “I know”. The way it was her first good experience with someone in the real world. Everything about it was just perfect
Griddlehark was MADE for this competition. The only time they’re more of a couple than they are in the battlefield is in the privacy of their bedroom the night after Harrow’s confession. If you haven’t read the series, or you need a reminder.
On the battlefield facing overwhelming odds they have no chance of surviving:
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Gideon is so swept up in the euphoria of being a battle couple she decides to make it her entire personality:
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