#we aren't gonna talk about requiem or season 8/9 tho that isn't what this post is about

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

actually my favorite thing about TXF season 7 isn't even canon MSR or what have you, it's the way we get to see Scully in something of a new light because she's finally coming open again in a way she hasn't been since before Donnie Pfaster Trauma 1.0. we get to see her wide-open, maybe first due to being worn and broken down to the barest pieces of herself, maybe due to desperation making her drop her walls, but in The Sixth Extinction despite her fear for Mulder and fear for herself and all the uncertainty swallowing her up, she never once loses the innate, pure curiosity that forms the foundation of her character. her absolute awe and wonder at the writing on the ship, the way she loses her breath when she starts to realize what it is, even thought it's beyond what she can comprehend — the way she BELIEVES, for that moment, like enlightenment, like her faith is finally meeting with Mulder's for the first time, sets a theme for the entire season. she's desperate, she's scared, and she's broken, but that innocent, intense wonder and yearning for knowledge is central to who she is. that experience, that awe and shock and incomplete understanding is what leaves her open enough to finally, finally be ready for the change that comes in her relationship with Mulder at the New Year. 1999 was a hard, hard year and not everything is okay yet, but between her experiences in Africa and the full-circle counterintuitively freeing events of Pfaster Trauma 2.0 in Orison, and the even wider full-circle closure and new openings of All Things, the year 2000 is a new start for Scully. she's working through all these things that have weighed on her for years, both in her own mind and life individually and in the life she shares with Mulder, and we get to see her lighter and freer than she's been in years — at least since Melissa's death, but probably since shortly following her return in season 2. and because so much of it is that full-circle completion and closure/new beginning of things that have been a part of her for so long, it's like the redemption of that ouroboros she wears both physically and metaphorically

#re: my last reblog #like... she is SO innocently sweetly wondering in je souhaite and it's adorable #but it hit me that s7 is the lightest she's been since s2 and I'm about to cry #like... beloved baby girl #it is SO beautiful to see her so free and not weighed down #she has a new life once again but this time it's less literal but no less important #it's a new life WITH MULDER!!!! #she's alive and she's free of what's weighed her down for years and she is unabashedly in love!!! #and coming off the tail end of season 6's depression and miscommunication it hits so different!!! #everything has worked out the way it was meant to!!!!!!!!! #we aren't gonna talk about requiem or season 8/9 tho that isn't what this post is about #Lu rambles #txf #the x files #dana scully #fox mulder #msr #mulder and scully #mulder x scully #txf meta #meta finding tag #also I'm not a fan of how the religious stuff in biogenesis/tse/amor fati is handled?? but it does inform a lot of #scully's characterisation throughout the season