At the end of both ExUs it was love/fear that broke their resolve.
It was love for Ted that made Opal call for the Spider Queen and fear of losing her that made her put the crown on.
It was love for Quay that made Laerryn allow herself to be grappled and fear of losing him that made her blight the tree.
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It's fascinating, Travis talking about Cerrit's emotional arc as a father and a husband: "In that last day, it wasn't about who he'd been. It was: who can you be if you get one last chance?"
It's not about his daily historical failures. It's about he finds it in himself to choose right this time. That's the thing that makes him who he is in this story and after it: whether he chooses to do better. Cerrit does, in the end. As he stands in his empty home, as he speaks to Wrayne, he feels sincere and genuine regret. He feels fury at himself. He stops doing the selfish thing and finally chooses his family over his pride and work. He makes his amends by turning around to prioritize his children. Travis says that we (the audience, the players, the narrative) caught Cerrit on a good day as a father, that all the prior years were so much worse, but that's what matters in a story: that last (final, latest) day.
It's so interesting because the situation of it—Wrayne apparently still willing to come home if Cerrit gives her something to come home to, the implicit hope that he can do differently that is contained in "until there is something", his children still being relatively young and full of love for him—things are a wreck and complete mess in his life, but it's not yet rock bottom, end of the line, well run dry. There IS room for Cerrit to do better at home, to make up for it, to come back from it. And he takes that inch in the little time he thinks he has left and turns it into a mile.
This is the choice that defines him, so much more than every day before this. What matters is not the person he chose to be before now, only the person he chose to be today. It matters that he wants to do better starting today, then does so. He CAN overcome a history of failure by resolving to be better, then following through. That is the stuff of atonements, of redemptions, of salvations—and it is the baseline and thematic core of Cerrit's.
It's in that tension that Travis points out. Cerrit can choose between doing the job he's been overly dedicated to his entire life or he can choose the family he has been absent from.
When faced with this choice for the last time, Cerrit for the first time chooses not to fuck it up. And that is the choice that actually matters: to choose to do better and choosing to continue to do so.
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ℙ𝕒𝕔𝕜 ℂ𝕙𝕠𝕚𝕔𝕖: 𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℝ𝕠𝕔𝕜𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕨 𝕆𝕞𝕖𝕘𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕖 𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕋𝕙𝕣𝕖𝕖
I'm destined for a life of stress baking with only cats and books for company.
Why?
No pack wants to date the little sister of the notorious Stormgate brothers.
Especially when that sister is an omega with a smart mouth and a scent that's - now how did the last alpha describe it? - spicy.
Yep, no pack wants a mouthy, spicy, little Stormgate.
In fact, the only alphas I seem capable of attracting are self-proclaimed lone wolves.
My grumpy boss … the city’s notorious motorcar-champion … and the man assigned to keep me safe.
All three alphas may be hot, available and chasing me. But all three are not prepared to share.
They don't want a pack.
Which is fine.
Just dandy.
Ay okay.
Because I most definitely do not want them.
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we all remember this iconic line:
wanted to see if this scene changes if mc DIDN'T give their blood to cas before this moment- and it does:
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Patia replaying Cerrit's comment about "selfish choices" over and over again, being so very distraught over it, only to then go and consciously make the most selfish choice she could've made in that precise moment, unintentionally dragging Quay along with her, thus forcing Laerryn's hand and precipitating the apocalypse.
Truly peak wizard hubris.
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asmodeus hissing “you think that you are a man of true belief. who is the most proud man here? these ones who thought they would fly a city, or the man who thought he would teach me a lesson? the only difference between you and the dawnfather is that the dawnfather is a little more humble. now I'll tell you why I spit on your forgiveness. I'll tell you why I loathe your redemption. to reach a hand down to somebody, they need to be beneath you! and I'm beneath nobody. you wanted to understand me. then you should have accepted that I was right!”
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GUYS
I told someone about my original story and they
THEY
THEY COMPARED IT TO MARRY ME
USUALLY ID BE LIKE WTF, BUT YHE FSCT SOMEONE COMPARED MY STORY TO AN OWEN MOVIE IS JUST
I'm honored to know someone think my story is similar to an Owen movie
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