Excuse me. That Candela Obscura Chapter 3 ending freaking hurt.
So you know what??? Have a good-vibes-but-also-sad speed-drawing 😭😭😭
(but in all seriousness, congratulations to Sam, Liam, Noshir, Ashly, Gina and the amazing Aabria for that wonderful series. Ya'll did freaking incredible on this!!)
Laughing about the fact that the Circle of Tide and Bone episodes are taking place about 12 years after the Needle and Thread episodes, because you know, YOU KNOW, Candela tried to use the vacancy created by the death of one Lightkeeper Draven Kingsley to convince a then 85 year old Cosmo Grimm to please just retire from fieldwork already, only for him to refuse so as to continue stabbing eldritch horrors into his ever increasing old age
I am also thinking so much about the strange dynamic that Oscar and Cosmo have: Oscar churlish, pessimistic, hating himself, and Cosmo who remembers, even as old as he is, who probably remembers everything that Oscar's forgotten.
And Oscar's repeated statement of, "It should be the other way around. I should be the one taking care of you." It sounds at first, before you know, like frustration of a young man who feels like too much of a fuck up to take care of his elderly relative, even though Cosmo clearly has plenty of help. But once you flip it, it feels almost more incongruous—Oscar feeling like he's failed as a father, perhaps because he hasn't been able to act as an example for Cosmo, perhaps because of the amnesia, perhaps because Cosmo has seemingly dedicated his entire life to helping Oscar, even to his advanced age. But it doesn't seem like Cosmo is concerned about that.
As old as Cosmo is, as determined as it sounds like he is to fix Oscar's plight, it almost feels like he's lived this long out of spite and force of will. This is his purpose and his life's work, and it's not finished yet.
But if they succeed at ending this ritual or curse, what becomes of either of them? Cosmo, certainly, can rest then, and Oscar can in theory live out the rest of his life in peace, but at that point he's no longer forgetting anymore. He'll live out whatever remains with the belief that Cosmo's life was dedicated solely to this, and unlike Oscar, he won't even have the chance to have a life beyond it. I wonder if Oscar, knowing this, is so pessimistic by this point because no matter the outcome, he's already failed Cosmo on a fundamental, irretrievable level.
There's very little chance, even if Oscar doesn't live for long after this ends, that Oscar won't be the one burying Cosmo, rather than the other way around. A father isn't meant to outlive his children.