Thinking about that one snow episode of Amphibia season 1 and how Anne was assigned the 'watcher' of the town. But as much as she tried to be responsible, she wound up goofing off.
And now she's going to be the watcher of the whole multiverse, albeit in 68 more years. All the lessons she learned in Amphibia and will continue to learn throughout her life will give her a second go at this seemingly one off job she once took.
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She got bored and woke Sprig up, remember? I can just imagine the second round of this:
God!Anne: Urgh, this is so boring. Hold on, I'll just summon a mortal from their afterlife to keep me company.
God!Anne: ...
God!Anne: Eeny, meeny, miney- Sprig.
Cue reuinion.
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[ID: A page of a play. It reads as follows, "Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend. / Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood. / Theseus: Stain them, I don't care." End text.]
Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)
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Anne Carson, from Glass, Irony and God: The Fall of Rome: A Traveller’s Guide [ID in alt text]
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"You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?"
– Anne Carson, "Glass, Irony and God"
"You know what truly aches? Having so much inside you and not having the slightest clue of how to pour it out."
– Karen Quan, "Write like no one is reading"
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I absolutely love Urianger's walking-on-water scene, and I think what I love most about it is how much he's trying not to ask for help and what that says about him and where he's at right now.
At first glance it's easy to respond just as Alisaie does, gods above Urianger you have two friends with you who can breathe underwater, just ask, but the thing is he is trying so hard right now not to ask any more of the Warrior of Light than he already has. Look at how different this is from the early game's "Primal needs slaying? Dangerous thing needs doing? The Warrior of Light will do it!" coming from everyone. Urianger in particular is agonizingly aware of how much he has asked of all of his friends but especially Minfilia and the WoL. He knows what they went through to save the First and he knows it was ultimately all because of him that any of the Scions were dragged into this in the first place.
And sure, it's easy to poke fun at him for trying to walk on water rather than learn to swim, as Alphinaud does (and look, the twins have Urianger-roasting privileges, I'm not picking on them), but from another angle, he went and sought the help of the fae again at who knows what cost just to try and get around what I think from his dialogue is a genuine fear of deep water, just so he could handle this himself and not have to lean on his friends any more than he already has. And when it doesn't work, he's obviously embarrassed, not just at the indignity of falling in the water and having to be rescued, but also because he failed at something he's supposed to be good at, magic.
And of course, when Bismarck asks for help with the barnacles, the obvious thing to do is to ask the Warrior of Light and Alisaie. But his pride is still stinging from the previous failure and he just... doesn't want to ask any more of his friends than he has.
If he could, I think it would always be Urianger's instinct to handle everything himself and never involve anyone else, never ask for anything, never be a burden. That might even work if he didn't have an enormous heart that was always trying to help and do the greatest good and save the world--though it still wouldn't be good for him, in the end, because it would just isolate him further. He's still in the process of learning that not only can he not do it all alone, no one wants him to!
(Edited to add: I am still in post-Shadowbringers and haven't played Endwalker yet, so no spoilers please!) Update: I have finished Endwalker, I am FREE.
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Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a love is
to watch the year repeat its days.
Anne Carson, Glass, Irony, and God; from 'The Glass Essay' (1995.)
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