#if viren actually dies i'll just write a fic about him living

[beautifulterriblequeen]

The new TDP interview is out and you should read it! But I'm holding Viren like this now

I might not need to but I just wanna 😏

It's based on this section of the interview:

"We had a story we wanted to do and we've done it..." sure does imply things about Viren's fate, doesn't it?

Specifically, that he's actually dead, and that he's not coming back this time.

Let me be real clear on this bit: I'm okay with it if this is just obfuscation and Viren finds a way to get back up again. That would be hilarious to me. Unreliable narrators are my favorite things and the showrunners absolutely count!! I'm here for it.

Also, I've made no secret of wanting Viren to keep suffering for my entertainment so jot that down.

But if this eventuality should occur, and Viren is actually definitely super dead this time, that presents us with a whole category of new, different parallels.

Picture a character who's already on the brink of death. He's been contemplating it for days and days. He's been leaning toward it for personal and moral reasons, to make the world just a little better once he's gone. He sees no other way out and he wants the agency to choose his own fate.

Did you think of Viren, or Runaan?

They're both in the same position right now: trying to die as the only halfway decent option for the impossible situation they're in. The only potential difference is that Runaan wasn't allowed to exercise his own agency, because Viren himself prevented it. And now that Viren's getting his own chance to forge his own way out of life, he might get the very thing that he deliberately prevented another from reaching.

Rude.

You little fuck, where was this growth of yours two years ago?? Why did you get a pass on determining your own fate, when you specifically refused to allow the man you tortured and experimented on to choose that fate for himself?? You bastard fuck.

God.

There. Now I feel better. It's not easy sharing a mbti with Viren but I make do. Fiction is so cathartic you guys, omg.

(just to be clear I am actually delighted that I'm so upset about this! It's good for the soul to care deeply sometimes and it's been a hot second for me since I had the energy to form firm opinions so this is healthy progress and I love it leave me be)

#tdp #tdp parallels #viren #runaan #tdp spoilers #if viren actually dies i'll just write a fic about him living #easy peasy