not to be a little bit self obsessed but i just reread one of my wips and AOUGH....... i dont remember if the double meaning was intended but god....
"It takes a great deal of trust to lose it like that in front of someone, and Gatsby likes to think Nick would do the same if it were him.
(He thinks back to tea with Daisy. How anxious he’d gotten that he’d rather run out into the rain than to face her, and how Nick had *still* let him in.)
He decides to stay the night."
like. yes nick still let gatsby in after he ran outside and got Soaked, but he still. let him in. nick saw gatsby at what was, at that point, his worst, soaked to the bone and terrified at the notion of seeing the woman hes been obsessing over for 5 years again, and nick still let him in. he let him into his house, he let him into his life, enough to trust him enough to have a *panic attack* in front of him.
and realizing this, gatsby spends the night. its the little things, like your neighbor letting you back inside after you run away, but its also the big things; like your friend *trusting you* to see him at his worst after hes seen you at yours.
this might also be the moment gatsby realizes hes in love with nick but were not there yet
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I’ve been thinking about sn vol2 ch2-3 a lot ... dodora is such an interesting character with the context of her living in ninir, the comparisons you can make between her and lilith REALLY fascinate me. sorry this is gonna be long and it might come off reachy since dodora doesn’t have that much screen-time yet. also I,m just insane about lilith.
from how I read her, dodora is someone with a strong sense of self, of character. I think she’s confident in the identity she ends up forming for herself, and she clearly treasures it, and the life she now lives, so, so much. which is why when she encounters nikki and the player, she ends up so anxious that it will be taken from her, that she’d have to conform to a role that isn’t /her/, to a life she doesn’t want, to a duty that she doesn’t feel is fitting for her, to have her dreams and ambitions taken from her.
but, dodora was born from people’s desire for beauty, of style. styling is an expression of your sense of self, it’s a way of showing the world who you are, it’s you. she was born to express a sense of self, an identity, and that identity could only be formed by her. because you can’t force a sense of self on someone, it just wouldn’t be good or healthy for that person (hey that sure sounds familiar).
dodora’s existence has to be free, she’s inherently free, to be herself, to be with others. because she is dodora, no one else. absolutely no one can take that from her.
now compare this with lilith. lilith. was not born from someone’s desire to express themselves. lilith was born from someone’s /desperation/ to just be able to /live/ a life that has love, that has peace, because they were robbed of it, in one of the cruelest ways imaginable. and to get that life, she had to give herself up entirely, to be loved, to have peace, to be accepted, she had to be beautiful. beauty is still tied to this birth. even if it’s a completely different story. even if it’s a much more heartbreaking existence. this is still a result of beauty.
this birth, this existence, devoid of a desire for a sense of self, lead to an empty person. someone who lost herself, someone who will always want for more, who will always feel void and empty in her heart. someone who was left to be used as a puppet by others. it’s the complete opposite end of dodora.
just. I think it’s really interesting that these two girls, who both embody ninir, who are both symbols of beauty to it, are complete opposites. they’re so drastically different. dodora challenges lilith, in the ninir elections, and her birth challenges the hidden demons of ninir, in my view.
and that!! winds up improving things, to an extent, in a way!! because with dodora’s introduction and story, we get to see things changing for lilith, lilith’s narrative shows growth alongside dodora’s introduction!!
this is the point in the main story where lilith makes an effort to be rid of mercury’s control, to gain more power as queen, to no longer be a puppet. the release of dodora’s chapters is tied to when we get lilith’s double ssr event with modric, where lilith is shown to change, it continues to show her efforts as queen, BUT it also shows that something within her is changing. her view of love.. her desire, desperation for it. I’m not really sure where this is gonna go for her but something IS changing in her.
ashley also makes her return... ashley, who lilith tries to bury down, deep, deep in the darkness of her heart, she yet exists. she’s still here. she’s still alive. there is yet hope for her identity, for her sense of self. I don’t know how they’re gonna go about this narrative but, but. I think it’s safe to say, lilith is her own person now. she was born of loss, she lost her sense of self for so many years. but she is herself, now. she is lilith. and ashely is ashley. they are each their own person. lilith can’t deny her existence anymore, lilith can’t bury her, she can’t burn her to ashes, ashley will shine.
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