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#plus if aster was related to zinnia they probably wouldve mentioned it in game
citrongarde · 3 years
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about the delta episode and zinnia: so much of zinnia’s narrative/personal arc is centered around self-sacrifice/sacrifice for the greater good...she seems 100% completely ready to die considering during the delta episode she talks about seeing aster (who is dead) again and offering her life to save both hoenns from disaster...she didnt even have a special spacesuit like the protag to protect her from the lack of oxygen in space or hell even the impact of rayquaza hitting the meteorite...but after essentially living the rest of her life to die and carrying that idea that shes going to sacrifice herself, like aster did, for the good of this dimension and the next shes gonna die but she’ll die a hero and she’ll see her dead (girl)friend again, but when rayquaza picks the protag instead of zinnia, when the protag ends up stopping the meteor and saving the planet, the burden is lifted from zinnia’s back. it’s ultimately freeing but simultaneously she doesn’t feel like she has a purpose anymore. atlas no longer carries the heavens on his shoulders, but he feels aimless without the burden of the celestial spheres. zinnia, always one to contextualize the experiences of her and the people around her as stories and narratives, thought that her story was at a close. unbeknownst to her, it was just the end of a chapter. the next chapter is about journeys, about finding yourself, one door opening with the closing of another, letting go and holding on and letting go again, atlas setting down that which he has bore for so many lifetimes.
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