"I thought we'd all die young, you know," she says.
"Yeah, well, we didn't fail for lack of trying."
Oh, OW.
I've been thinking about Rachel a lot, as I've been reading the Robin comics and loving on Stephanie Brown; thinking about the archetype and surviving past one's expiration date, and then there you go breaking my heart... I love this AU of yours, have I mentioned that?
I love that you brought in that definition from book freakin' one -- that line has always stuck with me, is the name of my Animorphs playlist, actually -- and I love He is nineteen years old and he cannot remember a time when he lived like he was never going to die. And the way the last line ties that thought to the way he defined his made-up word when he was thirteen, the way his last year as a teenager contrasts with (even as it continues to be informed by) the first.
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"I thought we'd all die young, you know," she says.
"Yeah, well, we didn't fail for lack of trying."
Oh, OW.
I've been thinking about Rachel a lot, as I've been reading the Robin comics and loving on Stephanie Brown; thinking about the archetype and surviving past one's expiration date, and then there you go breaking my heart... I love this AU of yours, have I mentioned that?
I love that you brought in that definition from book freakin' one -- that line has always stuck with me, is the name of my Animorphs playlist, actually -- and I love He is nineteen years old and he cannot remember a time when he lived like he was never going to die. And the way the last line ties that thought to the way he defined his made-up word when he was thirteen, the way his last year as a teenager contrasts with (even as it continues to be informed by) the first.