Doomed By The Narrative - Blog Posts

My two Roman empires -

Satosugu

MSBY 4

One hurts, one heals.

I'm re-entering my greek mythology phase (reading Clytemnestra) but it made me think about how greek tragedy coded Lestappen is. Are they not Achilles and Patroclus reincarnated?

Prideful young Achilles cursed with a parent who wanted their child to be the best. Patroclus' only sin being caring too much and so he becomes a martyr of a futile cause.

Max cannot escape the narrative and Charles refuses to.

"'I am', she said, my being in her eyes, 'I am one of those people, I'm sure of it!' she held such a joy in her manner, I couldn't tell her why that wasn't so. Not by the type of love I needed."

doomed yuri core (i wish you saw it more, yuri that is)

NOW CAN WE GET THE IN DEPTH BLUKI OPINION😨🧐🧐

Bluki is THE doomed yaoi. Even tho like.. yukis Aro. Baylie is also insane now ig guys so idek now domt ask me. the more racist they are the more gay they are for eachother. baylie is mildly obsessed with Yuki, and yuki is just a little shit who definitely got frewky with baylie at least once

I’m such a prequel girlie at the end of the day. Hahaha yes tell me a story that was always going to happen. Tell me a story that’s been dead since the beginning

Hunger Games didn’t really eat holes in my brain the way that it did for some other people but god the opening lines. The opening lines. Katniss wakes up in bed and immediately, instinctively reaches beside her, only to find the bed empty and cold. Before we even know her name – before we know literally anything about her or this world or her place in that world – we know that she loves someone. We know that she is reaching for where Prim should be, sleeping safe and warm beside her, but Prim is not there. She is not there, and her half of the bed is cold and empty. People talk about characters being “doomed by the narrative” when most of the time the character was literally just a well-foreshadowed death, but Prim WAS doomed by the narrative. It’s the very first thing we learned. It’s the most key, integral, important piece of information we’re given about everything that is about to happen: Every single choice Katniss makes is to protect her little sister, and it isn’t enough. In the end, Prim still dies. Prim was dead before the story even started. Katniss, reaching. Prim’s side of the bed was cold and empty. There is no version of this story where Prim could have been saved. Katniss, reaching. The very first thing she does in the series. She wakes, and she reaches, but Prim is already gone. THAT is how you do Doomed By The Narrative. Edit: Also it is key that there was literally nothing Katniss could have done differently. If she had not acted to save Prim, Prim would not have survived the Hunger Games. But by acting to save Prim, Katniss accidentally kicked off an entire rebellion and ultimately massively increased the amount of danger Prim was actually in. The key is that this is irrelevant. If Katniss had done literally anything differently, Prim still would have died. If Katniss had faltered or changed course at any point, Prim still would have died. There was never a point where Katniss could have changed Prim’s fate. There’s no version of this story where Prim lives to see the end of it. She’s dead before the story begins. That’s doomed by the narrative.