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⌈ Secret Post #5872 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Let's really get into the weeds

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, almost anything with a "You can't go home again" ending, where the band splits up and either departs for Other Realms or just lives out their days in the now-uneasy quiet of mundane daily life.

I mind it much less if they don't split up, and instead find a tentative peace in being traumatized and estranged from the world together. It's mainly just the whole "The deeply intimate bonds we formed in the war were never meant to survive in peace-time" narrative I hate. I'm always like, fuck that shit, have you tried? Get a house together! Found Family it up in that bitch, come on!

Re: Let's really get into the weeds

[(Anonymous)]

It's very accurate to real life to drift away from people you made a bond with during a specific time. Fandom is so in love with its idea of forever friends and found families that I think more media should normalize splitting up after the war. Stop making it look bittersweet that they're not trying hard to stay together. If it's not working, why is that bad? Found family isn't forced. That's part of the point of it that differentiates it from bio families. Those are forced. Found family is a rejection of that.

Re: Let's really get into the weeds

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed.

I didn't get to watch the ending of "Samurai Champloo" until I was an adult and I don't think I would have liked the ending had I watched it when I was a teen.

The 3 of them saying farewell meant that they all could go on as themselves and still know they have 2 people who will show up for them even after all the disasters they endured. Like, found family is knowing you someone who will accept you for being you. You don't have to get in line or adhere to their stuff to "get along".

Re: Let's really get into the weeds

[(Anonymous)]

+1,000,000

Re: Let's really get into the weeds

[(Anonymous)]

It's very accurate to real life to drift away from people you made a bond with during a specific time.

You get that this is the "What good endings did you hate" section, right?

Re: Let's really get into the weeds

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. And it's okay to hate realistic endings! But their comment gives me vibes of them having the idea that those endings are unrealistically sad and that if the thing happened for real then people should try hard to make the found family work.

Re: Let's really get into the weeds

[(Anonymous)]

If it's not working, why is that bad? Found family isn't forced.

That's true, but I never said anything about it "not working." That's the issue. The possibility that maybe they could maintain a close relationship after the events of the story is so often just passed over by the narrative as implicitly unrealistic. Which it isn't. Just because many bonds formed in one environment don't thrive in another, doesn't mean that's universally the case, so it is not unrealistic to have an ending where the characters stay together. If that's not the author's vision, then fair enough. I'm still free to find it dissatisfying though. And this is a "good endings you don't like" thread, so no need to litura-splain to me why my opinion is wrong.

Re: Let's really get into the weeds

[(Anonymous)]

God, THIS. I dont care about realism in this department. If they make extremely close bonds during the story, I usually want to see them stay together once the action is over, and it's so freaking uncommon that they actually do. There's this narrative of like, "oh that's not realistic." 1. You're generalizing, 2. So what if it isnt?