Comment on the devil's daughter

  1. meditationonbaaal on Chapter 2 Fri 06 May 2022 04:08PM UTC

    Sometimes I think about how long this story would’ve been if I’d devoted more time to external relationships, and then my brain implodes.

    “So while the chapter on their last huntsman closes, they both sit on the next blank page as edited versions of themselves wondering where the story goes from there. No, amended. Amended is better. Amended and more developed versions of themselves, because he is more than before, better than before, and whole despite all the people missing from their lives now, his father, hers. But, he knows from experience that when you cut the head off one monster, another inevitably grows back in its place.” My heart! There’s so much dread and so much hope and I just. I am just full of feelings. thank you 🥰

    “he knows Betty Cooper will go down with the lot of them, follow loyally, blindly, faithfully.” My heart! This is such an excellent and tragic section, especially followed by this: “the elastic happiness in her body that always inevitably bounces back.” I feel like Jughead consistently overstates her resilience, because he needs her to be unbreakable. yep, and this really manifests in the aftermath of penny, doesn’t it?

    “You can come home, if you need to, Jug,” he offers even though he doesn’t mean it, standard FP lip service. He’s the one that asked Jug to leave.” I adore this twist on his staying at the Twilight. All the changes you make to canon are just so perfect. I remain in awe of the seamlessness of this narrative. Each tab fits precisely into its corresponding slot. thank you so much! I hope this all makes sense, especially after the Jason blossom reveal. I didn’t want to say everything outright, but I hope the implications were clear, you know, that fp probably tanked even more after the Jason blossom murder, and adding the heat around it, he thought it was probably best that jug stayed somewhere else for safety reasons as well as resentment towards jughead for what happened.

    “I’m happy you happened.” Something her parents must tell her every round of her birthday. Something he’s never heard before. Something no one ever thought to tell him. He cries quietly for the first half of the movie.” This made me cry too. 🤍 I ugly sobbed.

    “Archie holds him for another few breaths, waits for Jughead’s blood to simmer down from its boil.” I love Archie here. It’s funny, I spend so much time in this story contemplating all the ways Betty and Jughead accept/adore/excuse/fetishize/forgive each other’s darkest actions that I forget that the Andrews do it, too (in a limited sense). I believe veronica mentions it in a later chapter, too, how archie and betty seem to give jug a free pass on many things, and I think that comes with people you’ve grown up with, because archie and betty understand jughead on a much deeper level than outsiders; they know his background, the worst and best parts of him.

    I just adore all of this, and I appreciate it even more on each pass. thank you, I’m so glad 🤍🤍🤍

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