i have GOT to get more insane abt lifeseries joel and grian. they’re so fucking everything. late game last life for them really is like the both of us are at our absolute lowest and can’t really be bothered to care anymore, but there is a kind of freedom in allowing yourself to pretend you’re a monster without remorse, to let yourself grow vicious in a way you’ve been trying to rein yourself in from. the two of them take each other hands, all grasping claws and sharp-toothed grins, and say monsters it is then, just the two of us. they just. they understand each other in a way nobody else quite does. the two of them settle together in limlife and,,, they can just feel the seconds counting down until their names turn red and the world grows sharper and they grow sharper with it. they’re comfortable with what they’ve got— jimmy and the bad boys and the bread bridge and all of that, it’s lovely— but there’s an anxious, giddy anticipation growing between them and they can both feel it.
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new episode is making me want a universe where Betty put the crown on instead of Simon. she’s always the one taking risks and Simon is worried it’s going to be too dangerous — it’s a powerful mythological artifact, after all. but Betty wants to prove it’s real, wants to take that risk and run with it, wants to show everyone that she and Simon were right, that the world is magical and so, so much bigger than they ever imagined.
but it doesn’t go as planned.
Betty can’t find Simon after that first incident. He’s a thousand years in the future, reuniting with a Betty who’s seen everything and more and only wants to see him again. She knows he warned her to be careful, and for once, she’s wishing she hadn’t taken that risk, because now, she’s driven away the best thing that ever happened to her. The one person who understood her, who believed her and never once thought she was crazy or naive, is gone, and it’s all her fault.
Marceline grows up with an adoptive mother, until she doesn’t. Betty regains the last vestiges of her sanity for long enough to look after the child, until she doesn’t. There is no Ice King, no, but the Snow Queen is just as much of a pest to everyone who meets her.
And then, one day, she’s Betty again, and the first thing she wants is to see Simon. She’s smart enough, she’s determined enough. It has to work.
And it does. Simon jumps through the portal, because of course he does. He’d do anything for Betty, just as she would for him. Betty turns back into the Snow Queen as soon as Bella Noche is defeated, because of course she does. Now that Simon is here, she’s not going to let herself die. He’s clever enough to save her from this madness. She knows he is.
(She just hopes that he’ll still want to, when it was her fault she became this way in the first place.
But then again, Simon was always the type to help her no matter what.)
(Simon remembers how Betty dropped everything for him once. Now, he’s returning the favour.)
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