#but more importantly. if linn had succeeded in removing faye somehow (hakubana route..) gray wld have continued to change

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as much as i love 2 joke abt black swan romance in tge they are just. fundamentally not that & it's so important to me !!esp!! w how the canon end shakes out. linn who never dealt with a consequence in her life trying to nuke faye out of existence bc she is the first genuine threat to their devil-may-care way of life. bc she could change gray. because she could break him in a way linn can never put back together cold touch cure or not. gray doesn't get it at all the presence of another soulless is just painful and irritating to him but linn takes one look at faye & UNDERSTANDS. bc she knows gray's ins n outs better than anything else bc she is so good at pulling at his seams but she is ever playful about it no consequences <3 (the closest she ever toed the line was blood pain games) yet faye presents. such an innocent End Of Their World. she does not understand her own existence yet understands what she is with much more clarity than gray ever did (he doesn't know what the invisible moon is even if he has felt it all his life. he is best at blaming chess, blaming reina, because that is tangible and something he can avoid / confront, rather than simply suffer) & so it goes. & linn fails to finish faye off in one blow & so gray talks to her & begins to dream of the moon & the fracture is there even if the pain settled the existence of another soulless would throw them off their game forever so naturally linn moves swiftly to peel faye from existence once and for all (nvm that she was never able to kill gray before either. that soulless cannot die. she wasn't rly trying with him, this time she's serious <3) only 2 get herself spirited through time & emptied of memories. territorial bullshit. she never stood a chance :)