#me watching belle when suzu watches her mother drown and screams in anguish and panicked denial; face streaked with snot: FINALLY

[dontforgetthedragon]

a metric i go by for how good a piece of media is is whether the child characters are allowed to ugly cry or show messy difficult emotions when distressing or traumatic things happen to them or whether theyre relegated to emotionless or perma-happy angelic little props for the sake of older characters growth whatever they go through