Your stunt double was murdered right in the middle of your kitchen.
Not just any stunt double, either. The one that spent 40 years, an entire lifetime, taking hits and rolling under cars and throwing herself into open fire as you. The one that's not you, but at the same time is maybe a better version of you, the you you would be if you had been just a pinch braver, just a pinch more likable; the one that's not you, but at the same time was the same character as you, and maybe she actually is you, in some ways (after all, you two are so similar that she was killed in your place, wasn't she?).
She was your stunt double, yes. But she was also the one who took your falls, who propped you up, who made sure you didn't spend your lunch break alone. You shared a role, you shared an apartment, you shared a girlfriend.
She took care of you in every way you can take care of a person.
And now she's gone.
It was possible to believe otherwise when she was just an absence on the other side of a phone (even though you knew, right from the start, that something was so, so wrong). It might even have been possible to believe it was all a colossal joke as you were cradling the iron trophies she was so proud to host in her bones. But luminol is unforgiving: you turn off the light and there it all is, her blood, her life slipping away from her right there on the tiles of your kitchen, and the message she left for you, the one thing she knew you'd understand right away, and there's no denying it anymore.
You are Charles-Haden Savage, and your stunt double was murdered in your place right in the middle of your kitchen.
Your hands still tingle with her ashes.
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I'm so obsessed with my own characters, its unreal. The blorbo of the month is my best boy Rook, but Fallon is always in the background, lurking. And of course, I can't think about Fallon without thinking about [redacted]. (Even if they aren't mine, they are my blorbo-in-law, I guess.)
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I watched the finale, I processed for ten minutes, and then started sobbing uncontrollably for like another ten.
I think what hits me most is how much regret there was. At the end of the day, they're standing in the ruins of what they have done to each other - there was so much hurt on both sides, so much anger too, and at the end, there's regret. And it's so painfully human. It's what humans do to each other. And for what?
The regret in the you were happy and is it not too late and the I didn't know and I don't ever want to be alone and the I'm sorry. And it's too late, they can't fix this, because they tried too late and doubled down too hard...
But if that doesn't teach you how important it is to give it a try, to try and see the world with compassion wherever you can, what are you even doing?
... and then they get a do-over after all. A second chance. And I'm so, so glad for them, because fuck yes it's what they deserve. (And maybe you could say that it's a bit of karma here. A catalyst, a reward for allowing things to finally click. For opening that door for at least a sliver. The universe rewarding them for finally trying.)
But if that doesn't teach you how important it is to give it a try, to see the world with compassion wherever you can... What are you even doing?
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