#the issue is dimitri dying prevents like everything else in the podcast from happening because all of it is such an interconnected web

[leonstamatis]

fuck it. dimitri dies au.

the thing that appeals to me about this is an idea that dimitri would become an urban legend just like all the things he was interested in while he was alive, and like, maybe at first he’s delighted by that and thinks it’s fun and now he gets to live on as a riddle and a mystery of his own.

but then nica. nica feels awful because she was supposed to be there and she could have stopped it, so she goes looking for him, goes off to solve the same riddles he was looking for but without him there to help her. nica becomes the one writing home to leon about what she’s found and what she’s thinking and feeling.

dimitri dies and becomes a myth and a legend and a riddle and he didn’t even say goodbye to anyone, and nica should have been there but she wasn’t, so now she’s going to be following in his footsteps to get answers as his ghost trails after her.