#thinking abt martyrs to microdose existential hopelessness but also bc girl that is where i am at mentally

[iphigeniacomplex]

can i just say they kissed in that bathroom after attempting to clean up an act of violence that should have been cathartic but wasn’t enough. lucie said “will i ever be free of this” and anna kissed her in that bathroom with the corpse behind them and it literally was not enough. the love between lucie and anna, which hurts them both and blurs several lines between types of love without ever being fully defined for the audience, was what anna witnessed again after prolonged and grotesque physical brutalization with the goal of martyrdom, placing the love between these two women in an explicitly holy context. and it materially changed nothing. can i just say they literally kissed in that bathroom, both wearing blood that was not their own, because anna loved lucie so much there was literally no other way to express it and it wasnt enough. like just so everyone knows