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Infamous Tcc'ers part 4

Dissolved girl

Sol Pais, a name that exploded into headlines in April 2019, tied to Columbine, guns, and fear.

Sol was 18 years old, a senior at Miami Beach Senior High School. From the outside, she was just another quiet girl. Honor roll student. Talented artist. She took AP courses. Wore dark clothes. Stayed to herself. If you were in class with her, you probably wouldn’t remember her voice. But online, she lived in another world, a darker one.

She kept a blog under the handle “Dissolved Girl” (a Massive Attack song reference), where she wrote pages of cryptic thoughts: death, loneliness, Columbine. She posted gun drawings, suicidal poetry, and lines that sounded like she was building toward something.

One entry read: “I want to leave a mark… I want to do something that matters.”

But most notable was her obsession with Eric Harris. Out of the two Columbine shooters, Sol seemed to identify deeply and exclusively with Eric. In her writings, she described feeling like she “understood” him, his anger, his alienation, his logic. She referred to him as “divine” and even said he made her feel “less alone.” Some posts suggested she saw herself as carrying on his legacy, not by committing violence, but by making her pain visible. Dylan Klebold was barely mentioned for Sol, it was Eric who mattered. His journals. His eyes. His “purity.”

On April 15, 2019,days before the 20th anniversary of Columbine, Sol flew from Florida to Colorado. One-way ticket. No baggage. She landed in Denver, took an Uber to a gun shop in Littleton, and legally bought a pump-action Mossberg 500 shotgun and ammo. She had no criminal record, and under Colorado law, out-of-state buyers over 18 can purchase long guns. She passed both federal and state background checks without issue.

That same day, she took an uber to the mountains, nearby where Eric's ashes are assumed to be spread.

When authorities were alerted,in part due to her online footprint and the timing Denver went into a full-blown panic. The FBI issued warnings. Every major news outlet plastered her photo nationwide. Over 500,000 Colorado students were pulled from school. Columbine High School and 20 other campuses shut down. She was labeled “armed and dangerous” and “obsessed with columbine.”

But it turns out, Sol was already dead.

Her body was found on April 17 near Echo Lake, in the foothills of the Rockies. She had taken her own life with the shotgun shortly after arriving. According to the coroner’s report, she had already died on April 15, likely just hours after getting to Colorado, long before the manhunt even began.

The truth is, she never attacked anyone. She never even tried. She brought no gear, no plan, no manifesto. Just the weapon, and whatever pain she was carrying. Her journal didn’t read like someone preparing an attack, it read like a long, drawn-out goodbye.

After her death, one of her close friends spoke to the media. She was heartbroken, but firm:

“Sol was not a danger to anyone. She never said anything about hurting people. She wasn’t roaming around trying to shoot up a school. She was depressed. She was in pain. That’s what this was about.”

But the damage had been done. Her name was now associated with mass panic. She became a case study for how obsession with violence can trigger nationwide lockdowns,even without a shot fired.

Her death led to audits of gun sale laws. People started asking how an out-of-state teenager could buy a shotgun so easily. Colorado and other states have since introduced mandatory waiting periods and red flag laws in response to cases just like this.

Sol is not a killer. Not a shooter. She was a lonely, broken kid whose obsession with Eric Harris, became a mirror for her own suffering. She didn’t want to kill others ever.

TL;DR:

Sol Pais was an 18-year-old from Florida obsessed with Eric Harris.

Flew to Colorado in April 2019, legally bought a shotgun, and disappeared.

Caused mass panic and school closures across Denver, but never planned an attack.

Died by suicide in the mountains shortly after arrival before manhunt began.

Her friend confirmed she never intended harm to others, only struggled with deep depression.

Her case raised questions about mental health, online radicalization, and gun access laws.

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triggerthegun · 1 day ago

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god if skins gen 1 aired today tony/sid would blow UP on here. but because its a decade and a half old i have to be miserable knowing that some alternate timeline gets 20k fics on ao3 about them and their codependency and in this one we get 38. total.

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triggerthegun · 4 days ago

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