![]() ![]() But what’s even more powerful to me is her life comes down to a choice: she either has to remember everything, face her past, relive her trauma and *survive*, or choose to forget and die. She gets to be the version of herself that she would have been all along if not for the torture she endured. Despite the world falling apart around her, she feels safe and protected. She gets friends who accept that she’s a bit weird instead of ostracizing or punishing her for it. She gets to be loved for real by a whole slew of guardians who truly have her best interests at heart. Like…Nona gets reborn without the complicated baggage of her past, into a world that while we know is dangerous and terrifying, she gets to experience the simple joyful things like swimming and petting dogs and pretty girls. “what if you were severely traumatized and had experienced undescribable pain for thousands of years, and the deepest sort of betrayal, and loss you could never begin to articulate, but then your consciousness got to be reborn again and you didn’t have to remember any of the bad things?” ![]()
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