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the long-awaited velcinta presentation

it's been well over a year since i first offered to make this so i won't waste your time with a lengthy preamble. here it is in all its glory

(for the love of god please talk to me about them)

The Velcinta post i reblogged earlier made me think of the unlikely-to-happen-in-the-show scenario where

What if there is no big sacrifice or grand breakup or dying in the other person’s / each other’s arms type of situation

What if Aldahni does drive them apart but as time passes, more mundanely than they think

What if they keep going on separate missions and spending less time with each other and even if they are on base at the same time all they do is argue

And they try to make things right but have to reckon with the fact that the spark isn’t there anymore

No one dies, no one is seriously injured but vel and cinta still lose each other

Andor S2E6 Spoilers

Something about Andor pulling a bury your gays in 2025 feels not very great in a (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ kind of way.

Not because I think they did it maliciously, mostly because it’s the same kind of agony characters dying in Andor usually evokes and I guess that was exactly the point.

They made it incredibly poetic how Cinta is “only here because of [Vel]” and then dies on that same mission for absolutely nothing. Her death points out how fragile the rebellion is when people don’t follow orders and even if the rebels get away with the weapons it’s not a win because that’s what the empire wanted. So it’s a net negative in the end because the trade for an objective that they would’ve gotten anyway is the life of one of their most competent allies. T_T

It makes a lot of sense from the storytelling perspective and is very well executed, as Andor usually is, but did it need to happen to the gays right after the first gay on screen kiss?

I am simply devastated but that’s nothing new after an Andor episode :(