Comment on Signs of a Life Well Lived

  1. impish_nature Mon 24 Sep 2018 01:01PM UTC

    It hurts but in an inevitable way, I guess?
    Life and death happen. You're right that stories don't end. I read a passage once about immortality and it being the memories you leave behind and the people that continue to talk about you after you're gone, because that way you're never truly gone- it's always sat with me, that has.

    Mmm, Stan cheated death to the point where the reaper could do nothing but admire him. One last change to the dynamic, one last push against the worlds plan-its just the way Stan was.

    Ford's choice was... a strange one I guess. 'Wherever we go, we go together' rings through my mind. It was time for him too, being with Stan meant death was cheated of him as well- because Stan wouldn't have gone on without Ford, either? And it added him to the loop. But Ford was tired, and old- older than he ever expected to get. And really, in this AU- he'd met death many a time, this just meant that he got to choose how he went as well.
    I think of it a bit like the deathly hallows if I'm honest- welcoming and accepting. Time goes on, and it really was the end of their story.

    !!! Yes thats it. Its the thought that Stan could charm a grim. That he didn't see the difference and just saw a stray- a little thing that needed help and saw himself there. I just loved the thought of Stan amassing this group of supernatural beings - a banshee, a grim, all willing to keep him safe through hell and high water because he didn't see them as the terrible monsters everyone else saw. They weren't monsters- its like shooting the messenger. He treated them as they once might have been. And he was none the wiser cause in his mind he was just treating creatures/people with respect and kindness- things he hadn't received in a very long time.
    ...I love this au, you may have gathered XD

    Yes! The twins will grieve, of course they will, but they will go on. Life will go forward and they will continue to live and love and laugh and all the while hope that the pair are keeping an eye on them, wonder what they would have done - and maybe laugh together on whether that would have been a good idea or not. They will reminisce and talk about the good times because you need to. You need to keep the people you love and lose in your mind as they were. How they really were.
    And really thats all we can ask for- the signs of a live well lived, is what you leave behind.

    ..I gushed back, I hope thats OK <3

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