YEAH that one took me out at the knees because I hadn't remembered that ending for her at all. The Tiana Parakeet narrative up until then (she picks her own name as a young child) is really quite a charming story about a kid from a toxic culture who learns to expect more of and for herself by hanging out with a prisoner who feeds her entirely on a diet of heroic epics! And Then This.
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Date: 2023-07-02 12:21 am (UTC)