grip your shoulder- zooming out to the vast landscape: tiny footprints on the sand, two small figures playing in the endless sea- they’re always so small compared to the world, yet distant from the cruel hand of time- all they need is each other, in their own fishbowl of memories
@yeolzzakz thinking abt how he and ivan were at their happiest when they were together quietly, and beach au seemed to be the epitome of that. so as he lay presumably dying, his mind was desperately trying to replicate those times but in a kinder world where he didnt have to lose ivan
Q: When is the happiest and most fulfilling time for Ivan and Till when they are together?
A: There is no specific time. For them, the moments when they’re not fighting, or just quietly being together, they are the happiest.
#ivantill#ALNST#에이스테#alienstage
escapism - ivan and the stars analogy
at that moment, his small body dangled over the rooftop, tiny and insignificant within the cruel world. it’s noted to be the moment ivan started to fixate on death 🧵
everything ivan does, his actions, his work, doesn’t build toward that predetermined death. instead, they’re efforts to prolong and distract himself from it, clinging to a tiny hope that fate might somehow change.
it won't.
escapism - ivan and the stars analogy
at that moment, his small body dangled over the rooftop, tiny and insignificant within the cruel world. it’s noted to be the moment ivan started to fixate on death 🧵
ivan knows the age he will die on the stage. unknowingly, he counts down to it. he is the antithesis of the fear of death: death is always present in his mind, but he stuffs it down. it doesn’t dominate his narrative, it just lingers, always there.