Oh yes, I definitely wouldn't them to have a happily ever after ending. I knew they eventually had to die off, whether by turning into the final villains or by another circumstance, because at the point they got at the time they cornered Kagami and Tendo and beat the living shit out of them (with Kageyama looking completely psychotic at it and Yaguruma looking so smug that he'd managed to bring Kageyama down with him), they were beyond finding any sort of magical sparklepoo salvation. But their deaths (I say their because to me it looked like they attacked each other and Kageyama died first, but Yaguruma was clearly dying too) still hurt, because of the way the whole thing happened.
Which, while still making me angst and rage and scream NOT FAIR NOT FAIR NOT FAIR at the screen while choking on bitter fangirl tears every time, actually made perfect sense. The whole thing with Kageyama being desperate enough to blindly trust himself something sanctioned by that same treacherous ZECT he knew perfectly well, goes just with everything else Kageyama did. It fits that Kageyama who's ultimately always been a lost confused boy trying to find some point of reference and clinging to whatever ray of light he sees, even if that later turns out to be just a reflection on a surface covering a deep black hole.
So tl;dr I agree with you about Rainbow Bridge in the sense that, it hurts to watch the characters we love die, but it hurts more because we know it makes sense. It's not just "and then they died", it's their story escalated to this exact point, and now this is what it all runs down to. It's the perfect ending for them because it's the one that makes those characters and their relationship whole. They started out searching for perfect harmony in life, and after going through hell and back, found their own little haven of light in death.
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Date: 2009-02-15 03:39 am (UTC)Which, while still making me angst and rage and scream NOT FAIR NOT FAIR NOT FAIR at the screen while choking on bitter fangirl tears every time, actually made perfect sense. The whole thing with Kageyama being desperate enough to blindly trust himself something sanctioned by that same treacherous ZECT he knew perfectly well, goes just with everything else Kageyama did. It fits that Kageyama who's ultimately always been a lost confused boy trying to find some point of reference and clinging to whatever ray of light he sees, even if that later turns out to be just a reflection on a surface covering a deep black hole.
So tl;dr I agree with you about Rainbow Bridge in the sense that, it hurts to watch the characters we love die, but it hurts more because we know it makes sense. It's not just "and then they died", it's their story escalated to this exact point, and now this is what it all runs down to. It's the perfect ending for them because it's the one that makes those characters and their relationship whole. They started out searching for perfect harmony in life, and after going through hell and back, found their own little haven of light in death.
God I love these two so much. ;_;