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  1. Public Bookmark 31

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    Hey.
    I was wondering...
    when I'm gone...
    do you think you could try to be happy?
    For me, I mean.

    AKA: My answer to the question "can you imagine being back in high school"
    Yes. But only if it is an existential, vaporwave hellscape brought on by the insubstantial collapse of humanity due to corporate greed and humanity's refusal to accept change and consequence, denial of the inevitability of death and--

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  3. Public Bookmark 62

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    You can bury the past, but nothing stays buried forever.

    Max Caulfield learns that the hard way when she witnesses a shooting at her school and recognizes the victim as her former best friend, Chloe Price.

    Before that moment, Max was just an ordinary student, dealing with ordinary things. Afterward the whole world has been upended as she struggles with a trauma as destructive as any storm, a former friend in mortal peril, and her life falling apart as she tries in vain to deal with the ordinary when nothing is ordinary any longer.

    In this world there are no magical solutions—the only way through is through. Nevertheless, that might contain its own sort of mercy.

    (AU - Hospital Ending/Beginning, no powers)

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    “You didn’t get a Gift?” Cecilia asked quietly, looking suddenly near tears.

    Bruno shrugged. “Nope,” he said.

    Sierra looked between Bruno, Mirabel and the mural. “If I was you, I’d be really sad,” she said.

    Mirabel tried not to wince. Kids were often sweet, but also very very blunt.

    If it had been Mirabel, she would have made light of it. She would have tried to distract the kids with a joke or reassure them that of course she wasn’t sad.

    But Tio Bruno only stared blankly at the mural for one long moment. He turned to the kids and shrugged again with a wry smile.

    “You get used to it,” he said.

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    In this world, the Gifts are all different, but you know how the old saying goes: this changes everything and nothing at all. Mirabel may have a Gift, but Bruno doesn't and Isabela is hiding a major secret in a desperate attempt to protect everyone.

    And, as always, la familia Madrigal is crumbling under expectations of perfection.

    The cracks are still emerging and it all comes down to an uncertain prophecy, with Mirabel, Isabela and Bruno at the centre.

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