theabcsofjustice:intheshadowofsignificance:theabcsofjustice:Pegasus seems to have come to terms with
theabcsofjustice:intheshadowofsignificance:theabcsofjustice:Pegasus seems to have come to terms with his role in all of this and doesn’t seem to regret it. Well, I mean I’m sure he still feels bad about the horrible things that he did while under the influence of the Eye but he doesn’t regret that he was caught up in this fate because it let him be able to help Yugi and Atem eventually.This is my favorite scene in the series; it makes me emotional every time. This is moment we realize one can do unfathomably cruel things, carry the weight of unspeakable tragedy they have committed, and that has been committed against them, and still move on. Be a good force in the world. Stop wallowing. Stop ignoring it. Stop hiding it. Live with it, and live through it, and make something out of it.Pegasus is proof that adversity builds you, it doesn’t own you. Pegasus is proof - this scene is proof - that at some point in our lives we will all feel, in the very depths of our soul that once convinced us it was all over, “I made it.”I made it.Our pain may not be wrapped up as neatly or conveniently, we may not be content to bear it for the greater good, or to believe that it was for a greater good at all, but it will be worth something. We will be better for it, because we are not ourselves without it. We’re not all fighting to get to the same place, but we are all fighting, and we’ll get there someday.The reason I love the anime for keeping Pegasus alive goes so far beyond letting him learn to live with loss. Here he is, content, at peace, fulfilled, if only for a handful of moments in his entire lifetime. Here he is not only declaring that he made it, but everyone who touched Yugi’s life and got him to where he is now, made it. They did that.They own that.No matter how off-track life is in their own head, it has been worth so much.I think of this man dead in the manga, embracing his wife and saying to himself, “I made it.” I think of so many people I’ve known, lost, grieved, who thought death would bring that kind of peace no matter who was waiting, no matter if no one was yet.And then I look at the anime, I see him staring down at all the full lives people lived because he suffered through her loss, and the growth people lived through despite him trying his damndest, when he was at his worst, to make sure they didn’t. I see his lips parted and his eye softened with emotion, and his exhale says, “I made it.”I realize that’s the kind of end we all deserve, not of desperation but of hope. And I wish there were more series, more characters, I could believe would never damn someone for giving up but would encourage them, always and with their whole heart, to go on.Choose to go on.So much yes to all of this! You always put things so beautifully. I’m really glad that the anime kept Pegasus alive so he could have a journey and a moment like this. -- source link