🧍my notifs are drowned sorry, okay so this Phantom Theater is a spatial anomaly that takes its guests into the world/reality of the film they’re watching. Raf and Mc end up in that world except he doesn’t have memories of her or Linkon anymore, only her memories are intact. Also he doesn’t have Evol anymore however some part of his consciousness still persisted because he’s able to summon whales with his singing, yes he sings and it’s just so beautiful. Mc knows how the film ends and tries to change their fate. There’s a lot of parallels and call backs in this card and that reality. He explains he got on this ship because he had a dream related to Lemuria, a sunset, that he began painting on this whole journey. That painting had a hidden part because it was both of them watching the sunset which basically foreshadowed the ending 🧍along all of these there’s many sweet and romantic moments.
anyway so mc is trying to change the course of the film’s fate and his fate, so she tried to arrange a private boat to take them off the ship earlier which flopped so then they went on a lookout for icebergs and they did find one and alerted the captain leading to them avoiding that crash.
they think everything is fine now except predetermined fate and all proves them wrong once again, they’re ofc doomed for oblivion, another iceberg appears and the ship crashes and beging sinking.
they head to the upper deck as the water was flooding the ship, then something is about to fall on mc and kill her and instead he pushes her out of the way and the spike hits him instead…he’s now bleeding and ship is sinking, he’s telling her to get to a lifeboat, she said she will stay with him until the end, so they drown together as he sings and writing my therapist reference, then the scene swaps to the sunset he was painting and dreaming of. Mc wonders how are they still alive because they drowned, turns out this happy scene is just a “dream” or the “afterlife” (most likely prompted by his singing as they drowned yes very angsty)
this reality then collapses and they return to Linkon but what’s painful about this is it’s not actually/fully an au as their memory retained everything that happened in that world which makes it 100 times worse 🧍
This is basically what goes down more directly, the subtext of what’s going on is much deeper but that’s an analysis I’ll leave for later 💔