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Michonne ([personal profile] thesamurai) wrote in [community profile] singillppl 2024-09-08 04:37 pm (UTC)

Michonne Grimes (née Hawthorne) could not and would not have been able to open her heart again if not for Andrea Harrison. After the loss of her son and boyfriend, the disassociation and pain created an impenetrable fortress around her heart to contain a chronic ache she couldn't fix. When she saved Andrea, that one decision started a chain of events that led to the carefully placed walls crumbling just enough to eventually open herself up to Rick. In this essay I—

OKAY BUT ANYWAY LOL. I hate what the writers did to Andrea, but I love so much that they gave it to us. It's bittersweet, and not enough people read between those lines and will play Michonne as leaning into what that relationship was. Andrea's line about pain never going anywhere, you just make room for it, is something that I think Michonne took to heart. I wonder what their final words were, all the time. That loss caused a backslide, but I feel like Andrea made her promise not to be the way she was when they found one another. Then Michonne realizes she can find Rick and Carl, and that's it. Andrea has forced Michonne to reconsider whether or not she can actually face being alone.

The truth is, she can't, and I think Krennic and Michonne both having that in common, is so good. She wants to open up, she has emotions that she refuses to acknowledge until they refuse to be ignored, and the times she breaks down in front of people are really interesting. She goes off alone most of the time, but if she gets caught in her emotions, she doesn't deny them. So that being said, I do have an idea!

When she gets her note from the future, she is going to rage. She's going to go out where she thinks she's alone, and she's going to fucking scream. Although I think that might be backward now that I think about it, her getting the note would be after the voices.

So then option two(!) is 100% going to the bridge after defending her and the Doctor's cabin, and asking Krennic...something something make it up then. And yeah to kick it off, what if it is Andrea's last words that we actually hear to Michonne: "I tried." And Michonne's response, which I headcanon is just a simple "I know." Then even more headcanon along the lines of 'Don't go back to who you were when I found you. go find them,' etc etc.

This is very rambly of me and loose, BUT that would for sure get a reaction that Krennic could observe and comment on 100%!!

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