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by the_lambda_man » Tue May 17, 2011 4:33 am
Hmmm, now that the possibility has been brought up, I'm curious-- at this point in the story, what do you think Eli would do if she "accidentally" nommed Oskar? Would she be completely devastated (possibly taking her own life as the thought of living without Oskar, especially knowing that his death was at her hands, would be too painful), or would she basically be like "mmm... pity", and just shrug it off like nothing really happened? For me personally, I think her reaction would be somewhere in between these two extremes. We're at a middle ground-- a point in the story where Eli and Oskar definitely care for each other deeply, but not quite at the point where they couldn't live without each other if something unfortunate happened. So I think that although she would be completely distraught and furious with herself for a while, she would eventually get over it and live just as she did before meeting Oskar. However, if this were earlier or later in the story, I think the outcome would be very different.
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