#seven walls

More angst hours! When Ray and Norman realize Emma sacrificed herself for the promise, their reactions are the very things they used to accuse Emma of. Ray calls himself an “idiot” for blindly trusting her and naive trust is something he often warned Emma against since their time at Gracefield. Norman considers himself “careless” for letting her go, which is the same thing he tells her when she tries to stop him from leaving the House (“This isn’t what you should be doing now!”).

It’s a neat parallel but also it shows how much of Emma’s characteristics Ray and Norman imbibed over the past 3 years. Emma, on the other hand, inherited the worst traits from them (Norman’s habit of smiling despite carrying his burdens alone, and Ray’s perpetual lying to keep his family safe)

AU where instead of only losing her memories, Emma gets reborn/deaged as a baby for the reward, like in the Seven Walls arc and Ray and Norman find her at an orphanage and both become her foster parents. She’s still lost her connections like in the original promise but now we can have some Norman + Ray parenting bonus AND angst