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Movie Shadow and death

I don’t think movie shadow even knew what death was. Or what it means. That It is the end of the line. Without Maria in this universe having NIDs, time wasn’t a issue. He had all the time with her, so he never worried about a “end” because there wasn’t in his mind. He always had her there. She was his light who created him, her shadow.

What he feared was that she would see him as he sees himself one day. A monster, a experimentation, a weapon. Someone who is feared. When the explosion happened, I think he just thought she was hurt, almost sleeping. A deep sleep he probably had in his pod.

So when he looks up a Gerald…. I think he finally understood that she wasn’t there anymore. And he couldn’t do anything. Maria was right there, she was holding his hand so tightly ……and then she was just gone. She was torn away from his life…..like it was nothing.

That her existence meant so much to him, but it didn’t matter to anyone else.

And this is the moment he realized… something inside him broke.