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I have to take a moment to pause and post this as it hits so close to home for me personally.

I am electing to "borrow" and repost something I saw posted last year as it is so poignant. I hope you take a few moments in the next few hours to reflect.

On this day, 22 years ago (9/10/2001):

🔹️246 people went to sleep in preparation for their morning flights

🔹️2,606 people went to sleep in preparation for work in the morning

🔹️343 firefighters went to sleep in preparation for their morning shift.

🔹️60 police officers went to sleep in preparation for morning patrol

🔹️8 paramedics went to sleep in preparation for the morning shift

None of them saw past 10:00am on Sept 11, 2001.

In one single moment, life may never be the same.

As you live and enjoy the breaths you take today and tonight, before you go to sleep in preparation for your life tomorrow, kiss the ones you love, snuggle a little tighter, and never take one second of your life for granted.

They weren't even trying to be subtle with where they were going to take the narrative. Look at the season 3 and 4 promo art and dvd covers.

In both Claire's body language is towards Sylar while looking away but she gets closer to him and all the other characters get further away from them. Peter and Hiro are barely in the "eclipse" ring for the last one. In the first Sylar's body language is guarded and he's facing the camera but in the second he's open and angled towards Claire.

For anyone that might think they don't consider things like this when posing people for shoots, you're 100% wrong. The point of the photos is to capture the mood or theme of the season to entice the audience while conveying the relationships of characters. It's done all throughout film and television promotional art. They were like Mike Tyson with the doves for these two, and, in this season, they do in fact kiss. Consensually or not, it happens.

And on the matter of consent, it amuses me that Claire never tells him to not touch her affectionately and doesn't say a word of protest when it's abundantly clear he's about to kiss her. She only glares at him, and if she's mobile she stabs him, but she never tries to prevent his advances using the only tool he leaves her with. Not saying she does want it, mind you. Just that I think it's strange she tolerates it when she has no problem telling others to get off her or to not touch her. There's a literal unspoken permission he gets that others don't.

What was the reason?

I get it, it's a figure of speech. But knowing Sylar's future obsession with Claire, his weird romantic relationship with Elle, the fact that Elle and Claire look almost identical to me ... That wording is nice