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Okay hear me out because I had an idea. So what if mystreet had an overarching theme of unlearning violence/generational trauma/stuff like that

Basically I realized a lot of characters have not so great families/home lives and I realized this could work really well as an overarching theme

The main one is with Aphmau. She's supposed to be an Irene, but in my little epilogue/hypothetical season 7, she chooses not to be Irene. Irene isn't as intrinsically apart of her as the Aphmau before her, so she has a choice. Accepting the relic would mean she's no longer Aphmau, she is Irene, and that could entail leaving behind her friends and family and Aaron unless she hands out the rest of the relics, but while she'd keep Garroth, Katelyn, and Travis, what about Aaron? For reasons I'll bring up in another post, only Aaron can receive Shad's relic. If he receives the relic with his Ultima curse what would that mean? That's not a question Aphmau wants to find out the answer to. She has to choose between her mother, her fiance, some of her closest friends, and fulfilling a legacy. She knows she can't ever go back to a normal life, not after everything that had happened, but she would rather adjust with those she deems the closest to her, rather than alone as a goddess

The Irene before her didn't get that choice. The first Irene had gone through a lot and it turned her cold and unfeeling. She lost the capacity to empathize with those around her. So when Lord Aphmau came along, the dilemmas associated with being Irene but not wasn't even something that crossed her mind. Lord Aphmau developed as someone not Irene, but she never really had a say in who she was. Her thoughts, her words, her actions, they were all Irene. She suffered under that role and she wouldn't wish that on anyone. As a result, she created a degree of separation between her and Aphmau. Aphmau was born to be Irene, that was her destiny, but whether or not she followed it was up to her.

Aphmau chose not to become Irene, adding yet another layer of separation. An Irene will always come, will always be born in order to combat evil, but Aphmau doesn't have to follow her mother and suffer under the legacy of her grandmother, in a role she doesn't want to fill. She already did her duty as Irene, becoming her also isn't necessary

This can also be shown with Dante standing up to Gene as they're brothers, Garroth and Zane unlearning Garte's shit parenting (especially with Zane's history with the Jury and Garroth just kinda sucking as a brother), Katelyn getting into fights and stuff in order to protect Kacey because she feels like she has to fill in for Elizabeth's absence, and then realizing that she doesn't make up for anything

Okay that's it, bye guys