As much as they're my OTPOTPOTP#1#1#1!!!!!!%^**$ (you get the picture haha), I don't think they would've lasted outside the War. When I was younger (re: 1997/1998), I wrote heaps of fan fic (sadly the parents threw out that computer this year), where Rachel ended up a drug addict (also pregnant, but thats another story for another time). I used to imagine that R/T would end up together happily if not dysfunctionally ever after.
As an adult, I look back and see the mess she wove herself into and Tobias sort of dutifully followed. Rachel would not have been stable enough to function in the world-post War. She was too addicted to violence. And for the ending of 54 *SPOILERS~* Tobias could not cope without her. There was too much dependency on each other to survive, and although yes *SPOILERS~* he has Loren, it doesn't seem to be 'enough' for Tobias.
As someone whose dad is a therapist and owns a lot of therapy books (I read too many as a teen...lol), I think *if* Rachel did survive, she'd have SERIOUS PSTD. Tobias would struggle between humanity and animal life, per usual. And nothing would really be the same. War, in both reality and fiction (well fiction if its done well), changes people and its not always for the better. Case in point.
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Date: 2011-07-12 02:17 pm (UTC)As an adult, I look back and see the mess she wove herself into and Tobias sort of dutifully followed. Rachel would not have been stable enough to function in the world-post War. She was too addicted to violence. And for the ending of 54 *SPOILERS~* Tobias could not cope without her. There was too much dependency on each other to survive, and although yes *SPOILERS~* he has Loren, it doesn't seem to be 'enough' for Tobias.
As someone whose dad is a therapist and owns a lot of therapy books (I read too many as a teen...lol), I think *if* Rachel did survive, she'd have SERIOUS PSTD. Tobias would struggle between humanity and animal life, per usual. And nothing would really be the same. War, in both reality and fiction (well fiction if its done well), changes people and its not always for the better. Case in point.
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