Redemption is kind of like restoring, I don't know, a chair. When you start, it's been tossed out for ages, it's all messed up and splintered, parts of it are torn, it's been through some stuff and it's categorically broken, tossed out and useless. But little by little you fix it up. Give it new stuffing, maybe fill in a couple of cracks on the legs. Sometimes you might mess it up, break a piece off because you tried too hard, or couldn't save something in time, but you keep going anyway. Eventually, you get a functioning chair again. You can't ever get it looking exactly like it did before- it can't be the same chair it was before it got tossed out, that's impossible. But you get something different, built on what was left behind. It's still a chair, it's still good, it's just got... a messier history now, is all.
...Or something like that, I'm an alchemist, not a writer, I'm not so good with the allegories. Rapunzel could probably do it way more flowery and probably throw in some super encouraging pep talk buzz words in there too. But she isn't here, so you're gonna have to settle for me and my cruddy broken chair analogy.
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Redemption is kind of like restoring, I don't know, a chair. When you start, it's been tossed out for ages, it's all messed up and splintered, parts of it are torn, it's been through some stuff and it's categorically broken, tossed out and useless. But little by little you fix it up. Give it new stuffing, maybe fill in a couple of cracks on the legs. Sometimes you might mess it up, break a piece off because you tried too hard, or couldn't save something in time, but you keep going anyway. Eventually, you get a functioning chair again. You can't ever get it looking exactly like it did before- it can't be the same chair it was before it got tossed out, that's impossible. But you get something different, built on what was left behind. It's still a chair, it's still good, it's just got... a messier history now, is all.
...Or something like that, I'm an alchemist, not a writer, I'm not so good with the allegories. Rapunzel could probably do it way more flowery and probably throw in some super encouraging pep talk buzz words in there too. But she isn't here, so you're gonna have to settle for me and my cruddy broken chair analogy.