acrossmyengines:

What makes these two so terrible and so wonderful is that they’re both the same and different.

They’re the same scared girl who puts other human beings on pedestals and clings to their feet and tears herself down for not being on the pedestal with them. The same angry girl who assumes perfection of others and demands it of herself. The same sad girl who blames herself for every sin on the planet just because she’s human. The same girl who can’t accept herself. But Kyouko does it without thinking and Sayaka analyzes her downfall every step of the way; Sayaka reflects and Kyouko acts.

So they’ll tear each other to pieces before they realize they’re the same. Or they will realize it, and then they’ll raise hell to deny it, and every difference in nature and perspective is just another way to hurt each other in the places where they’re the same.

But, eventually, when they can look at each other and realize they’re the same, they’ll accept each other, and that will allow them to accept themselves.

And because they’re the same, they’ll know what they’re both going through; because they’re different, they’ll be able to show each other the other ways through the hell inside their own minds. Where one is weak the other can be strong. When Kyouko wants to burn herself out in a desperate unthinking flight from all the things she can’t stand about herself, Sayaka can stop her and make her realize what she’s doing. When Sayaka wants to drown herself in the unending litany of all her flaws and failures, Kyouko can grab her and make her just run forward again instead.

Once they’ve held onto each other’s hands for long enough, they’ll even be able to stand on their own.