>>2155996>>2156015I don't know what series you've been watching, but Black Lagoon doesn't go about glorifying the "Live fast, die young" lifestyle. If anything, Revy the biggest deconstruction of the philosophy I've ever. She has everything she should be wanting. Revy has all the guns, money, and booze she could ever want. And you know what she does all day? Follow around the one decent guy she knows like a lost puppy. Rock is everything Revy should hate. He's kind, polite, and thinks everything he does through carefully. And yet all Revy can seem to do is latch onto him and hope that a bit of his niceness will wear off.
At the start of the series you can see this mental dissonance grate on her as she tries to push Rock away, tries to push him back away so she can go back to ignoring all those things she's tried to forget. Tries to shove down that truth she's always been too afraid to admit: she hates her life. She hates the stress, hates the fear, hates the loneliness. Revy has everything she's ever wanted and she's miserable. An ending with her just continuing on her miserable path to its inevitable end won't be glorious or satisfying. It'll just be another time the house wins, just another time the world takes some poor little girl and destroys her. And that hopelessness, that idea that all one can do is live the life the world has set out for you, is against everything in Black Lagoon. It goes against Rock stepping out from under the foot of his superiors, it goes against Revy going back to rescue him for the terrorists, it goes against admitting to herself that she loves Rock for the very things that she should hate him for (not confirmed, but heavily implied by the last chapter). Black Lagoon is a story about breaking free of your past, and it's building up the the happy ending to end all happy ending. It will be the sappiest, most cliched thing you've ever seen.
And you all will love it.
