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>there can only be stakes if characters die
This is such a dumb take, there are arguably characters that have already met worse fates than death in the story. Yuni became some kinda rapture abomination for example.
To say that Rose now coming back as a puppet of Red Shoes, a hollow form of her previous self and equivocating this to her just being back like nothing ever happened is just retarded. Same with Red Shoes who sounds like she's just some upload of her personality data into some device they call Mirror and who knows how that even happened.