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Things I still can’t stop brooding on:

1. Many, perhaps even most, Guardians use their conditional immortality as a tactic in and of itself – a tactic seen in the existence of the Crucible, in the lead scout’s cloak, in Rezyl Azzir using his own corpse as bait. There is purpose in pain, etc etc. Injuries are impermanent and death doesn’t mean defeat, and this is the knowledge they carry with them into the fight.
2. Thorn, and by extension Dredgen Yor, was a one-shot Guardian killer. Where it touched Light, it devoured it, and what was devoured could not be restored.
3. Shin Malphur grew up mortal, with injuries that lingered and deaths that came all too easy. Every bullet was a one-shot killer. This was the knowledge he carried with him into the fight.
4. Guess who finally won.