ok this is bothering me i need to settle this once and for all

nope american funerary rites just look like that, the cinematography and pacing and vibe as different as you can get for these same elements, it's likely not a reference

(even the preceding scene of the person lying dead against a blue background were as radically different as you can do for that description)

AND YET

"do not let william's death be in vain"

> released 2014

welp there goes that LiS headcanon

::looks up what the actual plot of CoDAW is::

::sighs, gets the jaws of life, pries open the big bin of reasons why Bae >>>>>... Bay and forcibly pries open a gap to wedge this new entry in::