third death was already made possible by elio. everything we have seen the stellaron hunters participate in so far has happened exactly according to elio's script. in the luofu, kafka and blade did exactly what was expected of them, not giving in to distractions or as blade put it "temptation". in firefly's case she was actively searching for a different way to assure her life, showing her lack of complete trust in elio. i can parallel what firefly did with jade to what blade did with jingliu in jingliu's companion mission. both are searching for one thing, firefly life, blade death, and while they believe that acting out elio's scripts will lead to what they've been promised one day, they chase their goal outside of the scripts as well. again there is that disconnect between sparkle, jade, and firefly. after jade dealt with firefly, i truly believe the chapter of sharing prospects with the stonehearts was wrapped for the rest of the patch story. it was a deal firefly declined, even if it is implied she will return to it. firefly turning down jade seems to indicate they didn't talk about anything else. however sparkle's actions, though commissioned by silver wolf and centered around firefly, served jade very nicely? almost to her awareness? hell, sparkle and jade have voicelines for each other and jade and firefly don't? who else is sashaying their way into prison to free the talk of the town for their little pawn shop contract with robin while every single playable character is distracted searching for toy bombs and acting out a fuckass script?

/ sorry for the negative tone around the script. i really don't like how firefly's script was so full of blanks the only relevance of it remaining in the plot progression was that her repetitive, extremely unwilling chase for death would frighten her romantic interest aka the mc, into actually doing things. which the mc did not. the mc did not do things. they just got frightened. firefly chased jade to find out if she could live without having to die again and again in this pathetic script, was turned down and forced to accept the script with the changing scenery. she did not even make the decision to return to the script centering herself, she just had to. and by changing scenery i mean the bomb she chivalrously launched into the sky with being fake. all this is even more downplayed by the fact that 'you cannot die in penacony dreamscape' has already been proven VERY DRAMATICALLY by aventurine. what was the point. also who in the cast came to learn of her entropy loss syndrome and gave a fuck besides jade? did we get any narration, second thoughts, dissipating chivalry, any kind of indication as to how she might have felt when she had to take up on the route she had been challenging and disregarding for the entirety of the trailblaze mission? if her exchange with jade was so simply denied why does the description of the quest section read that 'the seed has been planted'? ugh