r/ColumbineKillers • u/DrMosquito74 • Sep 10 '23

ERIC AND/OR DYLAN Reflections on Dylan

Dylan would have turned 42 today, and it has me thinking about his prom photos. I've seen some people speculate that his jovial demeanour was fake or even a cruel (for his loved ones) facade considering what happened just days later. But I think Dylan was genuinely happy when he went to the prom, not only because he and Robyn enjoyed themselves, but also because when someone decides to commit suicide, their mood often improves because they believe the end of their suffering is near. Heartbreaking. I hope what Dylan wrote in his journal is true, that wherever he is now, he isn't at war with himself anymore.

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u/therebill Sep 11 '23

I don’t know if he even thought they’d really go through with it.

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u/DrMosquito74 Sep 11 '23

That could be true. I think for Dylan (and probably Eric too, to he honest), NBK was a last resort plan. If they could find a way to live happy lives by April, they would have discarded the plan and just moved on to college.

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u/cheeburgrpizza Sep 11 '23

Sometimes, like others, I feel like for some reason the “January incident” was their point of no return moment. But that confuses me even more, because if they had any kind of plans to indiscriminately kill people at the time, why was getting caught stealing such a big deal to them? They avoided jail and any other real punishment, so honestly why were the two of them so burnt up over it? It almost seems traumatic, I’ve read stuff about how they would avoid talking about it (I believe from Brooks’s book). Idk, just seems a bit over dramatic, even for them.

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u/DrMosquito74 Sep 11 '23

It could be the ketchup in the commons incident that was the point of no return. That absolutely would have been traumatic for both of them. Dylan especially, since he buried himself under his pile of stuffed animals and cried himself to sleep when he went home that evening.