if the writers at gearbox had any brains left in their skulls they would have made roland and angel mirror each other from the very start.
roland defected from atlas, angel rebelled against jack. but as roland detaches himself emotionally from his work to lead the raiders, The Mission is all angel has. it Needs to be personal for her. its about roland building a world he can live in versus angel dying for the one only she can save.
the shared relief they must have felt in the moments before their deaths, thinking their plan had worked. rolands hand feeling for her fading pulse being the first warm human contact in years. just. (explodes.)
they DIED side by side, they should have at least been buried together, if they were buried at all. angel should have gotten a statue. idgaf. <- clearly gives a fuck.