I was rereading early SxF chapters and came across this well known panel:
And now I wonder if that’s actually going to come true down the line.
Back then when Loid first meets Yuri, he was definitely lying about this. He didn’t love Yor. He barely knew her.
60 plus chapters later, he had the chance to shoot Yuri in the sewer and he chose not to. Instead he took a bullet to the arm and a few more injuries. He then had a second chance to kill Yuri with a metal pipe but turned away instead with depressed Twilight (TM) eyes.
We then find out through his dialogue with Nightfall and in his inner thoughts when he goes home that he hesitated because of Yor. He essentially took a bullet because of her. Luckily not a fatal one. But I imagine that in the future when something threatens her again, directly or indirectly, he will take a bigger hit to protect her. A lot more character growth will be necessary to reach that point, but he’s already on that path, never mind what he told himself in Ch. 95 about the supposed lesson he learned from Wheeler. It smacks of a lie he’s telling himself because he’s too shook by the truth.
Kicking off season 2 of Spy x Family we have the long awaited date of Loid and Yor-which was just lovely-and in that we got this line from Loid:
Of course, this is just him drastically missing the actual cause of Yor's poor mood, but Agent Twilight believes that he has made Yor cross with him for asking for help running the household. This is a marriage of convenience after all, not an actual partnership.
While it's never made the forefront of a scene, at least not in an overtly plot heavy way, Loid is often shown doing the majority of the house work. He cooks, cleans, helps Anya study, cares for Bond, etc. He'll even make sure that dinner is ready for Yor when she comes home late. Not to say Yor doesn't do anything, she's often shown preparing drinks and will help clean up now and then, but the implication is that Loid does 90% of the chores along with raising Anya, caring for Bond, his work as a fake psychiatrist, his work as an actual spy, along with whatever day trips/misadventures the family gets up to.
But he will not ask for Yor's help, because this whole thing is a marriage of connivence; it's 'for the mission'.
Then we get chapter 86. Twilight is hurt from a gun fight with his brother-in-law, has just faced a representation of his worst traits in Winston, and gotten into a "fight" with Yor which he has no idea the cause of. Loid has officially been pushed to the limit and the moment he gets home-the moment he feels safe-the sight of Yor smiling through the threshold causes him to collapse and ask:
And Yor:
Which shocks Twilight. He is at his lowest point and is expecting for Yor to actually get upset with him, under the impression that she'll see his need for help as a burden.
Yor has always been eager to help Loid, but never wanted to overstep this unspoken boundary they have. She isn't his actual wife, not actually Anya's birth mother. She's there to keep up appearances, it's not her place to be a wife helping her husband. She will still hesitate around Anya for actions that are unavoidably motherly. It's not her place, Loid is handling it even if he's struggling.
Which is why Yor is glad to be asked for help.
How many characters both acknowledge Twilight needs help and actually offer help? Let alone with no ulterior motives. WISE is under the impression that everything they ask is within Twilight's capabilities and even Franky, the only person in his life who could be considered a friend, needs to maintain a certain distance as to not arouse suspicion for either of them.
Yor's position as mother for the Forger family has granted her both the closeness needed to see how ragged Loid's been run, but also be in a position to offer help that can be reciprocated. The only thing holding her back has been Loid not asking for assistance and her being to worried for her position in the family to ask.
And now that Loid has reached out, Yor will do all she can to ease his burdens. Even with Twilight resolving to be better, to be the perfect spy he's been slipping from, I don't think Yor's going to let him go back to bad habits. He needs help, he's asked for help, she's going to help.
Yor is going to aggressively care for Loid, and through shenanigins break down those barriers of his.
Body language experts say men subconsciously lift their eyebrows at the sight of the woman they like or love.
Y'all can't tell me he's just surprised when HE LITERALLY SEES AN ANGELIC HALO AROUND HER AND SHE IS SO PRETTY FROM HIS POV but if I'm wrong, then let me be delulu pls endo.
in sxf lore there are wery few families who are rich and have stable families. and the ongoing theme of those who care abt children are the good guys, i think there will be a desmond company blackbell industries split as we know that they are business partners.