#even if he doesnt realize it yet

[winnie-the-monster]

"Lady Crane was right about you."

"Lady Crane? What did she say?"

"That you cared for me. That you would never forsake me. I'm beginning to believe that now."

#bridgerton #s2 #polin #polin quotes #penelope x colin #colin bridgerton #penelope featherington #soooo i may be rewatching polin scenes #and i honestly believe this might be the first time he's starting to realize his feelings for her #even if he doesnt realize it yet #if that makes sense #idk its just something about the tone of hos voice and the look on his face

[elllteo]

forever thinking about how marcille and laios have such a richly weird and funny friendship dynamic that people I see tend to write off as "god she hates his ass" but in reality it's the frustration of one neurodivergent weirdgirl to another neurodivergent weirdboy who has no concept of masking, has never had to mask, and simply doesn't know how to mask making their entire group come across as "the weirdo freaks" despite her best efforts to not be labelled as "weird" probably her entire life

#dungeon meshi #do not spoil me I havent read the manga yet I just. I care so much #I care so much about the friendship bonds of their entire group and them especially #marcille #laios #she adopted him as a sibling and doesnt even know it. thats her dumbass brother now and she doesnt realize she chose this #but thats literally how she treats him. the aggression is out of self preservation and a specific kind of distress #when he's not being quote unquote weird she respects him a lot. ugh. ugh. ugh. taking damage

[reineydraws]

Saw your Mishanks bodyswap art! Very cute and fun! (Mihawk with a genuine smile on his face so so fun)

I imagine Shanks whould have trouble fighting in Mihawk's body at first since it's been years since he's had two arms

yes absolutely, i imagine that too! conversely, i think mihawk would have a little bit of trouble adjusting his balance and reach with a body missing one arm, as well. it's interesting to think about how they both would be forced to change their fighting style, and whether or not they would exchange swords.

mihawk's been seen using yoru with just one hand so he could probably pull it off with shanks's body. also interesting to think about shanks tripping up on having two arms until he naturally slips into his old fighting style again--or would he? because there's also the question of muscle memory, right? would mihawk's body automatically do things that shanks isn't predisposed to doing, and vice versa?

the other thing i find intriguing about body swapping in one piece is the question of whether or not your haki powers would switch as well. they say haki is spiritual presence, so presumably your haki switches if your spirits switch, but if it's the kind of spirit that's tethered to the presence of the body? then consider mihawk having the strongest conqueror's haki out on the blues, or shanks being able to use observation haki at mihawk's level, practically being able to predict the future--or mihawk, able to counter with shanks's haki-kill technique. food for thought!

#rei replies #one piece #mishanks body swap au #mishanks #akataka #dracule mihawk #shanks #akagami no shanks #red haired shanks #re: the genuine smiling #i also like to think shanks in mihawk's body would have this moment where he realizes his cheeks ache from all the smiling he's doing lol #bc mihawk's facial muscles arent used to doing it #and when they switch back shanks teases mihawk about it ('you exercise so many of your muscles hawky but your cheeks? they're weak!') #and he manages to get a smile out of mihawk that's mihawk's version of a genuine smile and it's softer and less wide but it's honest #and oh shanks is soooooo in love with him hahaha #BY THE WAY ALSO I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS OMG but in this body-swapped au mihawk-as-shanks would 100% shave for shanks #like hell is he gonna let shanks grow *stubble* on *his* face. dracule mihawk with STUBBLE? banish the thought!!!!!! #but shanks doesnt do it up to his standards so there's totally a scene where mihawk and shanks are body swapped in the bathroom #and mihawk is standing too close and shaving his lil pointy sideburns and mustache onto shanks's face #and shanks is having a crisis because that's his own face breathing too close and waaaay to intimately but that look of concentration #is ALL mihawk. shanks can practically his eyes--so familiar from the mirror and wrinkled with laugh lines--glow yellow with how #much mihawk looks like himself right now even in shanks's body. #it's all very strange. shanks has been attracted to mihawk for a long time but it's just blatantly unfair that the first time in YEARS #theyre this close again and it's shanks's own body that he has to look at. on the upside he supposes all he needs to do to ogle #mihawk is to look down. pros and cons pros and cons. #(mihawk isnt having a crisis. mihawk is annoyed that hia beard is easier to do in first person it is to do in the third person. #surely not having to do it reflected in a mirror should be easier and yet for some reason everything feels off! ugh.) #i digress

[hezekiahwakely]

[Image ID: an excerpt from the MAG 123 transcript. "I have no theories on this. No – no sudden insights. (sigh) I wish I could talk it through with Martin. Or Tim. Or Sasha. But we never really did that, did we? (sigh) Everything’s changed. (shaky, long breath). End ID]

This is going around as a sound on TikTok, prompting me to listen to it several dozen times, and...

Did you ever notice that Jon's voice cracks, just slightly, when he says Martin's name? 🥲

#this is immediately after his return to the institute but he hasnt even seen martin yet since awakening from the coma #the one person he thought might want to be at his side. and he doesnt even want to see him at work #jon must know at this point. he must be self aware enough to realize just how much this hurts. how much he needs him #its like you can hear him falling in love here in the most painful way possible #im going to become the joker #tma #jmart #mag 123 #the magnus archives #jonmartin #tma meta

[puppyeared]

38 and 39 for the ask game!

(Love your art by the way)

38: fav song at the moment?

pawprint panic | party at club bug | love birds

39: youtuber you've been obsessed with and why?

link to scruffy's youtube channel

#i dont really have a set music taste cuz i just listen to whatever i like but i think i lean towards bedroom pop??? #these songs come to mind bc theyre relatively new so i havent gotten tired of listening to them yet lol #i do love snailshouse's love songs and ordinary songs 5 albums.. as well as cavetown and sidney gish #but i dont have any real way of discovering music outside of oc amvs and listening to the rest of an artists discography #i also dont watch a lot of youtubers to begin with but i really like scruffy and solo solo travel.. hes a japanese travel vlogger that #my mom likes and he usually rides trains and documents the whole trip. doesnt speak but writes his thoughts in subtitles #hes pretty funny and his videos are relaxing to watch so i can see why my mom likes him lol #i highly recommend scruffys fnaf sound effects videos.. its interesting to see how sound design is incorporated as a part of #game atmosphere without even realizing it!! and his video for totks instruments is interesting too!!! #ask #ask game #answered #yapping #doodles

[tytangfei]

"You spent the first half of your life going through trials. Now you've sacrificed the second half of your life to save us. Is this world truly worth saving?" "As long as you live happily in it, it's worth it."

The Starry Love (2023)

#the starry love #love when the stars fall #cdramaedit #shaodian youqin #liguang yetan #chen xingxu #li landi #xianxia drama #chinese dramas #obsessed about this !! he falls for her first!! #she doesn't even quite know her own feelings here yet ! #but he has realized and it doesnt matter if she loves or doesnt because he will protect her regardless #jinastarrygifs #jina makes gifs

[ilynpilled]

A Storm of Swords - Arya I

A Storm of Swords - Jaime II

A Storm of Swords - Arya V

A Storm of Swords - Jaime III

#they are approaching the inn where they miss eachother #from opposite directions #but arya actually is near them thru the wolves #arya v also has everyone discussing jaimes potential whereabouts #and he is very emphasized the whole chapter #like idk the paralleling here is interesting to me #arya is tied to the same locations as jb constantly they keep missing eachother its so funny #ntm their connection to lsh and rw respectively #later i always found it so interesting how focused on sansa jb were even tho it is a pointless search bc the reader knows she is at the vale #yet they keep being connected to arya #always wondered whether this was building to something #ntm what i realized recently about what a significant motif the moon is in jaimes arc #also just all the rumors she hears about them r always so funny #if it doesnt mean anything it is still a fun detail though lol #the j/cat/b rumor is from arya v too 😭 #arya stark #jaime lannister #brienne of tarth #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #also did arya save jb from an earlier mummers encounter #oh shes so based

[m0ohtia]

i am freaking sadddddddddd. i didn't know i would grieve the parts that made me like him in the first place

#i am still standing behind my values etcetc #its just so sad i cant even say i should have kept it halal in the first place #bc it was halal and i cant even say i should have realized hes not the one earlier #bc i only realized it when i thought about the future of our activism friendship situation which would be haram #if it doesnt become explicitly halal #lmaooo #this is one of the most evolved mature losses i experience alhamdulillah #i just dont have the capacity for grief rn and yet again alhamdulillah #txt

[todayisafridaynight]

I’m fairly new to the fandom, but I do have a question if you can answer it! Why do people ship Daigo with Aoki / Masato? I tried looking to see if they’ve interacted before, but couldn’t find anything! Sorry for asking I’m just </3 dumb AND I LOVE YOUR ART OF THEM!!! Nerd looking ahhhhhh

hi ! welcome to the community i hope you're having a lovely time so far and ty for enjoyin my stuff :) no need for apologies it's a very fair question to have :]

i cant speak for everyone (all. ten people into masadai anyway) but Personally To Me i just think the idea of them together is very funny. thats quite literally it im afraid..

#snap chats #//twenty page google doc in the background// ignore that. it's mostly for comedic purposes #might also be my fault idk sorry about that. allegedly. idk ive had like three people tell me they started to ship them cause of me 🧍‍♂️ #@mementoasts is another person who's drawn masadai and whose stuff i love and am inspod by .. i love their disneyland fic sm ... #there was another artist on twitter who posted a neat drawing of them but i cant remember who they were and i didnt bookmark it //screams// #recently there's been ANOTHER masadai artist ive started following on twitter - @wifekiryu. his account's n/s/f/w fyi before you go looking #he has a tumblr too @foxdies. i say cause i realized as much recently vjeaKLGJALKGJ #oh but I GUESS ill get deeper into why. /i/ personally ship masadai or whatever #first off they're opposing factions yet their character alignments Do Not Match their roles. stereotypically anyway #aoki who leads the 'surface' of society and is meant to be an admirable figure and someone 'just' when really. he sucks LMAO #though that's not atypical of politicians but just from a stereotypical This Is A Respectable Individual perspective of his role #daigo on the other hand leads the 'underbelly' of society- yk comprised of dangerous criminals and outcasts and whatnot #yet as we know him daigo's compassionate and considerate of his men- he doesnt treat them like tools like aoki does #if put in a room with the two daigo would be most people's choice of person to hang out with. probably open a trapdoor on aoki tbh #and i think thats really cool and epic i always love that kinda Subverting Expectations thing #theres also the fact they both started off like. edgy/angsty in the franchise and then brush up down the line #masato does a stronger 180. publicly. obviously but its still really funny they both have to get their act together #if you wanna talk about in-text reasons. there really is none LMAO I TELLS YOU masadai is pure crack #but if i wanted to pull a muscle reaching then there's daigo being on aoki's side while everyone else is on arakawa's during the funeral #im lying of course. mitsu was behind him. rgg tryna make me forget mitsu exist .... put him back in y8 .... #and ofc ichi joins that side to even out the seating but moving on another Goofy Reason is arakawa being like #'the chairman and my son are like p much the same age Surely he knows how he thinks :)' #and then i just think daigo being all smarmy about outsmarting aoki is really goofy and im choosing to interpret that as personal #they both also have issues with their dad. s. dad/s/. anyway. #tbh the google doc tag was a joke but i really could sit here and list every dumb reason why i think theyre funny together #like i started going over the tag limit so uhhhh yeah needless to say i have a lot of. dumb reasons 💀💀💀💀 #one day ill use the main text for long rambles like this but todays not that day Point Is my imagination is rampant im afraid #so the short and sweet of it is I Think It's Funny. And They'd Be Terrible Together. Which Is Why It's Funny. #and the unfortunate part is anything i find funny i obsess over for a year so. //gestures to the mountain of bullshit thats my masadai tag/

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

I keep wanting to write stuff with Arjuna but I'm always afraid I'll mess him up, do you ever worry about like, flanderized him in your art?

honestly, i do worry.

i know ive seen a few people complain in generic terms about not liking how people depict him here, saying it feels ooc and i can never tell if that includes my comics-although i'm sure it doesnt help i do a lot of humorous, lighthearted stuff that's meant to be read as a parody or comedic sketch rather than a 'this is definitely meant to be read as a canon take on the character'

its one of the downsides of making jokes, you can't always properly make it clear that it isnt meant to be taken seriously, especially if you also make serious work or you have a more tongue in cheek sense of humor. in my case i do try to keep in in the realm of what feels closer to the character by saying refreshed on how he talks and acts by rereading his diagloue now and then, and looking at how other people write him. i dont think theres an easy answer to this though- sometimes you just have to take the plunge and hope that it turns out ok

#despite the complaints ive seen ive yet to get any actual messages TO me so :shrug: #in the wise words of orion: hes the kind of guy who seems serious and upstanding but will pour gas on a situation #and the worst (best) part is he doesnt even realize hes doing it lol #my asks

[burrythebusy]

Was talking about this yesterday but I really woke up one day and my smile dropped and my mind had only one thought: the "ten seconds" needs to die

#yes its helping development #yes it was a compromise of sorts #yes i thought nothing of at first #but im at the point now when im like #no! it actually sucks! #i miss the casual touching between them #how kagiura would easily link arms with him or throw his arms around him #and the whole lap pillow chapter b4 it went downhill #like i miss that #theyre best friends b4 anything #and although the ten seconds is doing wonders rn for hirano #as he's starting to realize he doesnt mind any of it #and bc he may be realizing its too short and and and but thats anotehr convo #im like???? #THERES A DISTANCE NOW! #theres a voluntary yet imperceptible distance between them rn even though it was supposed to do the exact opposite #i think theyre getting closer but theres still a gap that i think the ten seconds has put between them #is that a good thing? time will tell #but as of rn IT HAS TO DIE #hirano to kagiura #hirakagi

[skitskatdacat63]

Quick question, how old is Seb in the boy king au when they get married, I'm asking because I was rereading the fic & directors cut from September and you said he’s so obsessed with calling Seb little. Is Seb shorter than Nando or is Nando trying to feel a bit taller when actually he is a itty-bitty war criminal kitty? If Seb is shorter but still has time to grow how badly will Nando take it

Hello! This one is much easier to answer than your other one(You're really making me think deeply, thank you 🥺), so I think I can answer this pretty quickly(hopefully)

So you've probably noticed that I don't mention actual years too much which is just bcs the timeline is so vast and I've not decided on a lot 😭. But they basically have the same age gap as modern day, so I'd say they were born in 1681 and 1687 respectively(which matches up well enough with the real world history.) Irl, the war that I'm canon divergencing away from takes place 1701-1714, so stuff regarding when their coronation and marriage happens is somewhere in there. So I'd say Nando becomes king in like, 1705 and then they marry somewhere between then and 1710(when seb ideally becomes emperor??)

So to answer your actual question. Seb is def taller than Nando by the time they get married. But in that ficlet, Fernando is obsessed with calling Seb small because he wants to make himself feel bigger!! It's less about actual height and more about power dynamics. He's belittling him by literally calling him little! And it's also about Nando being older than him. Seb became a king as a boy(hence boy king), whereas Fernando became a king as an adult so he calls him little because he still sees him as that little boy king who is too young to have that amnt of power.

They first met pretty young, not knowing what their future would be like, and didn't really see each other for a while. And so until they meet again, when the marriage plans start happening, their perceptions are: Nando thinks of Seb as some little boy king, and Seb has a childish crush. So it's very odd for Nando to suddenly now meet this kid, all grown up, and he's now taller and even more powerful. So I think Nando still associates Seb with that image in his mind, thus calling him little all the time.

Conclusion: Fernando IS shorter, and he wears heels and calls Seb little all the time as a way to cope

#ahhhh you will never get a short answer from me... #i kinda see nando as being like Napoleon in this way #hes aware of his height and aware that hes shorter #and hes not ashamed of it in the broader context #i.e. he doesnt feel the need to pretend to be taller w people like jense or mark #^ bcs hes already at a higher level of power than them so he feels comfortable and satisfied #but SEB he feels more insecure with bcs seb obviously has more power #so he is seeking every possible way to belittle him and puff himself up! #so wearing heels. wearing elaborate clothes. calling seb little and nicknames etc etc #little as in small as in inferior ;;;; #also to answer your question: yes he is unbelievably irritated when he realizes seb grew up to be taller than him #he cant even win in height </3 #thank you always for the interesting asks!!! #i get so fucking excited when i see youve sent me an ask bcs its very fun prompts!!! #and i loveeeeee to world build more and elaborate on stuff ive not really talked abt on here yet!! #so please. send as many as you want all the time :) #catie.asks. #catie.rambling.txt #*also...me when i skew away from saying actual ages LMAO #i domt like to set things in stone like ages and years bcs WHAT IF ITS INNACURATE OR SMRH #boy king au

[thedrotter]

cw blood (kind of? in different colors that dont make it look quite like it), organs

warm up + greyscale screen filter challenge !!! featuring yuuichi eating normal human (in origin) food😁😁😁

#re:kinder #fanart #yuuichi mizuoka #he was meant to be eating watermelon #but as usual my brain felt silly goofy and decided to twist it for the lols #havent done rendering since i was 15 have mercy #since this is a warm up there are. more mistakes than usual but in my defense i forgot how to draw #michael how did you forget how to draw you were drawing JUST 4 DAYS AGO #ocurre y acontece the yet to be diagnosed and determined hand condition has been acting up in those days i have not drawn #AND SOMEHOW IT MESSED WITH MY HAND TO EYE COORDINATION it got rid of my inner calibration settings ig #but since being out of it for days in pain made me sad I WAS NOT ABOUT TO BE STOPPRD FROM DRAWING YUUICHI FOR THE MILLIONTJ TIME #it would have been a bad idea to let myself rust even longer because i dont know if unspecified undetermined condition will act up tomorrow #so irs best to draw and warm up and set back them inner calibration settings #IT WORKED AND THIS DRAWING TURNED OJT BLUE😭😭😭 #OF ALL THINGS I DID NOT THINK IT WOULD TURN OUT BLUE whenever i did look at the color wheel i swear. i was on the warm side #placed greyscale filter on computer so i wouldnt see color and painted like that tossing random colors AND YET IT TJRNED OUT UNIFIED #which. welcome results but i cannot believe it is blue and green. i swear whenver i looked at thay cplored wheel it was up in the warm side #well most of the time i did not look at it so it makes sense i didnt realize but i seriously did not think it would look as coherent #doesnt have any deep meaning or anytjing i just found random referenxe and flew from there #but interpret as you will if you wanna

[aria0fgold]

Okay last post before sleep cuz ngl though I'm not gonna put Conan in p5 simply cuz there's Too Many Things going on with him that I'd have an easier time with Kaito instead which also, can yall see the problem then? Conan and Kaito is similar in that they're both pursuing and being targetted by a dangerous organization, Kaito is at risk a lot more considering how he's practically putting himself out there with his heists as Kaito KID while the times Conan gets in danger is when he tries to get closer to any of his org nemesis' henchmen for evidence, which doesn't happen often.

But despite that Conan has A Lot of reliable allies, Kaito included (not really on the "reliable" part but more on the "ally" part). While Kaito only has Jii-san which is the same guy making the KID gadgets for him and Conan (again not a "reliable" one for Kaito but still an "ally"). And like???????? What about Kaito's other allies? I'm not counting the group Kaito got pulled into by his childhood friend which is a group made to Catch KID and not help 'Kaito.' Like, what kinda allies are that, Aoko only wants to catch the magician thief, Hakuba is... Hakuba (he can be an "ally" but like Conan, not a reliable one), and there's that... witch who never really does anything much to help but give out warnings. (I forgot her name holup... AKAKO! There we go).

Compared to Conan who has like, a lot, and most of em are spoilers so if whoever reading this wanna get into dcmk, feel free to skip. There's Agasa that's the one creating the gadgets for him, Ai who knows his secret and is practically in the same boat as him (since she was a scientist from the org that wanted out yet shrunk too), Heiji which is like his bestie who's a fairly good detective, THE AKAI FAMILY (That entire family is a mf unit bro, there's a FBI sharpshooter, a mom that's a mi6 agent, another highschool detective with skills on par with Conan that knows jeet kune do, a shogi master that's also insanely good at strategizing in general. Like bro, wtf), Furuya Rei aka Amuro Tooru aka Bourbon-- Also a wtf moment there. CONAN HAS PROTECTION FROM VERMOUTH, one of the most important members of that same organization he's pursuing. Vermouth refuses to hurt and especially kill Conan and Ran.

Like, that kid has it all meanwhile Kaito DOESN'T HAVE ANYONE??? The treatment here. So yes, I'm only putting Kaito in p5 cuz he deserves ppl to be there for him if there's barely anyone in his own source material. (Maybe I'd even put Hakuba in p5 too, as a treat, cuz he's also gotten the short end of the stick too). Hakuba can be with Akechi to put some load off his back with the addition of Another thief getting added in their universe except Hakuba is also a menace of his own way so honestly, good luck Akechi.

#aria rants #wai a sec i aint forgettin bout the fact that tho conans parents are also Horrible and mostly #absent from All That is practically going on. when it counts. conan can call em for help and like #his dad is an insanely good detective and his mom is an insanely good actress that also knows #how to do disguises LIKE???? man. i just realized how bad kaito's situation is when put side to side conan's #my guy doesn't even have any reliable allies bro like what he gon do during the big confrontation??? #his dad is ASS. his mom doesnt even visit him and is living in ANOTHER COUNTRY #her son is in a deadly situation and shes out there chilling someplace far away like GOD #someone save kaito actually. like tbf... well like no confrontation gonna happen yet #considering that gosho only started to pick up magic kaito again after like so many years #like... maaaaaan. he rlly did get the short end of the stick bro save my son yall #am happy he picked the story up again but also like-- gayum. crossing my fingers this #doesnt turn out into another conan 2.0 or a mini conan 2.0 where it spans on for years #okay this got long and fr did end up as a rant. whys my brain so active whenever im sleepy

[asexual-levia-tan]

i love the bias + the fan pairings so much because on the surface its very "oh, well, the bias just has to fall for the fan and then its happily ever after" but no! its way more fun than that!

the fan isnt in love with the bias. in fact, the fan doesnt view this world as reality, nor do they even view their bias as a human. the fun part of this pairing is the fan having to recognize the world they live in as their new reality and the people around them as people! the bias falling for the fan is just part one, the fan falling for the bias as an Actual Human Being is just as important an element

#wwaffles bein' an idiot #wwaffles reads stuff #keeps it gender neutral even though i've only seen f!fan/m!bias #miss not-so-sidekick did this pretty well although she did a 'oh this is reality' speedrun #if this one goes well i'd put it up on the same shelf its pretty good so far #we're like 30+ chapters in and she's still referring to him as her favorite character. fantastic #there was another one i was reading that i can't recall the name of (long title i think) that i havent read the end of yet #but it had a similar premise just not done as well #or that is to say. it seemed to skip the 'this is reality now' realization #but the problem with that is HES searching for someone who loves him. and SHE loves him as a fictional character #so hopefully they do address that at some point because that could only go well #anyway back to the actual topic #its actually very similar because cael wants someone who loves him for him #and she just wants him to be happy and to shove all her affection on him because shes his fan #she doesnt even factor herself into the equation of his happiness because he's not real and she is #she's still lowkey thinking she's gonna go home eventually (maybe?? unclear) #anyway i just love this particular subgenre its so good #also what happened to her depression. i mean having a bias is just like that but she wasnt doing so hot either #i wonder if there'll be a antagonists pet reveal where she's actually miserable #and a big part of 'i'll devote my life to my bias!' is that she literally has nothing else to live for

[arolesbianism]

Yet another beautiful day to have the Maxwel tag blocked (can't see half of the posts in the Wendy tags)

#rat rambles #starve posting #maxwell posters have lost any semblance of tolerance from me ages ago Ive yet to meet a maxwell fan who's just like a normal person #and to clarify I actually do like maxwel as I am the number one just some asshole whos in too deep enjoyer #but dear god are ppl just absolutely incapable of being normal abt this man and everyone around him #and even beyond that ppl just do not get this man like please he is indeed interesting but not because of some 'retconed redemption' #like pls we can live in a world where he is not an irridemable monster and is in fact just some guy while also still being a flawed person #like the fact that he is so deeply flawed in ways that he never actually properly adressed and challenged is the interesting thing to me #like look at me. he went through horrible shit he didnt deserve. that didnt inherently make him a better or worse person #it just made him a more miserable person #and he didnt escape because of some change of heart or character development #and afterwards he teamed up with wilson because of necessity #I do think on some level he genuinely cares abt the other survivors and he does have genuine regret for how things turned out #but again those things dont inherently mean he moved past the flaws that got him here it just means he has the ability to recognize that #shit sucks and that he wish none of it happened #its why encore is one of my favorite animations from a character perspective because it shows some juicy charlie and maxwell stuff #mainly it shows both that charlie has not forgiven his ass and is manipulating him and that maxwell is still susceptible to it #which isnt a sigh of them rolling back development it's just a sign that maxwell is easy to manipulate with the right cards #which adds up considering his past and his present very well in my opinion #this is a man whos historically always ran away from his problems and is always on the hunt for a sense of control #and charlie tapped into both that and his ever present guilt #its in fact very unsurprising and not out of place for him to fall for that sort of manipulation #and it also makes for a great set up for the inevitable betrayal from charlie as maxwell is hit by the harsh reality of his situation #and that whole situation would lead to some yummy tasty parallels when charlie inevitably gets betrayed herself (I hope) #the ways charlie and maxwel are so similar yet so different facinates me deeply I love how much charlie doesnt realize shes kinda fucked #I want her to be betrayed so hard and left in the dust with no ground to stand on I want the rug pulled out from under her feet #her composition comes from her confidence in the necessity of her actions and the moral superiority she feels over maxwell #so having her sense of superiority be revoked would make for a super fascinating dynamic as she tries to justify the situation in her head #I wanna see her siral and then maybe change her pronouns idk