#while being a fairly adorable and naive version of the specimen

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Special Ops: Lioness - 1x06

#specialopslionessedit #special ops lioness #special ops: lioness #aaliyah amrohi #cruz manuelos #stephanie nur #laysla de oliveira #special ops lioness 1x06 #special ops lioness spoilers #aaliyah x cruz #femslash related stuff #muslim lgbt #oh no I'm so caught up in their story! #the rest of the ep spent actually so much time on their fledgling little friendship #reaching through each other's very different but genuine loneliness #stephanie nur is playing a BLINDER here #she really comes across as this unimaginably rich privileged caged bird #while being a fairly adorable and naive version of the specimen #and she gets across all her feelings about cruz so well #the way she's testing things here #and then after cruz pulls back--which makes it better to me #since it was a sincere loss of control and not her undercover play #but after she pulls back aaliyah's trying SO hard to be chill as if it's nothing #and it's so heartbreaking because it's like every possible misreading of the straight girl kiss #AND her particularly terrible circumstances