I think the reason Winston stays so close to Will/always went back home while Will was in prison, is because of his previous owner. Winston had a rope chain around his neck when Will found him. I like to think his previous owner wasn't that loving. Not abusive or anything. But more of a "no dogs in the house" type of guy.
This could explain why he was so dirty when Will found him, he was always outside.
I think Winston was a chained dog. Then, he finally gets untied from the post he was chained to, and ran. And that's the first time Will found him. Winston didn't go to Will because Winston was going back home.
But when he returned, no one was there. They left without him.
So he goes back to the same road, and Will is there, waiting for him. Winston sees that he nice and has food, and willing goes home with Will.
He sees how different his life with Will is compared to his previous family: he's allowed inside, there are other dogs, cozy sleeping places, etc. Most importantly, Will is a good owner and Winston doesn't want to lose him.
it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.
i hate when people call marcille a girlfailure btw like SHE ISNT. and shes not a ”girlboss” either. this is a neurotic and Permanently On The Edge of a Breakdown overachiever late 20s virgin just out of her phd program with permanently shaky hands from an addiction to overly sugary coffee and a deep desire to be crushed to death under falins giant jugs no matter the cost. the only thing shes ever ”failed” at is going to theraphy
so when straight people ask me why I say I’m “queer” or “gay” instead of sharing my actual identity as a panromantic demisexual non-binary sapphic queer I just tell them “ok look, when you’re talking to someone who isn’t local and they ask you where you’re from and you either say the name of the largest city nearby or ‘town name, suburb of large nearby city’ so they can get some geographical context of where you’re located right, bc they’re probably not going to know the name of the little town you actually live in.”
but if you’re talking to a local you can say the name of your actual town bc they have a greater chance of knowing where/what that is.
ok well when I’m talking to a straight person I start with queer bc chances are they aren’t as familiar with the context of all the little towns in that big queer city and need gps (gay positioning system) to find me.
if I’m talking to another queer person and I say I live in a suburb of gay city in a town called panromantic on the demisexual side of the tracks which is in the county of queer and I live off the intersection of non-binary and sapphic, they’d probably be able to find me with little to no problems, make sense?