Reaching that end scene in MAG 96 last night has the JonDaisy brain worms acting up.
The most helpless he felt was around her but he’s able to poke at her about it and she lets him take point in what they’re doing.
She’s basically on the edge of attacking but all he says is ‘not yet’ and she backs down. Keeping her on task.
Now she’s reining HIM in. Keeping HIM on task. Not that he would’ve been able to physically DO anything, but it would’ve wasted time.
He’s smiling. And you can hear it. He’s so pleased that while it wasn’t a total loss, she still didn’t get her prey.
This was their first interaction after the group confronted Elias and they’re acting as though they’ve hunted and worked together like this their entire life. So easily slipping into a dynamic where, although they don’t trust or like each other, they’re not actively making things worse for the other. Snarking, yes, but overall doing what they can to accomplish their goals TOGETHER.
If they had been ‘friends’ at this stage, they would’ve been so dangerous. They would’ve been able to feed like this and it would’ve been so easy. But even here, before either of them started actively working towards NOT feeding into their worse behavior, they kept each other in check. And not in a ‘you’re a monster on a leash’ way. In a ‘these are your actual flaws that need to be addressed’ way.
They’re so bad and good for each other. They have such an interesting relationship. I love them so much.