dynamics where the villain is the only person giving the hero the affection they crave are superior. there is just something about having to fight the only person who has ever tried to make you feel comfortable and safe that hits different. it’s so painful and awful to turn down power and safety for a cause that doesn’t love you back and doesn’t really see you as a person, against someone who would love you as you are forever
The paranoia. The determination to apply rationality to something unknowable. The need to know. Them drinking their coffee the same way. Them keeping bones in their offices. Pushing away their connections. The way they instinctively get what the other is saying. The fear of being puppeteered around. Them being both nerds and old men at heart. The fact that their names are similar. And it was all unintentional.
I care deeply about the fact that Elias and Jon have so much common ground in mundane matters aside from being cosmically entangled and whatnot. They have similar speech patterns. They’re both nerds. They take their coffee the same way.
theyre madly in love they want each other dead theyre trapped together in an endless cycle theyre divorced theyve been married for 25 years they know nothing about each other theyre each the only one who truly understands the other. i didnt say their name but they popped into your head didnt they
