My biggest flex will always be how I knew Neil was the more feral and dangerous one than Andrew this whole time even before tsc and seeing the entire fandom freaked out makes me want to kiss and hug Nora and just thank her for finally finally showing everyone and I’m not just crazy
“I will love them enough that it changes the narrative” but it’s Nicky’s love for the twins finally giving them a stable home where they could heal, Jean’s love for Kevin giving him the chance to escape Evermore, the twins’ love for each other saving them from their abusers, the foxes’ love for Neil making him into a real person, Andrew’s love for Neil giving him something to build a life around outside his promises, Renee’s love for Jean saving his life, Jean’s love for Elodie convincing him that he doesn’t deserve everything that happened to him—
Having a character bleach his hair on page because his (previously unspecified) canon hair colour didn’t match fan consensus is the funniest form of fanservice.
Everyone talks about how Jean is so chill and doesn’t question a nonbinary teammate- but I like the idea that he just… Doesn’t know what non binary even IS. Like, everyone calls Cody “they” so he just does too. He wasn’t raised to question things.
Alternatively- he doesn’t know what gender Cody is and assumes no one else does either.
making me genuinely ill how much of the jean/neil dynamic is confined to insane, unspoken could-have-beens.
jean attaches such a fierce sense of longing to the idea of neil and what he represents as a would-be raven, the idea that in another life he might not have been so alone. that he would have had someone who both understood his position (like kevin did) and stood on equal footing with him (like kevin and the other ravens never quite could).
it’s why he’s so persistent in thinking of him as nathaniel for the first half of tsc. it’s not just raven indoctrination, it’s a kind of fucked up bitter longing. he hates neil for not coming to evermore. he hates him even more for coming to evermore at the wrong time, in the wrong way. and yet he looks out for him!! like kevin knew he would, even after everything!!!
and then riko’s dead and the ravens are fucked and none of it even MATTERS anymore!! like jean said, nathaniel was meant to be something to him, but neil is none of his concern. they’re nothing to each other. they could have been everything. i’m going to drink cement!!!
it almost makes me sad, given how little neil even thinks about jean in tkm. like he has his own life, his foxes, and he doesn’t have to let go the way jean does. and yet neil included him in the deal with ichirou. he has grayson killed for threatening his second chance. he makes defeating riko for jean too. he says it’s about paying debts (which i certainly think is true on some level), but i don’t think that means there’s nothing more there
and now, after everything, they’re going to be known to everyone as childhood friends. mafia brats bonded in the face of their horrific childhoods. its such a perverse echo of what they never got to be to each other, and they’re going to have to pretend it’s real!! i’m losing my fucking mind!!!
