#*recoiling in horror* recognition of the self through the other 🤢

[hey-hey-j]

I feel like branch hates the fact he looks the most like JD because he worries he will be selfish like him to leave someone behind. Branch essentially sees JD as someone who didn’t care to think about him and he wishes he was more important to his brothers life for them to stay . HAHA i love brozone angst

NO BUT REALLY THAT'S THE THING, it drives me insane from a meta standpoint that Branch and JD are the most physically similar, especially since it's noted in the art book that JD was intentionally designed to be a more extreme version of Branch?? So in a way it's not that Branch takes after JD, JD TAKES AFTER BRANCH

but going back to the main point of the ask, the way I see it, Branch doesn't really realize how similar he is to JD because it's been so long since he last saw JD, so it doesn't really bother him (stubborn Mr. I-Am-Nothing-Like-You). But JD on the other hand, he sees how much like him Branch turned out and it's a punch straight to the throat. Not just the physical similarity, but the same anxiety? The same emotional repression?? The same ISOLATION?? Like, did I really screw up THAT badly that my baby brother turned out exactly like ME??

I am. So normal about these two can you tell. Can you tell :)