#Ceroba said that she was aware that Chujin kept a lot of secrets. she just didn't care

[rustedleopard]

I know I've talked about how Chujin wasn't providing around the house after getting fired from the Steamworks so Ceroba had to pick up the responsibility in his stead and how much Chujin sucks for that but also.. Ceroba does have a responsibility to talk about these sorts of things with Chujin. They're supposed to be equals in the relationship. I'm certain that if she flat out told him "Hey, money is tight around the house and the job I'm working makes me miserable, I need you to find a job and help with things too because I can't be the only one financially contributing and sacrificing myself like this," Chujin would've done that in a heartbeat. He loves Ceroba, he wouldn't want her to suffer like that. His first instinct upon getting fired should've been to find another job and discuss what happened and what happens next with his wife instead of lying and declaring himself retired and getting into volunteer work, but I digress.

The problem is that Ceroba enables a lot of Chujin's habits. She sees him as this perfect figure, so much so that she sides with Chujin even when he's clearly in the wrong/when it's unreasonable. (For example: Messing up building a robot 8 times and lighting the Prince's grave on fire on the final attempt should've at least earned a "Well, even though he finally managed to make Axis work now, I can see why he got fired. I wish he talked about this with me though" instead of a "Screw the Royals, Chujin was right!") On top of that, Chujin's volunteer work came from a place of altruism: he wanted to make the world a better place from the bottom of his heart. So of course she'd be fine with having to take on extra work that made her miserable if Chujin can spread his dream through the Underground.

That's also why she and Chujin would get super-mega-turbo-divorced the split second they encountered a period in their relationship where there was no room for romantic love in it. Because the second the rose-tinted glasses slipped and her Chujin-shaped blind spot stopped being so Chujin-shaped would be the second that she realizes that their relationship isn't as good as she thinks it is. And then it would blow up.

[guns-blazing]

#Ceroba said that she was aware that Chujin kept a lot of secrets. she just didn't care#which okay fine to keep some secrets if the secret doesn't affect the family. but big things that involve the family#like ''I'm injecting myself with an experimental serum'' and ''i for fired from my well paying job'' need to be talked about bc that#affects everybody.#she REALLY just let him do whatever he wanted entirely uncontested though and never thought to examine his actions#it's just. wow. anybody who thinks that their relationship was healthy just because they weren't screaming and yelling at each other#needs to reexamine the relationship. they are not a good match for each other.

I know I've talked about how Chujin wasn't providing around the house after getting fired from the Steamworks so Ceroba had to pick up the responsibility in his stead and how much Chujin sucks for that but also.. Ceroba does have a responsibility to talk about these sorts of things with Chujin. They're supposed to be equals in the relationship. I'm certain that if she flat out told him "Hey, money is tight around the house and the job I'm working makes me miserable, I need you to find a job and help with things too because I can't be the only one financially contributing and sacrificing myself like this," Chujin would've done that in a heartbeat. He loves Ceroba, he wouldn't want her to suffer like that. His first instinct upon getting fired should've been to find another job and discuss what happened and what happens next with his wife instead of lying and declaring himself retired and getting into volunteer work, but I digress.

The problem is that Ceroba enables a lot of Chujin's habits. She sees him as this perfect figure, so much so that she sides with Chujin even when he's clearly in the wrong/when it's unreasonable. (For example: Messing up building a robot 8 times and lighting the Prince's grave on fire on the final attempt should've at least earned a "Well, even though he finally managed to make Axis work now, I can see why he got fired. I wish he talked about this with me though" instead of a "Screw the Royals, Chujin was right!") On top of that, Chujin's volunteer work came from a place of altruism: he wanted to make the world a better place from the bottom of his heart. So of course she'd be fine with having to take on extra work that made her miserable if Chujin can spread his dream through the Underground.

That's also why she and Chujin would get super-mega-turbo-divorced the split second they encountered a period in their relationship where there was no room for romantic love in it. Because the second the rose-tinted glasses slipped and her Chujin-shaped blind spot stopped being so Chujin-shaped would be the second that she realizes that their relationship isn't as good as she thinks it is. And then it would blow up.