#I'm sorry team😭😭😭 I'll be back with more food in a sec I have a Backlog

[lightwily]

thanks to u, light and wily are my fav gays. someone send them to a couples marriage counseling or something

I'M GLAD I COULD MAKE YOU SEE THE LIGHT (haha). here's a silly for your trouble

marriage counselling would NOT fix them. largely because wily doesn't think he has issues keeping them at square 0 forever. but it would be Funny

also. tangential tangent:

I actually think about light's hands-off approach with wily's self improvement a lot. he seems to believe that reaching out over and over, that subtly exposing wily to the truth of their relationship (i.e. that light sees him as a dear friend [ahem] and equal) will simply. Fix whatever's troubling him. he places the responsibility of development squarely on wily's shoulders (good), but makes no real effort to understand him on a psychological/emotional level (bad). the closest he comes to doing so is in rm11, wherein he privately laments the impact his actions might've have had on wily's mental state/future behaviour, but, when confronting him, focuses on the possibility of rekindling their partnership instead.

when light says "we achieved this together" what he doesn't realise is that he's diminishing wily's personhood in a way. when light gives wily an opportunity to "join his side", he is, implicitly, apologising.

but he doesn't say sorry. he doesn't say that wily was right. this is perfectly normal, expected even, but important to me because imo wily only really registers this sort of thing when it's framed through the lens of explicit validation. if light can't bring himself to say it outright, wily is never going to listen. boulder meet hill.