#also both of them have vulnerability+intimacy issues but river's gets overridden by it wanting that fish panyway

[penumbralwoods]

how does river's opinion of sebastian and sebastian's opinion of river differ?

mostly sebastian thinks river is a freak and river is determined to justify that

no but actually. river spends a decent amount of its free time arguing with him and embarrassing him, but it does genuinely think very highly of sebastian. to a fault. tetra talked a bit about this, but for a while sebastian and neo's dynamic was very antagonistic, really just because sebastian is a piece of shit and wouldn't stop instigating. but river never questioned it, at least until it started REALLY escalating, because they just... assumed sebastian had good reason for whatever he was doing.

and sebastian thinks river is fucking weird and sent from hell specifically to make his life even more complicated and terrible. a lot of the mess in their dynamic comes from his side because he hates them and thinks they're insane and while he wasn't paying attention it got completely past his apathetic asshole act and now he wants to find a way to get both of them out alive. basically sebastian is mad at himself and river for everything going on between them. river knows this and makes it worse on purpose.