#and i think aja just has this particular complex in her brain that makes her think of her suffering as unique

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fr though i think hutch and victor are one of my favourite dynamics to think about because they have no history with each other, theyve literally never met each other before the story starts, and the only reason theyre even in opposition to each other is because hutch has never met him and knows nothing about him.except what theyve been told, right? and like, i dont think aja is neccessarily uncharitable in how she talks about him but shes just very... in her own head i suppose? she thinks of him basically as "how he treats me" and very little else (i think she struggles with empathy but doesnt really... know that thats whats happening? she hasnt interacted with a lot of people in general so i think she just thinks of it as her poor social skills without realizing that someone else would be able to like. idk. see other people in a fundementally different way than she does. but i digress) and as far as hutch knows victor is just kind of a piece of shit with like, implications of a more complicated history but like. i guess its like being told about your friends ex or whatever like you never met them so you just know the shitty bits and dont really see the whole person, you mostly just know how they hurt someone you cared about and how unfair it was that they did that. so i think oncw they start really like, being around victor, i think hutch kind of starts wanting to give him the benifit of the doubt more... i dont think they really notice how skewed ajas view of the world is until theyre like, in this new environment yk? theyve been together so long in very isolated, easy, comfortable circumstances its really easy to forget each others maladaptations to the world at large. and like, idk i think theyd be inclined to see where hes coming from more as time goes on and he kind of lets his smarter-than-you-no-feelings asshole exterior fall away and like. i think theyd really be able to see what hes dealing with in a way aja would never be able to and kasey is too young to really be privvy to. and i think especially after victor lets it slips that he sees aja as more of a daughter than a sibling i think itd just. sit with them.