#and seeing Nickel bomb a challenge bcs balloon was uncomfortable

[starrysymphonies]

I’m watching the older ii3 episodes and UGHH there was SO MUCH good buildup between Balloon and Nickel being friends and it seemed like such a GENUINE friendship where they really did care about eachother (episode 6 always will be my favorite example of their friendship)

And the fact that was all scorned and scorched in the most recent eps for just like?? Drama??? When they could’ve been an actually good duo (even trio with Bot!!) that stuck by eachothers sides through the merge (and tbh eventually got picked off by the other alliances). Which would’ve been a lot more interesting considering Nickel’s development through the season

Instead it felt like they took two steps forward in Nickel’s arc and then like, 10 steps back! I get change isnt linear but he!! Literally apologized in episode 5 for being overprotective towards box and devaluing the sinkers!!! That’s a step in the right direction!!!

In later eps he could possibly struggle with working up the courage to apologize to Balloon for s2 and that could’ve been a finality to his arc and it would’ve been decent!! He could’ve gotten eliminated some time after that too, and then there could’ve been a cut to indefinite island at the end of the Ep (like there usually is) where Nickel decides on leaving the island, remarking that “there’s someone else I have to say sorry to”

But no apparently not!! Apparently Nickel believes that what he did wasn’t so bad and Balloon and Suitcase should just get over it!! It’s just so frustrating bcs there was a lot of build up for nothing