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kayden-i-guess · 2 months ago

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Screaming crying throwing up reading Tom's perspective on Alex.

Like how do you, a fourteen year old child, try to help out your best friend who has clearly been through something traumatic, but you don't know what. How do you deal with your friend disappearing for weeks on end and returning with bags under his eyes and scars all over his body. How do you deal with your friend leaving and coming back a little bit more changed each time, a little bit more scarred each time.

"When the two of them had finally met again, Tom had been surprised at how much his friend had changed. He had been hurt. Tom had seen some of the scars. But Alex also seemed to have got a lot older. There was something in his eyes that hadn't been there before, as if he had seen things he would never be able to forget." - Scorpia (page 86)

#reading other people's perspective on alex in general usually makes me wanna cry #because from the perspective of people who don't know him that well like his teachers or Sabina initially #hes a weirdo who keeps disappearing and maybe doing illegal shit #which is funny yet so so sad thing #because i am amused by how everyone thinks alex is some sort of delinquent but also its so heartbreaking because alex wants more than #anything to be a normal teenage boy and he can't have that because of how his reputations been changed!#and then when its the perspective of people like Jack or Ms Jones or Tom #we just see a traumatised kid #like we get to see how much alex has been affected by all the things he's been through #jack's pov at the end of skeleton key had me in tears #god #and ms jones at the end of every single book mentions that alex has clearly changes #AUHFGURHFDSJNG #god wtf i did not mean to get this emotionally invested in a childrens book series #but look at me now #alex rider #alex rider spoilers #scorpia #GOD #i am on exactly page 86 of scorpia rn #im gonna go back to reading now

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