Riz's whole arc with Baron starting from him lying about dating somebody to fit in and then transforming into Baron being a representation of Riz's fear of being left alone and behind, never more important than a hypothetical lover to his friends he's trying his damndest to keep together, working himself to the bone to keep them afloat and prove himself valuable to them because at his core he feels once everyone's found a lover he'll be left in the dust, an intrinsically visceral aro fear, all about not being accepted or not being understood for not wanting or not being able to feel that kind of connection the way everybody else seems to. He lied about dating. He's afraid they'll leave him behind for lovers like he will never have. That he won't compare to a romantic partner in his friends' eyes one day. It's all about the lack of romantic partnership
Some people with zero media literacy: He's not aro because Brennan actually said he's ace, so nothing's confirmed! He's just ace. His arc is about being ace actually because Brennan said so. Brennan said he doesn't have a romantic partner because he's ace. There's no way this is a thing about people always confusing the term aro for ace. Nope. He's just canonically not aro. Just ace
sorry this just gives me some random twitter page I don't even know who this handsome man in a leather jacket is I literally have no idea lol sorry no can help 👍
"Jean noticed how Andrew and Neil moved like they were caught in each other’s gravity, in each other’s space more than they were out of it, cigarette smoke and matching armbands and lingering looks when one fell out of orbit for too long."
Regulus getting his first ever boyfriend and James being upset that Sirius is not more upset-protective-brother about it so of course he has to be even more upset about it (he’s not jealous at all)
every year on your wedding anniversary osamu convinces you to take your ring off and go wedding cake tasting at local bakeries while pretending that the two of you are still engaged
do you ever think about how long it took jesper or really anyone in text to correlate the gambling addiction to not using his powers and getting “sick” bc as soon as the whole “you can be sick in multiple ways” was mentioned i was like. oh. oh yeah that makes sense and i was SO FRUSTRATED that nobody was putting the pieces together
The best part of the Radahn fesitval is how initiating the cutscene has a time shift to night. This is done so the shooting star scene at Radahn's death makes sense, but to me it also implies that Jerren is explaining this not just to you, over his shoulder on the rampart, but to everyone present, while the participants are eating and drinking.
The festival could be interpreted as Jerren rounding up whoever had the gumption or bravado to send Radahn on his way, the equivalent of gathering a neighborhood to hunt down the rabid raccoon that keeps tipping over the garbage bins. And sure, there's a bit of that.
But I like to think of it as something where we, this group of delinquents and has-beens and furries and A Jar, spent the day talking of what was, and what will be. Maybe we all walked away to our own paths after, to perhaps cross later as enemies or friends, but it was a night where hands shook and mettle was tested. There's something there.