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owlbear33 · 9 months ago
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I've Started Dead Beat, I love Butters
and like, sure, I've said I generally like a good medical examinery type in my (usually Supernatural) Mystery Fiction. I think it's the general attempt to throw bioscience at the problem
But also
"I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Octoberfest tomorrow"... "Do Your Worst"
I love Butters
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greenreadsdresdenfiles · 9 months ago
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Dead Beat
Except not actually Dead Beat because it's just a recap of what Green has read so far. Dead Beat pt 0?
Green: god at first I was joking but I just started reading more Dresden Files and Butters is like "Harry I didn't know you were living with a male lover" and Harry just says he's not gay a couple times and makes zero effort to explain that Thomas is his brother?
Orange: well it'd be hell to admit that when the white council freakin hates the vamp
Orange: hate the vamp, slay the vamp
Orange: do not befriend the vamp
Orange: do not hAVE KIDS WITH THE VAMP
Green: oh yeah I guess
Orange: but like
Orange: only half siblings sooooOOoo
Orange: it'd still be verboten due to one of them being a VAMP
Green: mhm
Green: in his defense, white is like the least-evil type of VAMP
Orange:i mean
Orange: you- you do know what goes down in traditional white vamp society right
Green: fucked up shit, yeah
Orange: they have white vamp privilege for sure, what with all the slaves and the eating
Green: but, red vamps are like, automatically evil, right?
Green: and same with black?
Orange: i mean there might be like, one good one
Green: and white ones are just tempted to do evil things
Orange: there are also daywalkers for red vamp society?
Green: daywalkers?
Orange: i think?
Orange: they might be called something else, but they have the same vibe
Green: do you mean the almost-vamps like susan?
Orange: they're like good red vamps who don't fully turn because they refuse to kill
Green: yeah!
Orange: wait
Orange: where are you at
Orange: you know about suzie
Green: the book after he finds out Thomas is his borther, I think
Green: or maybe 2 books after
Orange: but how do y
Orange: d
Orange: did the reveal of her being a failed red vamp come much earlier than i thought....
Orange: hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Green: wayyy earlier, I think
Orange: hmMMmMMmmMMMm
Orange: man i can't say anything can i
Orange: shoot
Orange: gosh darn it
Orange: AND THERE'S SOME OF THE BEST STUFF
Orange: HUAERGH
Orange: like there's this whole thing
Orange: earlier
Green: so, here's what I know about susan
Orange: that was post-harry-and-susan i think
Orange: oh let me know what you know yes
Green: she used to be an investigative reporty for whom harry was really horny, and also perpetually aggravated by
Orange: absolutely
Green: bc she kept showing up to do interview or w/e
Green: and they had a couple dates, I think? Which harry sometimes skipped
Green: due to wizard shit
Orange: gotta love wizard shit
Orange: some magical stuff that
Green: anyways, Susan invited herself along as harry's +1 to a big vamparty
Green: during which a lot of shit went down
Orange: wait he INVITED SUSAN TO THAT
Green: harry got a grave, some wizards who I've just found out are on the white council gave the vamps a sword
Orange: oh she invited herself
Green: or, wait
Green: he invited his paladin friend, and susan SNUCK IN
Orange: MICHAEL
Orange: IS MY FAVORITE BOY
Green: michael is such a good boy
Green: I love his whole "constantly in the right place at the right time" bit
Orange: if only he was gay with harry, like, this harry guy needs to get laid somehow right
Green: lol right
Orange: but michael is way too good for him so idk
Green: which brings us back to the party
Orange: and so the Celibacy Saga continues
Green: the vamps tried to destroy the magic sword, making harry and michael try and stop them, and one thing led to another, and he started a war and killed a bunch of civilians (but only probably) and susan got envampired
Orange: ehehehahaha
Green: a book or two later, susan turns up and she's like "I'm only a half-vampire because I haven't killed anyone; I've been doing investigative reporting on some vamps in south america trying to stop them" and he's like "cool, let's bone" and they have really kinky vampire sex and solve some mysteries together, and then she's like "I can't be around you because I get really horny" or something like that so she leaves forever
Orange: ohhhh
Green: it might've been a slavic country and not south american?
Green: or maybe central american?
Green: who knows
Green: not me
Orange: and that ends the first celibacy saga, but one probably should consider the rule of threes...
Orange: maybe there will be three celibacy sagas
Green: in the book I'm reading now he has a date
Orange: i hope so, harry needs to be perpetually scuffed and frustrated
Orange: gosh darnit
Orange: haarrryyy, stop being around girls for like 10 books for me
Green: but yeah I'm betting his date is a necromancer, or possibly someone who will die before they can bang
Orange: ohohohoho
Orange: who is this man's date
...To be continued!
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trashbell · 10 months ago
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everyone's reactions to mimzy LMAOO
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densewentz · 6 months ago
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same
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forgetfulmachineart · 2 months ago
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[ID: A two page digital comic going from a dark cool tone to a warmer orange. The first page is in three long horizontal panels. The first is Yuuji Itadori walking with Nobara and Megumi and there is a silhouette in the foreground. In the second panel, Yuuji notices the person with a shocked expression. Thre third panel is Choso Kamo smiling and waving. The second page starts with three panels of Yuuji's expression going from shocked, to smiling with teary eyes, then looking down while smiling and crying. The final panel is Yuuji and Choso hugging with tears barely visible. /End ID]
JJK if Gege had a cardiovascular system
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aseuki · 2 years ago
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Sleep power coming in clutch
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acedavestrider · 5 days ago
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my cringe fail wife getting her shit wrecked throughout all of act two
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sea-buns · 1 year ago
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[Aabria retching]
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raayllum · 4 months ago
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No. I won't do it.
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shaunashipman · 2 months ago
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greyedian · 5 days ago
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MAN I'm seriously so sad about season 2. Bc I wish act 2 had the same emotional impact on me as it appears to have on so many others. But rn I'm just somewhere between unable to care and actively annoyed by some of those writing decisions. Seriously the more I think about it the less I like it.
#act 3 come through please 🙏#I don't think it can salvage some of the things I have contentions with but still... please...#don't ask me about the silco vander flashback with jinxs + vis mom#or the bizzare choice to do so much of the storytelling through this weird music video format they've got going on#completely stripping it of the weight these plot beats could've had if they were... normal scenes#and also missing the point of how the music was used in season 1 and what made it so effective#bc it was complementary to instead of replacing the storytelling#seriously don't ask me about these things I will spontaneously implode on the spot#whyyyyy would they recontextualize season 1 like this with that flashback#to me it kind of ruins the character dynamics and themes in s1. it just makes me so sad you have no idea#also what even are they doing with Jinx rn for real#aaarghhhh just... so many things that are making me scratch my head#also I'm so terribly sorry but I could not care less about Isha sorry lol#like i get that its sad conceptually but she was such a non-character that i struggle to feel impacted at all#same with sky tbh. i thought her role in s1 was alright but there is so much emotional weight put on her now#in terms of her relationship to Viktor but that was barely established so it's weird to have her around#and clearly you're supposed to care but they haven't given me much reason to#isha and sky were non-characters just there to die to further the development of other characters#they didn't really have anything going on on their own and that's just a type of character and plot device that does nothing for me#also i thought the war between zaun and piltover + internal struggles in zaun bc silcos gone would be the main focus#but that stuff seems so sidetracked rn#also sorry i dont like what they did with vander and warwick either. that man should've stayed dead lol#it honestly just makes his death feel less impactful and i dont know what this is supposed to do for the story or the themes???#that just feels like a pointless plotline that is taking up time that could've been spent on other things#i just... i could go on like this for a while like there are so many things that just puzzle me#it's so weird considering how tight and thematically consistent season 1 was#let's see where act 3 goes but... i kinda have a bad feeling about it ngl#obv im glad others are enjoying it and this is just my opinion! also a lot of this are probs just my personal tastes anyway#arcane spoilers
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greenreadsdresdenfiles · 9 months ago
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Interlude
Right now she's barely started Proven Guilty
Green: Dead Beat was about fairies and black magic
Green: the next one, Proven Guilty? fairies and black magic
Green: I mean I guess in the Dresdenverse, there's 3 types of shit - fairies, black magic, and vampires
Green: oh I guess there's demons
Green: and Outsiders, which are like demons but organized and more evil, apparently
Green: but harry will probably never encounter any of those
Green: oh wait I maybe remember Harry saying, many books ago, that red vampires are actually a type of fairy?
Green: or, at least, that they're from the Nevernever originally
Green: which, I'm still unclear on whether that means fairy or not
Green: so I guess maybe those three types of things are represented in the three types of vampires - white/demon, red/fairy (maybe?), black/black magic (probably)
Green: or maybe it was just that they had an affinity for the Nevernever
Orange: hmmm
Orange: i'd be sad if cowl was gatekeeper, but cowl is such a great curveball to throw
Orange: so not all of the residents of the nevernever are fae, I think?
Orange: I think they're like, hm
Orange: hmmmm
Orange: because most red vamps are, for lack of a better term, turned humans
Orange: so if they originated from the fae, then the primogenitor vamp may be fae but the rest certainly can't be
Orange: unless there are tribes of humans just freakin' surviving it out hardcore in the nevernever
Orange: i don't know for now
Orange: you might learn about them more in later books, in which case i do expect you to fill me in on the detail
Orange: 😉 no pressure
Orange: i don't think the main bad boss vamp is like, straight up dracula
Orange: i think vlad tepes is like a black courter
Green: lol yeah l can fill you in
Green: and god harry is so stupid
Green: he's like "l don't want to see michael ever again because he might kill me for having a demon in my brain
Orange: HARRY YOU IDIOT
Orange: YOU IDIOT
Orange: MICHAEL IS THE GOOD TYPE OF PALADIN
Green: like, no, actually, Michael did offer to spare all the Denarius men!
Orange: not only did he offer to spare
Orange: he legit refuses to attack an unarmed denarian doesn't he
Green: yeah
Green: something like that
Green: like
Orange: like if a denarian freaking walks up to him arms outstretched, no murderous intent
Orange: michael wouldn't embrace but certainly wouldn't attack
Orange: he is the goodest of freaking boys goffiogreofgjergre
Green: not only would he be not kill harry, he would probably help out???
Green: he would probably be like "yeah let's get this thing out of your brain, harry"
Orange: i stg if butcher hurts michael there will be a reckoning
Orange: you'll tell me if he hurts michael
Orange: i do not spoil
Green: yeah
Orange: but he will have hell to pay
Orange: we will cry out into the night as wolves
Orange: and go on the Hunt
Green: hahahaha
Orange: watch your ass, butcher
Green: oh I guess werewolves was a thing in one book
Orange: yes they are 🙂
Green: so I guess there is more than those 3 types of thing
Orange: they will not go away
Orange: you will see them again
Green: I mean, the kids have been a constant presence
Orange: they're just like, their thing is they're all freaking hot dreamboat types
Green: l was thinking of the big ones and the cop ones
Orange: everyone is hot
Orange: butcher likes describing hot people
Orange: and he doesn't skimp on the dudes too
Green: l noticed
Orange: which i appreciate
Orange: well he skimps a little
Green: yeah, last book had like 2 paragraphs describing thomas
Orange: but the fact that he tries is the good thing
Orange: YEAH
Green: it wasn't even his introduction in the series!
Orange: thomas is "one of the good ones"
Orange: oh of course
Orange: jim has to describe thomas every book
Green: l mean, l usually skip descriptions tbh U_U
Orange: and also have characters noticing how harry is shacking up with the hottest dude ever
Orange: well if you know what they look like
Orange: i mean it's understandable
Green: not really, tbh?
Orange: also you can probably just imagine it yourself your own way
Green: l don't really care what they look like
Orange: that's fair
Orange: i mean i feel like he toes the line between too much detail and too little, and i have room to express my preference
Green: l remember that when Harry met Thomas and his beau, he was like "damn fuck they're both so hot???"
Green: and that's really all l need to know
Orange: ahahaha
Orange: yes
Orange: that is all
Green: like l don't think the color of Thomas' eyes is ever going to be relevant
Orange: oh uhh
Orange: so white court vamp eyes change color depending on how hungry they are i think
Green: hahaha really?
Orange: so that sorta thing is a little relevant i think
Orange: i'm not sure
Orange: don't quote me
Green: haha ok fair
Green: so they're basically exactly twilight vampires
Orange: but i think they also do a thing when they use their stored sexual energy to go on the offensive
Green: oh yeah l remember that
Orange: like if a white court just goes ballistic then they'll have an eye thing
Orange: they're proto twilight vampires
Orange: twilight before twilight
Orange: if you do a primogenitor curse on the white court vamps, somewhere down the line you'll eliminate the Cullens
Orange: this is my take
Green: hahaha
Orange: i really hope
Orange: as you read these books
Orange: there's at least a twilight reference somewhere
Orange: i'll be disappointed
Orange: if there isn't
Green: oh yeah
Orange: and i'll add that to whatever grudges i'll hold against butcher for his crimes against the good boys
Orange: whatever those crimes may be
Green: l don't think l was looking out for any, so there might've been one many books ago?
Orange: i like to see harry suffer though, harry must suffer
Green: yeah
Green: me too
Orange: i don't think twilight was out at the time of book 7? am I way off on the timeline
Green: that's exactly right, actually
Green: or maybe 8
Green: ah, twilight was published in october, but dead beat was published in may
Green: so proven guilty was the first dresden files book published in the post-twilight era
Orange: i look forward to it
Orange: i actually don't know if twilight was ever written in the dresden files universe
Orange: or if it hit too close to home and the white court did some shenanigans to stephanie meyer to keep the book from publishing
Green: lol l bet it was
Orange: sure hope so
Orange: sureee hope so
Green: Bob is 1000000% more relatable since l was last reading these books, since l, too, now have an insatiable hunger for romance novels
Orange: oh absolutely
Orange: gosh
Orange: i can't wait for the next book
Orange: the developments that have occurred in the recent series of books is like, insane
Green: me before: heh a skull that's really horny all the time. That's funny, l guess
Green: me now: l wish my job would pay me in romance novels T_T
Orange: i mean he's horny, but i feel like his choice of romance novels is telling
Green: oh?
Orange: yeah
Orange: it's a very, hm, non-masculine thing
Green: ohh l see what you mean
Orange: so it makes his horniness less.. whatever it is i feel is offputting about the more traditionally masculine forms of sexual expression
Green: l thought you meant the specific novels he reads and l'm like "is it ever mentioned, other than that they're the horny kind?"
Orange: where it isn't even expression it's just like, focused on visual stuff instead of exercising the imagination?
Green:
"Yes," I said. "They're rated 'Burning Hot' by some kind of romance society." "Lots of sex and kink!" Bob caroled. "Gimme!"
Orange: I feel like even crappy dime romance novels have more in them than just porn, though i may be corrected
Orange: like i almost read bob's fascination with romance novels as being a weirdly asexual curiosity
Orange: which, to me, makes way more sense but only because that's my thing
Green: l think you're probably pretty right about that
Green: l mean, he has been known to be really into porn, and also to be into terrorizing women's bathrooms
Orange: shOOT
Green: l mean l don't think Dresden ever gave him porn, but he heard the name of one of the guys Dresden was investigating and was like "oh he's a porn director"
Orange: well like, his particular type of spirit is known for the desire to learn everything he can, and i imagine one of the last things you'd want to learn after learning all the useful stuff is sexuality
Green: yeah totally
Orange: and sexuality is very interesting to me, and i have that insatiable curiosity thing where i'll just insist people teach me things if it's a practical skill i think i could acquire in a sitting
Orange: not sexually
Orange: gosh darnit
Orange: gosh darnit why didn't i type that sentence differently
Orange: that looks awful
Green: lol
Green: so, yeah l think l might buy that
Green: yeah l would definitely buy that Bob got fixated on human sexuality
Green: but l looked it up and l was wrong about the women's bathrooms thing
Orange: oh??
Green: as far as l am, he's gone to a "wild party", and visited strip clubs instead of looking for info
Orange: ahhh
Orange: yeee
Orange: bob is definitely more willing to go the extra mile
Orange: i can't do any of the pro-social experiences of sexuality, i'd rather just observe through a screen and make gay jokes
Green: mmm
Orange: i'm not even attracted to men! sad!
Green: also he's constantly talking about Harry's sex life
Orange: well like yeah
Orange: dude is like perpetually sexually frustrated
Orange: i wonder if that's the secret to his power
Green: btw l really like the scene in Summer Knight when a hot fairy gal is hitting on him and he just freaking dumps a glass of ice water on his unmentionables
Orange: wait
Green: like "sorry, not in the mood anymore"
Orange: is that the one where
Orange: she's like
Orange: "gimme ur firstborn"
Green: yeah lol
Orange: HA
Orange: I think of that scene a lot
Orange: friggin maeve
Orange: the one name i remember
Green: ',:) l bet you do
Orange: and it's maeve
Orange: oh you'll hear my thoughts on that scene
Orange: maybe after you finish the round of books
Green: up to changes you mean?
Green: or up to where you are?
Orange: yeah i feel like i'll have to talk about it after you finish changes
Orange: or at least when you're partway through
Green: mhm
Orange: actually
Orange: maybe even later
Green: that was such a fucking chad move
Orange: but maeve is interesting and things get more interesting later
Orange: and harry is, at the least, a freaking boss babe
Orange: harry sometimes is a girlboss
Orange: i think at one point he freaking
Orange: lips off to queen mab right at her introduction
Orange: what a chad
Orange: what a dumb idiot himbo chad
Green: he's like "yeah true that your whole 'seduction' thing is definitely working, but you failed to consider that ice water on my cock is a real turn-off!!!"
Green: it's like a scene straight out of jojo's bizarre adventure
Green: btw
Green: he told billy you shouldn't eat or drink anything there
Orange: this is true
Green: and so, just following that rule, it makes sense that dumping a glass of water on your crotch is fine
Orange: yeah
Orange: totally fine
Orange: fae food can be problematic for people iirc
Orange: just a bad idea to accept gifts from faries
Green: but, like, as l find out more about how fairy bs works, it seems like the principle behind not eating or drinking anything there is that you don't want to take anything as a gift
Green: yeah!
Green: which, it seems like using the water as an arousal dampener is also kind of accepting the water as a gift?
Green: so, idk, that seemed weird
Orange: well you accept it but you twist it to your ends
Orange: that's what the fae do, so you played their own trick on them
Green: l feel like that would still put him in their debt, though
Orange: the fae give gifts to try to twist you to their ends, usually they take transactions or they pretend it isn't a transaction when it is
Orange: jeez i can't wait for you to read the next few books
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trashbell · 10 months ago
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when lucifer started playing the violin i thought for SURE alastor would do the same thing and we'd get a Camp Camp style duet
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mettywiththenotes · 4 months ago
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Hear me out. These two becoming friends
The boy on the left who was abused and wandered aimlessly afterwards just like Tomura did and Dai is "weak" and loves heroes just like Izuku. Except the boy on the left is like the version of Tomura who got saved on the street and is now training to be a hero, and Dai is like Izuku if he had a quirk back then and was told straight away that he could be a hero
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The babies
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arthursfuckinghat · 9 months ago
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"I got it.. beatin' a man.. to death.. for a few bucks"
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faceofpoe · 9 months ago
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Let's talk about that scene in the brig after they go back for Omega in the pilot. Crosshair's been getting more and more worked up - he's just finished blaming Hunter for ignoring orders and getting them locked up when Omega comes to sit with him.
To this point he's criticized Hunter's leadership but hasn't yet broken with the squad. He's not happy but there's still a general "in it together" vibe he's grudgingly following along for.
And then his "you can't help it" conversation with Omega is cut off by the guards ordering him out of the cell. He doesn't move - Hunter puts himself in the middle and, "We stay together." Once they show they're willing to use force, he gets up and cooperates.
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Is he demonstrating that he's still a good soldier, unlike the rest of them?
Or is he falling on something of a proverbial sword (what ends up being his own sort of protracted torture version of Plan 99?) to stop this moment from escalating, and counting on the whole 'they'll come back for me' thing when he gets up and walks out?
Faced with only the few blasters left in the room vs when they're first intercepted in the hangar, would they have normally taken their chances fighting their way out this time once the barrier is dropped?
Except now Hunter has thrown this curveball priority in with this damned kid?
If Bracca "aim at the kid" ruthless weaponizing of what he's seen is Hunter's first priority/ 'fire the engine they're hiding in' Crosshair is peak 'hyperactive inhibitor chip' Crosshair, then this post-chip (??) Crosshair is a reversion to his baseline attitude of Omega - which is simply that she has no business being in this fight/in this squad at all.
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Part of what makes the whole "you weren't loyal to me" thing so delightful is how sticky it is. You've got a skilled sniper willing to kill gunning for you, what are you going to do?
But what would they have risked for him upon grasping the full implications of the inhibitor chip, upon seeing what it does to Wrecker, if Omega weren't adding this whole new dimension and dynamic to their decisions?
Anyway, my musing is that this scene in the brig is when Crosshair actually went along with Hunter in prioritizing Omega over leaping into action that would put her at risk, and this is at the root of all of his episode 1.15 bitterness/1.16 sticking with the Empire/having stuck with the Empire after having the chip removed(after Bracca??) more so than just a vague 'you should have found a way to save me from the chip/from myself/reunite us once more.'
Making the progression in season 3 from "there is no we" to "did they teach you Plan 72?" the key to unlocking Crosshair's side of reconciliation. When Crosshair opted to stay behind on Kamino, he was still in full "just because you're a clone doesn't make you one of them," mode with Omega in their second side-by-side scene that mirrors the brig.
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They chose her, who isn't even one of them, over him, after he fleetingly chose her too for Hunter's sake.
When they cross paths for the first time on Tantiss, "there is no we/I'm not them" - he's still viewing her as this foolish sidekick his one-time brothers saddled themselves with. But he's also trying to optimize what he views as her chances for success, at the cost of his own hope for freedom. Her safety matters to him, Plan 88 - for her own sake, or perhaps more likely, for Hunter & co's sake (hearkening back to their first stuck-in-prison/averting the fight theory).
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But then we get their third side-by-side scene once her plan has dead-ended.
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Acknowledging "we," neither of them could have done this alone; acknowledging her finally as one of them; perhaps even acknowledging that he still could be, too (see: their flawless execution of Plan 72; the continued cooperation in the next ep; continuing to prioritize getting her to safety over what he views as their best shot after she tosses the credits at him).
(We don't leave our own behind, even when your squad is now a dog you didn't want and a girl you've been noisy-sighing at for the past several hours).
Anyway all of that to say BOY am I looking forward to episode 5 and the messy messy situation they're all in now and the messy messy conversations they need to have.
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