#i imagine evie and ben making up later on when they are adults so its not entirely bad!!

[goldhexes]

so how will ben and evie's friendship be after what happened recently? you did say they became closer after ben's character shift in y6, after all (doing questionable stuff to keep those they love safe, which is #relatable) and now... though if you have decided to ignore the recent events, that's understandable too!! [wilhelminafujita]

ok this just follows the game canon but i dont see it as canon xDD but......their friendship is. not good after the incident. evie was always friends with ben from the beginning, but while they were close, he was never quite as close as rowan was with evie. they did grow closer after ben’s character shifts and his goals and ideals resonate with evie’s, but in reality, it’s really because rowan and evie drifted apart, mostly on evie’s part, she distanced herself on purpose, and evie had little to no choice but to rely on ben. ben felt the same way, he relied on evie to back him up when it seemed like the whole world was against him, and they found solidarity in that. they were close, and mostly enabled each other’s... questionable behaviors, and rowan was always against it, because she cared and didnt want to see anyone hurt, but evie and ben thought their way of doing things was best, so both really only had each other to understand.

because of how close they were at the time, it just made what happened after terrible. evie immediately severs their friendship, doing a complete switch from being close friends one minute, then cutting ben off the next. she trusted ben to keep everyone safe and she viewed rowan sacrificing herself for him as breaking that promise. ngl she definitely reacted irrationally and used ben as a scapegoat, blaming him for what happened to rowan. going as far as to threaten him

yeah its bad. it takes evie forever to calm down, and even then ben and evie’s friendship is strained and evie only tolerates him. not to say ben tolerates that, he does repeatedly call her out on her behavior and the fact that rowan most likely leapt into the situation for her and not him, and how evie deliberately distanced herself from rowan, causing her to become concerned and lead to her following them into the forest in the first place. their friendship just dissolves despite ben’s best efforts to fix things, but both are honestly too caught up in their feelings of guilt and anger to really make any progress in fixing whatever is left in their friendship. ben eventually views evie as a lost cause as nothing he says can change her mind about him, and decides to leave it the way it is, overcome with bitterness and guilt.

they just become polite strangers after some time, but never really close at all again