#i know ive been aelwynposting a lot but i cant stop thinking (tm) about them

[thisaliennerd]

i can't stop thinking about aelwyn and sandra lynn bonding over their destructive coping mechanisms, and how it's really hard to get better for themselves, but they want to get better for adaine and fig respectively.

just...sandra lynn wanting to help aelwyn because no one ever helped her. reaching out to aelwyn because she knows aelwyn's struggling with her morality and feeling like they don't deserve love, and sandra lynn KNOWS how that feels. and aelwyn breaks down and confesses that she doesn't know how to move forward and even though they know they shouldn't, sometimes she misses their old life and her mother. sandra lynn validates them and she holds aelwyn in her despair the way she wished someone had done for her when she was their age. and from that point, aelwyn gets so much more comfortable around sandra lynn and in mordred manor.

they like jawbone but just didn't have the connection adaine had with him, so she always felt out of place, but now she has this relationship with sandra lynn. sandra lynn isn't the most maternal person in the world, but she cares, and aelwyn has never had a positive relationship with an older woman before, so sometimes their relationship is maternal, sometimes it's more sisterly than anything else. aelwyn learns to let their guard down and trust someone who isn't adaine, let someone else love her, and both of them continue down their respective recovery journeys helping each other along the way