#i've been reading the veronica speedwell series and thinking a lot about this scene

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#i've been reading the veronica speedwell series and thinking a lot about this scene#of having to balance being your own person#and understanding how you and your actions effect others#and how it may not be fair to expect them to just go along with what you want at the expense of their feelings#jack had ever right to want to put distance between himself and phyrne#as much as it may hurt and as rejected as she ends up feeling#he did the right thing for himself#and she needed to know that her choices effect more than just her

my own opinion which might veer from what op was actually intending-

jack had every right to take a step back from phryne and her response of 'jack not being on her team = jack being dead to her' was lacking and actually when i put it like that is shocking and quite upsetting to me bc that is a given interpretation of what she said to him

the show could not have gone on without their partnership so jack's relatively easy capitulation in the following episode made sense only for the narrative's sake it made little sense in relation to his character despite him being in love with her. phryne manipulates him so much and disregards him (why ask for my opinion when you don't even try to listen? / that usually doesn't bother you) and i'm kind of fed up of mfmm fandom giving her a free pass just bc she is- admittedly- a magnificent woman

it's obvious she semi-realises the unfairness of their 'friendship/association' as she makes laughable 'amends' in 'framed for murder'- allowing him to examine the crime scene first and taking sides with jack against her childhood friend raymond (tell him phryne! / it's a fair question raymond) and not pushing in on jack's interrogation of raymond at city south station like she usually does

the only saving grace of this relationship portrayal is that it's v realistic and i guess i can fuck with that- see (or don't see) my thwarted love fic