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main story 13 spoilers ahead

since im a believer of chika khickuwa's Jerome Is Oedipus Theory, i am simply enraptured with the wholly fucked up and imbalanced dynamic that exists between luke and jerome.

it's a mad scientist and his unwilling test subject dynamic. luke tells rosa hes working willingly with jerome, but does he really have a choice? when there's no other cure for his illness that works but the substances jerome is testing on him? he doesnt. luke says hes in control to cope with the fact he absolutely has no control over this arrangement whatsoever. the way luke behaves around jerome is with aggression, disdain, distrust, and disgust—a guard dog snarling and backed into a corner—and yet he has no choice but to metaphorically bare his neck to jerome and accept what jerome gives him.

oh and on jerome's end, he can believe all he wants that he's a giver. that he's a healer, but hes not, not really. im still not sure if he truly believes that or if thats a facade he puts up, but if he does believe it, that just makes all of this even more interesting. jerome believing himself a savior when in reality the person he's saving feels like nothing more but a trapped experiment thats being used.

and isn't that just such an fitting role for luke to be in? luke who always posited himself as a tool, a weapon, a thing to be used in the name of service to another or to a greater good, a thing that doesnt deserve agency or desires...and now he's finally found himself in that exact position, nothing but an object to be tested on, wrapped around jerome's finger.

just. hoo boy. it's a messed up dynamic. IM OBSESSED.