#nnggghoooh i should really stop trying to squeeze angst into all my favourite characters

[neverpathia]

okay, but hold on. compare this to Hero's lines in Spectre.

They are most certainly soulmates. No, Nevvey is most certainly not grasping at straws here. That's not the point, though.

Now this is gonna get a tad bit headcanon-y.

But you can see that in Spectre, Hero wanted you to take the blade and slay yourself because he wanted to actually get to do something else after forever. Because he didn't want to be locked up like this; because he wanted to continue with himself; because he wanted to live.

But with Paranoid in Wraith, it's kind of the opposite. I get the feeling that he wanted to believe that if LQ died, then he would just straight-up die. Or at the very least, he was holding out for that possibility. He didn't want any of that to go on anymore. He just straight-up wanted it all to end.

I do believe that Paranoid does truly want to keep LQ safe and alive, but his priority is always escaping from problems, and he wouldn't be above getting genuinely suicidal to do so.

Suicidal Paranoid, guys. Hear me out. Paranoid who hates himself just as much as Contrarian.