#post 16 charden is so. theyre both so *normal* that it's impossible to blow past the stuff theyve both been coming to realizations about
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the funniest thing about writing charden is that they can either fucknasty with approximately zero leadup or be like two opposing magnets that I'm trying to push together
#11k and theyve been fucking dancing around each other like hold on....#post 16 charden is so. theyre both so *normal* that it's impossible to blow past the stuff theyve both been coming to realizations about#it's the fact that charlie's so tired and done and so not willing to take any shit because he can see behind the curtain#they're both. past it. dennis is willing to let go of everything he's built. all the defensive walls and lies and this persona he's upheld#but it literally makes it worse because it's just like ok. what do we do with all this. it's like an open wound now#there's no hiding it but neither of them know how to stop it from bleeding all over the place#dennis has been in this place since season 12 when he finally allowed himself to acknowledge how damaged and dysfunctional things were#and charlie in s15 in a similar way. both acknowledging this fundamental brokenness due to their childhoods and guiding figures growing up#these guys don't know how to be people. they don't know how to function properly. and it becomes apparent when they Try to be better.#their default is to hurt and be hurt#instead of stitching up the wound they just inflict another on someone else hoping that they bleed out first#they can't have sex because dennis is too focused on trying to protect charlie from himself to see that he's asking charlie to hurt him#it's one or the other. the only way to oppose hurting someone you care about is by letting them hurt you.#i'm normal 👍
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