#wow that was one kind of a rambling kdfjghdfg

[littlenekosfan]

bazz is an idiot, truly the biggest idiot jugo could ever befriend, but i love him so much despite it all, when i was making my child prodigy post, i digressed a lot but didnt write about it, so here i am developing about it, its about bazz and jugo’s first encounter and how much i love that idiot (its not a full breakdown, otherwise it would be much longer haha)

“you stink!” “you white leek face” “you’re pretty sly” “a pitiful kid like you” these are all the names bazz call jugo with, although they feel like insults, they arent, its just a poor usage of words to call jugo as such, they arent actually mean (you can tell by how he wants jugo to reply bc he feels like he’s being the bad guy there, he thinks he’s sweet, he wants to be sweet) but they can be taken badly from someone who lacks self-esteem (ahem jugo),  and he goes on like that until jugo agrees that he IS pitiful, which bazz does not take well, he excuses his lack of skill by saying he, bazz, is just great, greater than other kids, he didnt mind calling jugo with names (bc is wasnt an insult), but when jugo insults himself, he cheers him up saying its okay to not be good at your age (also, that’s just bazz being stupid, but the way he said his own name and said jugo has potential for figuring that out (bc i dont think bazz is mocking him, he really said his name without even realizing it) and he compliments jugo just like that, and i think it’s really cute considering bazz’ character/personality)

and this part, they way this part gets me, the whole time bazz was talking with jugo he was super loud and obnoxious, even when he was insulting himself, he continued to talk with the same loud attitude, but when jugo admits he has no friends, he completely changes, he listens and even starts to empathize with him, and i dont use the word empathize lightly bc bazz doesnt have any friends, so he knows how jugo feels like about that. how can i tell bazz had no friends back then? its simple, he never mentioned he had any and you can tell with how he mentions “nobody our age can make something like this, none of your friends can, right?!” that not only implies he thought jugo had friends (so they really met for the first time and their village are not close enough for them to have met sooner) but also bazz didnt take the time to flex as usual to say he’s better than his friends, there are kids of his age (otherwise, how can he tell he’s a genius for his age?) but he’s not friend with any of them... they can be many reasons to why he never befriended them (he’s a noble, he has a loud mouth/not very approachable, he prob doesnt even like kids in his village) and yet, he picked jugo... he saw something in him the moment he was watching him, but when he heard he had no friends aswell, that really made bazz want to connect with him 

look how his eye glows and the complete change in his look and even attitude, im gonna cry....

and here.. oh my god, i cant with that one, it just breaks my heart, if you read that page quickly, you dont notice the discreet motivation that drove bazz to help jugo, he found him interesting and fun to be friend with, but not to take him as his “underling” (i have to admit, i dont really like that word.. i would have preferred a partner or even better a friend, or just took him as his student, saying he’s an underling implies there is a rank and ju is serving bazz which never really felt like that, there was that power imbalance yes, that bazz thinks and is more skilled than jugo, but it was more about helping him out, not making him his right hand or anything like that... that feeling changed after the 5yrs, but in that specific moment, underling feels off tbh) back to my point, the motivation that drove bazz to help jugo out are his bruises on his arm, im still surprised and amazed how quickly bazz caught up on that (he could have thought he just fell or is so clumsy he hurt himself like that), its not easy to caught up on abuse esp if you never witnessed it (im not implying bazz lived nor witness it before, the worst thing his parents could have done is neglect him attention bc he wanders so much in the forest like that.. then again, bazz is a punk so he could have do it anyway, plus who gave him that armor? probably not abusive parents) and yet bazz did! and he never had to address it to ask about it or anything like that, he straight up when to help him, and his reaction to frowning with anger i just, i cant do it... also, later he mentions how jugo shouldn't listen to adults and they will be the greatest, really melts my heart and touches me personally, i just love him so much