wind flower

kandinsky ain't got nothin on her

It's crazy how what Helena Eagan did with innie!mark is some elaborate form of sexual assault. Innies are basically like children with no real knowledge or understanding of intimacy or interpersonal relationships the way their outies have. so, even if they can consent to intimacy between one another as innies, the power imbalance between an outie and an innie is too pronounced for consent to be meaningful. Yes innies have adult brains that may understand sex as a learned skill in the same way that innies can drive, read, etc. But they can't possibly understand it as an outie does. Helena Eagan quite literally exploited innie!mark's lack of contextual knowledge about intimacy to have sex with him. She used her special special Eagan privileges to impersonate someone so she could have sex with a guy who works for her without him realising who she was or what that interaction really means. Ultimately, she's the one with all the power in that interaction which is why the "theories" that Helena is pregnant from having sex with Mark don't hold water to me because when it comes to sexually exploitative relationships between upper management and workers, it's the workers who bear the consequences almost every time. Just google how many kids Elon Musk has with women who used to work for him. Do you honestly think, knowing that severance has already resulted in non-consensual pregnancy, that someone like Helena Eagan would undergo severance without precautions like birth control? The last thing someone like her would want is pregnancy to an innie. That's a PR nightmare for Lumon that would hardly endear her to her father. The prevalence of the Helena is pregnant theory really shows how much people view markhelena as some sort of twisted romance rather than a horror of workplace exploitation. which is crazy because this is the Horror Of Workplace Exploitation Show

Irving B. was really out there running the innie resistance like the Navy. Overcoming years of Lumon propaganda and conditioning through the power of friendship and love. Telling mark to stop making eyes at Helena and lock the fuck in. Playing mind games and doing psychological manipulation to make Helena reveal herself. Surviving a night alone in the freezing forest and hallucinating his dead boyfriend. Waterboarding the CEO’s daughter until they got their Helly back. Walking to his own death like who gives a fuck, knowing that he was sacrificing himself for his friends. Yes, DO IT, SETH. No one was doing it like him.

Thinking about how "I don't like the way I am put there" was probably the first time Helena has ever expressed any genuine emotion, had any privacy or done anything that didn't align with what her father wanted to. Thinking about how it was a genuine possibility that Helena would've been swayed to the Innies side if she stayed there out of empathy or maybe would've opted to stay there forever out of jealousy. Thinking about how Helena acted around Mark vs Helly. Thinking about how she became shy and unsure even though it was probably one of the things that endangered her cover. Thinking about how she's never really had a chance to grow emotionally, just like the innies, with their same lack of experience and their restrictions on relationships, privacy and emotion. Thinking about how Helena was cruel and Helly wasn't. Thinking about how Helena abuses her freedoms but still has intense emotional and physical boundaries in place by her father, and Helly abuses her freedoms because she's constantly trying to actively escape the system she's in. They hate eachother for what they have, and now it's shared. And they'll both be fighting for the place where they are free to love, not free to make power or money.