Thinking about Ghoul’s Rule is so interesting to me because I can’t stop thinking about Jackson/Holt being a metaphor for “White passing biracial”.
The fact they have to code switch (Literally) to fit into whatever situation to protect themselves or fit in with whatever group they’re with hits different, especially since they’re living in a world where human-monster relations are so bad that they can get falsely accused and nearly killed and their school can’t do anything because of systemic racism. Like Holt was minding his business and got locked up, all because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and the cops were eager to make him an example is so scary and real.
Jackson using his human passing privilege to get on the cops good side and get out of jail.
Holt and Jackson panicking when their phone dies or music plays because they know revealing themselves to either side was unsafe, especially after the humans attacked the school and Lilith’s racist ass helping the cops hunt them down to make her KKK coded family happy.
Honestly as a black woman, it makes sense why this movie always stuck with me and why these two are my favorite characters.
