Jisbon

functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I

thinking about how lisbon is janes greatest weakness and his greatest strength and making her suffer is the quickest way to hurt him, but there is nothing he wont sacrifice to make sure she’s safe. separating them punishes him, but it only makes him narrowly focused on getting her back, and when lisbon’s safety/life is the only thing standing between him and exacting his revenge, he chooses lisbon every time. how without his letters to lisbon he would never have been found on the island, but without lisbon his life was “strange and sad” and he knew there was something massive missing from his life. lisbon also fundamentally needed jane, and while her time with pike on paper was quite nice, it left her completely unfulfilled in all the ways that actually mattered. jane and lisbon are, at their core, symbiotic creatures.

thinking about jane building his and lisbons house as a promise of permanence and a promise to stay. building a house as a promise that they will always have a safe place to land with each other. building a house as refuge, a place of happiness and and peace for their family. building a house as rebuilding a life that had been destroyed through hate and violence. building a house as a promise to give their child a carefree life that they never had as children. building a house to trust in love again