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Water is way more hydrating than soda, but soda is more hydrating than nothing. A balanced meal is way more nutritious than ice cream, but ice cream is more nutritious than nothing.

Something is better than nothing. Some hydration is better than no hydration. Some nutrients are better than no nutrients. Some produce is better than no produce.

Just a bunch of kids btw

Baron (while not an exact copy of Riz, it is close enough) represents Riz’ aromanticism and his struggles with the idea that one day he will be left behind in favor of romance.

That’s pretty obvious, but now look at K2

K2 is Kristen’s clone. Kristen is canonically sapphic, one of the few characters to be confirmed queer. K2 is straight however. K2 actually has plenty of ‘good’ relationships throughout her time living. She’s flirty, she’s funny, she’s helpful in combat (every so often) and even gets into a school. Also, doesn’t she get with Fabian at some point or at the very least flirts with him heavily?

K2 is literally Kristen’s internalized homophobia and struggles with keeping strong relationships. Kristen in JY is dealing with so much (just losing a relationship with Tracker, their connections with Cassandra, and maintaining a relationship to the school itself in order to make the presidency) and K2 is created and just.. does everything Kristen can’t. K2 has romantic and platonic relationships (also, someone pointed that it seems in a lot of scenes that Kristen feels almost jealous of K2 and worried she’ll steal their friends. See in the ‘you’re leaving without me? What does K2 have that I don’t?’ snippet Unless that’s out of context I haven’t watched JY so honestly take all of this with a heaping pile of salt), K2 has a stable connection with Cassandra (although they don’t like her, it’s still a stable connection in comparison to Kristen’s fluctuating relationship) and K2 gets into Hudol (?).

K2 is literally succeeding at everything that Kristen is struggling with.

Now the internalized homophobia is a bit harder to make a huge case for cause it’s not like K2 worships Sol and would even further symbolize that time in their life.. but come on. The idea that this version of you that’s straight ends up having such better relationships with everyone in your life is such an inherently queer experience.

Anyways, I think it’d be really cool for Kristen and Riz to have someone to confide in about that.

Also could you imagine if the two swapped roles.

K2 being this horrifying mockery of Kristen (going down a Fig-esque path for the nightmare forest) or being the one to actually get on the good side of the gods Kristen meets (going down a Fabian-esque path for the nightmare forest where everyone is concerned over K2’s death instead?) K2 actively pushing Kristen from the rest of the Bad Kids, maybe back to their family? Their religion?

Baron would be this constant mock over Riz’ head. This thing makes friends much better than you. This thing doesn’t hide itself in clues and mysteries to avoid looking inwards (you guys remember how Baron praised Riz on ‘finding the solution to the puzzle’ when in reality it was just fucking with Riz. I mean it knows, like Kalina mocked, that he keeps burying himself in solving things other than himself. There was nothing to ‘solve’ in Baron’s mirrors, but Riz took it as something to solve to not further consider Baron may have been true in some aspects.) This thing isn’t spending a ton of time doing detective work - it’s being a friend to your friends, maybe better than you are.

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?