thinking about asra on the way home from work today as i often do and i just think it’s so beautiful. he’s this loner kid who only ever looked out for himself. he had muriel, yes, and they were close in their way, but part of his archetype is being…selfish. he thinks about things from his own point of view pretty much exclusively. he’s very self oriented. and part of that is growing up an orphan.
but then you have this kid. this brilliantly magical kid. who grows up to be a brilliantly magical teenager. and he falls in love. first time he likes someone and it’s you. and he falls so, so, so in love. how different his life would have been without that.
and he isn’t mad about it either. that’s what really gets me. it’s not the “ugh…you pulled me out of my self absorbed life because i love you…” it’s just. that’s what his world shifted into. his whole life shifted to accommodate you. and he is so happy about that. he goes after you after you’re gone because he literally can’t *not*. i just. man.
