Iris Rambles About Fandoms

kris as miles and franziska!!! i need a whole episode of them mentoring kris (x

so i know their whole thing but. idk i cant help but think about what they look like underneath their whole.................situation.. what if they never knew what they looked like and just Pretended it was all the same ... aha

And then Susie enters the picture. She’s the first person in a long time who seems to not only like Kris well enough to consider them a friend, but who can also get what Kris is going through. She’s a kid from a broken family who lives in poverty, and because of that, she actively struggles to openly communicate with others and is frequently left behind by those who were supposed to protect her.

Susie has grown up with the conviction that she’s The Bad Kid, and that she cannot step down from that role no matter how much she wants to. This obviously parallels Kris’ status as The Weird Kid Next Door. They both want to be accepted and fit in so, so badly, but in absence of healthy ways to communicate their feelings, they just end up weirding out others, causing them to become increasingly more socially isolated than they were initially.

That’s why Susie eventually becoming more accepted is so crucial to Kris’ development: yes, a lot of their jealousy actively stems from the fact that they are no longer her number 1 in the Real World, but it’s not just the uniqueness of their relationship that is at risk; Kris is actively losing that sense of companionship that they shared in being The Odd Ones Out: Susie is no longer lonely, so she can lean on the Dark World in ways Kris currently can’t — their home is no longer the safe space that it used to be for her; Susie is learning how to communicate her feelings properly, so she doesn’t feel the need to resort to violence to obtain what she wants anymore, and she’s increasingly more liked because of it; Susie is getting a girlfriend, and while Kris is still undeniably important to her, they aren’t her only source of emotional support in the Real World at this point.

And it hurts them so much, and yet the most heartbreaking part in their eyes is that if Susie becomes less attached to them that’s actually… a good thing somehow, because now she won’t have to suffer just as much when they’ll inevitably have to break her trust later on.