SnoopyTheDestroyer

Yuri, her brother, who Yor loves unconditionally and she raised him on her own. Yuri absolutely is struggling to not be dependent on Yor. He wants to become a child around her as an adult to some extant. He's internally conflicted about it as chapters go on, and especially as this arc shows he's not in denial but still frustrated. He remains over the top, and for a while I did think it was almost like a bit. But he physically dies over Yor telling him "no, you're an adult, also i want to cuddle with my husband"

But then, Loid is just the foil to Yuri in the other direction. Loid/Twilight is so independent. That's part of his trauma and who he is and how war shaped him. His perfectionism is literally giving him stomach pain but he fears without perfectionism he'll not survive. Yor wants Loid to have depend on her, but he says "i'm not perfect enough as a spy" mentally. He's running away from Yor being intimately caring of him but also his body fails to follow his brain about it.

Yor is then stuck in the situation of, with Yuri, having a brother who won't stop bothering her even though he's older and can take care of himself. And Yor doesn't want Yuri to rely on her anymore, because what would the parenting have all been for?

And, with Loid, who she asked to continue the marriage. From Yor's perspective, Loid is the man she chose to be with -> she wants to take care of him, and her reasoning is perfect -> he's the first man who has reciprocated emotional needs she never realized she had. She wants him to fall apart, so she can do his laundry and make him breakfast at least once in a while. She loves him. And she has agency and can set conditions on this love for Loid (especially for when the eventual reveal may happen) unlike her inherent unconditional love for Yuri.

But Loid is currently trying to avoid all of that, because his childhood had parents and friends dying, father telling him he's not good enough, and just the lived reality of being a war orphan. Getting into a relationship is dangerous to his fragile emotional security.

I had an image of a story where Yor and Loid have revealed eachother identities. It's been like a month or so. They inflitrate some illicit organization by themselves to figure out anya's origin? Idk not the point.

The hurt/comfort plot bunny is, Yor accidentally almost nearly kills Loid because she is Thorn Princess and thought there was another guy left in the room. Loid snapped on a branch while returning to Yor basically, and narrowly avoids her knife throw. Loid laughs it off, but once Yor realizes who she accidentally aimed at, she just collapses into tears and panic. She cries. She cries so badly. She's idk unable to speak or move. Like it is ugly. There is snot. Red spots. All kinds of Sweat and minor aches. She is a sopping wet cat because she almost killed the man she loves. The only man she thinks will ever love her and be a companion and friend to her (as for both of them, Loid understood Yor's background, he is no stranger to killing, but maybe he secretly worries about her political naivety? Up to your interpretation). At this point, Yor has not confessed that she deeply loves Twilight/Loid and would give up being an assassin to be with him and Anya, but understanding from learning about his background that he never lied to her about his affirmative statements we've seen in canon.

So, like all this exposition is to set up the real story which is, Yor won't let go of Twilight. Literally. Once Twilight moves to try to comfort Yor, and does the uncomfortable and desired action of his, i.e. give her a big hug, and the very comfortable thing of his, to affirm it was a mistake, Yor won't let go of her grip. They walk home bloodied and bruised and he can't move his arm, because she won't let go. She stopped crying a little bit though, but she has not stopped holding onto him since they left the warehouse or whatever lair it was. Twilight's partially afraid to tell her to let go once they get home so he can maybe shower and use the bathroom (and she needs to use the shower too).

And Yor in her state, doesn't care for embarrassment anymore, and just asks to sleep with him. And he begrudgingly and desiringly says yes (or maybe Loid offers first, not 100% about their characterization post-reveal after all) And instead of putting on her nightgown, she just puts on a bra and undies. And, Loid cannot sleep, because Yor won't stop hugging her bare skin onto his limp body. He cant move. He can't even escape in a fire. Yor's also still not sleeping soundly, but she used to become violent at his touch. Now she won't let go.