of love & learning

it’s genuinely in the interests of advancing plot (e.g. ‘Pass the screwdriver?’ and you can assume my muse passes the screwdriver over, or even just that your muse ended up with the screwdriver one way or another, without having to stop the reply altogether for my interjection)

it’s NOT my muse’s dialogue, inner or outer

it’s REASONABLE for my muse (e.g. if they’ve already made it quite clear the screwdriver is a sentimentally precious family heirloom or something, then the screwdriver might not reasonably change hands)

the reply isn’t solely about my muse’s actions, thoughts or feelings, but rather is about your muse, with reference to mine

you are willing to accept criticism & critique and change the reply if I can’t reasonably see my muse doing that

Like, because we know and love Caleb, it was much easier to immediately jump to point out “no, you are not to blame here, you were a victim of physical and emotional and psychological abuse.”

Whereas with the other two, I feel like the general vibe was “let’s see if they can be redeemed”. Why? Because they stayed. They “chose” to stay, right? So that must mean they agree with this to some degree, that they aren’t as morally inclined as Caleb or that they no longer can be saved from this fate.