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Torse being so relieved to not have to feel so much.

But in doing so, he didn’t realise that the iron heart wasn’t ‘bad’, just A Lot. The raw emotions. No barrier. No filter.

The iron heart was only ever utilized when he felt he needed to unleash his anger in combat.

He thought that the gold heart made him gentle, but actually, the gold heart made him less.

Marya bringing him back with the beautiful inscription, validating his love and his rage and allowing that to be okay. To be worthy.

(Then everything else happened. But that wasn’t the iron heart. That was the Queen’s control.)

He could have had a new gold heart. Any one of the tinkerers could have made him one from the engine if they thought he needed it.

But the golden heart went to Ludmilla. Someone who is raw with guilt and rage.

Comfrey made the joke about it being ‘the Gotch Show’ at Maxwell in Zern, which could canonically mean that she also came up with that…or she was referencing something (although we know that it was Brennan just making a callback…stay with me here…)

When they were married, did Daisuke call Comfrey’s need to play nice with elites and socialites ‘the Gotch Show’ because it was often headed by Cadswitch, and the whole situation put him on edge?

Was that also something that shut him down and made him feel unwelcome and uncomfortable because he didn’t see himself fitting into that world?