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sometimes two characters are codependently, toxically enmeshed, doomed to mutually define and haunt each other forever. and not fucking.

BLOODLETTING MY BELOVED HOW I MISS YOU

Wait, the dog days are over? The dog days are done? And no one told me 😰?!

Oh no 😨 I havta get to my mother, my father, my children, my sisters and brothers quickly 🏃🏿‍♂️

Dude you left all your love and your longing behind, tidy up after yourself please

Can I carry it with me? I want to survive 🥺

tbh im not entirely immune to a villain with a tragic backstory but i do think villain origins are a lot more interesting when the focus is less "here is the original sin, the first big bad thing that happened to them that made them who they are" and more "here is the first time a person who maybe otherwise felt powerless in their life realized that they could hurt someone and get away with it"

you can get a lot more mileage out of analyzing a truly abhorrent character through the lens of like. what sort of conditions would allow or even incentivize this kind of cruelty? what kind of person benefits from those conditions and how? over the more typical who hurt them type analysis. imo.