alice.

my controversial hollanov take in the whole "who fell first" debate is shane fell first. in ep 1, their first meeting lasted very short HOWEVER hudson mentioned in his interview that shane actually spoke to ilya for 6 minutes in their first official meeting (which got deleted). the same shane who is autistic, introverted and hates social interactions. that same shane APPROACHED ilya first and talked for 6 whole minutes despite ilya barely responding.

many believe Laurel didn't order Tyler to court Wednesday romantically but i disagree. i just rewatched season 1 and she tells Wednesday she deliberately made her feel special before killing her in the Crackstone Crypt. so, even though he didn't know who she was at first sight, i think he definitely had orders to do that later. however, he just didn't expect himself to fall in love in the process too. he did spend a bit too much effort into making her "special" for it all to be fake and be that affected by her words in Willow Hill.

Rewatching this scene made me think, in another universe where Hydes weren't shunned, Tyler could've been a Nevermore student and rightfully wear this uniform on the Remembrance Day march instead of stealing it from somewhere as a disguise.

I mean just look at their parallels even with their differences

BOTH predestined to go insane and die because of their outcast powers (Wednesday from exhausting her psychic abilities and Tyler as a Hyde without a master)

BOTH having mothers who are controlling but in completely opposite ways (Morticia in a protective and Francoise in an abusive way)

BOTH being rebellious with their families

BOTH being told by their parents to stay away from the other but gravitated towards each other anyways

BOTH being unintentionally dragged into their same past family drama

BOTH growing up feeling like nobody in the world understands them yet recognized each other's softness (Tyler recognized the mask Wednesday wore to hide her care and Wednesday recognized the real Tyler hidden underneath when he begged her to kill him)

BOTH tried to kill each other but were unable to do it when it actually counted (in S1 EP8 Tyler was ordered by Laurel to kill her, in S2 EP4 he had lost his mind without a master when he threw her out of the window and in S2 EP8 he was once again ordered to obey while Isaac buried Wednesday alive. However, he didn't kill her when she was in coma even though he was in the hospital.)