For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams

No cuz genuinely what is poes deal how did he get tangled up w the guild how did he get third highest rank position why is he a sniper if hes an architect and why is he an architect if hes a writer and genuinely what goes through his head what an odd gentleman

Like, no, he’s not saying he’s not Ranpo’s friend he’s saying he’s not Ranpo’s fanboy. The appropriate response when someone assumes you are a fanboy of the man who’s both your rival and friend is that you are his rival, because rival is more contradictory to fanboy. You can be someone’s fanboy and friend very easily, but not fanboy and rival. Of course it’s possible but being a fanboy also implies a particular power dynamic(? Not sure if that’s the right word) where you are somewhat lesser in that specific field, which Poe refuses to imply because the man has an ego either the same size or somewhat lesser than Ranpo himself.

Poe himself has an ego the size of the moon, it’s just not as evident because he despises social interaction, not because he’s shy but because everyone is utterly insufferable and refuses to be on their level. That’s also the reason why he was so insulted by Ranpo winning in the battle of wits, it’s because he was just humiliated in front of a bunch of people he viewed as lesser than himself.

He gets along so well with Ranpo because Ranpo doesn’t crush those beliefs, if anything he endorses them with his own belief that he is better than everyone making Poe feel special by being special to Ranpo.

Ranpo and Poe are in a perpetual state of constantly making each others ego bigger, because with the better Ranpo is, the better Poe is, and Poe is constantly trying to challenge Ranpo making Ranpo better.

Don’t take this as me saying the irl Edgar Allan Poe was egotistical, he just tended to mainly write through the lens of an incredibly egocentric and hypocritical person.

comic inspired by that tweet