If Ghosts Are Real Why Hasn’t One Held My Hand?

In his speech in the beginning, he talks about how he has felt this way for like seven years. And Ian asks him if he has ever ONCE tried to flirt with her, not even the bad kind of flirting (nagging her about Freaky Nikki) and he hasn't. He can't tell Nikki he likes her even when directly asked, and even he is confused by that action. He doesn't wish to be able to tell her about his feelings, he wishes that SHE would love HIM more than anything in the world. He only admits that she's acting strange because of something HE did when the entity inside Nikki has already done irreparable damage—that he can't fix by just gaslighting everyone. He is told over and over again that the way to end this is to kill himself and he never does it, he backtracks at every point and only when his will is superseded does he actually die. He tries to placate the entity inside Nikki because he doesn't want to confront the situation: this ISN'T Nikki and IT IS all his fault. Because if he can make her "not be weird" (once again, a coward, not wanting to deal with the public scrutiny), then all that's left is their little romance and that's all that he cares about. But he can't make her not be weird, again because he is a coward and that would require confrontation and possibly some backlash. The entity was created to serve him, to love him, and he can't even ask her politely to not do technically innocuous things like watching him as he sleeps—specifically because he doesn't have experience in confrontation because HE IS A COWARD and his cowardice has prevented him from having very normal human interactions. Even at the end, there were 2 options to end the wish: end his life or ASK HER TO MAKE A WISH FOR HIM, because she loves him and would to anything for him. And even that he can't do, so he goes for the first and still backtracks TWICE.

Imagine you kiss your "platonic" girlbestfriend on the mouth then watch her get married to your tall man big eye crush because you told them to and then your friend you met not even six months ago goes

the girl who won’t grow up

seeing all the leaked screencaps of the aged up gaang got me thinking about yue </3

“Grace says he would like half of dome to be water.”

“Oh, is necessary for humans to have large amounts of water question?”

Small Eridian equivalent of a sigh. “No. Not needed for life. In fact Grace will die if he falls in water and does not get out.”

“Tell him we give him water in containers that won't kill him. Lots lots lots of water on Erid for Grace to drink.”

“No. Grace say he want water on ground. Also want it with excess sodium chloride compound so it will be unhealthy for drink.”