okay so…in the gimmick authority, the detective is easily the sweetest, objectively nice person (i polled this back when i started the blog). he’s also been through childhood neglect, peer pressure, countless comparisons to his beloved ‘perfect’ brother…who then died on a ship with the judge (another authority member) and her girlfriend. he’s been pushed to the sidelines because of - and by - someone who he loved, who then died and left him and his family completely broken. then his family died, and he was left magically bonded with two random strangers and the sole survivor of the accident that killed his brother. he’s been forced into more uncomfortable situations than he’d want to admit, but he still grew to love his new family and even dated someone!! but, despite the four people who he actually knows and loves (he still thinks himself incapable of loving @wikipedia-the-official, his spouse properly) he’s lonely. he doesn’t think he can hold on to anyone or anything. despite surviving wayy to much and still retaining his kindness and his dorkiness, he’s still impacted on a much deeper level that doesn’t let him actually remain attached to anyone. it’s driving him insane. to make it worse, he’s immortal.
on the other hand, we have the police, a law-enforcing jail-obsessed arse who tracked the lowest on the same poll i used in the beginning. they were bullied and hurt and lost friends, and were a jaded piece of playing-by-the-rules shit. they still calmed down, though. they have a much larger - and more stable - support system than det does, because he let them in easily. det can’t do that, because everyone he’s ever loved has either died, or hated him, or been the cause of his unhappiness, or a combination of those. he always leaves first.
Tl;dr: the police came out of their trauma as a gloomy, rude buzzkill and the detective came out of his with his kindness and objective awesomeness still intact. despite the detective having friends and a new family and a spouse, on a fundamental level, he’s alone. police is the complete opposite, but he still has more people truly close to them.
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