I didn't say you weren't worth staying for anyway

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Nott: (freaked out) I don't want it. Stay away from me.

Husbands are so real

i think i've said this before at some point, but i just think veth is the kind of person who could have a functional relationship with him and be friends with him and even like him a lot, but also still harbor genuine hatred for him and his role in the kidnapping and torture of her husband, which i just think gives the relationship an edge people seem to shy away from. both because she's angry at him for what he did and also because she does like him and there's guilt attached to that because of what he did. like, i guess the way a lot of people seem to approach the dynamic is mostly through essek's eyes, and through the lens of essek's relationships and essek's problems, and i think it's difficult to get a real look at what's going on there if you're not giving at least equal focus to veth's perspective, and her relationships and her problems etc., because she is. you know. a victim of his actions. her whole family is. i think she probably has really complicated feelings about him, and she has textually shown that she can support him one minute and turn on him the next. she is conflicted, with good reason to be, and i think maybe there's a tendency to brush over the effects essek's actions have had on her life or say that she just forgives it, but she's not a super forgiving person, you know? i think she also likes to lie about things that genuinely hurt her and would be more comfortable acting like things are fine even when they're not, and that's a lot of nuance that disappears if you're not really digging into her perspective on the relationship. basically i think a lot what i feel is missing in what i see about them together is a genuine discussion of the fact that he wronged her and hurt her family and how she has to navigate that in order to have any kind of relationship with him at all (and that she does seem to like him and how she can square the harm he's done to her family with her own affection for him).

"IT'S WORTH IT"

9 textposts bc the mighty nein animated has taken over every crease of my brain