too emotionally invested in fiction

2 Comms I finished recently!

This reminds me of when in a parade of providence, alhaitham comments that kaveh postures himself as an upperclassman when he doesn’t behave with the sagacity of one when it comes to self-preservation, and kaveh takes this to mean that he has to ‘earn’ the right to be alhaitham’s senior, which lmao is NOT what alhaitham was saying

and now here, rather than pointing out that any issues he has with how kaveh perceives the senior-junior dynamic, alhaitham says that he appreciates kaveh’s sentiment in looking out for him, man,,, there’s so much to unpack here, but then alhaitham stepping up to bear the same responsibility as kaveh-?

and then the rules of the chess game being that they have to work TOGETHER on equal footing in order to gain victory, aka true wisdom, OH OKAY!!

kaveh and alhaitham are designed as functioning opposites that make up a whole picture, their philosophies and respective fields of study are on opposite sides of the mirror, but each side of the mirror is integral to the other side, like the black and white of the chess board

Definitely a biter-

I CAVED OKAY