#*yapping

Like, I’m not necessarily arguing with the Doylist reading that Solo’s booking and character writing are inconsistent. But I’m personally more interested in the Watsonian reading of Solo as someone who behaves inconsistently and sometimes even erratically because that’s how his flavor of attachment problems shakes out. One of his confrontations with Jacob in the immediate aftermath of Jacob betraying him that highlighted this really well was him extending Jacob the offer to come back but then still swinging first after he’d only given Jacob a few beats in time to consider it. The second it even looked like his tactic of playing nice might not work, he completely dropped it in favor of fighting. It so clearly showed the frantic, panicked decision-making of someone who’s used to relying on connection and support from someone who IS THEMSELF HIGHLY ERRATIC AND VOLATILE (wonder who that could be?) that it’s shaped my entire reading of him since. Like, yeah he was begging Jacob to come back to him and then turned around on him hard enough to try and get him thrown in jail the second it seemed like getting him back might not work. Environment where getting your emotional needs met means being able to weather the kind of constant mood swings where no one strategy will consistently be effective, AND where sometimes the only behavior that will make it clear that you have an unmet emotional need in the first place is something extreme? Of course he’s acting like this

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