#bryce walker

omg hi!! i am so glad you asked ^^ honestly that’s why i hesitated posting about bryce too because society makes it so simple that doing bad things = monster = hate and bad = avoid, and anyone who dares to even analyze them is automatically “defending” them but that’s not what this is.

i’m not excusing bryce and i’m not saying he’s necessarily redeemable nor am i saying any of it is okay but he is fascinating, and not because he’s a “bad boy” or anything superficial like that. he’s fascinating because he’s a product of patterns that actually exist in real life — abuse, neglect, extreme privilege, lack of accountability, zero empathy modeled as a child, no guidance or nurturing. that’s literally how dangerous people are made, and society refuses to look at it so we just slap “monster” on top and move on.

but for me, i get him because of my life experiences have been me growing up surrounded by violence and assault, so it kinda becomes a second language. and you recognize the patterns instantly in a person. the anger, the control, the obsession, the way someone uses power because they never learned how to love or be loved. and it’s the same reason i resonate with rafe too. i see them as the same person, different font. hollow boys who never got what they needed as children, and society just feeds them toys and privileges while forgetting to teach them about humanity.