#ciel rants

SO.

ISSAC NIGHT.

issac. probably quickly becoming one of if not my favourite overall character in wednesday

there’s a running bit on the internet that’s like a common joke in the fandom from what i’m seeing abt the relationship between issac and his sister, francoise

a lot of ppl are jokingly calling them the “siblings or dating final boss” and honestly it irritates me to no end

i mean like if you were looking at the characters and saw like maybe 1 or 2 scenes of them and you didn’t know they were siblings? okay then maybe i could understand why you’d misinterpret it as non-platonic love

but if you’ve watched the full show and saw the same scenes i did, i honestly don’t really understand the whole “siblings or dating final boss” joke

because yes, issac is unhealthily devoted to his goal of helping francoise. yes, there are some scenes where he is very much like- in her personal space but if i’m remembering the scenes correctly to me it never read as romantic??

like

francoise was locked away in willow hill for over a decade with no idea if she’d ever see her son, her husband, or any other member of her family again

she knew that issac was dead, which, again, issac was dead for 30 years.

so imagine you’ve just been able to escape from the practically asylum you were trapped in and proclaimed dead for the past decade, you finally get to reunite with your son, and then all of a sudden: your brother walks in the door.

the one you thought died 30 years ago.

but he’s back. and he still wants to help you with the mission he was so devoted to back then.

wouldn’t you be happy?? wouldn’t you spend a lot of time with him?? wouldn’t you be very physically close to them because you missed them??

like yes, issac is insanely devoted to his goal of helping francoise.

but to me it never read as anything other than sibling love??

like, he finally gets to reunite with his sister after being dead for 30 years, he finally has another good shot at completing his lifelong mission, and on top of that he finally has a chance for revenge against those who were responsible for his death

so he takes the opportunity because of course he does! why wouldn’t he??

like this is his lifelong dream. he had a whole laboratory in iago tower just for this

of course he’s devoted to it! of course he’s excited and talking with francoise about it!

of course he’s like savouring the fact that he can hug francoise again, need i remind you that he was DEAD FOR 30 YEARS??

idk if anyone will read this or care about this but man i needed to put my thoughts somewhere because i love issac night and i will not take any incest jokes about him and francoise

if people want to correct me on stuff / point out scenes that make it look a lot more like non-platonic love please tell me, it might just be that i’m not remembering those scenes

anyways

holy yap