I'm response to @mylu comment on this post:
thanks for asking, now deal with me
Premise: when you fall in love with someone you tend to unconsciously put them on a pedestal, highlighting their best qualities —and unconsciously overlooking the others—; however, sometimes such standards are way too high because they're the result of you excessively idealizing another human to almost perfection. I'm not saying edwin did this overnight or at extremes, but probably it started happening at some point within the thirty years they have known each other, and edwin wasn't even aware of what was happening in his head, that's for sure.
Explanation: what I'm trying to say is that probably charles was aware of edwin expecting something from him. I mean he didn't take that as edwin being in love with him but just as his only friend believing in him and his capacity to be the persona he had been carefully handcrafting, so he kept going with it, being the kind, brave, sunshine character, and don't get me wrong, he is all those good things (but there's more in him yk?)
the truly funny thing about this id that i don't think that mask was perfect, I think there were cracks here and there, but they weren't as noticeable as what happened after the devlin's case —and crystal wasn't there to break the news to both of them about reality— maybe charles actions were passed as excusable or even reasonable by edwin himself.
perhaps charles did some violent shit when he couldn't deal with his anger and edwin thought that it was just the force needed to save them both from a dangerous situations or solve a case, and then, charles learned to use all sorts of weapons because deep down he was still feeling in danger and probably edwin though that he was just being dedicated with their job —and good and strong and smart and just trying to keep them safe from all the dangerous creatures out there— [corrected cause I made a mistake here] (...)
did this in such an unconscious way that when crystal told him about charles and what was happening with him, he had to stop for a second and restart his brain to re-evaluate all the moments within the past thirty years.
and don't get me wrong, facing charles' bad side was not about to make edwin love him any less... If something, the pain, suffering, anger and trauma were not about to erase their feelings, but the contrary, being truth to one another is what ends up reinforcing their relationship.













