#dfy11

i don’t see her as obsessively infatuated at all, i see her as in love and doing the most she can to help jk. she went so long without even being able to admit to herself that she liked him because it would be ‘wrong’. at part 8/9 she told him that she loved him the first time, and it was because she felt like he needed to hear it, he was having some sort of break down and she just wanted to help. earlier that day, when she asked him to move in with her, she accepted his ‘no,’ and offered the apartment if he wanted to live there with someone else. everything she does, she does because she loves him and wants him to be happy, especially since his life has been so hard. he said that he regretted the procedure and she got really worried. i think i’d say that her focus lies more with wanting him to know that he is loved than that she loves him if you get what i’m saying. and she also tells him that she loves him because she knows that she was so close to losing him, and having anything unsaid would break her.

in this chapter she does look a little obsessed but it’s more with the scales, i’d say. he left really abruptly and it traumatized her (she didn’t get to say goodbye like she planned, she would never know what happened to him and she knew he’d be alone, she blamed herself for it as well) and the only thing she had to remember him by and keep her sane (she’d known a siren after all) was the scales. she feels like he might leave again and she just wants to make sure she’d get through that as well. not only were they a reminder of him, but also of that time of her life that she’d thought she left behind when he left.

jk is insecure, he’s always sorta been, even though he isn’t really by nature. for a very long time, he’s lived under extreme circumstances. at the lab he was just wary of humans in general since they’d done him really no good, like, ever. but when he’s ‘human,’ he’s undergone huge, risky surgeries and everything is new to him and he has so many emotions, and in a certain way, he doesn’t want to be too much because if he doesn’t have reader and the others, then he really has no one to help him. that’s all beside the fact that he loves her just as much as she loves him, she’s just saying it a lot more to help him focus on positive things while he’s going through so much, and because he just isn’t that ‘wordy’ lmao. he’s come a long way and it’s easy to forget that he wasn’t even used to talking before reader showed up at the tank. he isn’t as good at expressing himself, it isn’t really stated, but he just sorta assumes that she knows how much he loves her. 

when it comes to the attention and validation, yes, he wants it, he really does. he’s never been loved or cared for like that before, and to him it’s addicting, and since she’s happy to give it to him, it just always happens. but again, i’d say it’s more because he loves her and wants to be close to her rather than feeling that his insecurity demands it.