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If you missed the last chapter yes this is Intern x Habit. Or Habit x Intern,, we haven’t figured that out quite yet.
Their dynamic is dependent on the theory that Intern is an anomaly. I can imagine in this universe Habit finds joy in tormenting people- specifically Evan- by killing them of course. And well, eating them. Evan is checked in to the hospital, killed/eaten by Habit, and when Evan realizes what happened he runs away. After a unfortunate anomaly attack he’s forced to return, guilt ridden after indirectly causing the death of this random hospital worker due to this asshole anomaly that just won’t leave him alone- and finds the same dude sitting at the front desk.
Both him and Habit are confused by this, I imagine. Intern is free food for Habit- they come back, and back. They’re another fun thing to break for him.
Essentially, this Kikuo song!
He finds joy in breaking delicate things, and never gets consequences for it. Why do people treasure their life so much but leave themselves so *vulnerable* to him?
Cannibalism can be a terribly romantic act when done consensually imo (ahem, fictionally. Please don’t eat people??) For example, vampires! This is sort of like that. I’d compare him to Patrick Bateman in this respect :v Patrick kills people, does awful things to women, and well, more. But he never faces the consequences for it because he’s a rich white man.
That sort of thing is a part of my interpretation of Habits character. (Obviously not the rich white man and woman thing-) Habit kills for the sake of it. He didn’t have to eat Evan’s baby or kill Steph- he did it for fun. Even if you think he had a reason for it he absolutely didn’t have to make it hurt. I think he does this because there’s nothing else to do.
He’s lived so long stuck in this cycle that he’s just.. bored as fuck. And killing can be new! He gets different reactions from different people.
They do a lot of similar things he gets tired of and doesn’t understand- like saying ‘fuck you’, but anyway, different people react to different stimuli. So, Intern- an anomaly- is able to give him a completely different reaction than anything else because they just keep coming back. They keep surprising him- it’s new, new, new, every time. He hasn’t gotten bored yet. And so he keeps chasing.
On Interns side, I imagine that it’s a little different. A rabbits prey instincts can make it freeze at the precise moment where it is pertinent to fight back. But Intern isn’t exactly a rabbit, they’re an anomaly. One that, while being amicable and sort of just.. an uncanny friend to their coworkers, is still an anomaly. They find the chase exhilarating- their prey instincts fight with what has changed in them since becoming an anomaly. Prey instincts tell Intern to run while anomaly instincts say fight back. This thought process is exciting. It’s not monotonous work- it’s real. Habit makes them feel real. Pain, being eaten, or eating someone else- make them feel real. And so! That is their dynamic :)
Habit is a character we aren’t given a lot of info on- we get tidbits of his past through blog posts that allude to him possessing historical serial killers (which I genuinely find boring and sorta insensitive as a concept, and don’t like at all so it’s not a part of my interpretation of canon,,) so a lot of my thoughts on his character are just.. made up. If this doesn’t match with your interpretation that’s fine! :) I’m the odd one out here lol.
Intern is sort of the same way, though animal hospital is a pretty new piece of media. Perhaps more info will make this ship more exciting. Or not.. who knows?
