#nico ramirez

I don’t ship Clancy and Nico...? like, at all? even in the best case scenario where Clancy was given the opportunity to heal from all his trauma and change fundamentally as a person, I still wouldn’t ship it. they don’t work together. they’d still very much give off a toxic, power-imbalance dynamic and I don’t like it

I think it’s because Nico is too soft? don’t get me wrong, I love soft characters paired with hardened characters who are massive dickheads, but the problem for me is that Clancy has aimed a lot of that mistreatment towards Nico. he manipulated and used Nico throughout the entirety of the second book. Clancy used Nico’s love for him against him, and I don’t think Clancy claiming to have changed while Nico’s is still the same person fundamentally will ever function healthily

maybe it’s just because I hate that kind of ship. where the abusive enemy of a more timid and soft character gets to claim they’ve changed and the softer character goes waltzing into their arms. even if they have changed, it’s usually not by enough, and knowing Clancy... yeah, I don’t think him and Nico would ever work out together in a semi-healthy fashion if Nico keeps having the same temperament and self-confidence he’s always been shown to have