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Okay.

Reasons why Max Vandenburg loves Liesel Meminger more than he fears the Nazis: a small collection

One. You know how there are characters that touch each other so rarely that it becomes really, really noticeable when they do?

Max and Liesel are these characters, mostly because, you know, Max MAKES A REALLY BIG DEAL ABOUT IT WHEN IT HAPPENS. She gives him a hug, he completely freaks out and rips pages out of Mein Kampf (the thing that had been metaphorically strangling him! The Jew smothers Hitler’s words to make a fairytale for a child! HOLY SHIT WHAT DO I DO WITH THAT?) and writes her The Standover Man. She brings him a snowman, depositing it from her hands to his own, and he loves it so much he catches pneumonia from it and almost dies (did we mention Max makes overreaction his art?) When he wakes up, he doesn’t want to sleep again, so she keeps vigil and keeps shaking him awake. He teaches her how to do push-ups. She gives him a haircut. With the two of them, there’s this definite undercurrent that physical contact is a gift (in contrast to Rudy, who [not always, of course!!!] treats physical contact as a reward.)

Two. I might be wrong about this one, I don’t have my book on me, but when Max draws himself and Liesel, doesn’t he always draw them holding hands? In the Word-Shaker, on the wall with the tightrope cloud? Or is it just in that sketch of them on the mountain of bodies? Either way, the only times we see Max drawing himself as a human is usually when Liesel’s with him. The rest of the time, he’s that bird thing.

Three. AND THEN. AND THEN THERE’S THE PARADE.

Just. Like, remember in the beginning, when Death’s giving you Max’s life story and zhe’s like, “Oh, in case you were interested, there were girls in this time,” and it’s just like, “… why are you telling me this. Right now, Max is mangy, filthy, and starving, what do I care about his sexual history?” And then he kisses Liesel in the street and it’s like, NO NO JESUS FUCK ON A STICK YOU’RE RIGHT, I CARE.

She enters the parade to get to him and she grabs his face and she quotes The Word-Shaker at him and he kisses her palm and that was it for me. JUST. N O P E. Max Vandenburg kisses that girl’s hand in front of God and Germans and everybody he’s afraid of even though they’re both going to be (and are!) punished for it, because hers is the first kind touch he’s felt since he fled Himmel Street.

And Liesel. Liesel. Before that point, kissing was just an abstract idea to her. She wanted Rudy Steinner to kiss her that Christmas in his father’s shop but couldn’t ask. There was an entire chapter where she thought about him naked and just went asdfghjkl HELP BOY FLESH WHAT DO I DO WITH THAT??? But it isn’t until Max puts his mouth on her first that she finally finds the words for what she wants, that she’s able to look at Rudy and think, kiss me on the mouth, kiss me on the neck, so that she can get that feeling back.

Four. When Max gets out of Dachau, the first thing he does is shave. The second thing he does is to come find Liesel Meminger.

And, like, while part of me is 110% here for Max being the husband that Death mentions at the end, part of me also … wants both of them to marry other people, too? I think that would be healthier for them, tbh, if they loved and dated people who had absolutely nothing to do with Germany or the Holocaust. (And hell, them being married to other people doesn't necessarily mean Liesel's children aren't Max's. JUST SAYING.) BUT. I absolutely need, need, need some kind of assurance that Max and Liesel stayed together, that some part of them said “till death do us part” there on the floor in Alex Steinner’s shop when Liesel was sixteen, that no power, no man, no Reich ever separated them again.

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[8:08:02 PM] Zoe: balls are weird

[8:08:07 PM] Lisa K: zoe

[8:08:09 PM] Lisa K: where is this coming from

[8:08:14 PM] Zoe: http://25.media.tumblr.com/fa422fcf78774031cd340e7de272b3e5/tumblr_msh4v2KrEM1s4kdoeo1_500.jpg

[8:08:16 PM] Zoe: this picture

[8:08:17 PM] Lisa K: i mean i completely agree with you but

[8:08:24 PM] Lisa K: whaaaaaat the fuck

[8:08:30 PM] Lisa K: it looks like a graboid going for his ass

[8:08:40 PM] Zoe: omfg

[8:09:02 PM] Zoe: omfg i had a feeling it was a tremors reference but omg i couldn't remember FUCK IT DOES

[8:09:17 PM] Lisa K: SERIOUSLY

[8:09:26 PM] Lisa K: like what the fuck is that graying wrinkled disaster i would not want it near my body

[8:09:47 PM] Lisa K: maybe that's why they're fucking as opposed to blowjobs

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