#she cling...................................

"Why couldn't you love me?!"

"I do!"

Steve and Jonathan are finally not at each other throats all the time- friendly even - and then here Robin. Walking into the room, sniffling the air, and looking Jonathan in the eyes before saying, “Ew, smells like little bitch in here.”

Jonathan is confused. Steve is amused but a little baffled because like, “Robin, that’s the third time you’ve done that. What’s the deal with you and Jonathan? Did he do something?”

“Why do you think I did something?” Jonathan asks.

“You’re my best friend, Steve,” Robin explains. “My platonic with a capital P soulmate. My other half. My twin sep-“

“Okay.”

“And he beat you up and stole your girlfriend,” She adds. “It’s my goddamn given right not to forgive him on your behalf and since you’re not going to be bitch to him anymore than-“

the way she subtle ways mentally separates "people" and "prisoners", only ever referring to them as "convict". they never even record their names. they're criminals. they're bad people who've done bad things so whatever happens is their own fault. COI tells their story of what happened to the station and that the Convict was at fault for it, so she believes it without questioning his side (something to be said here about the bias perspective told by governments to further their own goals, to have more prisoners to "rehabilitate" by risking their lives for their future, but thats a whole other thing). he's proving himself to be a person, that he deserves to live by being willing to die for the sake of the COI humanity. how the idea of the potential and a better future outweighs a human life.

And she’s so deep in denial about it. She sounds genuinely confused when Simon makes her say that they won’t kill/abandon him repeatedly. She’s insisting it's not a death sentence or a punishment but they’ve left people down there to die when they became “unrecoverable”. The constant lying to Simon about the situation even when there isn’t any reason to do so. Burying herself so deep in the idea that everything they do is for the betterment of humanity that the convicts stop being people and become unfortunate but necessary casualties. whats a criminal's life when humanity is at sake?

She wants so badly to believe she’s just a captain doing what’s best for everyone but there's conditions on who counts in "everyone." she’s an executioner. A guillotine or a sub – it’s all the same outcome in the end. And as the movie goes on she starts to understand that too.

the guilt in her voice when she tells Simon they aren't coming for him, because it just proves every time he questioned her promises about his survival was right. He was right not to trust them, they’re no more reliable or noble than Eden because they still abandoned those that placed their faith in them. She sent them to die and she never even learned their names. They weren't even on record. They're nameless disposable bodies to these people and now when directly confronted with it she can't ignore it anymore.

at the end she's finally willing to push back against the COI (even then it's only with the promise of the other ship's data, but it is something). promising Simon his freedom instead of just his return. finally willing to challenge her own rigid ideas of personhood and put herself at risk for the greater good, the great discovery, the thing that could save them all.

historical trans people are going to say they were born in the wrong body sometimes

historical gay people are going to call their lovers "my friend," or their attraction a sin despite never trying not to act on it, sometimes

historical enslaved people are going to speak positively about things their enslavers did for them sometimes

historical women- even very active, independent women -are going to be anti-suffragists sometimes

The reason that Rumi was able to deal with wearing long sleeves 24/7 when she was still trying to hide her patterns was because her demon half has an affinity for high temperatures.

We don't really get to see much of the afterlife/the demon realm in this movie save for Gwi-ma's general throne room area, but assuming that this version of hell is at least loosely based on the ten gates/courts + considering the fact that Gwi-ma himself is a literal talking bonfire, it makes sense that the demons would be resistant to heat + might potentially prefer warmer environments. That being said, wouldn't it be funny if thanks to her demonic heritage, Rumi just naturally gravitates to heat like a reptile.

When Mira and Zoey start taking her to the bathhouse regularly she just spends hours in the hanjeungmak (kiln sauna) basking like a lizard while the other two are melting trying to accompany her. She has ten space heaters and a sun lamp in her room. When she starts sleeping in the same bed as Mira and Zoey she likes being sandwiched between them partially because she's touch-starved, but also because they're both very warm and her lizard brain (demon brain?) automatically associates that with comfort and safety and home. Mira and Zoey have fully come home to her stretched out across the couch with the curtains open like a cat in a sunbeam.

Bonus points if she gets really sad and mopey during the winter because it's not as warm anymore and Mira and Zoey are just trying everything to cheer her up. The reason they have a fireplace in the penthouse now is purely because they clocked her sitting as close to the heater as possible and went "nope. absolutely not. this cannot do. if the wife is not happy the life is not happy" and promptly got a renovation crew on speed dial to install a fireplace and rework the entire heating system

At some point they just accept that their girlfriend is probably some flavour of cold-blooded and just buy her a bunch of electric blankets so she doesn't feel the need to turn on the heaters in the penthouse "in the middle of summer, Rumi, what the fuck-"