Nory

Wanting to interact with a mutual but they're so cool it's scary

it is actually so tragic that the naturals didn't get the level of popularity that the inheritance games got because its premise allows for a basically episodic format where you could drop like 5 new books rn and it wouldn't feel dragged. not every case they solve has to be personal but actually they can still be personal without being literally personal (see lia with the cult in bad blood) and after bad blood we were still left with an insane amount of character arc potential. 5 new books is just 5 new cases this is literally their job and we can put each of them in so so so many situations. in tig however these are rich kids from texas there's only so many situations you can put them in and puzzles you can make them solve before it gets too contrived since all of their "villains" have to be personal for the story to make sense. do you get what i mean. the inheritance games is a short netflix mystery show. the naturals is a 2000s procedural with 17 seasons. their fates getting inverted is one of the great tragedies of modern literature. to me.

in fact. i'd go as far as to say that "jameson proposes to avery at the end of tgb and they get married in the epilogue 🥺" is almost as out of touch with the characters involved as "grayson still loves avery and she'll eventually break up with jameson and settle down with gray 🥺" like oh so you like the idea of this ship more than you like the actual characters in the ship and just want them to Be Endgame™ above everything else regardless of how out of character it is bc they're really just self inserts for your traditional romance fantasies. oh okay. you could've just said that