it's alright, love

(voice of a man slowly losing his mind) does it ever strike you that the plot of aftg is moved by little acts of kindness kevin offered to people who never had any semblance of it before. loving riko when no one would, befriending jean in the nest and keeping him alive through debilitating amounts of trauma, telling andrew he was worth it in a dingy high school locker room, teaching neil every night even if he knew he was about to die

aftg heritage post

just thinking about how howl spent his entire life looking for sophie. he built an entire castle just to find her. he worked on both sides of the war because he didn't know which kingdom she was from. he dated pretty women because he thought she was beautiful the moment he saw her in the past. calcifer let her in because he knew she was the one. he really was looking everywhere for her. and i think i'm unwell.

robin cross and kevin day parallels actually go so crazy. they both spent their formative years in a basement underground with exy-obsessed captors. they both saw exy as freedom. they both were isolated even within the foxes’ group of outcasts. they were both under andrew’s protection. it cost kevin jean to leave the nest and it cost robin another girl’s life to escape her kidnapper. robin carried her racquet with her to self-soothe and kevin restrings the net of his when he’s anxious. they’re even bird coded

jeremy knox loser manic pixie rich girl of all time. regularly wakes up way too early. besties with his butler and a lesbian couple. waits for jean at the airport while failing to work a yoyo he probably bought on a whim. has familial issues he absolutely will not get into. bullies his crush into taking an honest-to-god ceramics class with him. gets his entire head bleached at the salon even though frosted tips would've been easier to maintain.