elsie 🕸️

There’s no way Nat doesn’t know or at least guess abt Lottie’s mental issues bc the way she treats her vs how everyone else does is starkly different. With everyone else, it’s “i can’t deal with crazy right now”, “she might actually be crazy”, etc, while with Nat it’s “this is very real, i promise”, “we buried him, remember?” which is such a soft and understanding way of going about it. Even when she’s angriest at Lottie, it’s “what is making you do this?” seeking understanding rather than dismissing her so callously as crazy. The simultaneous specificity and vagueness of seemingly knowing she has issues perceiving reality but not knowing exactly why she’s acting the way she is implies this middle ground of knowing something but not everything. And with how observant and naturally accepting Nat is (like figuring out that Ben was gay just by observation) i wouldn’t be at all surprised if this is something she just picked up on during school and that she and lottie had an understanding about

HARVEY BEING A FUCKING HAMSTER AAAAAA