ALRIGHT actual comment that’s not just me screaming incoherently into your inbox let’s go!
Okay, first of all, continue to love Melanie and Georgie in this. [SOUNDS OF RECORDER BEING PUNTED] you go Melanie
For someone who hasn’t had his agency about him for the majority of the story, Jon’s had such a good arc and this is such a wonderful culmination of it. I love how he’s still struggling with his feelings of fear at, especially, forgetting and being forgotten/alone, and with his tendency to cope by in turns lashing out and being stubbornly reckless.
It’s just, it’s the relationship between him and Martin, because it’s the consequences for Martin that makes he realise he doesn’t want to be complicit even if they’re never going to see each other again, but also Martin’s acknowledgement that it HAS to be his choice. And I love how, in the end, of the extreme limitations on choices Jon has, he still manages to make one that’s entirely his own, because while the life he’s saving is his own, his loyalty to md care for others IS such a big part of his character motivation, and so to have the foundation of his choosing to leave be the hope he’ll see Martin again is just. Perfect. (Also romantic love or not they’re still anchors and 🥺)
So when he goes through it’s on HIS terms in a contrast to his lack of choice throughout the story and it’s sad and /earned/ and aahhhhhh
Okay that ended up incoherent regardless, I just love this chapter??
(Also was the FABRIC RUSTLES ON MARTIN’S END an intentional reference because Oh)
Re: Apple of Your Eye 13/??? (part 4)
Okay, first of all, continue to love Melanie and Georgie in this.
[SOUNDS OF RECORDER BEING PUNTED] you go Melanie
For someone who hasn’t had his agency about him for the majority of the story, Jon’s had such a good arc and this is such a wonderful culmination of it. I love how he’s still struggling with his feelings of fear at, especially, forgetting and being forgotten/alone, and with his tendency to cope by in turns lashing out and being stubbornly reckless.
It’s just, it’s the relationship between him and Martin, because it’s the consequences for Martin that makes he realise he doesn’t want to be complicit even if they’re never going to see each other again, but also Martin’s acknowledgement that it HAS to be his choice. And I love how, in the end, of the extreme limitations on choices Jon has, he still manages to make one that’s entirely his own, because while the life he’s saving is his own, his loyalty to md care for others IS such a big part of his character motivation, and so to have the foundation of his choosing to leave be the hope he’ll see Martin again is just. Perfect. (Also romantic love or not they’re still anchors and 🥺)
So when he goes through it’s on HIS terms in a contrast to his lack of choice throughout the story and it’s sad and /earned/ and aahhhhhh
Okay that ended up incoherent regardless, I just love this chapter??
(Also was the FABRIC RUSTLES ON MARTIN’S END an intentional reference because Oh)