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I found a love letter from my mums high school boyfriend along with some old photos. My parents were married for almost two decades, and she still has these hidden away in the attic,
I guess sometimes you just can’t completely erase someone
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Hey link can you write an analysis on Jack’s relationship with Lacie and her feelings for him, too??
Sure, Non!
I’ve done a meta on Jack and Lacie’s relationship from Jack’s perspective so this meta is going to be focusing exclusively on Lacie’s perspective. I think one thing a lot of fans miss out on is Jack and Lacie are both incredibly selfish people. The reason the past trio, Oswald, Jack and Lacie all had a falling out was because all three of them were flawed.
Jack and Lacie both had a selfish love for each other, but they did love each other. It wasn’t even necessarily romantic love, but Lacie's time with Jack was the closest either of them came to loving another person.
1. The Lonely One
Lacie and Jack are actually two people who have a lot in common, in fact they probably have too much in common to be close to noe another. The strongest link between them is that they’re both incredibly lonely people. This monologue in chapter “Lacie” is as much about Lacie as it is herself.
Jack and Lacie are two children who have been dehumanized throughout their entire lives. They were never once treated as children. They were instead defined and othered as something else. Jack was treated as a bastard of the Vessalius household. Lacie was treated as a Child of Misfortune. They were treated as anything but children.
This follows them into adulthood as neither of them are capable of seeing themselves as people. They both play up their otherness. Lacie is someone who deliberately plays up her pixie-like qualities. She pretends to be a carefree girl in love with the whole world. She basically wants to be seen the way Jack sees her, as a special, magical girl, who just descended into his life.
Lacie plays up her fickleness, her childishness. What she did with Jack wasn’t even a one time thing, she escapes from the mansion a lot, finds a person to dote on for the day, Glen even calls them “Her Pets.” Lacie wants to experience love, but she doesn’t want to love a person, and she doesn’t want to be loved as a person so she just sort of plays up this childish, fickle, version of herself to get people to fall in love with, dote on, and obsess over the fake version of herself.
Lacie pretends to be free spirited when she’s actually the opposite. She’s a child who has been raised all of her life knowing she’s going to die. That weighs heavily on her every single moment of her life. She can never experience the normalcy of life, or be a person, because she’s going to be killed, and killed by her own brother at that. She spends every moment of her life chained down by those heavy thoughts, and her only way of dealing with it is pretending to be carefree. If she pretends that she doesn’t truly care about anything, she’s detached from everything and everyone she detaches herself from the pain too.
2. Two Lonely Children
Jack didn’t really want to love Lacie as a person. He just wanted a reason to keep going. Lacie didn’t really want to be loved as a person. She just wanted to play pretend.
Lacie plays up the dreamlike qualities of herself to get someone to obsess over her and uses that as a substitute for real affection, and Jack wants to obsess over someone. As I said Lacie and Jack are incredibly similiar in some of the worst ways possible. They both craved that closeness with one another, but also were both completely unable to provide that closeness for each other because of the circumstances they were unable to break free of. Jack was unable to overcome his trauma, and Lacie didn’t try to shake free of her destiny of being killed one day.
Their feelings for each other are constantly held in parallel to one another. Jack and Lacie at the same time deny having any affection for each other as people.
They are both using each other selfishly to an extent. Lacie is going to die one day so there’s no point in her getting attached to anybody but she wants to experience a relationship and being in love so she gets Jack to obsess over her. Jack wants someone to obsess over, so he tries not to get too close because he’s afraid of losing her if the real Lacie is someone he doesn’t quite like.
Lacie and Jack humanize each other, because they were the closest thing each other came to a real human relationship. They also dehumanize each other, because both of them can’t really handle the real thing.
Glen even says so: If Lacie had asked him too, Jack probably would have charged into the Baskerville mansion to save her, and taken her away from everything. Lacie was too scared to ask, and Jack was too scared to step over his boundaries. Their relationship failed because of failures on both parts. However, there was a genuine affection there.
All of Lacie’s talk about knowing about the whole world, and loving the whole world is basically just babble. Manic pixie dream girl nonsense. What Lacie wanted wasn’t the whole world, but rather the small connection to save her from her loneliness. That’s why she projects that loneliness on the will of the abyss.
Lacie’s happiest memory was the time she spent together with Jack and Oswald, because those were the times she came closest to being a normal person. It’s not that she loved the whole world necessarily (though she was definitely in love with life and wanted to live) she wanted to show it to them. It’s togetherness and closeness especially with the two boys closest to her that Lacie wanted, but she couldn’t have because as much as she longed for it she was also afraid of that closeness because it required her to be a person and that would make dying eventually all the more painful. Lacie and Jack’s relationship is stunted and tragic, but they did mean something to each other, and they did give something to one another. Even if all they could give was a few short, beautiful memories. The time they spent together was the closest either of them came to loving and being loved. They each wanted to show each other the world. The closest they could both come was showing each other a few happy memories of a normal friendship between three people.
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How do u think Lacie felt about jack?
Lacie is probably the singular character with the most up to interpretation, being both incredibly important to the plot as a whole and having next to no narration or screentime. What little we do know for certain about her includes that she was thoroughly disconnected from her emotions, such that it never occurred to her that she was lonely after a lifetime of abuse and isolation until her brother expressed sorrow regarding her impending death. As such, I don’t want my following statement to be taken as “no, it’s 100% this, if you think otherwise you’re wrong,” simply that to me it seems most likely to be the intention in writing her feelings.
While I do believe Lacie loved Jack and cared deeply for him, I don’t believe that love was romantic, or a love that was somehow uniquely important to her. Jack, we’re led to believe, was the closest thing Lacie ever had to a friend outside of the Core. She enjoyed his presence, found genuine comfort in being with him, and, as we know, specifically lamented not being able to see him again after her death. However, none of these statements or emotions are inherently romantic, and Pandora Hearts has plenty of examples of deep, emotionally significant, yet still completely platonic relationships between men and women.
One of those relationships is that between Alice and Oz, one which is both explicitly non-romantic and very directly parallels the relationship between Lacie and Jack. I’m not the first person to point out the very obvious thematic and symbolic parallels between Alice/Oz and Lacie/Jack, parallels which are clearly intentional, given the multiple scenes in which their interactions are drawn and framed near-identically. Despite Alice and Oz’s physical and verbal affection with one another- they’ve hugged, they’ve kissed, on multiple occasions they’ve slept in the same bed, they’ve pretty openly stated their devotion to one another- their relationship has nonetheless been specifically characterized as one where sex and romance isn’t a factor. Oz had other love interests and in Caucus Race very plainly stated he found the idea of romance with Alice unsettling, and Alice seemed at best disinterested in romance with Oz. That’s not to say people can’t ship either of them, but Lacie/Jack and Alice/Oz have multiple direct, intentional parallels, and the latter is explicitly nonromantic.
Most evidence that Lacie’s feelings were specifically romantic come from her level of physical intimacy with him, which is fair. Alice and Oz are both children, and thus their physical affection with one another is more easily dismissed as the more innocent form of intimacy children often engage in. The degree of intimacy between Lacie and Jack was unusual, especially for two adults, unless there was acknowledged romantic tension between the two. The thing is, Lacie is actually the only person Jack never engaged physical intimacy with (excluding their first meeting as adults). He is physically affectionate with everyone, except Lacie, and Lacie herself stated that he had never moved to touch her after they first reunited. That doesn’t necessarily say anything about Lacie’s feelings for him, but it is important to acknowledge the implied reasons for Jack’s level of physical intimacy in nearly every interaction, and acknowledge Lacie is much the same. As I said before, Jack was probably the only friend Lacie had ever had aside from the Core. If we can agree that Jack engaging in unusual physical intimacy with many other characters wasn’t because he had genuine romantic feelings towards any of those characters, I think we can have the same room for doubt in Lacie’s interactions with Jack.
Lacie was, ultimately, an extremely loving person. Her existence was defined by love. She loved Jack, despite knowing Jack would never feel love for her in turn. She also loved her brother, and (probably) Levi, despite what they did to her. The single most important thing that she wanted to be understood about her at all costs was that she loved every world she had ever seen, and wanted to save everything she laid eyes upon. I don’t think there’s a problem reading romance into this, but I don’t think her feelings for Jack were more specifically romantic than her feelings for anything else.
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Khi mới vào công ty, mình đã thắc mắc vì sao chị H và anh Đ lại chơi thân với nhau, dù họ rõ ràng khác biệt hoàn toàn về tính cách, phong cách và lối sống. Một người như Justin Bieber một người như Hermione Granger vậy. Lúc sau mới biết họ chơi thân vì cùng thích âm nhạc. Đó là lĩnh vực không liên quan gì đến ngành nghề của bọn mình cả. Sau khi đi làm về rồi, buổi tối chị H thường hát và chơi organ, anh Đ thì sản xuất nhạc giật giật. Bởi vì họ biết đối phương có một tình yêu như vậy giống mình nên có cảm giác kết nối đặc biệt. Họ đều không ôm mộng làm MCK hay Tlinh gì cả, họ chỉ chơi nhạc vì họ thích được chơi nhạc thôi. Trong căn phòng trọ của chị H không có điều hoà, nhưng có đàn organ.
Hoàng thích đọc sách, nhưng chỉ một dòng sách duy nhất là sách khoa học viễn tưởng về tương lai. Cuốn nào viễn tưởng mà về quá khứ, hành tinh khác hay động vật gì đó là nó chê. Mình chưa bao giờ hỏi Hoàng vì sao. Nó tuyệt đối không đọc loại sách nào khác. Đọc như thế mười mấy năm rồi.
Cháu mình thích Người Nhện. Nó chỉ thích người Nhện, tuyệt đối không thích Superman, nữ hoàng Elsa, Doraemon hay Hulk. Thằng nhỏ bé tí xíu có thể tia được một chiếc mũ lưỡi trai Người Nhện ở cách xa 8km rồi gõ vai dì chỉ "Nhện kìa". Trong 7 tỷ cái video trên YouTube, nó chỉ xem video nào có Người Nhện. Xem như thế suốt cả năm rồi. Mình tin nó sẽ dành cả tuổi thơ để xem Người Nhện.
Anh J thích ăn ngô. Mùa hè cũng như mùa xuân, chưa hôm nào anh không xuất hiện với một bắp ngô.
G thích mặc áo dài. Tần suất nó mặc áo dài trên người chắc chắn nhiều hơn mọi cô giáo và tiếp viên Vietnam Airlines. G có đầy đủ mọi màu sắc áo dài trong tủ. Nó chỉ có vài ba bộ đồ bình thường. Mỗi lần hẹn mình, nó sẽ nhắn tin trước hỏi hôm nay nên mặc áo dài màu gì. Lần đầu tiên mình gặp G, G mặc chiếc áo dài màu tím Huế cực kỳ xinh đẹp.
Anh C thích đi xe bus. Dù có đầy đủ mọi phương tiện xe đạp, ô tô và xe máy riêng nhưng anh tự đặt KPI phải đi xe bus đi làm mỗi tuần ít nhất 2 lần, dù toàn lạc phải nộp tiền đi muộn gấp 10 lần tiền vé xe bus. Anh nói anh thấy mình có nghĩa vụ phải bảo vệ môi trường.
ĐK thích những câu chuyện vô tri. Cậu ấy có tiềm năng là người duy nhất ở Việt Nam này thắc mắc nếu một con chó to bằng con hổ đánh nhau với con hổ thật thì con nào sẽ thắng và tại sao mấy con gấu lại hay thất thần bên vệ đường. Thắc mắc những câu hỏi như thế mỗi ngày và viết 1000 từ để giải thích chúng. Mình chưa bao giờ biết ĐK trông như thế nào dù là đồng nghiệp mình, không biết ĐK buổi trưa thường đưa cơm hay gọi Shopeefood nhưng mình đã là bạn thân của cậu ấy 2 năm rồi.
Mình thích những câu chuyện như thế.
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