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onesidedradiostatic · 9 hours

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Real talk

Im sooooo tired of Vox always being portrayed as the victim and Alastor the only one 100% responsible for their friendship falling apart

Did we all suddenly forgot that Vox is a terrible person too? He brainwashes his audience, he supports Val, he is willing to offer his lowest employees for Val to kill, he's also prob abusive to his employees as well, he stalks pretty much everyone, he has like 5 cameras inside Angel's dressing room, also it's like implied he's jealous of Angel because he gets Val's attention, him being jealous of Angel for being a victim of abuse is pretty messed up if you ask me. Oh he also told Sir Pentious to fucking kill himself and he also gets hard of seeing people in pain and get hurt! (Sure it was Alastor but still messed up)

" he looks so sad at the end of stayed gone when Alastor threatens him I feel so bad for him:(("

Really ? Well maybe if he had just kept his little hate boner for Al to himself instead of feeling to need to start publicly slandering him it wouldn't had happened. Just saying. Also I don't see how people feel bad for him. If anything he looks so extremely pathetic it's laughable I want to kick him

Okay this is kinda out of the point I want to make it's just many people who make him the victim seem to forget he's a terrible person so I just wanted to friendly remind everyone that he's as awful as Al ^^

Anyway

I think, we should acknowledge, that it's a complicated, and probably tragic, situation. What if, maybe, they're both as equal at fault for shit going down hills for their friendship. Vox because he doesn't respect others wishes and cannot take no for an answer, he prob tried forcing Al to move on with recent technology, which Al hates. ((His request to Al to join the Vees also prob meant catching up with the nowdays stuff and new technology, like the rest of them)) and Al because he was prob unnecessary cruel and brutal with his rejection.

I don't think Al was just using Vox like I've seen many people say. He allowed Vox to take a picture of them together. For Al to do that I think it confirms their friendship was genuine. "Ah but it's Alastor so that means it was fake cuz he's an evil manipulative bastard who only cares for him-" You're wrong, but also right lol. He's an evil manipulative bastard, but , he's also capable of genuine friendships with others (( did y'all forget Rosie lol? )). What I think happened is that, time passed , things changed. Vox became obsessed with new technology and tried to force Al to follow in, Al didn't like that, but instead of communicating with eachother and solving their problems by talking it out and respect eachother's wishes, they had an unnecessary argument and fight. They're both to blame for this, they're no victims in the situation and it's okay you can still sympathise with eithers side

Also people who make Al the villain for like not returning Vox's confession and feelings in most One sided Radiostatic videos/fics I've seen-- yikes.. I really hate that I have to literally say to PLEASE don't villiantise the aroace character for being aroace and rejecting confessions. It's extremely ace/arophonic (and yes I get to have a say to this, I'm a replused aroace videos/fics like this genuinely make me feel negative emotions) even if he was extremely cruel with his rejection -- villiantise the fact that he's an asshole- not his rejection.

yes I agree!! this is essentially a consolidation of points I've made before ksdlfglg

like yes, alastor's an absolute shithead but I think there are some people who forget that vox is also... not a good person. I don't think there's anything wrong with there being sympathetic aspects to vox but I feel like there's such a huge amount of fanwork where he's the only one portrayed sympathetically without showing his own bad points in their relationship, and I absolutely hate it when alastor is fully blamed for how vox is now and vox is seen as

yeah

vox got pissy at a rejection, that's not being able to take no for an answer, that's incel behaviour LMAO

feel like there's something to be said about people feeling the need to sympathise with the one with unrequited feelings compared to the one who has to deal with someone expecting romance from them when they don't feel the same. does it have to do with society's expectations about romance that unrequited feelings are more sympathisable?

but yeah I am glad that at least the "complicated" part of the description of their relationship implies to me it won't be as simple as "vox was the poor victim and alastor was just using him", I think it is much more interesting if there's no clear victim and both were at fault in a way

#ask #osrs.txt #I'm gonna avoid heavy tagging because I don't wanna attract discourse #onewaybroadcast #okay to rb if you want though

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our-aroace-experience · 7 hours

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honestly sometimes i wish that people didn’t try to treat being aroace as something to fix or something super limiting

mostly i’ve just been having issues with my mom who, when i came out to her, just kept repeating stuff about how I shouldn’t get so attached to the label and keep my options open because i’m still young (i’m not that young, especially not when it comes to being interested in relationships ).

I personally know that my label may change at any time, but I just don’t want it to be the first thing I’m told.

also i am on birth control due to medical stuff and she had a conversation about what if I went off of it and after digging at her reasons for a while she talked about how she had less motivation to try in relationships when she was on birth control and i should try to see if anything’s changed. I know realistically she’s probably trying to help or something but still 🥲

you're absolutely right about your labels, just because it may change in the future doesn't invalidate it now! i'm sorry to hear about what your mum is saying, hopefully she comes around eventually.

#our aroace experience #aromantic #asexual #aro #ace #aroace #aroace asks #aro pride #ace pride

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scholar-of-yemdresh · 14 hours

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Hot take but the aggressive hardline separation of asexual and aromantic is actually EXTREMELY harmful to a lot of ace/aro people.

Angry rant under the cut

It's one to thing to go: "okay yes sometimes they go together but it's important to remember that for some people they can be different things and you can be one and not the other"

And go: "These are TOTALLY DIFFERENT 100 always separate there is no intersection EVER and if you DARE to be both then you have to piecemeal your identity to not uwu invalidate others(we do not care that we are invalidating you though lol) Don't you DARE ever experience them together you are CONFLATING"

It's like yall just want asexual to = alloromantic only and aromantic to = allosexual only.

You don't give a shit about aroaces, aces who aren't alloromantic but don't ID as aromantic or aros who aren't allosexual but don't ID as asexual.

The aspec community despises us. We get talked down to demanded to split our identities apart for your comfort. We can't exist in certain spaces because our presence there is a personal affront to allo-aspecs. Shout out to the alloaros that bitch about those disgusting aroaces just clogging up the aromantic tag ☺. Shout out to the alloaces who can still love and aren't totally heartless monsters 🥺.

Don't talk about ace shit in the aro tags, Don't talk about aro shit in the ace tags...what's that you're both? And can't neatly separate them and it brings you comfort to be able to discuss your whole orientation? SHUT THE FVCK UP YOU CONFLATING IGNORANT SHIT HEAD.

If you want to be in the aromantic community you have to leave your ace-ness at the door same for asexual community and disregarding your aromantism.

A personal example was an Aspec discord server I was in that had two media recs channels one for sex repulsed people and the other for romance repulsed. Now the issue came is that they didn't acknowledge someone could be both i.e both sex & romance repulsed/just looking for media that had neither sexual nor romantic content, what this lead too is that the romance free media channel was filled with graphic hookup erotica or sexually explicit songs and the sex free channel was just fade to black romance books 🙃...wonderful.

Or when polls/forms will ask you to pick your orientation but only things listed are het,gay,bi/pan yes even the ones made by aspecs, and what they actually mean is use the one that correlates to your romantic/sexual attraction...so fvck aroaces and non sam aces & aros?

And don't get me started on how you treat non sam aces & aros. You at least tolerate the self IDing aroaces, because they have the "curtesy" of separating themselves from the real proper aces & aros.(let's not question how many aroaces would prefer to just ID as just asexual or just aromantic but are forced into aroace identity because that would be "conflating" and they don't want to deal with the harassment).

"UwU don't say asexual when you actually mean aromantic" Some bitches don't use to SAM fvck off with allo-splaining my own sexuality to me.

It would be so much easier and save a lot of pain if yall just went : "asexual for some means no sexual attraction and it says nothing of your romantic attraction AND some people use it to mean no attraction generally". And "aromantic for some means no romantic attraction and it says nothing of your sexual attraction AND some people use it to mean no attraction generally" and "for some they are separated but others not so much as there isn't always a strict separation. Just be chill about it don't accuse people of being ignorant or conflating they know their identities better than you". But no ya chose violent aphobia instead.

But ultimately nobody cares because this shit is only harming the undesirable aces/aros the ones who are harmful stereotypes the ones that make you "look bad".

I know deep in my heart there are a lot of alloaces & alloaros that who would be happy if aroaces & non sam aces/aros didn't exist, there I said it. How can I not come to that conclusion when at every turn they shit on us. They talk about how the worst thing in the world is to be mistaken for one of us. That our representation is actively harmful.

A last parting spicy take it's either "asexulity and aromantism are full identities on their own and aren't modifiers" OR "actually neither asexual nor aromantic can stand on their own they need to be paired with another orientation and they actually are just modifiers" you can't have it both ways. 🤭

#asexual #aromanticism #aro #ace #non sam aro #aphobia #acephobia in the aro community #arophobia in the ace community #vent #i love how no matter what alloaces & alloaros can take a break from being aphobic to eachother and join forces where it really matters #being aphobic and hateful towards aroaces! I LOVE that aspec solidarity #the community also despises sex & romance repulsed aspecs but that's a rant for another day #also can we talk about how this has embolden full on allos to talk shit on aroaces??? excuse me???#when an allo bitch is talking down to you about how you're using asexual or aromantic wrong #bitch who the fvk are you? gtfo outta aspec spaces now interloper #aroace #non sam ace #I'm pissed so i might delete later lol #never forget the time on reddit i made a long post pleading with the community not to force the sam on all aces #and that non sam aces aren't ignorant or invalidating anyone and we should be shown grace and acceptance in the community #...only for an (allo?)ace to basically say it's my fault if people assume I'm alloace or accuse me of conflating if i ID as just ace #lol get bent

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beau-rebloga-coisas · 3 months

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You can be aro and gay. You can be aro and bi. You can be aro and pan. You can be aro and lesbian. Fucking shit, you can even be aroace and any of those words because sexuality and romantic orientations are complicated and you might be aroace and gay.

You can use any word to describe your attraction for forever and after for any reason and no one should require a PowerPoint presentation to decide if you're using the right labels or not

#Bernardo talks a lot #sorry It's because i saw a post saying that hcing a bi and a pan character as aro was erasing them which. no it's not you can be aro #and still be bi/pan #aroallos are a thing #know #arophobia #aromantic #and hell you can even be aroace and bi/pan #no one gets to decide which labels you use forever and after #signed a gay aroace tired of being nice #if you're in the right fandom you might know who am I talking about which #i will be blocking on sight if you're like “hm actually” because bi/pan people STILL CAN BE ARO #and that's non-negotiable

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princsstwilightsparkl · 2 months

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coming out as aroace was somehow a million times more traumatic than coming out as a lesbian, i dont want to know what people irl will say to me when i start saying im an aroace lesbian...

#sa warning for the tags->#'traumatic' as in lots of people threatened or attempted sa because they thought i was lying or they could fix me #other traumatic things happened but that was the worst part #at one point i dated a guy who essentially threatened and berated me until i admitted he 'fixed' me #and he seriously believed it #(my coming out timeline is complicated cuz i went back in the closet as aroace for a while- came out as lesbian- then as aroace again)#and people STILL say shit like this to me #something i experience as both aroace and a lesbian is how people will say they 'dont believe' me #because i have little crushes on fictional men ??#like HELPPPP OMG. me thinking kristoff from frozen is hot does not negate that i have zero attraction to actual men at all #like thats actually a hilarious thing to say #aromantic #asexual #aroace #arospec #aro pride #meowing (yapping)#venting #?

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oceanwithouthermoon · 4 months

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https://x.com/d3kutism/status/1741579841764475157?s=46

it should be illegal to be this fucking stupid so loudly and confidently omg..

mfs on the internet preach about "media literacy" yet they completely gloss over the fact that the only damn things that kusuo "canonically" is are a tsundere, an unreliable narrator, and a fucking liar LMFAOOO.. babe thats like basic reading comprehension, im sorry..

EDIT: it should go without saying not to send a person hate just because of a silly post like this one(+i dont have any reach anyway so im sure it wouldnt happen, but i wanna say this nonetheless lol) but i would just like to say that i just checked and realized that this person is 15 years old, so like... yeah, too young to be arguing with grown people on the internet. dont take this too serious or send this person hate pls lol..

#nobody who isnt aroace is allowed to tell ME what character has to be aroace #yall forget that we aroaces (+ESPECIALLY autistic aroaces) dont want or need your ugly white knight savior bs #'oh but im aroace n i also think hes aroace🤓' ok?? should i care about your hcs?#have your projection hcs or your regular random hcs- i literalky DONT care #but it becomes an issue when u try so desperately to defend it like this #like babe u sound so dumb☠️#its so confusing to me how u chronically online weirdos insist on making ur hcs canon #i promise u guys ur hcs dont have to be canon for u to enjoy them #its a VERY popular hc too like tf more do u want #im autistic and aroace and i say kusuo is demi and autistic #i am him and he is me so i know factually/j #so still on the aroace spectrum but either way i dont force my hcs on other people like u selfish weirdos do LOL #also this person and the replies being like 'just cuz not all autistic ppl r aroace doesnt mean none can be' YEA OBVIOUSLY?#UR ARGUING WITH THE WALL AND ITS CRAZY CUZ NOBODY EVER SAID THAT #literally not one fucking person said he cant be aroace- just that it isnt canon #do u even fucking hear urselves.. YOURE the ones saying he cant be anything other than aroace.. so YOURE the one doing the forcing..#u guys love pushing ur stereotypes on others and then defending it to high fucking hell #anyway sorry i dont have a public twitter so im saying my piece here #the link looks suspicious as hell twitter pwease give me a better link #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k.#saiki kusuo #meows post

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diseaseriddencube · 3 months

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scared to look up alastor on ao3, because while I'm not opposed to people shipping alastor/putting him in saucy scenarios and whatever else that has become a drama- but i know that's ALL it's gonna be, and he is not gonna be in character is he 😩

#rave ramblees #hazbin hotel #put him in a romance sure. it's got my (questionably) aroace stamp of approval #but keep it in character #he's gotta hate it #or have ulterior motives #or actually care but still be not super emotional and lovey dovey #....will i find whump scenarios for him? probably not 😭#i'm saying all this having not actually read a single fic for him #perhaps my standards are low #though this is the fandom i see making him kiss people and requesting saucy lines in the old streams-#oooh i do remember there was an old smut comic i saw for him years ago #and he was a little vulnerable but it was still well balanced #i think something like that would be enjoyable in a fic #...who made it..hattie? something like that-

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mmmmwaffles94 · 7 months

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Me, an aroace: I want to hug you and give you so many kisses. My love for you is as deep as the ocean's trenches and as vast as the shining void-filled sky. I love you. No romo.

#this is to all my irl friends #my virtual friends #and you #reading this now #i love you #aromantic #aroace #my depression doesn't let me voluntarily see people more than once a month #i am very burnt out but still working #what a horrible hellscape we live in #my heart is still full and i think of my friends every day #fuck anyone who says platonic love is less than or 'not enough'#well maybe not 'fuck' just...idk push them down or something #this was supposed to be a humorous post what happened?#i decided to make this post at 1am i guess #1am is Heartfelt Melancholy TimesTM #i guess

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libraryleopard · 4 months

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Young adult contemporary coming-of-age story (releases 4/16, I read an early copy from Netgalley)

Follows two first-year students at Wellesley College who run dueling anonymous advice columns and befriend each other in real life as they bonded over both being aroace, unaware of the other's internet identity

Platonic love story

Explores themes like aroace identity, finding community, being the queer child of immigrants, and trying to find your place in the world as a young adult looking towards the future

Love letter to platonic/familial love and finding community

Aromantic asexual Chinese American protagonist; aromantic asexual gender-questioning/nonbinary (she/they) protagonist; lots of QPOC side characters

#i got an arc of this and read in basically one day while on a road trip!#i found it very engaging/easy to read #the feud between the main characters is very petty but they're both still quite likable #sophie is very relatable to me as someone who until recently was also a type-a student at a liberal arts college #i think the characters balance each other out very well also #like sophie is very organized and jo is a bit more of a mess #but jo is also less confident in her identity #this talks a lot about aroace identity and i hope that will make a lot of people feel seen #personally i really loved seeing a college coming-of-age story about friendship #because the friendships i formed in college were personally wayyy more important to me than dating #so even though i don't identify as aroace part of me still felt very seen #(that and i knew a lot of aspec people in college)#their feud is kind of petty and terminally online but that's kind of the point in the end #okay i do have to say though #jo's music taste as a dj is SO basic #also this comped to loveless and the half of it so it did amuse me that those are name-dropped in the story #actually there are some aro/ace books that are mentioned though not by name #i think i caught a reference to elatsoe and another one to fire becomes her?#that was cute ngl #dear wendy #ann zhao #2023 reads #lulu speaks #lulu reads #lulu reads dear wendy #books

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theposhperyton · 2 days

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All evidence suggests yes

#starting a new power scaling system for the warlords of the sea but im rating them based on whether i think theyre an ally or homophobic #kuma is an ally because photos dont lie and hes clearly wearing an ally pin #also you cant spend that much time around somebody with the title “Queen of the Queers” and somehow be homophobic afterwards #unless youre sanji but hes still on his internalized homophobia growth arc. i believe in you buddy you can beat this #crocodile is trans and baroque works is the alphabet mafia in a literal form #with that said. he has the energy of “im not homophobic yall are just annoying”#doffy has the energy of a homophobic homosexual #like hed kiss a guy and then call him a f*g and throw him out a nearby window #jimbei joins the strawhats so ofc HES an ally #blackbeard sucks but i dont think hes homophobic #hes one of those people you meet and theyre just the worst all around and youre like “man this guy has gotta be homophobic”#somebody mentions their partner and you go “oh boy here it is” but he just has no reaction whatsoever #hes such a problem but at least hes not homophobic on top of everything else #Gecko Moria is such a virgin that i dont think he knows being gay exists any more than he knows being straight does #Typa MFer who thinks “sex” is just a synonym for gender #also hed see your top scars and get excited because he thinks youre a zombie #gecko moria probably thinks LGBT is an acronym for some branch of the navy that he doesnt know (or care) about #Because Boa lives on Sapphic island i would jump the gun and immediately say she's an ally but i feel that its more complicated than that #not unlike moria. she also doesnt actually have a real strong grasp on being straight vs being queer #but thats just because shes used to everybody being whipped for her equally #somebody tries to explain it to her and shes just like “??? but theyre all obsessed with me?”#if she ever encounters a gay man it will be a reality shifting event for her #id say itd be the same if she met a sex/romance indifferent aroace but like #monkey d luffy #its already happened #mihawk is probably both an ally and queer himself but he just minds his own business so much that we may never know #one piece #seven warlords #warlords of the sea #bartholomew kuma

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yourlocalseanameduser · 5 months

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Watching the same (mostly white) people who pat themselves in the back for risking their jobs, credibility, and name in general, for standing up for queer rights, feminism, poc rights, and also preach on hating the government and then turn around and support the colonist settlers bombing innocent lives for some of the most ridiculous reason ever makes me want to give these people a reality check on how they're not the saviors they make themselves look

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raeofgayshine · 8 days

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I wish I could go back and tell younger me that I would in fact find that place one day full of people that I adore deeply and who I know love me in return. Who make me feel wanted and cared for and appreciated in a way I never thought would be possible. And none of it required hiding, or forcing myself to be a person I’m not. And I still have that space even though I’m aroace.

For the first time ever, I see a future where I’m not alone. And I wish I could go back and tell my younger self it would happen. It’s possible to not be constantly lonely.

#ravenpuff rambles #I’ve been lucky enough in my life to make amazing friends several times #several of whom are still in my life now #but it’s only been recently that I’ve felt like I truly found my place #I don’t know how to explain it #I guess up until now I have always gone into friendships expecting them to end and holding back just a little bit #and this is the first time I don’t feel like I have to run because I don’t feel like these people are going to leave me #maybe it’s just because one of them is also aroace and we’ve talked a lot about those similar feelings of being left behind #never had someone quite get that before #and maybe it’s just I feel more willing to open my heart #admittedly this group of ours went through some shit together and that’s how the friendships really started forming #and so maybe that helps #but it’s like #Have you ever met someone who is so much like you in so many ways that its like the joke of ‘#‘can I copy your homework?’ ‘yeah just be sure to change it so no one knows’#It’s a weird thing of feeling so completely and totally seen by somebody sometimes without having to say a word #anyways #I’m really happy with this little place I found and I wish I could tell younger me #and also tell xem that no it doesn’t look like a fanfic dream #no im not their person but yeah they’re kind of mine but that’s okay #its nothing and everything like I always thought of #and for the first time in my life I don’t feel a crush sense of loneliness #yes I wish I could see them in person #but I can be okay with everything I do get

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aroaceofthesea · 6 days

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One of my fave people in catalan folklore is sant jordi (saint george) who saved the princess but when the king asked him to marry her he was like naaah and left forever. icon

#i hate it so much when the rose is the symbol of love and then they leave happily ever after🤮🤮#hes an icon he saves her life gives her a rose out of chivalry and then hes like byeee #and then people are like 💕and he gave her a rose as a signal of his love💕#like. no #the king is like pleaseee marry her and he says no #hes there literally just to save the village and she happens to be the unlucky person who was chosen that day #how does that mean hes in love with her in any world💀💀#screams aroace king to me👑👑👑#and then everyone makes the story about love makes st jordi about love and ughh why is everything in the world about love #so i have this problem where i love sant jordi (books the character etc) but i hate how society treats it (why is it the lovers day😭😭)#at least its better than valentines day bc it has good things lol #also its not weird to give friends roses (i never do it tho lol i dont have money xdd)#but still its frustrating how they make everything about love #anyway here ends my rant ig #feliç sant jordi gent #mine

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shima-draws · 2 years

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MKmksdamklsda so I guess the new episodes completely shut down both Space Outlaw/Bee AND Deckard/Bee????

#Bee and Puppycat #BAPC #IDK HOW PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT THEM NOW #Bee was clearly an adult when Deckard was still a baby #And same for Puppycat but like.#I guess the implication is that both Bee and Puppycat are really old?#And Bee is part robot anyway?#IDK MAN. The new eps completely took out any sort of Bee/Deckard hints so #Honestly I feel bad for Bee/Deckard shippers asmdksamds #Shima speaks #EDIT: I feel like people are getting upset about this I did not mean this in a bad way #Like. Obviously not everything has to be about shipping #I just mentioned it bc I'm a shipper at heart lmao BUT I'm totally about platonic relationships too #I'm a HOPELESS ROMANTIC as they say. Anyway.#No matter what ends up being 'canon' or not Bee's friendship with both Deckard and Puppycat are the most important thing the series shows #Aroace Bee is so valid. SO pogchamp actually #I wasn't a very serious Bee/SO shipper in the first place I just thought they'd be cute #But yeah this is totally fine too. I just feel bad for people who shipped Bee with other characters like. HARDCORE hardcore #Imagine shipping Bee/Deckard for YEARS and watching the reboot and seeing that get kicked to the curb. Oof.#Where was I going with this.#Oh. Right. Shipping is fine. It's fun. Not shipping is fine too. It's also fun.#People interact with media in different ways! And that's cool!!

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churchydragon · 2 months

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are you all like. okay. why are you still in there. get out. get outta there.

#churchy talks #not gonna risk tagging this I trust it will find the intended audience (people who left and aroace people)#I'll just go out and say it. the fandom has just gotten straight up dangerous for aroace people #and also minors because S*larm*on shippers seem to make a habit of harassing them too #I'm not gonna forgive that btw. whoever kept harassing Blue and is harassing Crystal. fuck you. get a goddamn life.#to people still in the fandom. what are you DOING. get out of there it's so fucking hostile this can't be good for you

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irregularbillcipher · 8 months

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going over old fic notes and outlines and character talks with friends and it's always really funny when i get to the stuff i was developing early-mid 2019 where bill just literally kept kryptos around to rag on, and he genuinely just. did not like the man. like was just completely annoyed with his general existence. boy have things changed

#for anyone curious: i came to the conclusion that no amount of 'this guy sucks but he's fun to bully' would get bill to keep someone around #for like literal eons. bill gets bored of his toys too quickly. he'd break 'em. plus the fact that bill decided he was worth saving to begi #with. there was at first an element of 'i owe the guy' because [FIC SPOILERS] and a grudging 'if i had a gun to my head i'd say he was my #best friend i GUESS but do not tell him that' but no real genuine friendship or anything more #before realizing that with the specific story i was going to tell it just made the most sense to have these assholes still be like.#bad people for sure but to actually care about each other. it also just felt too easy to write bill off as someone whose cruelty is just #a lack of certain emotions. like that doesn't automatically make a bad person and a bad person doesn't automatically lack emotion #(there's a character that'll be introduced sometime soon who is aroace and doesn't make friends easily and she's lovely because...)#(idk man. i'm aroace and why shouldn't she be. a lack of affection doesn't make you bad and the ability to feel it doens't make you good)#so bill can and does love people-- even if actual vulnerability is near impossible to get from him-- and kryptos is included in that #it's just that he still sucks really bad and hurts and even kills people that he loves because again. bad person who has no idea how to #navigate relationships healthily because of his own baggage and the environment he grew up in #(also in canon he usually does not want to navigate relationships healthily because. again. he sucks!)#so the only lasting relationship he's ever had where he isn't trying to hurt someone is still just... messy as hell #(and to be fair kryptos is also a p. bad person by adulthood it's just that they're pretty young at this point in the fic)#(so there's less avenues to show that)#kryptos being desperate for any scrap of attention and bill providing the only attention he's ever gotten was always the vibe #but it really was much more of a 'bully and bulling victim who he lets hang around him because said victim'#'is like the only one willing to talk to him' dynamic which is... very much not the case anymore #as said in the tags of my fic. these awful shapes care about each other as best they can care about anyone #anyway sorry idk how much anyone really cares about these tag essays but theyre helpful for me to get my thought process like... down #and track how different the story used to be

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