Every minor villain in mxtx books is just a guy who was forced to do their entire workplace's taxes but got so tired of doing taxes that they just went apeshit and started killing people instead
Can't believe we were given the most standard formula for almost every childhood friends to lovers backstory with Wolfwood and Livio..
Loner x loner, indirect kiss, running away from an authority figure hand in hand, sleeping together UNDER A FUCKING CHURCH BELL.. then meeting again under the most heartbreaking circumstances after one made an enormous sacrifice for the other.
Like its not even just their backstory its their whole fucking story. A TEXTBOOK EXAMPLE OF ROMANCE!
And here when Vash asks Wolfwood if there's something Livio can never forget and Wolfwood knows its him, knows how precious he is to Livio, knows how Livio can recognize him by his scent alone, and purposefully blowing smoke to his face- if this isn't romance i don't know what is.
the "I just. I just feel like women-" speech in Little Women 2019 and the "it is literally impossible to be a woman" speech in Barbie 2023 activate my gag reflex so fast. tell me you're a bad one-trick-pony writer who loves to whine without telling me you're a bad one-trick-pony writer who loves to whine