the way Edwin's immediate reaction upon seeing the misery wraith in the Devlin house is to grab Crystal and cover her mouth, even while he's explaining (apparently calmly) that it hunts by sensing negativity and pain - presumably instead of using sight or sound
and the way that he does the exact same thing to Charles when they're reunited in Hell, but here he urges him specifically to be quiet (in what must be the most barely audible line of dialogue in the whole show) because he's found that's the only way he can get a short reprieve between bouts of torture from the spider thing (to the point that when he ran into Simon earlier he - rather nonsensically - believed the sound of tearing paper behind a closed door was also a big risk)
All I'm saying is, it doesn't look like it was actually all that important he stop Crystal from making noise in the Devlin house, and as much as that scene originally read as Edwin kinda having his shit together while Charles & Crystal were both more affected & then literally incapacitated, his head couldn't have been half as clear as it first seemed if his immediate reaction was reverting to Surviving Hell Tactics even when they weren't really helpful or applicable here
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the fact that jane died there in the middle of the night is so fucking haunting to me. like beyond just the sheer sickening horror of watching her choke and struggle to breathe and eventually die stranded on her back while walt literally fucking stands there, watching her, fully equipped to help her and choosing not to, it’s the fact that she stays there. all night. going cold and rigid next to jesse, who’s none the wiser. maybe he resurfaced a few times from the heroin daze and hazily registered her presence next to him, her foot skirting against his, her hair draped across the pillow, and felt better before sinking down again. for a few hours, it was so quiet and peaceful. she might’ve even been sleeping if not for the chyme ringing her lips and the fishy coldness of her open eyes. she was drugged up and sleeping, but she was probably still afraid when it happened. she was all alone. that bullet-wound of a fact is so haunting, it’s no wonder that it totally breaks jesse. he left her alone, at least in his mind, alone in the dark. as john irving so succinctly put it, “tom woke up but tim did not.” jesse woke up but jane did not.
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Guys imagine, Roach died, before the creation of 141, but Soap is able to see his ghost. He was originally following Ghost around, really annoyed that he was using his death as an excuse to not get close to anyone, but when he found out Soap could see him and talk to him he started following him around instead.
And they get really close, like two peas in a pod, except they have to be discreet about it because no one else can see or hear Roach, and they'd think Soap was crazy if they saw him talking to no one.
They use that for shenanigans too: Roach will go follow someone else and report back to Soap, Gaz is genuinely starting to believe Soap has superpowers or something. It's really useful on missions as well, and Soap managed to successfully rescue team members thanks to Roach being able to move through walls and everything.
(Roach is not the only ghost Soap is able to see btw, just the only one he's talking to.)
And then Roach is witnessing his past lover trying really hard to not fall in love with Soap, and Soap trying really hard to not do anything about the love he already feels, and he has to try and convince Soap that he is dead. During that conversation he finds out that something else that keeps Soap from doing something is that he feels very confused about everything because he also has feeling for Roach.
So now Roach has to try and convince him that even if he was still alive he wouldn't have a problem with that. He's known for a while that he was polyamorous, but he hadn't really dared talking to Ghost about that because he thinks he's jealous and possessive.
And Soap is like "oh yeah, you want me to go say to Ghost 'don't worry about your dead lover that I'm not supposed to know, he's actually polyamorous and also in love with me, I know because his ghost told me!' ??? I'm sure he's gonna take that well!"
But Roach is nothing if not resourceful and he manages to put Soap in situations where he's forced to interact with Ghost, and eventually they kiss and their relationship is beginning to be something. They're not really sure what.
And Roach is sad, because he has to watch the two men he loves being in love without him, yes, but at least they're both happy, and it makes him feel a bit better. And then during a mission Ghost almost dies.
Because he was alone and Soap and Gaz were together, Roach was following Ghost this time, ready to fly to Soap in an instant if there was any problems. But there was and he didn't have time, so he instinctively grabbed the gun being pointed towards Ghost's head and moved it as the person was shooting, saving Ghost's life, giving him enough time to shoot the enemy himself.
But even as the threat is eliminated, Ghost is still looking up from where he's on the ground, staring right through him, looking shocked. No, not right through him, he realises when he moves to the side and Ghost's eyes follow him. He also realises that he grabbed the gun. He's never grabbed anything before, in all his years of being a ghost.
Then suddenly Ghost's eyes move wildly around, and he figures he disappeared from his view. He can still go through the walls, but he's kept the ability to grab stuff when he wants. It gives him a ton of new possibilities, to fuck with people and, of course, to touch Soap.
"I wish you were actually alive," Soap whispers to him, holding his hands against his face as he's falling asleep.
"What the fuck," comes Ghost's voice the next morning, waking both of them up - wait, since when could Roach sleep?
Soap doesn't understand immediately, because he's always been able to see Roach. But Ghost is standing in the door, looking straight at dead past lover.
Turns out Soap is a necromancer and he had no idea, though the whole 'I can see dead people' should probably have told him sooner that he wasn't normal... The more he wishes Roach is alive, the more he actually is. And they all end up happy and together. And Gaz is very happy to have won the bet that Soap indeed has superpowers.
The day Roach says, in a wondering voice, "I... I think I'm hungry" is the day they understand that something is really happening and he's actually coming back to life.
(Also, Soap has no control at all on his abilities, he has no idea what does what and why, he knows nothing. No one knows.)
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Hard to explain what I meant when I say I “ship” Rodicent.
I mean it in a “gay sex wouldn’t fix this — in fact it would likely make everything worse, but I want to see how much worse it can get” way. But also, I mean it in a “Vincent is selfish, and Rody is self-destructively giving towards those he loves, and I want to see how those two flaws play into each other” way. But also I DO ship it in a “I view Vincent’s cannibalism as an allegory for queer desire, and I want there to be a world where he learns that consuming Rody isn’t the only way Rody can be his” way. Similarly, in a, “Rody is an unrealized bisexual in 60s France, and there is a very real possibility that Vincent is the only other queer man his age he will ever meet in his lifetime; he deserves to know who he is, what he feels, and that it’s okay” sort of way, too. Those last two points combined make me ship it in a “queer men finding each other, fucking each other up severely because they don’t understand how they feel, and then healing together” way. Also, at the same time, I do ship it in a “I want to watch them become so codependent that they can’t even function without the other” way.
Also in a “carnal desire as cannibalization of your loved one is hot as fuck” way. Who said that.
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