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the most relevant 1 minute 29 seconds of edens zero are here.

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some days I'm so tempted to write a fix-it jelsie fic...

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me: I loathe this chapter on every possible level. I also hate the fact that in the name of flashbacks, all we ever get to see is this one teasing scene repeatedly. 

also me: In chapter 124, James is sitting on the left side of the fountain while Elsie is sitting on the right. While in chapter 216, he is sitting on the right and she is on the left. In the Möbius strip, when an object moves one time around the strip, it returns to its starting position as its mirror image. Maybe this singular point will always be the beginning of jelsie’s story. Maybe this is where they will always return to.

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Thinking about how jelsie doesn't have it in themselves to kill each other; that the main thing about their dynamic is the endless chase they keep being the part of because it acts an anchor and keeps them going.

This also aligns with the fact that Justice wants to arrest Elsie and go through a procedural trial. Not only that goes in character, but also that more than wanting her dead, he wants her to admit her sins. (and that maybe it can act as a closure for himself)

I think he is aware of the fact that they both were so young when they made the decisions they did. So it's less about her being right or wrong and more about the unresolved trauma and the consequences that emerged from those decisions.

On surface level, he is presented as a character who cares about those rights and wrongs but I think that's him being an unreliable narrator who is not able to be honest with his feelings. It's also the dichotomy of his name being Justice while the notion of his justice is flawed in itself to an extent as it waivers.

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Some half-baked thoughts that I was thinking about sometime ago were Justice and Elsie choosing their new names after the war in their kingdoms. It’s how Justice completely strips himself of his former identity and builds a new one on the rubble of James Holloway; something that encompasses his life's goal and serves as a fuel to move forward from his past. While Elsie only sheds her last name which represented the kingdom that fell because of her and the choices she made as a child.

James Holloway and Elsie Lendard both died during Kaede, and what emerged from there were people who struggled with their identities in different ways. On a deeper level, I guess we can conclude that it also shows how Justice doesn't want to remember anything of that past because he has yet to deal with it and get resolution. Whereas Elsie knows the truth and motive behind her actions and--from what we know of her as of now--has made peace with everything that concluded from them, so she embraces that part of her identity.

So, while James Holloway built himself from the ground into Justice, Elsie Lendard shedded what was no more and grew into Elsie Crimson.