Everything about this pfl photo is Something, because C.T. Is shoved into the back, Washington blends in with them the most, North is boldly looking ahead with his hand on South’s shoulder, while South can only look down, Carolina is only looking at Tex, York looks happy and comfortable, feels like he’s the only one smiling in this picture, Tex is right next to the director while Maine is near the councilor, and Wyoming is stood to York’s blindspot and where he’d shoot him. Dunno man keeps me up at night
i think if you really pare it down north has very little self worth and thinks that there’s very little reason that anyone would ever actually choose to be around him (especially compared to his much more lively and fun to be around sister) and so in order to make his presence worthwhile he has to do the only thing he’s good for and Take Care of people.
but the problem is that he’s been taught that “taking care” of someone means “taking control” of them and he’s had it reinforced over and over in his life that he is The Good One who Knows What’s Best for people. so he really can’t maintain any sort of long term relationships because the other person will inevitably get tired of being treated like a child and instead of understanding why people keep leaving him he just takes this as confirmation that he really is unlovable and doubles down further into being controlling. because this is how he’s managed to maintain the only long term relationship he’s ever had (south), isn’t it?
I swearrrr the twins’ fucking. everything Abt them could have been way better if north had just visibly done A Mean Thing. like Ive used this example before but like him lecturing south which looks well intentioned on his end but feels belittling on her end. Or him throwing her under the bus to get higher on the leaderboard. making it a competition between the two of them instead of it looking like south is throwing a hissy fit because we’ve seen these characters interact for like two seconds. like the closest u get is like north with two snipers that’s pretty showboaty but it was a decision done literwlly just to show that he was more capable with an ai. showing that north was also butting heads with south even just a lil would be so nice cause it’s more clear that they’re NOT bad people, they’re just in a system that forces them against each other. they felt like they Had to do that. like they had to act before the other threw them under. I’ve seen a post that was like “oh maybe offscreen north was a dick you don’t know” and that’s not it either like you don’t need to demonize one person in a pair to justify the other person my god. i feel like it would have just been easier to give him some bad instead of him being stupid and patronizing like I assume he is meant to be. and I have to ASSUME because they NEVER SHOW IT!!!!!!!
Do you ever think about like what goes on in the AI classroom off screen. Do you think the Director has pulled any of those like teacher speeches like “Agent York, Agent North and Agent Washington. Are we going to have a problem or will I have to move you three to separate ends of the classroom I am growing tired of your bafoonery. You’re disruptan the lesson and unless you’d like to come up here and teach the class yourself, I would suggest you’d be quiet. I trusted you all with the libertay of picking your own seats, and you delibratahly choose to make me regret it”Or what
north seems like the type of person who would carry around pads and tampons for other freelancers ‘just in case’ (regardless of whether it was his sister or someone else in his life who previously needed them. i see you trans twins headcanons)
york seems like the type of person who would carry around condoms for himself ‘just in case’. delta is just like: ‘york. do you really think you will need that at your dentist appointment’ ‘you never know D’ (on second thought, he’s so smitten with carolina maybe not— or wait no that makes bringing it everywhere even funnier. you never know if carolina is going to burst in and kick out the dentist so we can have some alone time together. delta’s like ‘york i fear you may be suffering from a form of delusions’)