feeling dramatic and thinking about post s3/s4 billy joining the party, specifically steve, robin, eddie, and nancy. he’s quieter now, a little paler, hair longer and chubbier (because i said so >>:)))
but the main difference is how he wears his heart on his sleeve now. has no energy for the anger that used to constantly simmer under his skin. he cries a lot more now, it’s the easiest and only release he can handle. the first time he cried in front of everyone was when he and max reunited, leaning heavily and sobbing into her shoulder, choking out apologies. the second time is when eddie tells them what happened to chrissy because this can’t be happening again and he’s terrified of the monsters that lie below hawkins, terrified to become their next victim again.
thinking about the way he watches steve and nancy, longing and yearning. wishing it was him who was able to talk to steve, laugh with him, touch him. even just be close to him. his expressions give away everything on his mind, and if they didn’t then his eyes wet with unshed tears surely does.
the third time he cries in front of them is when eddie and robin catch onto the way he looks at nancy and steve. at first they thought it was because he liked nancy, which billy stupidly snorted at. once they figured out it was actually steve, his heart dropped and he had to beg them through tears to not say anything. to just drop it and not tell anyone. because even though neil had fucked off when he was still dead to the world, he was still terrified. didn’t want people in hawkins to find out the new zombie boy raised from the dead was also a raging queer with a fat crush on the same guy he beat up years ago.
the fourth time is after steve got dragged back down into lover’s lake, billy being the first one to stupidly jump in after him. he barely reaches steve on time, practically straddling the guy as he rips the monsters on his torso away from him, out of him. when steve’s up and manages to slam and rip apart the one that had been choking him, billy breaks down into sobs. he’s overwhelmed and tired and his adrenaline is dropping just as fast as it came. he’s leaning heavily against steve, legs wobbly like jello as he cries into the guy’s bare chest, gripping at his shoulders so tight. even through his own pain steve comforts him, tells him he’s okay. they’re both okay. billy just cries harder, shoulders shaking as he shakes his head. he can’t handle losing anyone anymore, especially not steve.
robin and eddie awkwardly stare at the ground, looking anywhere but at steve who gives them confused looks as he cradles billy, not understanding why this is what sent billy into a meltdown. he always thought the guy still wasn’t too fond of him.
nancy, though. nancy’s not stupid or blind. she would catch billy’s longing looks, the way his eyes would drop the second nancy looked back when she felt him staring. she caught the way he would always be watching steve, eyes far too soft for them being just friends. it’s her turn to watch them now, frowning with her lips pursed as she connects the dots. steve seems to sense everyone knows something he doesn’t, but with an armful of crying billy hargrove in the upside down, he decides it’s best to wait to ask any questions.
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i truly say this with no malice in my heart but black butler fans who think the series peaked at book of circus/that the circus didn't deserve their fate........... are 7 times out of 10 not really black-butler-as-a-whole fans and are very unwilling to engage with the main themes and characters of the series as a whole. BoC was a fantastic high and had tons of engaging characters but I've met people who still hate ciel bc he had doll killed and that is CRAZY. to love a side character so much that it renders you unwilling to let the main/objectively most complex and important character into your heart at all. I'm sorry that the circus died but even though they loved each other they were also child murderers- in doll's case she still is LOL- and their most important narrative role is their impact on ciel/snake (whose plotline ties back to ciel's ideas about lies becoming the truth, so still a ciel thing ultimately). anyways the best arcs are Green Witch because it's good and Book of Murder because it's funny
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sprig is starting to be a big boy and this was *almost* a tense meeting due to his arrogant posturing, but luckily this big lady is very flirtatious and was thrilled with the attention
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absolutely don't buy the reason sharona left :/
i mean i know the actress had her own reasons to leave, but i still think they could have written her out of the show a bit better; i don't believe one bit that she just went & remarried her crappy ex-husband. i woud have believed more if they had just said that she finally got sick & tired of him being so lazy with paying her -- since those were things she already complained about multiple times. she also threatened before a few times that she would quit. so i feel that would have been a much more fitting excuse for her sudden disappearence in monk's life :/
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