Its really hitting me how much potential for growth we're getting, and everyone's emotions crashing together, with growing awareness from everyone involved. The movement towards self improvement and shared love.

I think it's good we are getting shorts first. Some happy breathing room is needed haha

Now that she's getting the chance to grow emotionally, make connections, even being a little. Err, not softer, but less sharp against Millie.. Who now may introduce a child too... Raarghh I'm thinking myself in circles before I can even make a thesis statement T_T

–about the end of Sinsmas where she gets to just.... Hang out with her friends. Has she ever had the chance to make friends that she doesn't share a cage with, or she isn't certain will be ripped away if she gets out in another home, etc?

father figure, until later as she begins to call him dad, etc. She's really used to being emotionally cut off and we are seeing her open up a lot. We know that Mastermind was traumatizing for all involved. Sinsmas was so much too. It made me really happy and sometimes I fr tear up thinking–

–previous abuse/foster environment/s were, to really care? A lot of emotional responsibility is put on her to care for Blitzø as a peer, because of his own stunted emotional development. Being adopted very soon prior to becoming a legal adult, she has been clear about not viewing him as a

But obviously, I would hope that a plot like that ends w/ some kind of resolution where he is treated with kindness and understanding.. Ive always appreciated hb's display of characters showing forgiveness and kindness while not erasing the hurt someone experienced or forgoing emotional consequence.

even if it is so harsh as to hurt others around him. I think it would be an interesting display of his inability for emotional regulation off-meds and in an environment where he doesn't have to repress everything. A La his Sinsmas breakdown, "I'm seeing Octavia!"

he thinks everyone else would want, or due to being unmedicated and freshly out of an abuse environment, he completely rejects the care and attention and breaks; if the day is about him, then he will be honest about his emotions and disappointment in losing the "comfortable" (nuance) he used to have

–if one of the episodes we get is centered around stolas's birthday? Has he ever actually had one centered around him? Im imagining a plot where blitzø recommends they celebrate now that stolas is in an environment with actual friends, and either stolas bends over backwards to make the party that

Thinking in the same vein too that that was dropped on his birthday. A day, y'know. Typically meant to celebrate the person whose birthday it is. Since a young age, im sure to him that it represents his sacrifices to others instead of prioritizing himself. Id be really fascinated too actually–

marriage (future or present,) with Stella, where he is unhappy from the start and to now.

–if any (he is shown to have no genuine close friends)... I can see why he became fixated on blitzø and would invite him so freely. fun parallel too that they meet again at a "still not divorced party". both times, he's connecting with blitzø at a time where he's supposed to be celebrating his

a genuine connection. I'm not saying at whatever young age that he immediately was like "I'd rather marry this guy", but to have that connection develop at the exact same time he's supposed to be processing who he will spend his life with, and especially knowing he has so few close connections–