Was rewatching the 4x31 Obrimus Manor section for, you know. Reasons. And I just love how these three daisy-chain themselves back into danger.
Julien wouldn't have gone back in for Cyd, Teor, or Thimble, but he will for Occtis. Literally with no hesitation. Plenty of annoyance, but once it's obvious that Occtis isn't leaving yet, he immediately follows.
Occtis wouldn't have gone back in for Cyd or Teor, but he will for Thimble. Neither of them care about getting Mara out the way that Thimble does, so they're both willing to cart her right back into danger.
And Thimble isn't going to leave Teor and Cyd behind as long as there's a chance she might be able to save them (especially Teor).
So one PC making a strong character choice leads to two other PCs putting themselves into danger (and Laura is SO stressed by this).
The argument between Occtis and Julien is delicious. The way Julien pauses, like, ten full seconds before he comes up with an excuse for why he cares so much about trying to keep Occtis out of the manor. The way Julien smiles when Occtis says he's tired of pretending that he cares about Julien. Literally tension that you could cut with a knife.
It's wild. I mean, I've shipped Knightingale since the Overture, but I didn't really think it had any chance of happening in canon. After 4x31, I feel like Julien and Occtis are officially Being Weird About Each Other and there's maybe a genuine possibility here (Occtis saying in an earlier episode that "Julien is confusing" also kinda slots into the Weird About Each Other category).
I do think back to Julien, at one point, calling out Occtis's 'soft boy persona', so I wonder if part of what's going on here is that he feels like Occtis losing his temper at him is the 'real' Occtis behind the soft persona, and that makes him feel like he knows Occtis better now.
And then he sees Occtis lock up out of fear of his father, which is another thing that Julien can relate to on some level -- Raimond wasn't as awful as Primus and it's clear that there are some good memories in their past, but he did almost hit Julien in the Overture and only refrained because he was wearing his gauntlet. But that moment of panic would be another piece of the 'real Occtis' that Julien might add to his list that makes him feel like he understands Occtis better.
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