I love that a majority of the polyinterns dynamics, whether in aus or otherwise, is- here's Purple and Red, with a history of deep friendship turned to betrayal, and now there's pain and tension and guilt and they can't stop bringing each other up or get rid of their feelings no matter how much they want to-
-and then you just throw in this bumpkin Green, who's a farmer and also a dangerous threat, who's kind, but also just as much as a freak and obsessive as the other two. They get thrown into this tense relationship that's ready to explode, and it either makes everything better or worse, or just more intense.
IT'S WHAT MAKES POLYINTERNS SO FLAVORFUL.
Like, I super get that Purple can be obsessive and impulsive, too, but I'd like to think it's very much within reason and, given the context, understandable??
But my favorite interpretation of polyinterns, is that it cannot function without Purple.
Purple is at the unfortunate center of this entire thing. The reason why Red takes to Green so quickly is bcos Green validates their ego and affirms Red's skewed perception of themself. Green, at least at the beginning and originally, is innocent and trusting. They don't KNOW Red yet, so Red can keep pretending that the way Green sees them is exactly what they are. So they can play this fantasy about being a good, competent person who did everything right. They can pretend Purple was wrong about them, with this person who represents who Purple was to Red, at a time when Purple still believed in the best of Red.
And, while the original Green may have been drawn to Red's authority and status, we all know Impostor Green was more focused on Purple. The whooooooole time that Purple was fixated on Red, Green was watching PURPLE. PURPLE was the interesting one. PURPLE was the dangerous one. PURPLE was the THREAT, and if Red didn't make Purple so conveniently stupid over things they would have otherwise figured out, Green knew Purple was the one to kill next.
The polycule hinges on Red and Green's mutual interest in Purple,
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