Passing thought about Cinderbrush: between Jamie telling Cameron “I almost miss this” in the lunchroom, and the conversation with Aff “well, I suppose I have changed quite a bit, that’s fair”…
I have this vague suspicion that, Freshman year or so, Jamie could easily have been one of the popular kids. And why not? They’ve got a sharp wit and they’re very, very good at collecting secrets and reading people. 13- or 14-year-old Jamie, before the goth wardrobe and the hexes and the pronoun change, before the divorce, up to their (up to his, everyone assumed, because why not assume?) neck in the same playing and politcking and manipulating that Sasha’s still doing now, that they claim to almost, not quite, miss.
And now Jamie sits in a corner and does business with everybody who can pay, and Sasha asks peoples’ pronouns when they start going to this school in the middle of nowhere in Arizona, and we never actually did find out what the mysterious circumstances were when Lexie stopped being Sasha’s rival and became her minion.
It makes sense, too, with Cameron–who maybe didn’t just haphazardly fall in with the Weird Dark Kid this past awful summer. Maybe Cameron started talking again to someone who was once a friend and then fell to weirdness, just like Cam was feeling himself fall to weirdness.
(There’s so much backstory for these kids that we just don’t know! The one-shot was so short! When did AF become a werewolf? Was it before or after the divorce, the raging outburst in the courtroom, were they always furious or was that new? An easily-forgotten animal encounter during summer camp before Freshman year, in between canoes and boys? Is it new and recent, a supernatural response to all the rage they’ve had all this time?)
(And what’s up with Cameron’s parents, and what’s up with Sasha’s parents, and do ANY of these children have siblings or have they ever, and how DID Sasha win Lexie over to her side, and how did Cameron meet this infernal demon in the first place, and…I have so many questions.)
Anyway. We need more Talks Machina post-mortems of oneshots, man, we never get enough chatter about them in the aftermath.
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