One interesting thing in the context of this post being about both Tweechik Blondeyes and 70s Blondeyes is that it’s definitely one-sided in the case of Tweechik Blondeyes, especially post-solitudinem. Like, Blondie definitely believes that there’s still a solid chance Angel would kill him, but Angel at that point is at least internally like “ah yeah, stuck with that guy, what a shame, best not to think about it and just Isolate as much as possible because that helps it Feel normal”.
Meanwhile, 70s Blondeyes absolutely went through a period where they were both a knife edge away from “is this going to end in me getting my throat slit?” -- in fact the tenderness they share in cinematics/semantics is really an interesting contrast to that (and to Tweechik Blondeyes, who of course basically never stop being edgelords).
Anyways all this got me thinking that I never tackled Angel’s realization post diner-of-blood -- like the total acceptance that “not only has this man never been dangerous to me, worse yet, he’s never been dangerous at all, he’s just a fucking liar and I let him lie to me because I wanted to believe that”. Like by the time we get to him in Ch 35 of bleeding, he’s already in this nervy “in for a penny, in for a pound” acceptance of the whole fucked up situation.
anyways, I wonder whether I should write that sometime. I guess on some level cut and run sort of scratched that itch for me, but of course, that’s different, because he wasn’t left alone.
