Musings on Carlos Ramirez and Harry and their crazy work friend situationship
Under the cut because ✨spoilers✨for Twelve Months
Carlos: Harry I don’t know why you’re being difficult about my visits. It’s only a constant reminder that you were kicked out of our club, every member of our magic class system thinks you are a monster, and we are looking for any opportunity we can get to execute you. Don’t make it weird.
I love Carlos. Harry’s given him NOTHING to work with and Harry is just constantly feeling picked on for Carlos not forever trusting and loving him to the same degree as Michael and Karrin and Thomas
Harry: work friend, why are you not treating me the same way my other friends, The Ride or Dies? I find this dismaying. I only see you at occasional work sponsored events and have made no effort to stay informed on the happenings in your personal life and now that I’ve been fired you are only being casually tolerant of my Wizardly Secrecy instead of Endlessly Trusting? Rude. Hurtful. Call before you come to my Wizard Castle of Wizarding.
Just. Carlos: Harry I like you and I want to help you but you don’t follow any of the rules and you’ve been working with All The Bad Guys and they all Love You A Lot right now. Can you explain anything? Can you keep me in the loop at all? Come to me if you need help. We can’t keep going on like this.
Harry, in response: no. Also I’m going to enchant you so you will unknowingly serve as a distraction while I commit War Crimes for a Terrorist (my beloved brother)
But also!!!!! Before that!!! The whole:
Carlos: Harry. My good friend who has clearly always tried his best and has gone through A Lot. I have come to you to have a pleasant conversation. I have come fully armed with a brigade of the Wizard Gestapo. I have hidden on your person a tracking device I was only able to place because you Trust Me. The purpose of this Friendly Encounter is to tell you that everyone hates you, thinks you are a sketch fest, and we want to remove you from the magic club of protection and legitimacy. The only way you can get approval in our eyes right now is by getting yourself out of your forced enslavement to one of the most powerful creatures in existence.
Just!!! They are both so unreasonable with each other right now!! Both of them like each other enough (necromancy Dino riders for life) that they want to be completely trusted but NEITHER of them are actually willing to extend any trust to the other. Very big “no ball. Only throw” energy.
But they still have this! Casualness. To their interactions. Like neither of them have finished updating their dialogue options to reflect that they are not currently friends. You aren’t invited to my birthday party and I don’t want you at my house but also. Dude. Come on. Why you gotta be like this. Why do you need to make my life hard right now bro.
Also!!! Carlos: if you do anything We Don’t Like then we are going to come and kill you. Harry: I have dual citizenship now and the winter court does not do extradition. Call for an appointment next time because you are being rude. Carlos: Why Don’t You Trust Me All I Have Done Is Threaten Your Life. It’s really underhanded and mean to bring your boss into this situation.
The ONLY thing they are in agreement on right now is Black Court vampires and their need to DIE. But also they can’t even talk nice about that!
Carlos: our friends DIED because an evil creature KILLED THEM. You still going to help me suicide mission to revenge them or are you going to keep being SELFISH by focusing on the needs of your disaster zone community, parenting your half orphaned young child, and mourning the loss of your long time friend and beloved girl friend. You selfish jerk.
Harry: I said I would help you! I have never turned down a suicide mission. I don’t know why you don’t trust my word and dedication to my fellow wizards even though I have operated in complete removed secrecy for the last half decade at least and nobody ever knows what I’m up to. Also I have a god under my control and probably a magic nuke and also I work for The Bad Guys and I’m currently engaged to a vampire that we fought against together the last time we hung out. I don’t know why you don’t trust me or my dedication to the cause.
Harry has obviously been Going Through It for a while now and the White Council is The Worst but from Carlos’s POV he really is just a complete sketch fest. And Harry’s mostly just been like “trust me bro. And also if you don’t trust me be prepared to step up because I will go nuclear” like?? Yeah I’m not surprised the tension isn’t easing up.
I love it. I love this messy messy relationship. Also, Carlos! What were you and Molly getting up to!! Did you lose your virginity to Molly “Warlock” Carpenter!!! I need all the details!!
jonathan safran foer, extremely loud and incredibly close || sylvia plath, the bell jar || robert frost, the road not taken || t.s. eliot, the love song of j. alfred prufrock || everything everywhere all at once || doc luben, love letters or suicide notes || wikipedia || john greenleaf whittier || hamilton: the musical, who lives who dies who tells your story || mary oliver, the summer day || carlos ramirez, the fig tree
Surgeon #1: The patient didn't make it. It says he's an organ donor, right?
Surgeon #2, holding the clipboard with the paperwork: Yes. Apparently, the patient said, "Just don't give my heart to no chick, heh heh!"
Surgeon #1: He wrote the laugh???
Surgeon #2: He wrote the laugh.
