it's so cool how kev truly is the embodiment of rob's prison life, not just his prison trauma. like, you don't just go to prison and get dropped into this alternate universe hellhole where time stops and you're tormented for a set period before being spat out again. people actually live there and are human, build relationships, further their education, read, learn baking, get therapy etc. i mean, rob was traumatised in there for sure, but he also lived a life in there. and he won't talk about it, but we have kev to show us all these decontextualised glimpses of what that life was like, good and bad.
but also, it's kind of wild to consider what aaron embodies from kev's pov. he's been released because he's dying and he's come to spend those last months with the person he built a life with against all the odds. it's a continuation of kev's prison life, but only the best parts, rob, baking etc. but then he gets there to find rob back in this village where he has sooo much history and also sooo much future. and it turns out the period of time he spent with kev is just this tiny, ugly blip in this massive sprawling whole, so much of which is embodied in aaron, as rob's ex and his 'inevitable' future.
it's so tragic. even though what he said to aaron was unforgiveable, gordon is also something that he only knows about because of how close rob and aaron were. and so kev's come to die in this place where everything good in his life is just so small and meaningless and terrible. and even though he's threatened to kill aaron, it's kev who is actually going to die and aaron, the literal rest of rob's life, stared right back at him and didn't even flinch.
