Sorry sorry I’m still thinking about Laurie not even falling in love with Evander but creating him, begging for him to exist, with the sole intention of loving him and then physically digging him out of the very ground he bled into. How he says “God was stronger than me when he made Adam and didn’t fall in love with him.” How he would have given Evander anything if he’d only asked and how Evander was never allowed to ask for anything. Neither of them can recognize a love that doesn’t hurt until they find it in each other
And then also how Laurie also just. Watches Evander gorge himself on potting soil and anything else he can conceivably put in his mouth and then finds out Evander also ate the pictures he snuck him when he was locked away. And he is so delighted by Evander. Like yes look at his little eldritch freak of a boyfriend. He’s going to spend the rest of his life with him
