the narrative and emotional satisfaction i got from nephlia’s apology to laz? impeccable.
not only was it narratively satisfying, it gave so much more depth to their relationship.
so often we see “yeah, they’re close friends, and that’s why they make up so quickly after they say/do something awful to each other. it’s just friends to enemies to friends, maybe to lovers after that” and gargantuan slights are brushed off
but here we saw an apology approached with the angle of “we are friends, or at least we were, and i fucked up, and i don’t expect you to forgive me” which is phenomenal and frankly not something we see enough of