i’ve seen discussions about the KitTy breakdown and i’m not saying anyone’s wrong, but i don’t know if i agree
i don’t think kit has, nor thinks he has, any right to comment on ty’s actions. i don’t think he asked him to chose between himself and livvy, and i don’t think he was morally blaming ty for not being the rational person he usually is.
it feels to me that kit knows exactly why ty copes with grief by not coping at all, and that is because, as longs as he understands and accepts himself, he does feel different. in his head it was never a problem cause he had livvy who acted like a filter to the world.
I think it’s relevant that they have never been separated since birth, and every interaction Ty has ever had with the outside has been with Livvy by his side. He’s not only grieving his sister (and that alone would be tragic), but a piece of himself he thinks he has lost. While Kit obviously knows Ty is perfectly able to make his way into the world outside alone, Ty doesn’t seem to feel the same way.
He has, in addiction to that, seen Julian completely turned off, Dru crying for days locked in her bedroom, his whole word - his family - fall apart because of what happened to Livvy. He is sincere when he says he will bring her back to repair what is now broken in his house. And he surely just misses Livvy as a person, and just can’t stand the thought of a life without her. But while all of this is true, i think Kit does never think anything of it, he doesn’t judge Ty. He rationally knows Ty’s plan won’t work, doesn’t want either Livvy, Ty or the Blackthorns to suffer, but that’s not the point.
I think it’s just magistral perspective cassie worked with, here. Kit is fifteen, and Ty has become his whole world. I think he doesn’t put himself in the position to be chosen over Ty’s twin sister, and doesn’t morally judge him for his actions; he wants Ty to believe in him.
He offered his help, told him he loved him, put his all into being at Ty’s side. When Ty doesn’t accept his helping hand, it is impossible to consider that he is not enough for Ty, because he’s already offering everything he has. If that is not enough to Ty, then he is not enough.
They are both in their heads in that moment, and that was inevitable.
Kit is young and naïve, and thinks his love is enough to change things that are way bigger than he is. And i think a lot of us would know this feeling.
Ty on the other hand probably doesn’t think he could even be with Kit, without Livvy, because again he thinks he doesn’t know how to be with others without her.
I am not saying any of this to discredit Kit’s rage. Once again, he was fifteen. His father (one that was too scared and angry to show him any love) had just died in front of his very eyes, and everything in his life moved so quickly he was left with barely any time to accept his new reality.
His feelings for Ty were intense and probably became his security blanket to ignore all of his own trauma. He has let him in when he was the one grieving, and it’s easy to mistake what worked for you with what others need.
I think this is where his feeling of rejection comes from, rather than thinking Ty hasn’t chosen him over Livvy, or thinking he should’ve reacted differently
