#mark x hellie

[josephinekhawaja]

'More Romance!'

So promised a Non-Spoiler Review of Season 2 from a critic I follow on YouTube who got screeners for I think the first half of the season. And I could have lived with Mark x Helly being one-and-done even if they are my Severance OTP -- but I do feel heartened by all my fellow shippers popping up lately since the season premiere. As somebody who compulsively joined the one Severance Discord to mind-if-I-scream after the Season 1 finale, like…it is a pretty solid community from what I remember of it, but I would be a dead woman if ever I talked about OTP in there🤣🤣🤣🤣. We may never be a sizeable department, but I am just glad our ship has a growing team. Thank Kier for our Macrodata Uprising.

[josephinekhawaja]

Helly / Helena

As of the third episode, I actually think we are back to having Helly on the severed floor as everything just hits different with Helena and I do not think she is that good of an actress. But I have been making the rounds of my favourite YouTube channels for breakdown videos and discussion, many of which keeping my delusion afloat that Miss Huang is somehow the daughter of Mark and Gemma, and a theory came up which would have otherwise never occurred to me. That the reason Dr Reghabi can feel confident in being 'better' at reintegration post-Petey is because she has had practice at it on somebody since and that person is actually Helena. That…would account for the fluidity of personality between them and why it feels to me like a kaleidoscope between scenes as to which could be which. And I love the idea that Helena would be doing this on the down low behind the back of her family while nonetheless being perfectly nonchalant about the option. (Like of fucking course she would just check in to this like no big deal, with a doctor who is still actually employed with them even if secretly leading a resistance. The LAYERS of motivation in this shit with everybody, everyone is using everyone.) We have already seen in her retort to her dad that she is the true Lumon person who fears-no-one. And it would account for the writing being so casual about already reintegrating Mark if that is not even the big reveal. So we have the potential here of parallel journeys between Helena and Mark as hopefully the first-ever success stories of reintegration, resistance lovers. To be clear I believe her exploring of this to be entirely self-serving -- a back door for her into the Helly life including the connection with Mark -- she can already afford to be in a do-whatever-the-fuck-she-wants mode as future CEO. Helly is a distilling of her true rebellious nature, but at the moment she has no overarching reason to go against the legacy of her family. The opportunity to do so in future is nonetheless being nurtured. Even if I turn out to be wrong just thought I would share with you guys as relevant to shipping.

[josephinekhawaja]

Tagging this for OTP as I thought it interesting the constant juxtapositioning and interchanging of Gemma and Helena that even I did not pick up on myself. And the idea of both women being the Persephone. We are really going there with this show. Though the true love triangle of the series so far is of course Burt, his husband, and Irving (do you think we could interest Burt’s hot husband in a lease in Grand Rapids, because I still think we should hook him up with that sassy geezer Mark W — Mr “Fuck you, Lumon!” has endeared himself to me completely, sad to see him go). And to me Helena is the Persephone -- with her Hades being her family legacy. While of course Gemma is the Eurydice to Mark’s Orpheus. With I expect the similarity of that not working out in the end.

[josephinekhawaja]

One of my most hated OTPs (and that is saying a lot for my personal record) is coming back🖤💚🤍💚.

[josephinekhawaja]

"You want to take me home to dad already?"

The scream I had scrumped. Considering his unwillingness to move on from his 'dead' wife, I never would have expected Mark Scout to be picking up what she is putting down. (And I think at least with that one bit, Helena was not conscious of what she is putting down💍😉.) I am still holding out for some enemies-to-lovers, but these two keep defying expectations. Helena may be "like the head of the company", but Mark has been holding that company hostage just to retain her. And once our boy receives that debriefing he is in for the real stroke.

[josephinekhawaja]

“Look For Episode 4” indeed. I am burningly curious as to what Episode 3 is going to bleed into and its follow-up being a game-changer or however you wish to put it. Tagging this for Mark x Helly as will surely have bearing on them. And this is the link source of my “More Romance!” reference — I will receive any good news I can get.

[josephinekhawaja]

"…love? With who?"

I gotta confess in the burgeoning popularity of Mark x Helly that my Severance OTP has always been more specifically Mark x Helena, for the delicious darkness of it. To say nothing of what could possibly appall an Egan heiress more than to ever catch feelings for some wet-cat normie. So I was probably more taken aback than even Helena was at her reaction to the kiss. Like how dare she be intimate with this non-inbred man. When she should just be married off to some cousin or whatever like some royals shit. (I do maintain my belief though that Riggs was her mother's maiden name, and that her mother was likely herself normal though God only knows what led her to have to marry into incest family as I am going to continue to call them until vibes are proven otherwise😒🙄.) I was not expecting her to lean into it. And you could argue her just being affection-starved with the father she has, and the family she is from being in such stark contrast to the Scouts, but I think what Mr Milchick said to Mark about finding love down there has already made its way to Helena. It just takes time. 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' has been one of my favourite films of the past two decades and I am obsessed with the idea that feelings continue to be there even when memories are suppressed or otherwise diverted. But as cute as the innie connection between them has been, I really need for Mark and Helena to actually meet. Beyond that parking-lot meet-cute that got me hooked on them from the jump. Outie Mark has so much sass in him, and I really need Helena to be challenged by it. If she thinks she wants him now, she has no idea what is ahead😅😂😭. Or what her own family and board just did in sending her back to him😁.