not the one who sent the anon but just curious after reading this ~ do you then not see merit to/not acknowledge their reconnecting in the civil war/death of cap era stuff? (also name of the rose but that’s a whole other continuity issue) where they clearly have a well-founded and love filled relationship almost bordering domestic normalcy at points
not trying to start an argument or anything just curious!
sorry that was worded badly but i mean ~ not see the merit of how the two relationships are connected like i personally feel that there had to be SOME love there or they wouldn’t have fallen so deeply into it later, like there would have been a sort of tension around it because of where it started if it hadn’t been real? i haven’t had my coffee yet idk if im making sense
so , mostly , wrt to the red room affair , the core was the intimacy of hating the same thing / concepts / situations. it was a lot of....take whatever / remove whatever before it was done to you , and the whole concept of fraternizing with shostakov's wife - to - be is so....functionally petty , lmao. i do think what they had was real , that it was heavy and raw and it left it’s mark , but i don’t think that it was love , not really. i don’t think it was so cosmically special that , had they met a different person in the same situation , it wouldn’t have played out the same way.
like , the fact that they find eachother again , and they put in work to make it sustainable is special —— that they care about each other beyond just those means to the end of getting back at the oppressive systems they were bound to , that they see each other as people & love each other completely irrespective of what they did , or what they do , or who they are. i just feel like that exists in a seperate space to what they had in the red room , that they’re two different things. they knew eachother then , but they love who the other is now.
