![]() ![]() Knowing everything that the reader knows, this obviously doesn’t mean that Neil is to be blamed, but Aaron isn’t either for reading the events from a different lens than the main character/pairing.Character Guide ⇩ ► Neil Joston → 18, main character, male, dad in jail, mother dead, not his real name, dark hair dye, brown contacts, father is a murderer, 18 but paperwork says age 19, speaks German, (real name: Nathaniel Abram Wesninski), #10 Fox * Forget for one moment that you’re reading the story from Neil’s POV and just look at the facts like you’re just a bystander watching the bodycount going up after every lie and punch and insult that Neil can’t swallow down. In Aaron’s one Neil is the antagonist way more than Aaron is an obstacle in Neil’s. It’s what makes all the characters so interesting, because they all have something to win and to lose, and they all are clearly the protagonists of their own story. I mean, kudos to Nora if she managed to write such a good protagonist that his POV clouds everything else, but not everyone has Neil’s tunnel vision, and when you think about it, it’s not that hard to realize that everyone has their own stakes and sacrifices in the series being challenged by the events. Neil was the one responsible for Andrew going to Nicky’s parents’ house, Neil was the one putting his hands where he had no permission of touching (strumentalizing Drake’s murder to force him to stop blaming Andrew for Tilda’s death), Neil was the one jeopardizing the only good thing Aaron had managed to get outside of the monsters, possibly the first and only positive female figure he had ever since forever, and all that just because Neil was chasing his own selfish goal, he convinced Kate to give Aaron an ultimatum that for all Aaron knew meant chosing between his twin brother and the love of his life, still for Neil’s personal gain (he only wanted to have the team united to win against Riko take away this and see how many fucks Neil gives about the twinyards feud), finds out that he’s also making out with Andrew and there are enough clues after Baltimore to know that Andrew is not just messing around, after everything Neil has shown is that he’s ready to lie and get his teammates killed and assaulted* all for his personal war against Riko and his personal gain, and when Aaron decides to give him a taste of his own medicine and check that this trainwreck of a person won’t drag Andrew deeper than he already has and that he won’t use and abuse him, then he’s the bad guy? Or better, they have a pretty explicit competition where they try to one-up each other. ![]() When you’re talking about characters you don’t already like, instead, those very same things are what makes them irredeemable, makes them a flat antagonist or a flat side character, suddenly it becomes “Just cause you had it hard doesn’t mean you can be an asshole ”Īaron and Neil have a series of parallel scenes/confrontations in the series. ![]() The bad things they have done are what makes them flawed and human, are the necessary consequences of things they have gone through, are understood and explained away. I won’t even pretend to be surprised because it has a very easy explanation: you’ll save the characters you like. ![]() Isn’t this true for basically everything against Aaron ever? “Ok so you hate Aaron for X but you seem to be damn fine with the other characters?” ![]()
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