Team “Still in denial about Matthias’ death, but excited to see Nina with a girlfriend”
kuwei yul-bo
- let’s talk about how this KID….
- who was captured and forced to be a prisoner in a foreign place.
- who had no idea what the hell he was doing, spent his days locked up trying to recreate a drug that he had never created in the first place.
- a drug that his father, who he probably didn’t even get a chance to grieve, made for him.
- do you think he ever felt guilty that the drug originated as a way to protect him and conceal his power?? bc i do. his father made a mistake and instead gave him a death sentence. kuwei knew no matter what he did it wouldn’t be a happy ending.
- if he succeeded making the drug he would be expendable, but also people were dying bc of it and many more would if he replicated it. the amount of stress this knowledge must have caused him omg.
- he stalled as long as he could and pretty much accepted that someone would eventually come to kill him.
- he didn’t even flinch when nina looked like she was going to do it. and that’s heartbreaking. imagine him sitting there with his journals just waiting for death bc he didn’t know what else to do.
- he delivered one of the saddest lines in CK when he was asked what he was good at and he replied “i never had a chance to find out.” bc think about it…this teenager probably had no idea who he was yet and thought he’d never live to see the day he’d find out. not even when those murder nerds swooped in and saved him.
- they probably seemed so…different from him?? sure they were around his age but each of them had a strong sense of identity and they had each other, and that was way more than he had. imagine him trying to piece bits of himself together based on who they were
- and he still didn’t know if he could trust them, but once again he had no choice but to??? his fate was in someone else’s hands again. bc they were just kids too so why couldn’t be tough like kaz, smart like wylan, etc etc.
- also think about how he could hardly understand them and they weren’t even always on the same page as each other, yet he had to depend on them wow???
- plus his crush on jesper might have been him discovering his sexuality. we don’t know?? imagine the whirlwind it must’ve been for him to finally feel safe to figure himself out and develop attachment to things
- drawing, boys, pranks, whatever idk
- he just wanted to be free and validated and get a ship to ravka.
- and he knew something could go wrong and he could be handed over to someone else and forced to make parem, so when he saw that window of opportunity to finally kiss the cute sharpshooter, he took it!!
- it was his one shot!!! and that was i c o n i c
- nina’s perspective captured him perfectly. “a boy not much younger than she was, caught up in a war he hadn’t chosen for himself. a survivor.”
- she and matthias determined kuwei was just a kid and one of them and y’all still leave him out………okay.
