so uhh tw swearing??? but this is an important issue, also there's a lot of my headcanons so yea-
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this scene exists and it's canon so that one fyolai anti can fuck off (also side note: hair goals, both of them)
let's do a quick analysis of the ship and prove that it's not problematic.
so let's with the obvious problem everyone talks about - nikolai's inability to show emotions correctly.
first of all, what the actual fuck is wrong with you if you think that someone's inability to be intimate out of fear of being vulnerable (under the mask of being "not free") is a toxic trait. it's literally fear of vulnerability. and besides, he shows emotions anyway??? just not at the right time????
if anything, he's neurodivergent coded bro 🙄
do you actually fucking think he is going to hurt his "best friend" WHEN HE LITERALLY SACRIFICED HIMSELF????
you think he's going to go SPRINT towards someone who just got out of prison if it's JUST A FRIEND??? you think he'd have that one scene where he's all "he UNDERSTANDS me :O" and it takes up a whole PAGE???
"oh but ronnieeeeee!!! he wanted to kill fyodor immediately afterwards!!!!" you fools. you actual fools.
this man is a prankster, a clown if you will. half the stuff he says are word games, jokes and really fucking weird pranks.
he has mental health issues, yes. he thinks that hurting someone will bring him back his free will. but he only says this because he's obsessed with birds. that's canonically his only reason. just give him a bird and his villain arc is basically over.
