Andrea is a HUGE factor here that doesn't really get to be explored much, especially in the context of Rick x Michonne as a love story, but there was Andrea before him. And Andrea was the one who literally kept Michonne from staying in her uhh...slightly less than sane phase, could we call it? She was gone, fully, but then she let Andrea in after what was probably the most frustrating 6-8 months of Andrea's life, even accounting for the walkers. She let Andrea in, she loved her, and then Michonne had to kill her, because an evil fucking maniac left her to turn into a monster. The same evil fucking maniac that Andrea chose over her. Then that same man destroys her home.
There are other angles for other times too; moral things that I think could be super fucking interesting to explore. I think this could be a CR goldmine, tbqh and an unexpected one, at that. I'll be super curious what her gut instinct tells her about him, how wary she is, how fast she decides to open up, beyond what they're hearing etc. She still tries to clock so much, silently, with almost every person she meets. It gets so much more intense in canon after she misjudges someone she thought was a friend, and while it's softened because of Judith's empathy, this whole situation (being brought to this place in general) has put all those walls back up and fortified them.
and yet—she hears those voices, and it's going to be like a knife to the gut; she hasn't seen or heard her kids in over a year, Rick in almost a decade. One dead son she couldn't protect. A lover she left behind who was then ultimately murdered. It'll put her in a very unique position of wanting to keep it to herself and wanting to share, and for Krennic to be there for that is a whopper of a jumping-off point.
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Andrea is a HUGE factor here that doesn't really get to be explored much, especially in the context of Rick x Michonne as a love story, but there was Andrea before him. And Andrea was the one who literally kept Michonne from staying in her uhh...slightly less than sane phase, could we call it? She was gone, fully, but then she let Andrea in after what was probably the most frustrating 6-8 months of Andrea's life, even accounting for the walkers. She let Andrea in, she loved her, and then Michonne had to kill her, because an evil fucking maniac left her to turn into a monster. The same evil fucking maniac that Andrea chose over her. Then that same man destroys her home.
There are other angles for other times too; moral things that I think could be super fucking interesting to explore. I think this could be a CR goldmine, tbqh and an unexpected one, at that. I'll be super curious what her gut instinct tells her about him, how wary she is, how fast she decides to open up, beyond what they're hearing etc. She still tries to clock so much, silently, with almost every person she meets. It gets so much more intense in canon after she misjudges someone she thought was a friend, and while it's softened because of Judith's empathy, this whole situation (being brought to this place in general) has put all those walls back up and fortified them.
and yet—she hears those voices, and it's going to be like a knife to the gut; she hasn't seen or heard her kids in over a year, Rick in almost a decade. One dead son she couldn't protect. A lover she left behind who was then ultimately murdered. It'll put her in a very unique position of wanting to keep it to herself and wanting to share, and for Krennic to be there for that is a whopper of a jumping-off point.