As a Michonne/Andrea truther you have nooo idea how happy this makes me LMAOOO
Not to be like that wojak using his brain as a chair but seeing as I am in the presence of a scholar, my take is that in order for Rick/Michonne to work you have to read Michonne/Andrea as canon and genuine love because I think that Andrea is the first time she loves again and shows her that she is ABLE to love again (whether she wants to or not) when Michonne doesn't necessarily believe that she CAN love again.
Like I think she really thaws her out after this trauma response to her pre-canon backstory of just sort of shutting down because the pain of losing anyone else and the pain of her overall situation is just Too Much.
And RIGHT, same with Krennic - mourning alone is deeply unnatural, and he doesn't want ANYONE to see his soft underbelly... but he also doesn't want to be alone, because I think being bored and being underrecognized are the only things to him that are scarier than the idea of solitude, because despite (or even partly because of) his ASPD he has really, really high social needs.
So if anything I think that the compulsion in the prompt is like... The little spark to instigate it, the like little push that they both need to do something that is something they already subconsciously want to do but can't overcome their more conscious reservations to do.
For the setup I'm almost thinking like... They end up just sitting on the front steps of Krennic's little place he has now and having this conversation, starting in media res, but I'm not really sure what would bring Michonne over there when she's in such a reserved state. The one thing I'm thinking of is maybe she's heard talk about the bridge and wants to get more information directly from the source? And then after he sort of tells her what he's thinking they start hearing the voices midconversation and end up reminiscing that way?
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Not to be like that wojak using his brain as a chair but seeing as I am in the presence of a scholar, my take is that in order for Rick/Michonne to work you have to read Michonne/Andrea as canon and genuine love because I think that Andrea is the first time she loves again and shows her that she is ABLE to love again (whether she wants to or not) when Michonne doesn't necessarily believe that she CAN love again.
Like I think she really thaws her out after this trauma response to her pre-canon backstory of just sort of shutting down because the pain of losing anyone else and the pain of her overall situation is just Too Much.
And RIGHT, same with Krennic - mourning alone is deeply unnatural, and he doesn't want ANYONE to see his soft underbelly... but he also doesn't want to be alone, because I think being bored and being underrecognized are the only things to him that are scarier than the idea of solitude, because despite (or even partly because of) his ASPD he has really, really high social needs.
So if anything I think that the compulsion in the prompt is like... The little spark to instigate it, the like little push that they both need to do something that is something they already subconsciously want to do but can't overcome their more conscious reservations to do.
For the setup I'm almost thinking like... They end up just sitting on the front steps of Krennic's little place he has now and having this conversation, starting in media res, but I'm not really sure what would bring Michonne over there when she's in such a reserved state. The one thing I'm thinking of is maybe she's heard talk about the bridge and wants to get more information directly from the source? And then after he sort of tells her what he's thinking they start hearing the voices midconversation and end up reminiscing that way?