Hiveswap thought I want to poke at more–
Jude had a lot of humorous little lines referencing running away, retreating, balancing caution with bravery, or just generally sending mixed signals about how brave he was or considered himself.
Suddenly occurred to me that this is a BIG ISSUE with his dad–who appears to make running away from his problems (or addressing a sub component of his problems by running away) his primary coping strategy.
And then we have Jude’s pigeons who: 1) charge in bravely and immediately die 2) run away and leave problems unsolved 3) do whatever Byers’ best effort counts as.
Thematic? Especially when we consider one of Jude’s parents apparently did something that got her dead or vanished? And the other took off questing on related issues immediately after?
#other Jude issues: repeated memory issues#and repeated ‘forget/don’t worry about the past’
um thanks but also, like…how dare you? i was supposed to sleep tonight, not spend 8 hours in bed crying about jude
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