Lily Crozier

It just gives them a little bit of a vulnerable side.

It does.

And I think it also, there's the

We kind of had this perception that if an animal trusts someone, they are inherently trustworthy, and so it breaks down that idea of the icy facade and the, like, soft interior, that the animal is showing the true nature, and if that can trust him, then anyone can.

Yeah, we see a specific trope done exactly the same way in K-pop demon hunters, and so that was the first thing that came to my mind when you said that.

But, yeah, it's a great way to show...

the interiority of a character that is otherwise kind of horrible.

There's also the Gothic exploration of taboo and those sort of deep, complex emotions.

When you look at, Seine was very inspired by traditional Gothic, so yeah, 18th century, 19th century literature.

They grew up mostly reading classics.

And so you can see the, like, very Mary Shelley-esque Gothic inspirations in this.

Edgar Allan Poe.

Yeah, yeah.

Some really deep literary inspirations that go well beyond just, like,

I agree.

I think it was a little bit easy.

But then it begs the question, will it ever be easy?

Yeah.

Because does it ever end for them?

Yeah, I do.