SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO GET BACK TO THIS it’s been a crazy week. I actually feel so strongly about this particularly with Shylock’s relationship with Chloe and views on her..this was actually like, the focus of my contribution to a powerpoint night my irls and I had a few months ago LOL. I felt this way before the end of mainsto2 but I DEFINITELY feel it now

I think the crux of it is that Chloe’s western tendency towards obsession defines her To the very core of her being. She isn’t just someone who Happens to possess that trait, it’s exactly what defines her. Chloe can’t just Be casually interested in something, she doesn’t Lightly feel emotions—she is someone who feels the full force of everything that happens to and around her no matter what!!! And I love the idea that this applies (especially) to her relationship with Rustica and I wish canon would give us more in this regard…I want possessive Chloe, I want jealous Chloe!

I need to stay on track HDJDJDH I’m so exhausted. At the point we’re at currently in canon , I think Shylock exists in two states wrt his feelings about Chloe: he sees himself—ESPECIALLY his younger, more naïve self—in Chloe immensely, but it’s mostly the bad parts </3 he recognizes those possessive behaviors in Chloe that Chloe herself doesn’t notice. I don’t think Shylock’s relationship with Murr is the Sole thing that defines his character but I’m pretty obviously someone who is very fond of the idea that Shylock’s decision to 1) ever start withholding shards from Murr to begin with and then ESPECIALLY 2) to eat one himself for the first time and ensure that Murr would Never get to be fully whole again is like, the single most weighty decision he’s ever made in his entire life. It’s a decision he makes FOR Murr, Murr didn’t get a say in it—it circles back to Shylock’s idea that He knows what’s best for murr, even Better than murr himself does. and i think that parallel is especially poignant in the fact that Chloe is ALSO in more of a caretaker role for Rustica—and, if anything, it’s easier for Chloe to justify any unhealthy slipups because his caretaking with Rustica is a little bit more socially acceptable than Shylock’s is LOL. The second state of Shylock’s feelings about Chloe is that he knows that Chloe has already Had her no-going-back moment, even if he (and we) don’t know what it is, or maybe never even got one to begin with. Like Shylock knows that he can pity Chloe (because of course he would pity Chloe in this situation, he’s self-aware but he has to maintain that mental block) but realistically there is absolutely nothing he can do to steer her away from anything!!! Shylock sealed his and Murr’s fates a looooong time ago and thus have kind of stagnated, but Chloe is significantly (EXTREMELY) younger and has many, many more chances to fuck up Even Worse ahead of her

ignoring mainsto2 stuff because i’m not talking about that yet but i think that it would deffo take a few hundred years of chloe Slowly justifying more and more Batshittery to herself…like unironically i want her to get a little yandere with it but it’s gotta take at least five hundred years before we properly get anywhere. but i can easily see chloe and rustica’s relationship beginning to fester into something horrible, especially because rustica doesn’t really seem too keen to push back on what chloe says Like, Ever. i don’t even think it’s wholly intentional on chloe’s part!!! i think a part of her genuinely believes that her slowly increasing the heat a little more is What’s best for both of them, even though to an outsider it’s just What’s best for her jealousy, the fact that Rustica is easily placated no matter what just makes it simpler.

Anyways :takes a thousand words to get to what you actually asked: I do think that the eventual Only way that chloe’s possessiveness slowly getting worse over the course of centuries can end is by her exercising one final act of possession over him and killing him BUTTTTT I’m not even really sure exactly how I want it to go down. I don’t know what it would take to get her to that point, if it’d be more of an impulsive thing or more meticulous

(Now if it comes to murrshy murder-suicide, I could tell you every detail of how that goes LOL. The literal only way it could ever end for mrsh is with Shylock killing him for the same reason and I could write a fucking 6k word essay about this with ease HDJDHDHS)