SEE IDK DOES STEPHEN COME TO LOVE BEARS OR. IDK THIS IS A BLATANT CONTRADICTION AND IT WOUNDS
BUT OH MY GOD THAT IS LIKE THE GREATEST THING EVER OH MY GOD AND THEN THEY BOTH LAUGH LIKE MAD THINGS AND JON ACTUALLY DOES BREAK DOWN A LITTLE SO MAYBE THAT BACKFIRED BUT THEY WERE TEARS OF COMPLEX JOY AND BITTER LOATHING OKAY
Oh okay maybe like. When he's a child he hates them because he associates them with his father (WASN'T HE LIKE IN THE MILITARY OR SOMETHING LIGHT THE PTAH SIGNAL) or someone else who is all kinds of crazysauce and not fun to be around, but then as he gets older and sort of... solidifies in who he is? he learns not to fear them or whateves.
BUT IDK. I like the bear!hate and the symbolic/foreshadowing act of Jon giving up his favorite friend for Stephen.
NOW I'M CONFLICTED
BUT OH MY GOD THAT IS LIKE THE GREATEST THING EVER OH MY GOD AND THEN THEY BOTH LAUGH LIKE MAD THINGS AND JON ACTUALLY DOES BREAK DOWN A LITTLE SO MAYBE THAT BACKFIRED BUT THEY WERE TEARS OF COMPLEX JOY AND BITTER LOATHING OKAY
Oh okay maybe like. When he's a child he hates them because he associates them with his father (WASN'T HE LIKE IN THE MILITARY OR SOMETHING LIGHT THE PTAH SIGNAL) or someone else who is all kinds of crazysauce and not fun to be around, but then as he gets older and sort of... solidifies in who he is? he learns not to fear them or whateves.
BUT IDK. I like the bear!hate and the symbolic/foreshadowing act of Jon giving up his favorite friend for Stephen.