The best ship dynamic is actually just. “I love you and it terrifies me. I’m terrified how much I need you and how much I want you to need me. I’m terrified I’m no good for you and I’m going to hurt you and ruin you and I’m terrified of how I feel when you’re around me but I can’t bear to push you away completely because I’m terrified to be without you so now we’re stuck in limbo and that’s terrifying too. I’m terrified that if I lost you now it’d destroy me and I’m terrified that it’s too late to do anything about it. I love you. And it’s terrifying.”
#ouat had this thing about love being weakness and it was supposed to be a villain thing and wrong#but actually I always thought it was right because it acknowledged a truth that love = vulnerability#it means opening yourself up to the possibility of pain and loss and so love is fear#which also makes love the bravest thing you can do because loving someone is embracing that terror#and saying that loving them is worth it#in the end love is the ultimate expression of trust
