could just be me being delusional but I think there’s something fascinating about Leo/need and Nightcord’s thing with distance
cause with L/N even though one of their main goals/wishes is to never be apart again, there’s sort of an underlying reassurance that they’ll always find their way back to each other no matter how big the distance is. They’ve done it once already, so there’s nothing stopping them from doing it again
N25 on the other hand handles distance differently. They started off distant from each other, and even after meeting in person there was a sort of disconnect between all of them in the beginning before they really got to know each other.
the difference lies in the fact that while both L/N and N25 wish to stay together, N25 is more prone to falling into old habits and recreating the distance between each other.
Shiho’s struggle with choosing between Standout and Leo/need was mostly due to the fact that while she did want to go pro, she wants to pursue that path with her friends. When the rest of Leo/need plays for her, she chooses them and they remain together. This is a recurring pattern with Leo/need, wherein when a member struggles they regain their resolve by remembering their wish to stay together
when Mizuki is facing her struggles, she runs from the rest of nightcord and creates distance. Ena is eventually able to close this distance, but this is Nightcord’s pattern. The members of Nightcord tend to create distance between themselves and whatever is causing them pain. Ena with her art, Mafuyu with her mom, Mizuki with her secret. Kanade is the main exception but that’s mostly because she uses her pain as motivation to instead distance herself from whatever is keeping her from composing. We’re seeing this more prominently with how Kanade’s become more insistent on saving Mafuyu and neglecting her own well being in the process
Leo/need’s pipeline of together to distant to together again greatly impacts how they resolve issues, seeing as their time apart were the worst years of their lives.
nightcord is used to being distant, even after getting together. The problem lies in the fact that getting together makes the distance hurt more than before