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Another Caitlyn character bit I love is her friendship with Jayce and what that tells us about her. There’s a lot of plaintext and context clues that Caitlyn is pretty socially isolated, struggles finding common grounds with her peers because of her social status, and we see her trying really hard with forced smiles and “I don’t know how else to contribute to the conversation so I’ll divulge trivia” with the other enforcers. And with Vi and in the undercity we see the focused mission future-sheriff side of her, and the kind and thoughtful altruistic human that she is and one day I’ll write that essay about both of their How It Started How It’s Going arcs but original point:
With Jayce we get the glimpse of what Caitlyn is like when she’s affectionately relaxed, because she knows the other person well enough to act like this around them. There’s no caution or awkwardness, just the straight forward genuine. And what I love about what it shows of her character?
Like, yes, the twisting his arm because of the hat tap is textbook sibling teasing back and forth, but afterwards when Jayce tells her he gets to give the speech, something important to him, what’s her reaction?
“Lol. Lmao, even.”
This is how Caitlyn shows affection with someone she considers a close friend! She doesn’t say “congrats” upon hearing what for Jayce is big news, that she must certainly know is big news, she says “fr? are they nuts?”
And she does this again when he tells her he became a councillor, immediately laughs and insults the idea of it. Oh they made you a councillor? Of what, the Idiots With Hammers division?
And Jayce just brushes it off because that’s just their thing. He knows that Caitlyn doesn’t find joy in politics and that the big news happening to him sounds absolutely dreadful for her, and that she’s not actually insulting him or his news; this is just how Caitlyn shows her affection. Her love language is negging the shit out of you.
I’m certain season2 is gonna be a whole lot of tragedy, but I do hope we get to see this side of Caitlyn again.
I was reminded recently of this old post of mine and we DO get to see this side of Caitlyn again!
She could have said things a dozen different ways to assure Vi she’s fine with Jinx escaping, with Vi being the cause, that she trusts Vi’s judgement and let her make the call. Could have used soothing language or just explained frankly how she’s not mad to help calm Vi down.
But no, she has to come in and go “come on, you think it was that easy on accident? Do you seriously think you outsmarted me. You’re so cute.”
That’s our girl! The real Caitlyn resurfaced after being buried for so long. She’s just brimming with affection as she leans against the wall and teases Vi for not noticing the set up. For her this is peak romance. The most loving thing she could have said. You really can’t blame Vi for kissing that smug look right off her face.