ALSO. Renee Giving Jean Her Cross. Jean With His Childhood Faith In Shreds. Holding The Metal Because

ALSO. Renee giving Jean her cross. Jean with his childhood faith in shreds. Holding the metal because it's warm from her skin. Jeremy seeing a hint of the chain the first time he gives Jean something. (Possibly the first time they touch?) Jeremy seeing Jean shirtless for the first time and seeing first his build, then his cross necklace, then his scars. Jean grabbing his necklace instead of his neck by the pool.

something about talismans of protection, something about metal being a conductor for intimacy, something about a dog on a chain putting on a necklace given to him by someone who cares

five curiosities for the next book, after reading the sunshine court

a non-exhaustive list, but five things i'm curious to (hopefully) find out more about in TSC2, or that i have questions about still:

what happened at the trojans' fall banquet (presumably jeremy's first year)? it's a Scandal, and jeremy cannot stand to be around bryson, and annalise has never forgiven him for sticking with exy after that, despite having attended all his games in high school. given the allusions to his stepfather, and also his step-grandfather being a congressman, i can see how jeremy's sexuality might be relevant to the situation—especially if we read into lucas' stiff apology and shame at his implication about jeremy and jean as being born from more than just common decency, but rather knowledge of this being a previous sticking point in terms of jeremy's scandals—but i also keep thinking about what cat said. jeremy has—three. two brothers, one sister. the way she says it, how it sticks out to jean as an odd switch, and the fact that we've only met two siblings – it makes me wonder what happened to the third. or if that's even the right question to ask, regarding jeremy's siblings.

elodie. i'm curious if we learn anything about what happened—by and large, i kinda hope not, if only because then jean has to too, unless it turns out stuart is lying, but that's a very different kind of fallout. (i don't actively theorise he is—at some point, these kids will run out of tolerance for ghost stories coming back to life—but i think its possibility ought to be considered, at least). i think we'll get more flashes of her from jean's thoughts, though, and i anticipate lots of heartbreak lmao

lucas. assuming stuart's contact comes through, and neil's hit goes ahead, we've got lucas in the aftermath of finding out his brother is a monster, and jean saying not to call the police, and then possibly his brother being dead. if it happens any other day—if it happens in west virginia, especially—i suspect lucas might be able to look at it like another domino in the ravens machine falling down, or even that something horrible happened to him when he returned home, but if it's still in LA, after what he did to jean, after jean said no cops-------i can see how that might twist into something more suspicious. who knows! i'm curious to see what happens there. grayson is a monster, but he is still lucas' brother. aaron and kevin still have complicated grief about tilda and riko, and they were their direct, constant abusers; cass never learned until after the fact, and lucas is in a complex space between the two parts of that spectrum. if grayson dies, i think the fallout will be unavoidable for exploration

this is a small one but man, i just want to keep seeing jean's list grow. it tears something out of me every time, and stitches me back together, and i want to go through that over and over, because i want to see a jean who not only hears that his life is his and worth living, but a jean who learns to believe it too

i'm just kinda assuming we see the foxes again, because i remember nora's character list having new details about characters who didn't show up in this one, but i'm also quietly hoping for more thea. their scene made me ache, and he'd never had good defenses against thea, and kevin knew that. jean would kill him for bringing her here made my heart do the !! double-tap. i'm extremely invested in jean, thea and kevin as a unit, and it would be so incredibly wonderful to see more

i am by no means a fanartist but i have this little headcanon of jean developing a nervous habit of fiddling with renee's cross necklace so i had to scribble it down

i've seen the post that goes "neil has the crunchiest hair ever seen because of constant dyeing" with counter argument being "his hair is lighter color so it wouldn't be so damaged" but like do we know that he kept the same brown hair for longer than a year in a row? i always assumed that he and mary went through different hair colors so they wouldn't be recognized. on the other hand i haven't reread the books in a while so i maybe forgot something.

also him having an absolutely dead crunchy hair and still looking gorgeous enough to make people flirt with him is funnier to imagine

Jean @Kevin: you are not going to send me to the happy people. You may be okay playing exy dressed like a traffic cone, but at least the foxes have psychological damage. DO NOT SEND ME TO THE HAPPY, MENTALLY STABLE, NORMAL PEOPLE KEVIN, WHAT ABOUT MY GOTH AESTHETIC!!!!