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RIGHT

ok i’ve retyped this like 8 times trying to get my FOUNTAIN OF EMOTIONS about this ship into words (for the 90th time, sorry #tdv tag) but –

listen. krolock initially thinks alfred is just Another Innocent with a Good Butt but he gets got so hard.

• alfred is so much smarter than he realized (i mean he has to be he’s professor “B O O K S” abronsius’s assistant; he must spend so much time reading other people’s publications and rooting around in libraries); he and krolock can talk circles around each other about greek classics and mary shelly alike. & i mean, how invigorating were the conversations with a pastor’s daughter from the 1700s and one of napoleon’s young pages? im sure part of krolock really did love them, but i really do think you have to be able to talk to your significant other, and krolock and alfred have so much to talk about – and the things alfred doesn’t know or understand he would be more than willing to learn!
•  and alfred’s so much kinder than krolock realized, especially. i think, after a while when alfred learns to be more comfortable around krolock (particularly if alfie’s been turned, which is How I Like It), he’s a constant open ear and he’s so much easier to talk to than anyone krolock has ever met! he won’t judge and he won’t give advice because he hasn’t had any damn experiences but u bet ur ass he’ll hold krolock’s spindly hand and tell him that its ok ! and that he’s such a good dad and that herbert’s mom probably thinks so, too, wherever she is.
  i think krolock would resist that kind of comfort at first, but its so genuine, and he NEEDS to hear it. he needs to let go, its been 300 goddamn years – and alfred would be insistent, whenever they start to become a Thing, that he can still love his wife, but he can move on. he doesn’t have to carry the weight of that guilt forever.

i made myself sad goddamnit

krolfred anon you (& anyone else who wants to!) should send me some headcanons sometime. i live for this content tbqh