#would elliot not be hurting brian in lieu of hurting himself

[humanveil]

discussion topic: dean winters comes back to cameo. on a scale of 1 to 10 what is the animosity level btwn brian and elliot

#need to know if i'm alone in thinking that it wouldnt be as explosive as fics make it out to be #terminal svu brainrot #like okay yeah yeah. I Get It. but also. #what reason does elliot have to resent brian other than misplaced self-hatred #assume they see each other. Assume Elliot Knows. yes i imagine he's pissed but is all that anger not directed at himself first #the girlies love a fist fight & okay yeah it Could be fun BUT. is brian not a stand in for himself? #would elliot not be hurting brian in lieu of hurting himself #is brian's hypothetical animosity not born from feeling defensive of LIV #lasting remnants of resentment because HE was there HE was with her at her lowest and he KNEW he wasnt who #she really wanted but he did it anyway because he loved her. he really did love her! #idk. i dont think they'd be friendly exactly #but i struggle to always buy the extreme hostility #like they're meatheads but also they are standing there tense as fuck gritting their teeth trying to rein it in for liv's sake #also cannot believe im saying this but i think there is a level of maturity w brian with this specific issue. #like he lived with elliot as the third person in his relationship the same way kathy lived with olivia as the third to her marriage #this is the man who was THERE who helped clean up her apartment and sat in that court room and told her she was the love #of his life and then followed it with 'you were never going to bear your soul to me' #like. do you get it. or is my memory of 2.0 that poor that i am wildly misreading the sitch