People do talk about this moment, but nowhere near as much as they should. I know that Arven is a big boy and he calls Juliana his little buddy for a reason, but this scene right here threw me off so much in the absolute best of ways and it’s been playing on loop in my mind for the past several hours.
This scene alone is worth a whole tank of shipping fuel.
I mean, there’s Arven and Juliana’s hands reaching for each other, and then the way his hands are on her waist and how he almost sets her right in his lap??
And did you notice how Miraidon doesn’t turn their head until she’s properly seated on their back???
And Arven is grinning the entire time like this is the second happiest he’s been the entire game - he’s about to go somewhere he hates that has held nothing but bad memories for him.
And yet here he is smiling and holding his little buddy by the hand (and then waist) the way there.
Not only does this moment not appear enough in fanart or go mentioned in fanfics, but the game itself doesn’t acknowledge how crazy bonkers that was of Arven to do that afterwards.
I do see some Japanese fanart where Arven totes Juliana around with his big boy arms, though…
I CANNOT get over In Purgatory’s Shadow/By Inferno’s Light because the whole Tain dying debacle is just Garak wanting Julian to know him. He could’ve sent him away, told him to leave, and Julian would’ve but instead it was the most blatant show of trust we have seen (and, I’m guessing, will ever see) from Garak. It’s consuming my soul. And don’t get me STARTED of Julian’s constant worrying about Garak working on the whatever -it-was, even BEFORE it was revealed that Garak has severe claustrophobia. And the way Julian climbs in after him without a second thought once Garak starts having flashbacks i aM FROTHING AT THE MOUTH