i just got to the part where keith leaves home after being beaten by his father and starts robbing people outside, bringing money back to his family. and now he’s been killed. i have really complex feelings about it. he was putting his family in danger, but he’s also just a child. he’s 13, trying to survive in a world that forced him to grow up too fast.

i also really appreciate that octavia doesn’t make it easy to decide what’s right or wrong. it’s like you’re constantly teetering between the two. keith becomes violent, robbing and killing to survive, but that shift feels less like a choice and more like an adaptation to the world around him. he becomes a product of that environment while still being a child at his core. both things can be true, and by her doing this, you realize that somethings just aren’t black and white.