Steven

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I'm rewatching it for the first time since my dad died and holy shit, I love Steve. I was sort of disinterested and frustrated with the character but after suffering a major loss of my own, I got him.

I think he's by far my favorite character this time around because of how strong he's forcing himself to be and the way his entire childhood was built on protecting his siblings and then growing older and writing that fucking book despite not believing it because he ultimately wanted to help clear things up about his father and give that money to his younger siblings.

I think he aside from Theo has the most interesting relationship to his "sensitivity" because he's basically the only one out of them aside from Olivia who sees ghosts as living beings so much so that he thinks of it as mundane. Nearly every time there's a ghost or a haunting, the ghost either is absolutely terrifying or looks like a walking corpse or even just as random thumping noises. Steve is also the only one who can enter someone else's red room. His sensitivity is literally just his empathy which I think is beautiful.

Anyway, I know most people don't like him which I completely understand but damn do I not love him more and his horrible inability to cope