probably going to be the most popular answer but that there’s no universe or timeline in which they wouldn’t have found themselves clawing their way back to each other by any means 🙂‍↕️

him having to look to her for support in the middle because he’s a little rusty and doesn’t want to make a misstep and jeopardize what he fought so hard to get back to well yes

and when we get a role reversal of her prescribing him a “task” that he finds comfort in 🙂‍↕️

stop wait…instead of getting to see his taxidermy work like in the movie, viktor gets to see jayce’s obsessive pages and pages of research. a little too anatomically correct drawings of the human body. bodies that look eerily similar to his own.

which is soooo unfair bc her mouth is gonna be full :/