Your Greatest Sin Was You Destroyed Yourself For Nothing

“Your greatest sin was you destroyed yourself for nothing”

Peter worked so hard to pay off his debts to provide for slips medical treatments to the point where he no longer has a life of his own more rather he now lives to revive a long dead lover

“Even mars had water on its surface once”

Maybe just maybe Juno’s life was already so perfect he had a good paying job a lovely partner who he was getting married to a lady wouldn’t have asked for more but if only he never found out perhaps he still would’ve been married by now

“Jupiter was supposed to be a star but failed”

Slip was a prodigy chemist he per-cured drugs that work within minutes with surprisingly good affect effects unfortunately for him he never was good with dealing with the cards he was given anyways

peter nureyev with a cigarette habit (bows and walks off stage)

“In a galaxy this large, the connections between any two people must always be a miracle.

It is not a miracle in the sense that it is rare. Even with so much empty space, humanity has chosen many times over to cluster together- in communities, in families, in partnerships. Our collisions with other people are inevitable.

But it is a miracle in the sense that each meeting, taken by itself, is so unlikely that is may as well be impossible. If the galaxy’s grand clock were reset to its start, we could assume with confidence that this group of six would never be assembled again. With lives from planets Solar and Outer, from cities and swamps, it is doubtful that any two of us would make any connection at all. Yet here we are.

And I know no name for that but ‘miracle.’”

-Jet Siquliak, The Penumbra Podcast, S3E21

I’ve seen some people talkin’ about the Jupeter relationship as of the latest episode (“sixteen tons part 2”) so, SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

I’ve seen some people saying that Nureyev is being incredibly toxic, how Juno needs to just leave him and stuff and yeah if Juno wants to leave he can but he won’t because he loves Nureyev. And in this context of Nureyev blurting the “I never want to see you again” and immediately backpedaling a bit, immediately contradicting himself by staying with Juno — trying to shove him away, handle things on his own; those are all things that Juno recognizes. I’ve talked with my bestie about it how Juno’s been on this growth journey all throughout the show, and how he’s slowly coming to a better place, meanwhile Nureyev is on the slippery slope of self destruction. Juno knows these signs because he’s had the chance to look back at his own and he’s experienced them.

In the script for this episode there’s a “stage direction” talking about how Nureyev has entered his “total compartmentalization meltdown” and that is part of his reasoning for being so detached, and cold. He’s trying so hard to exert control over his life because he feels like he’s losing it — we already knew he was stressed in S3 about this (probably post Final Resting Place too ngl because no Miasma payout), and it’s just been building. Not to mention what the Dokana group has just put on him, I have a feeling they haven’t been the most forthright with information and may have been slowing down and he can feel that it’s getting too late for Slip. Nureyeg’s life is “not [his] own” and he’s been trying to exert some kind of control in his life, and Juno’s openess and love might actually be detrimental to that in his eyes.

As for Juno, he cares about Nureyev and doesn’t want him to have to go through what I suspect he knows is going to be an emotional disaster, alone. Nureyev is essentially pulling a S1 finale Juno — trying to shove the person who makes him feel a lot away in order to do things by himself because of some emotional “duty” that he thinks he has.

I think Juno knows Nureyev’s spiraling towards a break and as he even said, he cares about him, and he’s gonna be there for him.

Sorry to ramble, I just really wanted to put my two cents in on this because it — this means a lot to me —

Relistening to the latest Juno’s Birthday special as a way to cope and just — I miss theeeeeeeeeemmmmm 😭😭😭 literally sobbing like Rita over here, I miss the crime familyyyyyyyy — and after the latest episode I *fEAR*—

Petition to rename the episode Juno Steel and the 7 minutes in heaven