You’ve got to be pretty tough to be in her line of work, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s also incredibly human to feel the waves of fear when there are threats pertaining to the heart’s kindred spirit. Stella is both incredibly badass and innately vulnerable. Stella Kidd is in the same, threatening line of work as her partner, Kelly Severide thereby, while discussing risks every time isn’t necessarily something they need to go into knowing this is a relationship they’ve both chosen (and a job they both love), to have brushed off the palpable fears Stella very clearly lived through would have been diminishing of her nuanced character. I don’t need to imagine it I want to see it. Or rather, allowing the audience to imagine that it happened off-screen. It’s a form of the hurt/comfort trope I wish more shows would deal with as opposed to brushing off fears and traumas while equating strong women to emotionless when it comes to love. And in Chicago Fire’s “Mayday” Stella wanting to stare at Severide until every part of her was convinced that he was really there is a beautiful kind of vulnerable intimacy. It’s the mark of a fear so intense, so brutally harrowing that we get it.
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If anyone reading this is familiar with One Tree Hill, there’s a particular scene in season nine where a distressed Haley tells Nathan she’s never letting him out of her sight-to quote, she says: “if I could sew my skin onto yours, I would.” Bleak, dark, creepy, but the sentiment is clear as day. It’s terrifying to think you’ve lost someone, and it’s even more terrifying when it’s the person you’re in love with-your partner, your best friend, your fiancé…And thus, when they’re safely back in your arms, substantial staring is inevitable, and we need not to look further than Stella Kidd. I suppose it’s the detail that it always (and valiantly) illuminates not only the weight of someone’s adoration, but the immense humanity in engulfing emotions. I still don’t know what it says about me that I love moments of intimacy driven by intense fear. And showcasing the art of staring in Chicago Fire‘s “Mayday” is, in of itself, picturesque. Stella Kidd could be standing in a room doing absolutely nothing and it’s always the most fascinating thing happening.
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