ok so this was long but so is my love for him
I love him because his emotional immaturity is understandable if you think of his perspective. He was a young boy who’s sister died, then he gets another sister. So the lack of finding his sisters body, combined with a new sister who prayed his younger sister would never be found must have been traumatic and stressful. The maturity he has now to try and understand Penelope while understand the emotional neglect that was caused is admirable knowing how much trauma he went through in his adolescence.
yes, exactly! unlike their certain black haired older brother who keeps on insisting that penelope is still the same immature attention seeking brat. reynold is willing to change his wrong ways, and we're all loving him.
i hated him so much, esp when i found out about what he did to the original young penelope. but he did show brotherly affection towards her during the carnival, like when she escaped and caught her when her escape plan failed and even escorted her out the mansion. plus, after the attic incident where penelope let out her emotions, relating them to what the original penelope went through, reynold realized that what he did was wrong. he tried to apologize- or he really did, i can't recall, during penelope's training. and now, as penelope stated, he was the first to come running to her when she was nearly attacked. he also 'protected' her from vinter (i prolly would too to my little sibling because dude, their age gap). he also acknowledged penelope's skills in using the crossbow. he also got an ointment in advance for her and applied it for her. so idk, i just really love him since he acknowledged that what he did was wrong and though, it's really awkward and hard for him, he's trying to make up for it and he's trying to act like a real brother now. so yes, he's just a really admirable person. he would become an even more admirable person in the next events so yeah, he was terrible in the original timeline and even in the first chapters of this timeline but upon realizing that he was wrong, he changed. that's what makes him a good guy that i now love. meanwhile, derrick could go die in a ditch and i would not care even a bit.