I love this pairing, just a couple of tired dads. They both come out of their stories wanting to leave their larger-than-life titles behind and I think that's lovely.
thought this was too cheesy to post on tiktok so im posting here... anyways been feeling very normal about teenage crosby and the crushing pressures of being a first overall draft pick. song is letter to my 13 year old self by laufey
i was thinking about this the other day, but i genuinely think the reason a lot of my opinions on mcyt stuff tend to be so different from the common fandom view is because i've talked to so many people in the space and have friends on both sides of the cc/fandom line
i get a lot of asks that are like "how do you always manage to have such reasonable takes" etc and i never know how to reply but i genuinely think it's just because i talk to a lot of different people and thus get to hear a lot of different perspectives
so there’s a scene in Something Blue where Buffy tells Giles “ok like I know you don’t want me to marry spike, but it took you guys awhile to get used to angel :)” which I WOULD say isn’t helping but it may have actually helped solely because (internally) Giles was like “ok you know what if I had to choose between you marrying spike or angel-I would choose to jump into the sun but spike is better”
Epsilon dies and Wash gets injured and without two of his closest friends for support (not that Wash being injured makes him like. gone. but he’s not in a state to offer Tucker any emotional guidance) Tucker majorly blames himself for what happened. If he was better he could’ve protected Wash. If he was better Church wouldn’t have had to destroy himself.
And Sigma senses weakness and pounces.
Manages to convince him that, yes, it is your fault that you weren’t good enough but the only reason things weren’t even worse was because the AI were here. If he didn’t have them even more people would’ve gotten killed. After all, this is what Church wanted, isn’t it? For them to help Tucker? For them to be with Tucker?
So when people (Carolina) are like. Hey. Take that armor off. Get those things out of your head. Tucker resists. And the more Tucker resists the more Carolina insists and the more Carolina insists the more Sigma is able to convince him that she’s just jealous. She just wants the AI all to herself. Just like she did with Church. Don’t you remember how she took him away from you? He was with you first, wasn’t he? And then he left? With her? If he’d stayed with you this whole time this wouldn’t have happened. Don’t let her take us from you. Not again. And it culminates in a huge fight and Tucker goes AWOL.
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I was gonna write more about it but I think I wanna write this as a script maybe. But this premise stuff probably wouldn’t be in the actual piece and instead just alluded to so. I’ll share this.