so the other day i was trying to quote the "yeah, i hate to tell you this evan but you may have already perjured urself" line to chris but i had the "ima keep it real with u united states government" meme rolling around in my head at the time which turned into me saying "ima keep it real with u evan". anyway
critical to the evan/jared dynamic is that evan is also a huge asshole, he's just so much quieter with how he goes about it. only calling jared when he needs something, body blocking jared when jared goes to talk to Mrs Murphy, ditching jared the moment it was feasible for him to do so. don't get me wrong, jared is also Asshole, but he's so much louder with it. almost as if it's a facade hmm. evan does a lot of mean selfish things that he wants to pretend aren't because that's how he copes with the loathing. please note the "I don't even THINK mean things" line.
this is like. a huge facet of the show and yet. the take of "Jared is horrible to sweet bean Evan who just wanted to help. It was Jared's idea to lie anyway!!" continue to fester, a sentiment that's certainly not helped by the movie. evan IS an asshole, he's a selfish dick that people assume has much purer intentions because he's anxious. the infantilization of anxiety disorder explode. now. but evan is also very desperate and miserable and isolated. which like. everyone is. everyone in deh is miserable and isolated and sucks a little. sucking a little is the spice of life.
Here is my drawing of the Dear Evan Hansen kids as trolls from the movie Trolls! They are very different shows in terms of tone, but it was only natural for me to draw this.
In order they are Evan, Connor, Jared, Alana, and Zoe :)
mellman/kleinmell (michael/jared kleinman) is the funniest shit to me (slash pos) because its already very similar to boyf riends but will roland plays both jeremy and jared so its just kind of like
Here.
here is two nerdy boys who have social issues. one who would rather kill himself taking a supercomputer and putting it in his brain than confronting his feelings. one who helped his friend write incriminating possibly gay love emails to his supposed lover who actually barely even knew him.
Choose one and run with it. take one from the will roland multiverse
My bf was in a production of BMC in NJ and he literally added Jared Kleinman into the plot as part of the ensemble. I couldn’t help but imagine him texting Evan during Smartphone Hour
“Evan you’re not gonna believe this sh*t! So there’s this guy named Rich and he went like totally crazy and burned down an entire house after a Halloween party. Like, I thought things were going to be peaceful here in f*cking NJ, but turns out they’re just as f*cked up”