Thinking about how Pen has always been the laughing stock of the ton but Colin has always appreciated and cared for her anyway.
And how Colin was always too soft and too sensitive for his own good but Pen always loved him anyway.
And thinking about how they will always have each other's back and how no one can come for them anymore now that their bond is stronger than ever cause they just get each other and truly that's all that matters in the end!
They really are each other's person and I just think that's so so beautiful
I'm sorry, I will never truly get over how Colin looks so longingly and yearningly at Pen in the distance when she's talking to Debling at the Balloon Faire that he has to eat the same cake she did to taste her in his mouth
and is so pressed about the fact that she's talking to some other dude instead of him that he's doing the regency equivalent of 'I don't fucking like that guy, come roast him with me' to his buddies
but the WHOLE time this is the conversation Penelope is having with that man
and then almost gets killed by a BALLOON traveling at 0.25 kilometers an hour because she becomes afflicted by The Horny(tm) when she sees Colin Bridgerton's arms as he runs to save her
these two are so unserious and double down bad for each other, I love them with all my heart
Can we appreciate how Penelope didn't even need to actively do anything in order for Colin to change? As soon as he realized that he could lose his best friend, he decided to be the man Penelope had always known him to be. She didn't need to fix him. He fixed himself to be with her.