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ladybender · 6 years

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Fry / Lars parallels 👥

(that was the best emiji i could find lmao)

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okay so, fist off, i have no idea at all of how to write this post, but i thought it could be a very useful set of info to put on paper so im gonna give it my best try

so we know Fry and Lars's parallels are either a "direct effect" (they are feeling the same things, making the same decisions) or a "seesaw effect" (when one is feeling down the other is happy, and so forth), so let's start:

👥 i think it's safe to assume everyone here has seen bender's big score (couple hundred times even), so it's no news when i say Lars had 12 years head start to do a big character development. until the moment he found out he was Lars, then the "it's enough to know leela is happy" immediatly became the "bitch, i am what will make leela happy waaaa". so that was kinda cut short.. it also doesn't help that Lars's 12-years-old realization only took original-Fry like 5 hours to accomplish (Shut In wasn't kidding when she said he would get the faster more radical character development of them all 😂)

👥 so by the flashback scene at the hospital (where Lars was in a coma? i can't remember but he was not doing well) Fry and Lars are emotionally at the same point.

👥 but that quickly moves forward, because we know Fry gaving Lars his blood, royally messed up the rules of the "time paradox duplicate is always doomed". that's maybe why lars not only lived this long, but is also said that the universe doesn't know anymore who it shoud get rid of, if fry or lars (maybe that the big why of all the injuries after all 🤔)

👥 the actual story begins with the seesaw effect: the first time we see Lars he's happy and his marrige with Leela is on its highest note. while the first time we see Fry, he's on his lowest point, longing for Leela like a crazy man, and even on the edge of alcoholism.

👥 the next thing i noticed is a direct parallel: when Amy is complaining about Kif being too perfect and driving her to another man, Fry's response is "how can you be too perfect?". literally in the same chapter, about the same thing, Lars says "how can the guy be too perfect?" (lmao Leela should have taken some hint just then imo😂)

👥 another seesaw effect could be when Fry was chilling on the beach with Leela while Lars was busy working at the head museum🤔

👥 then there is the fatidic hangar scene!!! we all know that was the literal dawn for Fry, because the sun was rising right then. but as if that wasn't enought, the next we see of Lars is when he's saying he had a rough night at work, not even knowing the first thing 😂! (poor guy tho...)

👥 i'll skip a few chapters here and go to when Leela finds out, starting a sequence of direct parallels: mainly them being plain miserable all the times.

👥 all this to get to where the Big Stuff happens: after Fry leaves, he and Lars basically parallel eachother to the core of their plots.

👥 Fry on mars and Lars still on the surface trying to help Leela is a transition part. the ends are the opposite (Fry want to forget Leela by getting drunk every single minute of every day / Lars want to be near leela to see if he can still have a role in her life) but they start at the same time.

👥 the next phase of their connected plot (which i suspected happened at the same time too but apparently not so never mind that), is when Fry gets run over by Glottus / Lars goes with Leela in the sewers (which is also where the first injury happens for the both of them! Fry breaks his ribs / Lars breaks his leg).

👥 this ALSO leads them both to their designeted Leela mirror (for Fry is Glottus / for Lars is Skreem). who are gonna help them get though a huge change and a better understanding of their porpuse, both with Leela and with themselves.

👥 but their injuries did not heal well. in fact Lars gets a limb / Fry keep breaking the same ribs two more times. now, i've thought about this a lot, and Kat said it so much better already, but i think these wounds are connected to their emotional wounds. the fact that they keep troubling them and that they're straightly connected to leela (lars fell from the leader because he followed her and wanted to go down first / fry was just thinking about going back to earth when glottus hit him) (plus! it was their respective mirron leela character that tried to heal them but falied).

👥 now this next point is a big leap, but i think Lars finding out he's doomed / Fry realizing he can't run forever and hope his problems would disappear are also connected. idk if it's a seesaw effect, but it's close to it? Fry's going a step further into admitting his faults, and that is making him grow so much, and getting closer to Leela. while Lars is getting further (he decided to let her go, and kept from her that he was going to die). so it's like they're going in opposite directions now 😥

👥 the next things that happens (which i strongly suspect happened at the same time, at least this! but idk😫) is Glottus's death / Skreem's disapperance. important events, because they bring Fry and Lars to a shift. to the end of the equilibrium and comfort they had created with them, and into the cold cruel reality.

👥 this is what opens the next phase of their plots (the one we still have to see (oh boyyyy)).

👥 one more Big Thing i noticed is about the baby. how it was actually lars's desire, the very first conversation he has with leela in the story, and he's not the father. while fry doesn't even know anything about it, the only real contant with it was when he kissed leela's belly that one time, when he was out of it (but he didn't even know she was pregnat 😟 unfair), and yet he's the father. this is like, the saddest irony 😟😟😟

#long post #walking a fine line #The Sophisticated Shut In #futurama #spaceacepearl #@barelyanyswag #i finally wrote the thing and it's so messy please help 😂😂😂#fry/lars is so sad i hope they have ice creams and a hug from leela in the finale

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