#also obsessed with smoker hobie

[katsumiiii]

hobie x fem! reader

thinking of hobie brown rn…!

hobie who knows you love the height difference between you two and uses it to his advantage. is constantly angling his head upwards, which causes him to purposely peer down at you through his thick eyelashes. you always get flustered each time he narrows his eyes and tilts his chin, and him being the ever so perceptive spider he is, takes notice of your heated cheeks and continues to do so.

whenever he’s near a doorway or a thick frame he lovesss to lay a palm on the top of it, trapping your body beneath his as you ramble on about whatever it is you’re rambling about. he makes sure to nod along while effectively moving a hand towards your plush waist, bringing your figure flush against his own. he plays with the seam of your shirt, and urges you to keep going when you stutter from the sudden change in position.

hobie who loves to annoy you with his British slang. it’s not necessarily because he uses it often that irks you, it’s the fact that you have no idea what he’s saying and he never makes an effort to help you understand. (he actually finds it amusing each time you attempt to guess what he means and is completely off base every single time).

“babe, I’d love ta get ya that shirt you’ve been beggin’ for, but I’m skint right now. try me next week, yeah?” he hummed, kicking his feet up on the railing next to your bed.

“skint? I feel like you’ve used that one before..” you muttered, huffing in irritation by the smug look on hobie’s face, his lips quirked in amusement.

“told ya what it meant last week. thought ya said you could ‘se context clues?”

“whatever bee, maybe you should speak english.”

“‘aint that what ‘m doin’?”

hobie who always has a blunt neatly rolled on his dresser, his ash tray placed gently to the left of it. he often smoked before running off to whatever it is he did when he wasn’t home (he was very unpredictable as he switched it up weekly to “fuck up consistency” whatever the hell that meant).

hobie inhaled gingerly before tilting his head towards his peeling painted ceiling, his fingers lingered tightly on the wood before lifting it to your lips, “want a go?”

you shook your head, nuzzling further into his shoulder, “mhm no, too tired.” hobie chuckled before greedily puffing the joint, shuttering at the burning feeling it left.

“suit yourself love, more for me.”

hobie who you introduce differently to your friends each time you bring him up. one day he’s your boyfriend, the next he’s your significant other, and the next he’s your ‘close friend’. they always question the constant switch ups, but you don’t ever seem to mind. you know where you stand with the man, and to him that’s all that matters.

“so what’s up with you and…..” your friend trailed off, stirring the ice in her drink.

“hobie?” you questioned.

“yeah him, so is he your boyfriend or what?”

“it’s complicated, he hates labels, makes him feel confined.” you replied, shrugging your shoulders as you lay your head on your palm.

“that doesn’t bother you? is he like scared of commitment or something?”

you scoff, lightly shaking your head, “no, he just doesn’t want to contribute to the system.” you answered bluntly, taking another sip of your lemonade.

“the system?” your friend asked, eyebrow raised at the quip.

“nevermind, don’t worry about it.”

hobie who subtly brags about you to his people. loves to show you off, and has no problem admitting he does.

“yeah bruv, my girl jus’ got into her dream fuckin’ college. been workin’ hard for that shit all year, man.” hobie boasted, pushing his hands out in order to bounce off the wall next to him.

“oh my goodness how wonderful! when do we get to meet this companion of yours?” pavitr questioned, flinging his body upwards to keep up with the male to his right.

“eh, don’t know yet, when I feel like it, yeah?”

all in all hobie is so cute and I literally am in love with him!!

#hobie brown x reader #spider punk x reader #hobie x reader #atsv x reader #atsv hobie #literally loml #also obsessed with smoker hobie #don’t mind if I got the British slang a little wrong #I literally looked up popular British slang and ran with it 💀 #so bare with me there 🤞🏾 #hobie brainrot ! #fem reader !!!!

[merrysithmas]

(1/2)Hi ! I love your analysis of TGF, I always have a good time reading them. I would like to know your thougts about the parallel between Audrey and Boris ? I mean besides the fact that Audrey's memory haunts Theo and stuck him into the past and trauma ; and Boris frees Theo from his stagnation state and enables him to see life in a new perspective. I feel like there's a lot of similarities between the two of them.

(2/2) For instance, both gives Theo a nickname. both could communicate with Theo without words. He found a new home and family with Boris in vegas, something he lost with his mother etc etc... So what do you think ?

Yes!! I believe we as readers as supposed to see a LOT of similarities between Boris and Audrey. They are essentially the "bookends" of Theo's story in the novel and of his affliction of post-traumatic stress. Firstly, they both have black, dark hair!! Theo describes Audrey as dark-haired with pale-skin.

Theo is constantly mentioning and describing Boris' hair through the novel, often at moments that bring back memories of the bombing, or before or after moments when he mentions Audrey. Obviously we all laugh bc of Theo's thirst and him constantly mentioning Boris swishing his hair, but there is also another more sober and heart-wrenching reason it catches his eye -- it reminds him of his mom ❤️

Also: THE UMBRELLA! It was raining when Theo and Audrey went into the museum. They dashed inside and Audrey has an umbrella to keep them dry. Who else pulls out an umbrella to shield Theo from the elements/his internal conflicts? Boris. Boris who shields him from the harsh reality of the sun.

Boris is the only major character in the novel Theo would not have eventually met if not for the bombing. He met Pippa and Welty, and was in fact waiting back from his mother so he could introduce himself to Pippa -- if he met Pippa that wah (something Pippa and Theo talk about during their dinner scene as adults) they likely would have had a friendly dynamic. He would have then met Hobie. Theo's father (and Xandra) needed only a monetary opportunity to reappear and it would have happened sooner or later -- but Boris. Meeting Boris is a direct result of his mother's death and this is a poignant fact that inexorably links Boris and Audrey and likely causes some internal conflict in Theo -- who loves them both very much.

It is symbolic in a way -- the "death" of his mother as an influence allows Theo the space to grow to feel romantic and sexual love, however in Theo's case it happened too soon and too violently, and this is evident in his stunted inability to confess his feelings to Boris or to have a healthy relationship with a boy (which he so obviously wants and would have been eons easier with his accepting mother in NYC as opposed to his manipulative father in scorching masculine-coded Las Vegas).

Audrey is also the one who introduced Theo to the Moon story -- he thinks about her childhood in Kansas and Kentucky, how she was miserable having to move after she lost her parents and was told "look up! the moon is the same wherever you go". Theo is nestled next to Boris in bed in the dark when he recalls this story and jostles Boris awake asking if the moon is the same in Russia or Indonesia to which he replies of course it is! It is like Audrey speaking through time to let us, the readers, know she approves of Boris -- this strange feral boy who introduced himself to her son as Badr (the Moon!) and makes her Theo smile again.

There's also the matter of The Goldfinch. Audrey is the one who INSISTED on bringing Theo to see it (perhaps it reminded her of her son, a young boy just entering his teenaged years, maybe she knew something about Theo -- about how he might feel "shackled" like the goldfinch was, and wanted to express to him how beautiful and striking that little bird was even in its chained uncertainty). And then Boris, of course, is the only character who ever gets to see or touch or know Theo has the Goldfinch after Theo takes it. Boris is privvy to Theo's soul in a way no other character is -- not only can Theo NOT hide the Goldfinch from Boris (when Theo is drunk he willingly reveals it to him as teens) but Boris then thieves it without Theo knowing (ahem) and then toils over it for years, falling in love with it, and he becomes determined to reunite it with Theo as a life-altering mission that represents his ability to be good. I mean, Audrey and Boris' connection to TGF is rife with symbolism about Theo's sexuality tbh.

Audrey and Boris are also both animal lovers (Audrey with her horses, Boris with dogs). They both love old movies! Theo mentions he and his mother wanted to go to an old horror-movie festival (I believe) and Boris is obsessed with old black-and-white films. They both enjoy this pasttime with Theo. Boris and Audrey are both terrible cooks (Audrey ruining Thanksgiving, Boris depending on Theo to cook for him). Boris and Audrey both have a maladjusted relationship in the book (Larry, Kotku) where Theo harshly judges their partners.

Theo overcomes his iciness with Kotku after she says she is sorry his father died -- growth Theo experiences with Boris at his side. Theo also watches It's A Wonderful Life at the end of the book with (Boris) as opposed to horror films with his mother -- growth. Theo also comes to love and care for Popchyk, going so far as to smuggle him all the way to NYC -- growth.

Audrey died in a horrible smoky bombing incident (and some of her family members died of lung cancer which is explicitly mentioned in the book), Boris is a smoker like a chimney -- signifying her "warning" to Theo that this boy might be the one that he wants, but he has to be the one that deserves him too. When Boris throws his burning cigarette in Martin's face during the climactic Amsterdam confrontation scene in his effort to save the Goldfinch and Theo's life, he proves this.

There is another object that Boris gets to see that belongs to Theo's mother personally and is a source of anger in Theo -- his mother's emerald earrings. Theo and Boris discover them together while rifling through Xandra's room. When Theo tries to gift them to Kitsey, she rejects them in front of his face -- his future wife rejecting his memory of his mother and his traumas. And then Boris, his Moon appears shortly after.

There's also the very obvious parallel of Theo loving them both wholeheartedly. At the end in Amsterdam we see Theo faced with a potential tragedy like the museum -- I have a whole post that compares the Museum Bombing to the Martin incident and I'll link it at the end of the post. But essentially Theo has the chance to "save" Audrey's counterpart in the novel (Boris) from death in a way he could not save his mother -- essentially healing his own old wound and guilt. He chooses to give up TGF and save Boris' life, the opposite of what he (traumatized) feels he could have done at the museum and didn't. This is a hugely important bookend to Theo's trauma -- and the Martin scene references NY and Theo flashing back through sense-memory several times to drive that point home. The connection between Audrey and Boris.

Audrey and Boris parallel throughout the whole novel! We are meant to see that as readers and know they are connected in Theo's life and that they play on his same heartstrings.

The Martin Incident vs Bombing post:

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