#tldr tldr dr friedlander should’ve put me on the team to inspire a real breakthrough

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do u have more to say on aro michael cuz i’ve ALSO considered this for him before it’s like ur reading my mind w these posts

me and you.. 🤞🏽 this made me smile evilly actually because i do in fact have more to say. it’s a little hard for me to coherently group my thoughts together though so walk with me here

this may be a sliight reach but my one of my main basis’ for it is that one conversation he has with franklin where he says that his marriage happened purely based off physical attraction, meanwhile it’s very clear after reuniting the family (and even after did somebody say yoga. that man was tweaking out without his family) that he does have feelings for amanda that aren’t sexual. they just aren’t your “typical” super strong romantic feelings that you see other people talking about

michael is a movie guy and bases most aspects of life off what he sees on the screen. and in every movie where there’s a love interest there’s always some big expression of love. yknow. butterflies, sparkles in your vision, intense longing and super lengthy speeches. now i don’t think michael is incapable of romantic attraction, i just personally believe that his version of it is a lot more muted than the type you see in movie couples. there are no sparkles in his vision, what the hell. and of course to him, that means the attraction isn’t there at all, because vinewood told him that that’s what love is supposed to be like and vinewood is always right

again very hard for me to word (so sorry. really hope this isn’t too confusing to read) but tldr i think he visibly expresses aromantic tendencies and whatnot, except it’s somewhat overshadowed (? if that’s the right word) by the fact that he’s the one expressing it, because he doesn’t know what those tendencies stem from. he loves his wife just not in a purely allosexual way and that makes him immensely conflicted because, again, it’s There. just not in the way he thinks it should be

#gta 5 #gta v #michael de santa #tldr tldr dr friedlander should’ve put me on the team to inspire a real breakthrough #this could also tie into trikey #but i’m keeping it canon specific for essay purposes #text