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“Yeah, no, I got it.” Drai says nothing about the admission, nothing about the fact that Dylan never RSVP’d—and that Drai definitely would have known that anyway. "

Something I wondered, rereading 171928: how much did Lauren need someone to talk to, to be telling Leon about inviting a guy she barely knows and assumes Leon doesn't? You gave us a couple hints about how Lauren feels about Connor and Dylan at the end, but I'd love the director's commentary about what she knows and how she feels about it (esp when she has a lifetime of double dates and group vacations to look forward to)

sorry I had to recover from a busy weekend :)

Lauren’s parts were something I had a vague idea in my head about and put hints toward but they weren’t exactly solid, sort of an open door for me to play with if I ever wanted to come back to it (like I am now with Leon’s pov). There’s a decent amount of her in Leon’s fic because I wanted them to have a strong relationship, but I’m still blocking a lot of it out so I might not have a clear answer for you

That one Connor/Giroux “wip” I mentioned does have a Lauren scene in it where they talk about marriage for the first time and it’s a bit of a coming out moment for him. He doesn’t directly name Dylan, but she asks enough leading questions to put together the mcstrome part

The whole edm polycule is together when Connor and Lauren are organizing wedding invites and Dylan’s name comes up (dw it’s a scene in Leon’s fic). Both Connor and Leon are weird about it, Lauren notices. Leon’s also weird at the wedding when Dylan obviously doesn’t show. Lauren guesses.

Note: She and Celeste are aware of Leon’s self-destructive fuckboy thing. They don’t know about the winners rooms.

Leon and Lauren butt heads a lot because they’re both headstrong, but they’re very protective of each other. When Leon goes to Washington, Lauren’s the one who pretty much covers for him until she can’t (this is one of the reasons he and Connor are arguing). She doesn’t really have an opinion on Dylan yet except for maybe wariness, curiosity. It’s not until Leon comes back a mess that it sort of sours.

It doesn’t stay that way, Connor does a lot of advocating on Dylan’s behalf. But I don’t want to say too much because I’ve barely gotten to the back half of Leon’s fic and I don’t want to commit too much yet.

In general, I think originally she was sympathetic to Dylan’s jealousy of her and Connor, but it largely went away after Leon got hurt. I think the second they all meet and Lauren gets Dylan alone, he gets dealt the shovel talk of the century and doesn’t get the chance to defend himself at all. They’re definitely a little petty, a little cold to each other at first. She probably pulls Leon aside when they get to Spain and asks him why he brought Dylan to their place (the polycule’s) and Leon has to defend his and Dylan’s relationship for the first time. I imagine Lauren and Dylan can be possessive in similar ways.