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i am not well understood. which is also my fault

i’d never seen the follow up this is 1000x funnier

okay i just reblogged a longer post about not caring about trapper not saying goodbye because of it being said in-depth earlier in the season. but it's also because of THIS exact emotion. because of trapper passing a kiss onto hawkeye through radar being a placeholder. the hawkeye/trapper goodbyes even when they weren't explicit, weren't ever goodbye forevers. they were always 'i'll see you laters'. the absence was never permanent

i could never be mad about trapper not leaving a note (either from a writing or an in-universe character standpoint) bc hawkeye and trapper had already had their sincere, emotional goodbye in check-up, and there's no way that, with wayne's absence, a simple letter-reading would improve upon that in any way. it'd just be a repetition of what we, the viewers, already know, only this time without the actors being able to play off each other. and i think that works as sufficient justification for trapper in-universe too: they already know how they feel about each other, they already know how they feel about parting. they've been here before. there's no point in reiterating it in a less intimate/personal way. truly the only way to give each other (and the audience) a more impactful farewell would be to have trapper literally kiss hawkeye goodbye. and that's exactly what they did. who needs a fucking note.