Jack Zimmermann

bitty: *gently nudges player*

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Ok so I wrote this in literally like 15 minutes and it’s exactly 300 words. I hope you enjoy it! <3

Under a cut b/c 300 words is still long

Send me a prompt and a pairing!

Autistic Shitty, who Does Not Like clothes because he doesn’t like the feeling of the cloth on his skin and they make him feel trapped

BUT autistic Shitty who will wear Jacks flannel for comfort or encouragement cause they are Friends and he takes Jack not minding as permission to take the flannel whenever he needs to

Autistic Dex needing to micromanage everything to have it be Perfect (I’ve seen some OCD Dex headcanons so maybe he’s both???)

And he likes programming cause its so satisfying to see it line up just right and he can keep the code all neat and perfect and its awesome when things go right, but sometimes they don’t and he’ll get frustrated and he probably had a couple meltdowns bc of it

And he’s frustrated by Nursey’s constant “dude, chill” bc he?? literally can’t???

Autistic Nursey who’s hypersensitive to other people’s emotions?? Like, he sometimes has a problem interpreting facial expressions & body language & tone of voice so he tends to err on the side of caution and assume ppl are upset

AND!!! he’s bad at dealing w the negative emotions bc people dont react the way he expects them to?? so he just acts the way he wants other people to act cause ‘chill’ has been the safest thing?? but he doesn’t know why it wont work w Dex?

Also!!! Autistic Nursey who likes the pressure of his beanies and snapbacks on his scalp!! !!!

Autistic Chowder whose Special Interest is Sharks

Autistic Holster who has trouble controlling his volume

Autistic Lardo who has trouble with the gross motor skills required for skating (but no trouble with the gross and fine motor skills required for painting and who doesn’t get why people don’t understand this???)

Autistic Tango who Does Not Get figures of speech, passive aggression, or sarcasm (“oh so pretty nice then”)

and who asks so many questions bc he’s bad at picking up on subtext but also Wants To Know Everything

Autistic Bitty who Does Not Like To Be Touched and whose fear of checking grew out of that, and not bullying.

 Ok so this isn’t something that began recently, but I haven’t seen any posts about it so I figured one needs to be made.

But like, I realized the members of each class act as foils to each other.

If you don’t know what a foil is:

“In literature, a foil is a character that has characteristics that oppose another character, usually the protagonist. The foil character may be completely opposite to the protagonist, or very similar with one key difference. The foil character is used to highlight some particular quality or qualities of the main character.”

- LiteraryDevices.com

Of course, not all of them are foils to Bitty or Jack, but they do this for each other. Ima put my explanation after a cut cause it got kinda long-ish.

jack “why is bittle under the table idk but while he’s there maybe he wants to look at my photographs??” zimmermann

jack “let me jump over a fucking snowbank to ask bittle to coffee and oh maybe he wants to see the new photos I took oh wow I just spilled his drink all over his sweatshirt” zimmermann

Jack Zimmermann