I'm the Monster in the Closet

how it would actually go

but like

everyone knows (even scott (as much as scott's clueless ass can know anything)) that this is just a fake relationship scott isn't actually invested in, just something he's going through because of his whole arrested development thing

he never really shows any actual interest in knives at all, is actively disgusted by even the thought of intimacy with her

he ditches her for ramona without a thought the first chance he gets lmao

like yeah it is incredibly shitty and gross all around, thank you for noticing, that's what the story wants you to notice because it's part of scott's character arc of "growing up" and "becoming less of a failure of a human being"

this isn't a story about how dating highschoolers is cool and everyone should do it, and the reading that scott is a pedophile and the story condones his actions is just straight up not supported by the text,

also to add to this… it's pretty evident that scott does not see knives as a real relationship, because to him knives is not really… a person. she's a way for him to recapture the past, high school dating out of high school. the reason why he struggles to break up with her is because he has to acknowledge her as a full human being with thoughts and feelings of her own to do that.

> what is it you are so afraid of?