As much as I’ve unwillingly grown to enjoy Scout as a character, I really feel sometimes like the joke of Scout’s unreciprocated love for Pauling should have ended so much earlier and before that whole timeskip.
That many years and doesn’t look for the opportunity to find other women.
But, at the same time his continuous denial is so exemplary of so many straight men irl being taught that they have to ‘try harder’ ‘try again’ in old-fashioned pursuit of women.
So 7th comic Scout finally moving on and getting the opportunity to do what he really wants (instead of projecting those hopes onto the person he seems to put on a pedastal), was honestly extremely satisfying.
I’m extremely happy they let him move on, honestly.