Max, by pretending to be so overtly happy and very obviously lying to make Gwen feel better, is a direct parallel to David.
@ 3:24 - “If I help Gwen get her shit together, maybe my shit will get itself together, and I’ll stop feeling so bad!” This is David’s character in a nutshell. He’s confused and angry and sad quite a lot, but he thinks he can make himself better by making others feel better. He literally wants people to feel better all of the time, and he’ll be damned if he stops trying (see S1 finale, but also his speech in The Forest and other moments when we get him alone. He never cracks around more than one person, less his facade breaks.)
@ 3:58 - “Heyyyy, Gwen. I just wanted to say I’m sorry for treating you so poorly. It was disrespectful and wrong..” Even here it sounds like Michael (Max’s VA) is doing his David impression. Everything comes across superficially cheery, just like Miles when he’s voicing David. Very intentional choice, by the looks of it.
He follows this with “Feel better now?” as if he expects he’s fixed everything. Of course he hasn’t, but from what Max has seen of David (who it seems like he’s emulating at this point,) he thinks it should.
It all sort of continues on like this, but the main point I’m trying to make here is that Max sees David as the ideal good person, and that by acting like him, maybe he can make Gwen (and therefore the camp) better.
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Hello! Prompt: “I don’t want to see you anymore.” When I first read this I read it as see like literally see? Not date? Also everyone’s like, ten, so. Have some grumpy Harrison and Nerris.
“Hey, magic kids!” Max called. It was the usual greeting from Max. He had this tone of voice about him that all the campers had grown to notice- he wanted something. When didn’t Max want something, honestly.
“What,” Harrison said. He had grown used to the antics at this point. He was currently sitting cross-legged on the muddy ground of Camp Campbell, three red cards in one gloved hand and a blue deck in another. If he could only perfect this trick, he was sure he’d get the trio that is Max, Neil, and Nikki to give him a second glance. Surely.
“You aren’t a magic kid, Harrison. You just do tricks. And not even good ones at that,” Nerris said. Harrison glanced over. She herself was sitting with her back to him, a board game of some sort spread out across the ground in front of her. He rolled his eyes. It was always with the insults.
“Whatever, Nerris,” was all he retaliated.
“Listen. I don’t care. Neither of you are magic, if you ask me,” Max said. “It doesn’t matter. Either one. Gwen said she’d pay someone twelve bucks to hug David, but I’m not stupid enough to do that shit. I figured one of you might be.”
“Begone, Max the vile,” Nerris said. She held her nose in such a way like she was better than everyone, especially Harrison. It drove him crazy sometimes. Max heaved a shrug, walking in the other direction. Lucky guy. He could just let it run over his shoulders like water. Harrison took things more personally.
“You don’t have to be so rude about it,” he muttered, flicking a rock her way. She turned around, giving him an eye over her shoulder.
“Like you can talk, Harrison,” she said. “You’ve never been nice to me a day of your life.”
“I’m trying,” he said. His lips moved to a pout. “You won’t even turn to face me. That’s pretty rude.”
“I’m only doing this because you started it,” Nerris said. She turned her head around with a ‘humpff.’ Harrison rolled his eyes.
“What,” was all he said.
“You know what. I don’t even want to see you anymore.”
“Wha- ‘I don’t want to see you anymore’? Really? Very mature, Nerris,” Harrison said.
“I have +2 charisma points, Harrison. Don’t mess with science.”
“Science? I thought you said you were a magic kid,” Harrison said. His eyebrows were knitted together by this point. Nothing, nothing confused him like Nerris did. Some days, he hated it.
“I- I am the magic kid, Harrison,” Nerris mumbled, stuttering over her words. She made a reach for her things, stumbling to grab them quickly in what was probably an attempt to look effortless. “You wouldn’t understand.”
“I guess I wouldn’t,” was all Harrison said. He picked up his cards, giving a shrug. It looked like he wasn’t going to learn that card trick today. “I have better things to do, anyway.”
Harrison went to bed that night twelve dollars richer.
okay but how would you guys feel about doing a David choose your own adventure fic it'd be all third person and taking place right after s2e5? and there'd be shipping options (jaspid & gwenvid) if you got to them and chose that but also it'd be gen if you chose that instead? I'm like 3k into it, but seriously let me know if I should keep this up
