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Thank you for asking my about Tai 😭😭😭Typed this on my notes app so format is all janky

3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

Van is such a dick to Misty and won’t let up. It makes sense that Van is a bully, especially to Misty, but it really annoys me. Be nice to her! She has so much in common with you, you ass!

Tai viewing Sammy as an afterthought. I know this is mostly on the writers but it’s so weird and troublesome to see Tai barely speak or talk about Sammy after he’s taken away and has never felt right to me. I really don’t think it could be explained that well in a Trauma Response™️. It just is a casualty of the lazy writing they give Tai.

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

Taissa’s parents aren’t (overtly) homophobic and would be accepting. Tai’s closeting comes from trauma about her grandma’s death coupled with her perfectionism. Her perfectionism is instilled into her heavily by her mother who made sure to educate her children on how much harder they have to work to get half as far, whereas her dad is the more easygoing parent (people really like to write him as strict and I just don’t see that) Tai’s parents are probably very healthy parents (as Boomers can be).

Heavy one for Van, get ready. I think someone on Van’s dad’s side of the family, an uncle or a grandfather, was sexually inappropriate with Van as a child. Van has no memory. Vicky found out about it, but couldn’t do anything about it (legal shit around this thing is very difficult for a woman on the lower end of the income spectrum) so told Dad (who sided with family member) to leave. Vicky feels guilt and this is why she drinks. Exhausted with single parenting and carrying a secret resentment for her child. Van doesn’t remember the trauma and has no idea why dad left.

19. How about a relationship they have in canon that you don't like?

I’m flipping this on its head because they rarely show these two having a relationship with anyone else so I will say a relationship I dislike because it’s not enough.

Van - Natalie, either timeline. The whole fandom agrees that these two would be thick as thieves. They have so much chemistry together and the show gives us NOTHING. (I’m not complaining because I love this relationship but) they give Tai and Nat more of a relationship than Van and Nat. I just want some more gifs of these two 😭