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Hey everyone, So this is gonna be my first proper post since the Introduction on this blog. I got a few new followers here yesterday thanks to @marcodiazisatransgirl and I figured I would welcome you all with a theory I have alluded to in past posts.

So in the “Pilot” we get the impression something happened between Mouse and Giggles. Coach Korn asks them to spend time together before the game the next day suggesting going for a meal, taking a walk on the beach, etc and this causes Mouse to freak. When Coach Korn asks what the problem is, Giggles expresses that Mouse thinks “I like her a bit too much.” Giggles also gets defensive at this point saying that she has “a boyfriend. We love love each other very much.” More like she is trying to convince herself of this fact than the other people in the room.

Both characters seem to have hang ups about their sexualities and with Mouse especially this becomes more clear in “TCKS” and “This is our House”.

In “TCKS” when the team is being interviewed by Harper, Mouse is tripping over her words and visibly crushing on Harper in front of the entire team. Basically the disaster lesbian trope. When the girls are hanging out later on, the crush she has on Harper is brought up and once again she gets defensive before finally confirming with a question, “Wait! How did you know that?”

Despite this she is still super defensive about her crush though or the fact that she would EVER have a crush on a girl for that matter. In “This is our House”, Louise goes to Mouse referring to Harper who was at her locker moments earlier, “You and your girlfriend are stressing me out.” Mouse once again becomes defensive saying, “She’s not my girlfriend.”

We then also in this episode have Mouse refer to her parents as “the Colonels” and talking about getting into West Point Military Academy. This suggests her parents are military themselves, likely the US Marine Corps and they have aspirations for her to follow in their footsteps and join the military. While DADT (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) has since been repealed, maybe her parents still have old fashioned attitudes regarding military service and being LGBT+.

Circling back to the “Pilot” though we see Mouse’s extreme defensiveness around Giggles. Something happened between the two of them and Giggles even says, “Whatever you thought I meant that night, I didn’t. Besides YOU were the one who made it weird.”

The insinuation made here, is that Mouse freaked out about something Giggles said or did and what I wonder is, if what we are seeing happening between Harper and Mouse is gonna lead to a similar climax.

What I suspect is that Mouse was giving Giggles signals like she is doing with Harper right now. The two got closer and closer, until Giggles thought, “Hey, I feel this attraction to Mouse. She clearly feels the same way, let’s make a move.” What that move was we don’t know. Upon Giggles making that move though, Mouse freaked out and was like, “No. You may feel that way. But I don’t.” Although Mouse doesn’t seem to expressly deny her attraction to women, she just seems to freak when it ever comes up. Maybe she has the idea of, “Well I have this attraction, but it isn’t something I should act on. I just need to find the right guy.”

I think though, that Mouse and Giggles got super close to the point where Giggles made a move, and well after Mouse freaked and pushed Giggles away. And I wonder if the same is gonna happen between Mouse and Harper.

Okay, so there wasn’t really any Moggles content in this episode. The closest we got which is an absolute major stretch is during the game Giggles saying, “Can I come out?” But of course, she meant out of the game and not out of the closet. Basically, it meant nothing.

It is cool to see some of Giggles backstory though, the fact that she’d used to play for Carlsbad and that their coach thought she wasn’t worth anything. I feel sorry for her. Being treated like that couldn’t have been great for her self-esteem and mental health.

It was also nice in this episode to see Coach Korn stand up for Louise. Part of what I love about this show is seeing Coach Korn’s growth. While people in the show are kinda divided on his actions, the fact it felt like the old Coach Korn had returned. When he threw the chair, he threw it merely cos he wanted to win and had forgot what made him love basketball. This time round he saw one of his players under attack and he remembered saying to Louise, “You protect your friends.” and that is what he did. He didn’t even seem to go to the nuclear extent of throwing a chair; he took the placard and ripped it and granted did punch a cardboard cut out of a Carlsbad supporter, but he didn’t go to the extent he did in his career ending move when he through the chair.

I’m also happy to see Louise distancing herself from her father. She is finally separating herself from her Dad and defending what is her’s. Basketball is a sport she enjoys and so far throughout this show, it feels like Larry has tried to dictate that area of her life. It is cool to see her separating herself from his influence.

Oh and can I just say, I love how Emma put “TCKS” at the end of her post it note to her Dad.