had connor onstage at the beginning of requiem with both zoe and larry singing angrily at him, but cynthia, who he reached for, didn’t even notice him because she was focused on the letters

had larry break down center stage during you will be found when everyone is sharing evan’s speech to then be comforted by cynthia

The entire show maintains this theme even in leaving Evan how they do. He's outcast by all his friends and left with only his mother by his side, yet he still chooses to meet with Zoe in the show's final scene, showing how he is aware of his wrongs, but will not run away from them and instead attempt at change. It wouldn't make sense for Evan to be publicly outed from the perspective of both Alana and the Murphy family. Even if it's initially just for another extracurricular credit, Alana's participation in The Connor Project does seem like genuine passion for it by the end of the show. If people were told Evan was a liar after being pushed to help the cause from his story, The Connor Project would fall to pieces. That end result is the same reason it wouldn't make sense for the Murphys to want Evan exposed, though their motive for maintaining the project would be the fact it helps people like the son and brother they cared for rather than being a passion project.

i will, rapid fire this:

connor: the difference between real connor and fake connor, i think i probably had an easier time parsing the two because i read the novel before watching the full musical, but i think a lot of people mistake the connor who plays the other half of evan's brain in his arguments with himself as, some indication of what real connor was like, when he's Really Not

jared: how much of his shit is pure posturing, he doesn't have any more friends than evan does, and he does not want anyone to know that, and i think some people take him a bit too much at his word on it

alana: how anxious she is, because she's fairly talkative most of the time i think a lot of people miss that, she is also anxious and isolated and alone, and that's why she talks at evan in her first scene, because, well, there's no one else for her to talk to

evan: why he makes some of the choices he does, i think some people ascribe more malice to him than he really deserves, because like, at first he really is caught up in the moment and trying to help (not to absolve him of anything, just that, he didn't intend the harm he wound up causing)

zoe: her spine. people forget about the interaction she has with connor over breakfast, that she's willing to snap back and match his energy the way no one else ever does (more on that here) and i think they tend to overly soften her

larry: okay this one might be mean on my part but. since we mostly see larry wrapped up in grief, i think people forget how unwilling to compromise he was with connor, i talk about it a little more here, but, he seemed fairly unwilling to attempt to meet connor where he was. i don't think that makes him a monster or anything, but, it does kinda make him a bit of a bad parent

heidi: how hard she tries and how hard she has it. i think this one happens a lot less than the others on this list but, idk, i don't think people appreciate how goddamn hard heidi tries enough, yeah she's not perfect, yeah she fucks up, but man is the effort there

evan had never fallen/jumped from a tree prior to his attempt

connor bit people as a child

zoe’s favourite colour is lilac, and connor bought her a sweater that colour for her fourteenth birthday

she threw it out when he died after being unable to look at it the same

evan knows how to knit and (had connor actually been his friend) wouldve made him endless pairs of socks and quilts

evan secretly didnt mind the nickname ‘acorn’ from jared

connor and evan shared an english class the year prior to canon, and they even spoke a few times

heidi used to go to parent therapy groups to better understand her child, and met cynthia but never knew who she was afterwards

evan has a shit tonne of freckles

connor had a septum piercing but larry only let him keep his ear piercings

alana came first in every spelling bee she’s ever done

jared is dyslexic and that was something evan had to correct in all the emails

connor always had the offer of wireless headphones from his parents, but stuck with one pair of wired ones from his first day of highschool

connor’s phone is so smashed up but he refuses to get another

evan has about fifteen stuffed animals and they ALL have names and a place on his bed

both zoe and connor are allergic to nuts

evan is very touch averse to most people but jared

connor is very talented when it comes to drawing people, he’s given both his parents and zoe pictures of themselves on multiple occasions

evan likes fleetwood mac

alana is 100% a theatre kid (and in turn made zoe into one)

zoe thinks pickles are disgusting

I drew a blue-footed booby that looks like Teddy from Bob's Burgers.