#piperjames

The finished version of the drawing from the ask.

Arguably the funniest gag I do regarding the series on these blogs (and specifically t20’s) is referencing that one outfit t20 wore in the second half of the fourth episode of season 1 (“Manny the Bug” i believe), as an attempt to blend in as a regular kid:

This. To pass off as a kid. In this day and age.

(Note that T20 was maybe a teenager about this time. Mind you, someone as short as them could probably pull it off)

((Also the lollipop was actually a carrying case full of shrinking chemicals but we don’t talk about that))

I believe there’s a reason for it. Same reason why that woman had a pic of Red n Liz from S1 showing KR. It’s not because they didn’t feel like taking new pics. It’s a theme.

I wonder why JB keeps saying, as soon as you know Reds identity, the show is over. Why would that be?

I stopped trying to decipher what he means by the things he says, but my guess is that he thinks the one major draw is the past mystery, so once that’s fully revealed, there will be nothing interesting left to offer to the audience.

T20 WITH DA NEW BRUSH!!! (mind you, the color brush is the same one I've been using lol)

when do you think Red fell in love with her? Before her wedding, at or after? Confusing really.

ok, speculation time:

After. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I do believe in strong infatuation at first sight, and seeing her at the wedding is a major turning point for him, imo.

Pre-wedding, he is “just” the invisible benefactor who’s driven by guilt and an urge to salve that guilt by making sure she is taken care of. At the wedding, things change. He stops dead in his tracks when he sees her and a crush is sparked which he’s still v much nurturing later on when he’s sitting there restrained at the Post Office acting like, to quote the actual script, “a boy on a date” who "can’t take his eyes off her”, talks to her in a “weirdly erotic way” and shoots her “lewd smiles”, then ropes her into a dinner date and a partnership.

At this point he is still showing off, flirting, trying to charm and impress her big time. I think this is still infatuation bc he is only beginning to experience her actuality after living w/ an abstract idea for so long. Then this crush starts to give way to budding love and after S1 he tones down the flirting (cf. him around e.g. Samar - he never stops flirting w/ her bc there are no deeper feelings there). He stops hooking up w/ his lady friends, too, and by their Bonnie and Clyde period in S3, I think he is already firmly in love.