The way Ocean and Ricky look at each other during the "no one can measure how hard we try" in Its Just a Ride never fails to make me emotional. First off, the movements there remind me of how young they are and that's just ough my babies. And they both look so elated and overjoyed to be saying it, like a weight has been lifted off their shoulders.
[Image ID: A picture of Ricky and Ocean during the moment in question. Both of them are singing and facing each other, leaning in to each other. Ocean's mouth is open in a wide smile and her hands are over her chest, blurry from movement. Ricky is gesturing with one hand and taking a step towards her. Constance, Misha, and Noel can be seen in the background. /End ID]
But also. It feels like such a nice completion for Ocean's arc. This might be my love of Ricky talking (my bias as a disabled nerd is showing lol), but I always saw him as bit of a foil to her. Like his speech about the world being a random collection of moments versus her intense need for her life to have meaning, his inability to be seen for anything he does versus her need to be seen for everything she does, his rather quick acceptance of his death versus her arc over the musical of her struggling to do the same, etc etc.
So to see them agree that what other people's opinions of them don't matter (something all of them struggled with but these two especially) warms my heart. It's like they're telling each other "You don't need to worry about what anyone thinks of you. Your life has worth regardless."
