All my favourite stories are ones that really try hard to be lighthearted and fun but are inherently kinda fucked up and have really deep nuances and unhealthy relationships that aren’t fully explored. I fucking LOVE the Shandry storyline because there are so many things that make them the perfect friends for each other… but absolutely horrible partners in any other sense. The breakup scene is one of my favourites because the whole time both of them are like “nonono I’M fine what I really care about is yoouuuuu I’m doing this for you” while also both ignoring their own feelings and needs. I like my favourite characters to be in pain and I love thinking about how Rose is always sort of that foster girlfriend who has boyfriends before they find their forever homes. How she feels that none of the men she’s with are attracted to her. How she brushes off how these relationships affect her but will always stop it for their sake. I like how both Rose and Shane are child stars who experienced extreme skill at a young age and their bodies have never belonged to themselves since. I love thinking about how if they had stayed in that relationship, I think they would’ve absolutely ruined themselves and each other all because they cared too much. I just think there’s some very ripe characterization and parallels that is woefully underutilized. I think we should give them both guns.
