#sofiane alaoui

we go throughout the season watching sofiane be vocal and transparent about his interest in imane. feelings to which she doesn’t respond to and instead lies to her friends, esp manon, about not being obviously interested in sofiane. constantly withholding the truth gets her caught up in a web of lies and although she learns to be honest, a bulk of the conflict in this season is wrapped up in imane being extremely avoidant and reactive. i remember when i first watched this 3 years ago i was like poor imane nobody understands 😢😢 but now it’s so frustrating..

i also think the way they portrayed sofiane getting with manon as a rebound girl after imane’s rejection makes his intentions seem insincere. he could’ve hooked up with some mystery girl but chose to go for her best friend manon?! real fuccboi behaviour. although, i understand we couldn’t ask him to wait around for imane while she was unresponsive, a terrible communicator, and ghosted him out of fear. she was being hot-cold all while he was earnestly attempting to be on her good side. all that talk of "how many kids do you want?" went null as soon as he decided to casually date her friend rather than sort out his own feelings.