#that70smeta

The final meta and headcanon post of this short series is here! This was prompted by @zenmasterspalace / @buckybarnesisnotafuckingvillain ~

One of the many constant jokes in t70s is the question, “From where is Fez?”, a question we are NEVER, not even in extra material, ever answered. 

We are told Fez’s country is an island and people’s phisical appearence and accent changes from where side they are from. In season 8, we meet Fez’s best friend from his country, who is blond and has a different accent.

Fez came as a exchange student to the USA, stayed with religious foster parents until he finished High School and his VISA expired. We are told around this time that he is, in some sort, his family’s hopes and dreams, since they expected him to become someone in the USA.

This has give most fans the idea that his country must be a third world one, probably with a poor family and very native costumes as we are told every racist joke of the show. 

Hyde and Jackie bring out the best of the other. 

There’s no other way to put it, it’s just how it is. The writers made sure to show us since season 1 that Hyde’s assholery became lesser when it comes to Jackie. The first time we ever see his true nature is in Career Day, when he is talking to Red about his horrible mother. In that moment, out of under the car, comes Jackie and Hyde immediately smiles at the scene.

It’s a small moment, but that’s the first time Hyde ever truly smiles at Jackie. And then, the next episoe, Prom Night comes and Hyde’s good heart is put to shine, finally. After an entire season of him being a creep to Donna, a bad friend to Eric, and a complete asshole to Jackie, we finally see this bad boy is actually a good person.

He can’t stand Jackie crying, even if these tears aren’t the real deal. He takes her to prom even when he doesn’t like social events, to dance and to spend money he doesn’t have in things like a suit that he rents and also matches Jackie’s dress, a corsage that also matches Jackie’s dress, and his time and integrity in front of his horrible mother who immediately makes fun of him.

Jackie, on the other hand, starts to realize that maybe she doesn’t need Kelso to be happy, even if he misses him and still has strong feelings for him. She also is polite to Hyde and asks if he wants her to meet his mother, even when she knows who this woman is and she is disgusted by her. Jackie compliments him and doesn’t care what other people, especially their friends, may say of them going together to the event. 

This is the first time both show a different face from their jerk selfs.

Season 2 comes to show that Hyde, deep down, cares about her and can’t stand her crying, not a single time. He is the only one interested in Kelso being cought cheating on her and is disgusted by what Kelso and Laurie are doing. He is who supports Jackie after the break up and even tells Fez to calm his tits and let Jackie be before asking her out.

He protects her from Laurie and Kelso, teaches her his own form of protection, compliments her and is proud of her when she defeats Laurie. Later, even when she starts becoming a parody or herself by being too attached to the point of stalkery to him, he still can’t let her be harm and takes the blame for her pot, going to jail instead of her.

When season 3 starts, Jackie stills holds a big crush on Hyde and tries her best to not only impress him but convince him that they should be together. By the time Kitty makes clear to Hyde that he has feelings for Jackie, they have stopped antagonizing each other and are able to have a date he loves, a kiss that leaves him with uncalled feelings and the proof that Jackie is so much more than her looks and outside mask.

Jackie makes a few comments that show who Hyde is when he struggles with romantic feelings. She is right when she tells him that he may not even think he is worthy of love, and she is the first to tell him that he is, he is worthy of all the love.

Their relationship makes her open her eyes. Season 5 is a great season for both, but mostly Jackie. The way she sees the world is completely different after what she lives with Hyde and how things go down with her family. 

Hyde gives her his bed, gives up his loved beard to cheer her up, realizes he wants them to be exclusive and be boyfriendAndgirlfriend even if he didn’t believe in these kind of things before, and he even goes to the point of opening up to her as she told him during season 3, being able to tell her and others that the way he feels about her is different from anything he has had before.

They keep encoraguing each other to be better and do better. Like Hyde telling Jackie she should work to buy herself those nice things she wants, that he will be cheering for her while she does, and she supports him when he decides what job to take, even if she has a clear opinion on which one should be the right answer. 

For all the grown up stuff she does, Jackie became an empty shell and a girl that considered herself only worthy of all she had because of her looks. Not even her season 1 or 4 self was as superficial as her.

While persuing Fez’s affection, she let him pass over her a million times and refers to herself as the shallow bitch her friends always told her she was. She even goes to the point of saying she’s ugly in the inside and being angry at being called ugly in the outside. It’s ridiculous.

She’s also childish and comes back to the illusion of the perfect love with the perfect love story in the most ridiculous romanic way she can find, to the point that she dreams herself as a princess and Fez as a prince when she was supposed to be far from that already.

When she had a similar daydream with Hyde, it was ins eason 3 when her infatuation for him wasn’t the deep connection and love she felt for him in future seasons and Hyde, out loud, tells her that wasn’t him. This is important because there’s no one to remind her that of Fez.

It doesn’t matter how much she dreams him as a prince, he isn’t and he’ll never be. Jackie went from wanting a good future to not mind it at all as long as she has a man to the point that she doesn’t care what man she’s projecting her childhood dreams into.

She went from having a deep, commited relationship based on mutual respect to one based on a list she did of things that actually don’t fit her or him at all, with a guy that doesn’t respect her and that she doesn’t respect at all.