#wm

i think they use the summer to try and forget about their codependency problem with each other. to forget the way they feel about each other. the yearning summer dumps last offseason, it's classic situationship behavior. which is why i was actually surprised when will said they'd be training together this offseason.

i think in a sense, they're very much Not Talking About It. they do this weird, teetering, almost-relationship thing during the season and then over the summer try to forget about the way the other one makes them feel. will buries himself in his brunette harem and his family, and mack buries himself in more hockey. no time or space to think about the other one. very much booked and busy sorry i don't have time to think about my feelings!

which is where the marmon of it all comes in. while yes, mack spent time with his BU friends, i think it was a last minute impulsive trip for him because they didn't want to separate from each other and start whatever their weird yearning offseason is yet.

i always say i feel like if i had to speculate they are probably scared and lowkey if i had whatever weird connection they have with all the pressure they're under i probably would be scared too. so they separate during the summer, keep themselves busy, follow whatever girls on ig, because it's a lot easier than thinking about it. and then during the season they're back to being whatever they are to each other, and it's easy. because when they're together they don't need to think about what they are to each other, they just are. but during the offseason there's all this time, all this empty space in their brain. and they're not thinking about the elephant in the room.

i still think something shifted after or during the olympics and it was something that made them way closer (is that possible?) but also scared the hell out of them