Capping Maddie giving Jesse some of Michael's old bedding and talking to him. I just noticed...Michael's sheets are space sheets. Those are presumably the sheets he had when he left. BRB crying over 17 year old Michael building model aircraft and sleeping in space sheets
Maddie probably thought he should have new ones but money was always the issue.
I just thought she never threw anything away not that they were too poor for teen sheets :( awwww
I just thought 17 year old Michael liked space lmao
On the one hand I remember being 17 and wanting a solid color sheet to be more grown up...but I also remember secretly still wanting themed sheets so it could be possible 17 year old Michael kept them b/c who was gonna tell him he needed new sheets haha
Or we can cry about 17 year old Michael wanting adult sheets but they have no money. Maybe his bed is even too small for him and his feet stick out over the end...
See my reading was crying that he built model airplanes and had model rocket things in his box of stuff he left at Maddie's and had space sheets. That he was a kid with dreams of the sky and beyond and ended up in mud and blood and death
I definitely think he was a kid with dreams of space and flying - this is the kid who sneaked out of the house to see Star Wars 😁 But I imagine by 17 he would have at last outwardly moved away from some of that. Which isn't to say that it wasn't something he still loved internally, but societal expectations and Frank would have expected him to ditch the childhood toys and Be A Man. I don't think it's surprising that he ran off and joined the military.
Well no, I didn't think he could have stayed, or really pursued those things. Just that it was an extra layer of ouch.
But my "started college at 15" ass may also just not know how being 17 is supposed to work XD
Michael couldn't have stayed, Madeline made that clear - there would have been murder in that house. And studying rocketry or flight would have required a college education they couldn't afford, so that wasn't happening.
I don't think Michael knew how being 17 was supposed to work either, just that it wasn't what he had.

















