“what do you think about when you daydream or get distracted?”

Tony Portrait of Jonathan Groff

Burr often calls Hamilton Alexander though he is never called just Aaron. It’s Burr that buys Hamilton a drink at the start, thus initiating a friendship(Hamilton didn’t approach Burr to make friends, he approached him to ‘get ahead’). 

In The Story of Tonight reprise when Burr is congratulating him, Hamilton makes it about getting ahead again(‘I wish I had your command’) and Burr replies, in complete sincerity, that Alexander is INDISPENSABLE. I’m sorry but I don’t remember Alexander ever complimenting Burr like that unless he wanted something from him - essays, for example. 

 In The Election of 1800 Aaron is entirely honest with Alexander, even though in the Room Where it Happens Hamilton was by comparison very sleazy(listen to the start of The Room Where it Happens; when Hamilton acts like Burr he does it mockingly and is dismissive of Burr, whereas in The Election of 1800 Burr sounds sincere when he talks about learning from Alexander). 

I’ve spoken about this before but in Your Obedient Servant Burr is taking a much more intimate view of the situation; the problem isn’t so much that he was slandered, it’s that HAMILTON did it. Alexander completely misses that.

 Hamilton is consistently dismissive or passive aggressive towards Aaron(unless he has an ulterior motive), whereas Burr tries to get to know Hamilton as a person.

I like to think that John adopts random turtles in his spare time

And a bonus ham