Loren 🍑

Bad news, I now have Unprepared Casters brainrot

I want to preface this by saying I am not well versed in being either Catholicism or Latinx (since I am neither) but I am trying my very best. If you ARE well versed in either, feel free to leave any sort of feedback on this :)

Growing up in a religious country has lasting effects upon a person. I've seen it in the way my friends cross themselves when they spot a funeral procession. In the way they bow their heads when passing by a church, even though they haven't been in years. It sticks with you. I've heard people call it Culturally Catholic, and I agree with that definition. I went to Catholic school, and it's stuck with me until now.

I'd like to think it stuck with Lupe, too.

Just before she pitches, if it's a close up shot, you can see her whispering something to herself. We're never told what it is, and it's never even mentioned in the show, but I'd like to think Jess knows. I think Lupe might have told her, at some point, that it was prayer.

It makes sense. Lupe may not be actively religious, but we've seen the medal she wears, Guadalupe (which is headcanoned to be her namesake, and also originates from Mexican Catholicism), and that's pretty damn religious.

Lupe has learned how to blend in, wearing skirts when needed and applying makeup when told. She knows the 'rules' and knows how to stay undetected. She knows how to be a "Good Catholic Girl" but at the same time, I don't think there's a way in hell Lupe has a strong belief in religion.

I think she has a boatload of religious trauma and guilt, that's for sure. The idea of having a child at such a young age in a place that is so very against extramarital sex, in the 40's? Screams trauma. The idea that she could be GAY while doing all of this stuff, that's worse. Gay people weren't meant to have kids.

Sure, it was better for women to be gay than men, Frida Kahlo famously had separate quarters from her husband where she brought women home and presented masculine, too. It was better for women, but it wasn't safe.

I think when Lupe gets in her head on the mound, she falls back on childhood comforts like the routine of the rosary. A quick recitation of prayer, any prayer, clears her mind.