im not saying i want non-rickortys + anti-rickortys to be uncomfortable with s9e1, but i do honestly wonder what kind of copium theyre huffing after the reveal that EM has a crush on r1ck π€
like did they just chalk it up to being a joke? cause i even thought about that too, but the way EM runs away and crashes out on R&M after hes accused of crushing kinda makes me feel like the writers did intend for it to come across that way. even with my shipping goggles taken off, i still feel like the episode was intentionally written to be interpreted like that. i mean, it would make total sense that as a trauma response or something EM would develop an unhealthy obsession with r1ck. whether or not they wanna explicitly lean into that being a crush is up to them, but i feel like ship or not, thats a valid interpretation.
honestly i kinda hope they do lean into that and explore it more. rickorty aside, i feel like exploring how EMs r1ck-trauma manifests into an unhealthy crush on him is genuinely a really interesting way to take his character, especially as a way to explore the negative affects of abuse and grooming. you dont see that talked about enough with abuse stories (yes, ik r&m isnt an abuse story, but their relationship is canonically in the very least extremely toxic and the writers seem to like to explore that in certain eps, so you know what i mean)
