something that appeals to me so much about joe and web’s characters and their dynamic is that they both have such a vast capacity for violence but also tenderness all the same. like web will pull a gun on a german baker but he’ll give sad dutch kids chocolate. joe is aggressive and wants revenge against the germans but he’s so gentle and caring when his friends are hurt. they’re both such angry people and that anger comes out when they’re together but I think it only masks their soft underbellies, the fact that they both care a lot and have big hearts and that’s why they’re so affected by everything. that’s why web goes on that rant in the back of that truck, that’s why joe keeps shooting at the germans even when he doesn’t have to. they love too much they feel a lot and it consumes them and the war turns that love into rage. they don’t know where else to put it

Liebgott: I argued with Web one time and caught feelings.

Chuck: You didn't 'catch' shit, you've had feelings for Webster since Toccoa.

Liebgott:...So you're saying its terminal.

"i hAtE wEBstEr bUT i LoVE LeCkiE" DICK RIDERRRRRRRRRRRRRR

My kids and grandkids will never know how Joe and David made significant changes in my viewpoint of love. They will never know how Joe resented David because he sneaked in Old Spice in the European war theater, how it frustrated Joe that while his snarky, mean behavior is always about David and his viciously gorgeous blue eyes, he actually does want to listen to him talk about school and how he was a student at fucking Harvard before joining the paratroopers. They won't see me stare into nothing, thinking about how Joe would dream about David in the cold, winter hell in Bastogne. They will never know the terrified pants during Toccoa, the thrill of being caught during Aldbourne, the stare at the airstrip, the waves of pleasure and relief back in England after d-day, the burning jealousy when Joe looked at how Tab spinned David in Eindhoven and carding his fingers through his inky black hair, and when Joe just silently patched up David the night of the patrol. Oh no, they'll be clueless when Easy thought David died when a German squad intercepted an army jeep, taking him prisoner until David was rescued in Haguenau and Joe never leaving his side when he realized it was David that he's been carrying to safety. They won't hear about my sobs when Joe is gonna keep calling David 'Web' because David's name stirs his guts and his pulses scream with repressed affection, because come on, it's fucking DAVID. The kids will never know that Joe worked, dragged his forlorn mental health, and built his war-torn life from pieces just to propose to David with a table because he can't give David a room to write yet. And then, they'll never know why David didn't invite Joe on his wedding, and why Joe didn't notify David of a promise before he went to war, and how they both didn't realize what they lost.

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A prose webweave using quotes from and inspired by my favourite webgott fic, @talljester/frottageofheck on Ao3’s series A Kinder Fate, made up of the fics A Collective Dreamwish in the Pits of Hell, and Scenes from a Decade of Mutual Assured Destruction

Quotes: Joseph Morris, p.n., Violet Trefusis, @popokko, unknown, j.e.b., Jay Vespertine

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