okay but the scene where normal says “i can just wait outside you guys go on without me” and is met with “no no normal you have to go with us too” and that being the only time the other teens make an effort to try convincing normal they want him with them just because normal actually seems notably upset?

what a specific lonely teenager feeling of “my friends keep making me feel excluded and now that they finally caught on to those feelings they want to make me stop feeling bad because it makes them feel bad but they actually have no idea how to include me or make me feel better because they never really wanted me integrated into the group” i am SO UNWELL.

guys remember when both scary and normal gasped at the spirit halloween goth guy. scary having feelings for hermie at one point makes this SO MUCH FUNNIER. THEY HAVE THE SAME TASTE. GOD i love them.

the theory that normal is going to go off on his own to find henry is so funny to me not bc of its accuracy (i do think it very plausible) but bc it means the cast would be split up into freddie+matt+beth and then just will doing scenes on his own where he is both characters.

love how when we learned hermie was the son of jodie and scam dndads fanartists collectively decided to make him look half non-euclidean trickster god but did nothing to make him look anything like jodie.

“cause what is there? what ultimately is there, right? you guys all have your stuff that you’re good at and your stuff that you’re proud of yourselves for, but i don’t have anything. i don’t have fucking anything. all i have is this stupid costume because i can’t—because all i have is a dad who sees me as someone who grew up to be a fucking disappointment after he did all this stuff for me. i couldn’t even grow up into somebody to be proud of after my dad did all that.”

“norm, we are proud of you!”

“why?”

hey will campos you might as well just shoot me

i love how we collectively lost our shit about the normal angst will served us and have been theorizing nonstop about the schemes he might be cooking up and then him in the most recent teen talk is him talking about how he was caught off guard by the setup for it and how of course normal is still in the suit because “how would he have gotten out”

scary who was so afraid of genuine pain that she snuffed her desire to care about anything, scary who wanted nothing to lose, scary who was never someone to be proud of, scary who fought to be mean and unlikeable but had a stepdad who was proud of her regardless, scary who tried so hard to convince her friends she was unlovable because that was how she saw herself, scary who found herself loved even at her worst.

normal who was never afraid to care too much, normal who cared unabashedly even when it made him the weird kid, normal who never hid the fact he wanted everyone to like him, normal who took so much pride in himself and his passions until he realized his own dad was never proud of him, normal who found himself pushed aside and ignored no matter how hard he tried to keep loving and supporting his friends.

scary and normal, who constantly craved attention, who so desperately wanted be the chosen one. scary and normal, who just needed someone to choose them, who sought a reason for how alienated and alone and angry they felt.

scary and normal, who were both candidates for willy to manipulate.

and scary, who won that coin toss.

i know we all want willy to stay as far away from normal as possible but the feral narrative foil demon in me is frothing at the mouth thinking about willy doing something along the lines of using normal to summon a doodler full of hate instead of love.

just. how narratively metal would it be for the goth punk seeker of darkness to have summoned the squishy love doodler while the perky pepper chipper cheery school spirit mascot kid summons a being of intense hatred.

will making henry pretend to be a mayor called oakworthington in the seattle live show…… he truly is a man of the people

the odyssey dads are all dog coded and the quest teens are all cat coded. imo

gothcleats but not romantic and not platonic but a secret third (better) thing

i feel like no one talks about how taylor is probably going to grow up to be good looking. like sorry but ur telling me the child of nicky freeman and cassandra swift could possibly be average looking? ur telling me a child of the glenn close bloodline could possibly be unattractive? no fucking way dawg.

normalize by mother mother is so normally ly oak swallows garcia coded and i am going to cry about it