#[loudly banging drum] LET TRUCY WRIGHT BE A REAL PERSON WHO HAS FEELINGS ABOUT HER LIFE ACTUALLY

[iridescentoracle]

thinking about how messy and complicated trucy & klavier’s dynamic should be again, i just. why doesn’t the game do literally anything interesting with them i don’t get it. at this point i’m like, lowkey actively angry about the joke about trucy spending the next fifteen years of her allowance on gavinners merch bc what the hell. why does no one in this game get to have actual human feelings or reactions to things

nyquildriver: girl like boy band nyquildriver: even though girl should Not like boy band when they're all cops and her dad was a defense attorney but okay nyquildriver: she's a magician she's tricky nyquildriver: if she's a gavinners fan it's gotta be a front nyquildriver: it's gotta be like, polly I'm gonna sweet talk him and the entire band for merch while you go investigate places you're not supposed to be

or, tbh, it’s gotta be to freak klavier out, which of course only works if he also has reasonable human emotions about all of this, but like. trucy being super nice to him and acting like a normal teenage girl who is a fan of his boy band for normal teenage girl reasons should be deeply unsettling and make him wonder what she’s up to and why she doesn’t openly hate him, and it’s weirder that canonically it isn’t and he doesn’t.

and you could get even more fun and complicated by having them gradually realize they’re accidentally starting to feel sincerely a little bit of what started as fake? trucy pretends to think klavier is super cool and nice because she’s a performer and playing the sweet innocent harmless little girl to get people to underestimate her is what she does, though in this instance she knows her target audience doesn’t buy it and finds it unsettling and that’s good because in this one-and-only case she wants to make him feel uncomfortable… but the more they interact, the more she starts to think maybe he actually is a good guy, and wasn’t trying to hurt phoenix, and is actually as nice as she’s been pretending to think he is.

in turn, klavier flirts with apollo because he’s a rock star and flirting is his default mode of interaction with people he doesn’t know or trust or like, and he acts like trucy is any other fan and he’s not deeply uncomfortable around her… but despite himself, he starts to actually kind of like them and wonder if they’re actually the pretty cool, well-meaning people he’s been assuming they’re just pretending to be

nyquildriver: also she listens to the signed CD she practically grifted from him and is like oh this? slaps? oh no do I like cop rock now? nyquildriver: and now instead of being a normal kind of gavinners' fan, she might try to hide it because this is just embarrassing nyquildriver: there could be so many shenanigans nyquildriver: and you know like. sometimes I do really feel bad for apollo for being the buttmonkey always nyquildriver: like it can be funny but sometimes I'm just like. oof dude. so it would be fun if he has some kind of leverage over trucy, and if that leverage is secretly hooking her up with special limited edition gavinner's merch because he and klavier have become actual friends… nyquildriver: I can't decide if he would think [waves hands] all of that is funny or if he'd just, make a face like what the hell but also okay cool he can save up special rare EPs and limited edition cop rock trading cards and live recordings meant only for fan club members and deploy them as needed iridescentoracle: honestly i think "both" should be an option

and of course apollo would realize trucy and klavier are both starting to actually mean it? so even though he doesn’t know half of why things are so awkward between trucy & klavier to begin with—which, like, the half he does know is bad enough, but still—he definitely knows that they’re starting to mean the things they say, if trucy talks about liking his music before consciously realizing she’s actually becoming a fan, or if either of them compliments the other about basically anything, which is a whole entire can of worms i don’t think either klavier or trucy would be super ready for apollo trying to open

(although then again, we’ve said before that apollo really should know all about the gramarye trial actually, and he only doesn’t talk about it because he knows the minute he does everyone can sense the existence of his pepe silvia board, etc (in-universe) / because it’s awkward for the writers if the main character knows more than the audience, but realistically given what we know of him it’s more in-character etc etc. so alternately he absolutely could know The All Of It, Actually, which might be even more fun tbh)

anyway the really important takeaway here is that i’m going to be thinking about fake gavinners fan/secret real gavinners fan trucy forever. imagine if someone else did find out. ema sitting there just staring at apollo and trucy like

ema: so you’re telling me apollo has been blackmailing you into not using him as the butt of all your jokes by… not revealing you’re actually a fan of a band you’re super openly a fan of? trucy: you don’t GET it that was like a MONTH ago and it was FAKE apollo: [laughing too hard to explain]