#admittedly Amelia is More a Give Jess A Freakin Break than Henry is bc Henry still has to deal with Jess' anger issues like they affect him

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@the-october-reviewer  submitted: What’s Amelia’s relationship with Jess like? (I just got to his first episode in my Gilmore Girls rewatch)

@the-october-reviewer Oof okay so both Henry and Amelia are my “give Jess a freakin break” characters so she’s very much open about getting to know her cousin. And excited because Rory’s great but she still only  lives part time with her and at this point she doesn’t get to know the Gilmore Clan so Jess is like…someone from her family that’s coming to live with her.  She also kinda nudges her dad about not screaming so much at him like “if I had been shipped across state lines with no reasoning and then had some guy in a baseball hat yelling at me I probably wouldn’t listen either dad.” and Luke himself isn’t as clueless about children ( though a problem child is still a challenge because Amelia’s a sunshine kid who is the furthers thing from troubled Jess but at least he has some parameters with how to communicate and ask instead of yelling because she has been upset before and that’s what he’s had to do with her. Though with Jess it’s more like pulling teeth but its still a better skillset)

Which like OKAY SO

 Amelia’s relationship with Jess is very much she’s sunshiny and takes a lot of his brooding in stride and he eventually gets a soft spot for her. They kinda start off rocky with the whole “wow you must be sleeping with Luke” he says to Lorelai  and  she does go “yknow maybe you shouldn’t be such a jerk to the people trying to welcome you to town. Also don’t speak to my mom like that ever again.” but is absolutely not here for the town having an entire meeting to “Figure Out The Jess Situation” and comes back absolutely irate. Jess hears the tail end of her rant ( because she’s both Luke and Lorelai’s kid oh boy can she rant when she wants to lmao) and actually Jess hears the tail end of it and it…kinda shocks him into going “huh this kid’s in my corner…even though she was mad at me” and he shapes up a bit. I’m not sure if he apologizes to Lorelai proper because Lorelai isn’t that nice to him from then on and Jess is still A Reactive Teenager With More Snark Than Hair Moose but he does apologize to Amelia and Amelia accepts it and they start from there. 

Jess gets to hear about her feelings about her parents and admit that yeah the whole town knowing your business gets to her sometimes ( she does not need to hear about either of her parents latest fight and also who they date thank you very much) but “it’s also sorta nice yknow, everyone looks out for each other here.” and Jess gets this different view of Stars Hollow as more than a town that would fit in a snowglobe and like maybe its not Actually The Worst Place even if he doesn’t see himself ever fitting in her and okay sure he mostly nods along because he doesn’t want to argue with her and upset her and oh-god-oh-fuck-when-did-he-start-caring-so-much-nope-not-thinking-about-that-he-is-not-going -soft-shut-up ( he is) and it’s…he still goes through culture shock and like “how do I even fit here” but it’s a lot less antagonistic than in canon because he has someone there he fits in with.

He convinces her to help him with the body chalk prank on Dosee’s. And also the fight that he gets in with Chuck Presby is actuallly because he’s being a jerk to Amelia. And Jess is uh…shall we say rusty, in How Do I Nice To People so he just goes “okay I’m gonna deck the guy that was an asshole to you because friendship.” while Amelia’s like “ooooohmygod mom was right guys are dumb at this age.” but is also really touched because she’s told the teachers a million times about Chuck and they always just give her some “boys will be boys nonsense” and also -and more importantly to her- Jess cares!!!

Also Literati doesn’t happens at all in Amelia’s verse because Rory is Jess’..cousin’s sister and his uncle slept with and had a kid with her mom and…yeah no. Instead I think Rory ends up being Jess’ second best friend ( the first being Amelia) by being the second person after Luke to give her a chance and Amelia loves them both which means they interact a lot still but platonic ( Dean still gets jealous tho because that’s very much a him thing. Amelia has zero patience for him and at one point tells him if he’s gonna hassle her cousin to stay out of her dad’s dinner which is hilarious because she’s like half his size and dressed in pastel winter wear.)

Basically Amelia shows and tells Jess that family means you have a place here, we’ll make room. Period.  and works as mediator between him and Luke and calls him out when he’s a jerk ( and it works more because she’s unequivocally in his corner) and she makes him realize that the anger he wielded in New York might not be necessary or effective in Stars Hollow. They bicker like siblings and she rolls her eyes at his sarcasm and he at her upbeat personality but they’re pretty much ride and die for each other. They share things with each other and remain close from his arrival and through the rest of the show.