#also Gilbert has black curly hair like Mike hehe

[blundering-owl]

I was gonna reblog my love triangles post w/ this, but I think it deserved its own post !

Similarities between Shirbert (Anne x Gilbert) and Byler:

both pairings are childhood friends to lovers (although Shirbert are also rivals to lovers)

Both have tender scenes, just the two of them, where they agree to work as a “team”

Letters (and unwilling miscommunication because of them) are important with both pairings

Anne, like Will, is poor and generally a social outcast with a tight-knit group of friends

When Gilbert / Mike subtly try to tell their respective love interests that they’re breaking up w/ their partners, Anne / Will misinterpret it & encourage them to get back together (Anne accidentally tells Gilbert to marry Winifred, and Will encourages Mike to get back together with El).

Will continuously tells Mike to pursue El / make up with her because he thinks Mike would be happier with her. Anne, similarly, tells Gilbert to marry Winifred because she thinks that’s the only way he’ll be happy (Winifred comes from money, and her father has connections to the head of a prodigious medical school, one that Gilbert dreams of getting into).

Also, both Gilbert and Mike have moments where they insist their relationship w/ their respective love interests are platonic (“It’s not like that with Anne. She’s just a friend.” And “We’re friends. We’re friends!”)