#and tao gets pissed bc why did Charlie tell you and not me
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In addition I hate when characters inaccurately communicate a situation that they fully have all the information for and if they just described it accurately everything would be resolved but they don’t and it all blows up
i hate the miscommunication trope with a burning passion but equally i hate when characters say too much too soon like you don't know this man why are you telling him all of this
#Like. You HAD the power and knowledge. Why did you do this and why are you surprised at the result this is your fault#most recently featured (for me) in heartstopper when Elle tells Tao abt Nick and Charlie#and tao gets pissed bc why did Charlie tell you and not me#and instead of Elle pointing out to him that Nick told her not Charlie and that maybe if he had been slightly more supportive to Charlie#and kinder to Nick they would feel comfortable telling him/coming out to him#but no elle please j blindly answer his question with the most minimal information that you absolutely KNOW is going to upset him#the will turn out well I’m sure#I love Elle it was j this one detail that made me so un proportionately angry
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wait i found tao so annoying but i usually have the same favs as you so maybe i'm wrong.. what did you like about him? i thought he was controlling selfish and whiny pls change my mind i want to like him
fksjdlskl oh my god okay. i just started ep 8 rn so i don't know his Full Arc but i ADORE tao and it is. admittedly just bc. i understand/relate to him So Strongly
like okay i think he's just. a straight boy BUT when i was a baby ace (aka. 15) i used to get in full-blown fights w my friends because we'd have plans or whatever and they'd ditch me bc there was a chance they'd get to spend time w the person they liked?? and i was so pissed at being like. an afterthought but like. when you're a teenager and hormones are raging and your whole world is shaped like the person you have feelings for sometimes you forget about your friends! it happens! but i couldn't understand that bc that's not how My brain works and so i was just there watching all my friends have people they suddenly would rather spend time with and i was just like. cool so all my friends have decided to ditch me wtf??? and when you're young and your whole world is your friends and suddenly without warning they just. decide you're not worth their time it fucking sends you reeling? not to Mention if my friends were in a secret relationship and didn't even tell me i would also be hurt and insecure and mad like. probably much much worse than he is lmao
and tao's just like. such a loyal friend who loves his friends So Much and has seen Exactly what the shitty people of his world will do to his friends who are soft and quiet and easy prey so he tries to like. wrap them all up safe in their little group where no one can hurt them and no one can take them into places where he can't protect them and it's irrational and unrealistic but it's all he knows!! he's trying to keep them safe!!
like the way he speaks out for charlie against harry bc he knows charlie can't, the way he warns charlie about nick bc he knows elle and isaac won't, the way he wears his hair in solidarity w elle bc it's all he has left to show the school he's always in her corner
the way he always has to tell his friends he loves them???
anyway. tl;dr i too was an overprotective aggressive loyal outspoken teenager who was ready to throw down for my friends at a moments notice and got really hurt and upset when i didn't understand why suddenly their romantic partners were more important than our friendship so i love tao xu with every breath in my lungs
#LIKE. I GET IT. I GET IT TAO#this was so long lmao hope this uhhh was somewhat coherent??#like is he going about things the best/most productive way? no. but is anyone at 15. cmon
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