#as opposed to amy getting over him bc he can rationalize that as her just not liking guys

[borrelia]

i think fleetway knuckles has a crush on sonic real early on, but by the time sonic is old enough to realize he's gay and start to reciprocate, knuckles is over him. sonics ego would shatter

[eagles-translated]

I agree with some of the things about the last question answered but what about the fact that Felecia and Ludde were on a break? I’m not excusing Amies behavior and I think what she did was wrong in terms of girl code and what not but I don’t know, I don’t really feel like the show really does a good job delving into issues? Because of the time they’re given, but yeah. Like I couldn’t feel for some of the characters bc it felt like I just didn’t know them?

Pt2 of the last thing, I guess I also don’t feel bad for Felicia because she was a shitty girlfriend and I feel like a shitty friend as well.

Pt3!! And, and she did the same shit to Jake and was just kind of like let’s forget it so it just feels weird??

First off, thank you for this ask! I’ve been a little busy with school so I haven’t had a lot of time to answer it but I thought I’d get around to doing so now.

I think the whole “they were on a break” thing is very reminiscent of Ross and Rachel’s situation from Friends. People will argue as much as they can about a technicality but even if Felicia and Ludde were “on a break”, that doesn’t make it okay that Ludde and Amie hooked up immediately after. The truth is that Ludde and Amie did something really hurtful to Felicia and then concealed the truth for weeks after.

I actually somewhat agree about the show not really doing a good job of delving into this particular conflict. The writing in season 1 was pretty bad in comparison to season 2, where it did improve but still had some questionable storylines. I actually initially thought that Ludde was too drunk to remember anything from the Halloween incident and that Amie and Klara were the only ones who knew what happened (which would’ve made the situation even more morally difficult). 

Instead it’s kind of left ambiguous and we don’t really know why Ludde would make out with Amie. In Amie’s case we find out she does have feelings for Ludde (which was a whole other mess but don’t get me started on that), but I still don’t understand why Ludde would hook up with Amie when he was moping about Felicia all night. I thought that he had to have been so drunk that he really didn’t remember what he was doing at all, but I guess that wasn’t the case. I don’t know, I never really felt like the Halloween incident made much sense and that they just wrote it in to throw us all off. There wasn’t much thought put behind it, in my opinion.

I definitely understand what you mean about not really feeling sympathy for some characters because there just wasn’t enough time to properly get to know them. Or rather, there was time but the way the writers used that time for the characters wasn’t really well-planned.

I actually hated Ludde with a passion in season 1 because he was honestly a complete douchebag. Ludde let his friends objectify Felicia (which is honestly disgusting, and I’m still not over the fact that no consequences came of that and that the writers just chalked it up to being “locker room talk”). He started a fight with Felicia’s brother when Elias was just trying to protect his sister (and let’s not forget Ludde asked Elias if he got pictures in his head of his SISTER having sex, which was incredibly disturbing). Ludde got incredibly aggressive with Felicia and yelled at her to leave when Felicia mistakenly thought Ludde had told everybody about what happened to her in the U.S. instead of just explaining that there was a misunderstanding like any rational person would. Season 1 Ludde actually has so many red flags and I don’t understand why he was so popular. There’s also the whole thing where Ludde belittled Felicia for having her own issues because according to him “rich people can’t have problems!”. Don’t get me wrong, I like season 2 Ludde, but he was a complete dick in season 1 and he really needed a wake-up call.

That’s why I disagree about Felicia being a shitty girlfriend and friend. On the contrary - Ludde was actually the shitty person in their relationship. They both started the relationship with ulterior motives (Felicia to get back at her dad and Ludde to annoy Elias), but as they got to know each other Felicia started to really like him and it feels like Ludde always managed to do something hurtful to her.

I think Felicia was a really good friend to Amie as well. Felicia is the one who pushed Amie to talk to Tobias and to get her to audition for the school band. Felicia is the one who kick-started Amie’s music career (which ended up with her getting the record deal) and I don’t remember Amie thanking Felicia for that. I never really felt like Felicia was a shitty friend to be honest. Amie on the other hand was the one who ditched Felicia for Klara, and never really defended Felicia.

Felicia did not really cheat on Jack the same way Ludde cheated on her, though. Jack used that as a manipulation tactic to get Felicia to apologize to him when Jack was the one going behind her back. He was never actually bothered by it.

Felicia and Jack did not have an official relationship at that point and were only messing around. As for Ludde cheating, he and Felicia were in a relationship together and he decided to make out with her best friend after one bad fight they had. There were clearly more feelings involved during that incident as opposed to Felicia just having fun in Stockholm.