#d*xton

[jancysmixtape]

Benvi has always been the main ship from the very beginning. Devi’s feelings for Ben always being the most clear, whenever Ben showed genuine concern and care for her. Also, all these scenes happening in every season finale, with their story being the main focus.

[rainparadefromhell]

Found this in my notes app. I think I responded to someone on Reddit with this a long time ago but it made me kinda emo all over again so here ya go.

It became really clear to me early on in s1 that the show was intentionally using the same language for Mohan and Ben (both calling Devi a firecracker) as well as telling her she deserves better (Mohan in her dreams and Ben in the bathroom).

But nhie also tells us that Ben and Nalini are similar. In 2x02, Nalini visits her parents as they were supposed to go look for apartments (bc they were supposed to move to India) and her mom totally blows her off for some wedding. Nalini doesn't even seem surprised and we are led to believe that her parents kind of neglected her as well. It's the reason why Nalini was touched by Ben crying in her office in s1 - she understood.

It's genius writing really! It tells us really subtly that these three people that are so good for Devi, that impact her life more than the other characters share many qualities - they are compassionate, understanding and push her to do better and love herself more. The whole journey of the show is Devi remembering her father's words and this time (season 3) truly seeing and believing them. It's why she improves so much. The core message is to surround yourself with people that make you feel like being you is enough. And that is why I will personally sob uncontrollably when it ends. It's a simple premise but so needed for every young person to be reminded of.

[basiltonpitch]

u see my hate towards dxton wouldn’t exist this much if they were so awful towards jaren cuz one one thing is hating ben but another is mocking his appearance because comments like “devi keeps getting all this hot love interests to be end up w that ugly man” like i get you all put looks over reasoning but let’s be decent human beings. jaren does nothing to be insulted this way and maitreyi will hate them all.

yeahhh no i get you 100%. there are so many things that diehard d*xtons say that......just rub me the wrong way and feel very gross lmfao. i don't really go out looking for their posts but every now and then i'll come across something in the nhie tag that is just. either braindead or straight up wrong or they just sound like a straight up asshole. and like to be fair i'll be the first to admit i'm not entirely an innocent party bc i have posted my fair share of mean things before but like!!!! idk the difference i see with a lot of benvi shippers vs d*xton shippers is like.....a lot of us genuinely like paxton as a character, even love him, and we love the arc he's had!!! not to be all "blah blah media literacy blah blah" but we don't willfully misinterpret his actions in the show, especially his negative actions, as being "abusive" or "toxic" or whatever just because he reacted like a normal teenager would. we don't hate on the actor for his looks - the only comment on his appearance i'll make is that he is visibly much older than maitreyi - because he is older, and i definitely think they should have cast a younger actor to play paxton, but that's not a dig at darren's appearance bc he's still very much conventionally attractive, it's just that he's, well, 32 as opposed to maitreyi's 21 and jaren's 22.

also like, they act as if jaren isn't attractive which confuses me so much? i may not be into men as a whole but even i can see that he's also a conventionally attractive guy. hot, cute, sexy, whatever you wanna say - he is all of those things! and so is darren! i don't care if you're trying to "defend your ship" or whatever (a ship that has effectively sunk at least as of 3x10 and, if we're being honest, earlier than that), you leave people's appearances out of it lol.

i think d*xton was cute, when they were together. i think they were a sweet short-term high school relationship. i think devi needed to explore that relationship with him in order to let herself fully move past that fantasy she had. i don't hate the ship itself - i just really very strongly dislike a majority of its shippers, for many many many reasons, the ben and jaren bashing just being one of them

[emptytcwn]

♡ muse ↝ carly hollis

♡ closed for ↝ @swtsours

“   you shouldn't have shown up here.   ”

[awesomechocolatesauce]

I kind of talked about this in my tags, but I also think that Darren's casting may not have taken acting skill into account that much. Which, honestly, always a bad move.

I don't think Paxton was initially supposed to be a super major, well-developed character. He wasn't actually developed at all in season 1, and it feels like they decided to develop him (imo unsuccessfully) in season 2. So, on some level, they probably were just looking for someone "hot."

He had no role in season 1 besides "Devi's supposedly-hot crush."

This is in stark contrast to Ben, who was conceived independently of Devi/created as a mirror to her. He was initially not set to be in a ship with her (though the possibility was always there), and Jaren's screen test was the dermatology office scene in 1x6 (showing that he always had a PoV episode before Benvi was a thing). I think that this is why they may have prioritized finding someone more talented for Ben, though I think they probably didn't know they were winning the fuckin lottery with Jaren lol. And this is also why Ben is objectively a better-rounded, better-developed character. He exists in his own right while Paxton was literally nothing but a dream for Devi.

I like Paxton fine, especially as a friend for Ben. I have nothing against him and think he's a nice guy. I'm glad his storyline got a good ending. But I cannot connect with him. And this is on the show's team: they really needed to do more with him early on if they wanted most of the audience to connect with him on a personal level as well as a horny one.

I honestly don't have much to add because this is so well worded and I agree with all of it. 💕

I like Paxton, too! I think he's a genuinely good person, especially after season three when he was allowed to do his own thing apart from being Devi's love interest, but I can't bring myself to root for him, not only because I find Ben far more compelling as a character, but Paxton, for the most part, is kinda boring, especially on his own. I like his connection with his sister and his grandpa, but that's mostly because I find them more interesting as characters than Paxton himself.

Also, we can't forget Trent, that bromance has far more chemistry than Paxton/Devi by a long shot, but again, Trent has far more personality than Paxton does for most of the show, and adds on to the "I like Paxton's connections to other people more than the character himself" thing.

Sidenote: I'm friends with a girl at work with whom I've briefly discussed the show with and the only reason she was ever on Paxton's side was because she found him attractive and he's nice, but nothing else really stands out for him as a character. (She finds Ben pretty funny, so she's good. 😂)

[emilyskinners]

everytime i see someone say that benvi is copying d*xton's scenes, a part of me dies inside because of annoyance

[furoruisa]

Controversial but the d*xton kiss in ep7 makes sense. Devi was sad about Princeton. Like Paxton said, almost desperate, it makes it much sense that she looked for comfort in the past, aka Paxton. He's finally her equal, and she feels like he gets what it feels to fail. But after the kiss, she realized that the past is the past, even if it was a comfortable one

[wheelercurse]

why is twt full of d*xtons????

[benvisms]

NO BE FUCKING FR IF WE GET A D*XTON REVIVAL I WILL END IT ALL.

[onefinedayirise]

The NHIE reddit is moderated by a d*xton who would argue with and insult any benvi that dared posted about Ben in a positive way (and shit on him all the time). I'm not shocked that most Benvis abandoned it (like I did) and it mostly just d*xtons posting there

Oh wow okay 😂

There's two NHIE subs though. And the second one is complaining about Benvi too and saying Paxton is the male lead. Like????

[furoruisa]

Honestly, it is more healthy to say, "I'm a d*xton," like stop pretending, babe

“Ben should end up with art girl”

[gmwsuperfan5467890]

Random NHIE season 3 scenarios that I want.

-The overarching storyline needs to be the SATs! We can’t have 3 seasons of them being in sophomore year.

-Devi and Ben’s rivalry is at an all time high, this is the final showdown (before valedictorian ofc). They compete over who knows the most SAT vocab words in the hallway and who knows the most obscure chemistry facts.

-Devi, Ben, Fabiola, Eleanor and Aneesa form their own study group. I think it’ll be a great way to group all the characters together and have them reflect on whatever is currently going on in their lives in a place without all their other peers. Paxton and Trent could drop by occasionally.

-Paxton applying to colleges. It would be interesting if he decides to so something on the more manual side, like being a car mechanic or a carpenter. Or maybe he gets a storyline where he realizes how much he loves restoring old cars and decides that he would like his own car repair shop.

-Paxton having the opposite of senioritis because he has to raise his GPA.

-Paxton, Ben, Eleanor and Fabiola having a friendship.

-Paxton and Aneesa having a friendship. Maybe they could have a conversation about how much they struggled not being able to play/do their respective sports. Aneesa bc she probably had to take time off when her eating disorder got really bad and Paxton bc of his broken arm. Maybe Aneesa encourages Paxton to swim again since he’s afraid that he won’t be as good as before.

-I want Fabiola and Eve to break up. The fact that Fabiola had to compromise her individuality to impress Eve’s friends is just sad and Eve just enabled it. Fabiola deserves better.

-I want Fabiola to have a new love interest. Maybe a new girl joins her robotics team and Fabiola is in awe of her skills and crazy intimidated but then they bond, become best friends and fall in love.

-Or Fabiola and Eleanor fall in love. I’ve seen other creators on tumblr post about some subtle moments between them that makes me go👀👀 . So I’m all for it. Plus I would love for the show to have a bi character and Eleanor gives me bi vibes.

-Ben and Devi end up tying for the highest score in the SATs or Fabiola gets the highest score and Ben and Devi tie for 2nd place.

-We need to see Devi learn how to drive! We need a scene of Nalini teaching Devi how to drive! During their first lesson, they would argue while driving, thus letting Devi hit a garbage can, that splatters trash all over the road. After this, Nalini decides to give up teaching Devi how to drive.

-So Devi asks/bribes Ben to teach her how to drive. They argue about whether Devi is going too fast or how swift their turns are but eventually Devi becomes more controlled on the road and this experience becomes really fun, in fact it may be the best part of the day for them (neither of them would admit that tho). Sometimes after a driving lesson, they’d stop for ice-cream and talk about deep shit that they wouldn’t tell anyone else.

-Devi passes her driving test for the first time and Devi thanks Ben but Paxton is like, “What why didn’t you ask me to teach you?” And Devi cannot give him an answer because she doesn’t know why she instinctively went to Ben first and didn’t even consider asking Paxton and Paxton leaves upset. They don’t break up that point but this is one of the little seedlings that plants their break-up. Like Devi didn’t know that Paxton started swimming again. Neither of them go to each other when they’re in trouble or facing an emotional dilemma, in fact neither of them even know/notice when the other is in an emotional dilemma. I wouldn’t be surprised they use Oaxton graduating as an excuse to break up and they break up amicably at Prom. It’ll be a full-circle moment.

-We also need an ep of Paxton graduating.

-We also need a POV ep from Aneesa/Fabiola/Eleanor.

-I really want a bottle episode, like whodunnit themed.

- Or even a treasure hunt episode, where everyone in the school goes crazy looking for the list of items for the treasure hunt as the winner gets Lady Gaga concert tickets or smth like that.

- Devi, Nirmala, Kamala and Nalini bonding pls.

-Nalini to thrive.

- Devi going to therapy.

-Nalini and Devi going to therapy together, then Nalini starts going on her own as well.

-More Mohan flashbacks.

-Kamala x Mr Kulkarni. Let’s gooo!

-But break up with Prashant first.

-More Mr Kulkarni! Ngl the English assignments are way cooler than the history ones and Mr Kulkarni isn’t a try-hard.

-Mr Kulkarni tells Mr Shapiro to shut the fuck up. Please and thank you.

-Mr Shapiro gets fired because he gives his students edibles or smth because one student told him about a study that says students learn better while high. His fake-woke ass falls for it.

-Aneesa and Ben break up.

Ok, I’m done.

[rainparadefromhell]

someone said that devi & paxton's relationship was rushed and should've taken up the whole season imagine the HORROR

[basiltonpitch]

they're playing heatwaves in between the sets and im having flashbacks to august 12th 2022 oh my god

[hopelessutopia]

You guys will really take Ben saying "David" in the softest,most gentle and adoring voice and make it about something it's not huh...

[hopefulobjectmiracle]

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