pencil and match would not be the salt and pepper of bfdi they would be the nickel/baseball of bfdi
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the alliance arc strikers striking similarity to the armless alliance arc
of course it isn't a one too one, due to multiple aspects such as viewer vs character voting (and the writing in general)
However the arcs due strike a resemblance to each other
A alliance which has:
A "asshole"(not aggressively a asshole in pencil's case but still) who gets off scot free due to their established role(pencil being the leader, nickel having ties with baseball)(by asshole I mean like a character who just turns into a worse person during the arc)
An enabler whose too emotionally connected to the asshole to criticize them and ends up acting like them/in support of them (match and baseball)
A character who enjoyed being in the alliance at some point but decided to stand up for themselves/a friend (bubble and suitcase)
A character who has a negative relationship with the asshole and the enabler (supporting the "3rd good og member character") (I personally give this role to fanny, because ice cube represents a whole different aspect of the freesmarts arc yada... but for sake of argument you could say Balloon is if Fanny and Ice Cube mixed and were less negative/vengeful)
Of course with the alliance/freesmarts you have more members and more dynamics etc.
and the writing in the later in the show isn't a one too one yada yada
I know salt and pepper have a kind of similar thing on a surface level to match and Pencil, but they've got one key difference
Through all of II Pepper and Salt mostly have themselves
whilst Pencil and Match have a full ASS alliance which ALWAYS included bubble from the default
thank you for listening to this long ramble :)
(ps not directed at ANYONE who has made match and pencil salt and pepper in their au! this is just a personally opinion I have due to the fact I really love the alliance in bfdi and pour a lot into analizyng them, it's just a personal ick lol)
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tw: suggestive jokes/implications (only in dialogue), suicide mention
freesmart the girlies of all time
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Do you all ever think that Book saw pencil and matches friendship and just saw toxic grabage(THAT ONE IDFB SCENE AS A EXAMPLE) and she couldn't belive Match would stay as Pencil's lap dog for so long. And she saw her in a way as pathetic (Match acting as if she has the same power as Pencil dose). But then she meets pillow and realises the shit toxic yuri dose to you. I ADORE the fact Book's character acitvley showcases how Freesmarts and the toxictiy within it affected her future relationships. From her whole Taco thing, to Pillow
Like do you think the reason she hasn't left pillow is because she isn't ready to admit she yet again feel into the hands of a horrible person, even if she herself didn't realise how horrible that person. She isn't ready to say she did the same mistake again, because it's not logical to repeat the same mistake(FROM HER POV)
I love the fact her part in freesmarts left a affect on her, she may act all "girlboss" in Bfb 1 leaving, but the way she see's her relationships and the role she takes in them is still so simallar. Mabye her taking the role of Pencil(Towards taco) and Match(Towards Book) is some poetic irony(most likley not done on purpose but still). Mabye the reason she keeps linger on is because she isn't ready to say she did the same exact mistake as she did all those years ago by joining freesmarts, mabye she isn't ready to say she's more simallar to Match then she wants to be. She thinks she's rational and would standup for herself but she dosen't. She's not ready to admit she's just a more snarky Lap dog.
Mabye her next role will be Bubble and mabye finally she'll break out and end the cycle
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