#i also don't think he'd ever fully communicate his complicated emotions around santa fe to jack

[loving-jack-kelly]

i sent this same ask for the game to @/we-are-inevitable cause i wanted to see both takes if ya answered, So- David & Santa Fe?

i am also excited to hear what @we-are-inevitable has to say about this if they so choose to share :)

ough this is a good one because. i think before jack davey had a non-relationship with santa fe. and then he meets jack and jack is so idealistic and hopeful about a city that only exists in his head, at least the way he dreams of it.

and i think davey has a complicated relationship with jack's version of santa fe. santa fe is, to jack, escapism. it's the dream of starting over with a clean slate where nobody knows him and he can decide who he really wants to be. and on the one hand, I think davey really gets it, maybe more than he'd want to admit to himself. he understands that desire to leave everything behind for the chance to build something new. but also, it can sting a little, you know? to hear somebody he loves so much talk about how he wants to leave it all behind. especially before they solidify what they are to each other, when davey feels like he's in love with his best friend who will never quite love him back the same way, santa fe is such a bittersweet thing. he gets it, he knows how much jack needs to have that dream, but also...he wants jack to dream of him.

i think the first time jack purposefully and out loud chooses davey over the concept of santa fe. not chooses his friends in general or chooses to acknowledge that it's a pipe dream, but chooses davey jacobs. that's huge for davey. it's an insecurity that maybe he didn't even want to admit that he has, but jack saying no even if I had the chance to actually get up and go, i'd choose to stay with you because I love you. i think that means more to davey than anything. also any time jack includes davey in his dreams, when he proposes that they run away together, I think that means a lot, too.