#i hope this made some kind of sense and plsss let me know your own takes if you have em!!!

[silverview]

I love your tlw thoughts sm!! :D

I'm on like my sixth rewatch currently and I've been curious about how Chas seems to handle the "Mick" situation and I was wondering if you had any thoughts on that in particular?

aahh thank you so much!! ❤️❤️ that's such a good question! i will say as much as i have to say about it (very incoherent i'm afraid) + then would be VERY curious to hear your thoughts on the matter as well

it makes sense to me that chas doesn't react to the mick thing straight away. well, he tries to deny/avoid it, appropriately enough. he internalises the stress of it to avoid making it joe's problem. not necessarily the right or smart thing to do, but i genuinely think he is trying to be kind & generous by trying to ignore it. when he finally brings it up, it's reluctant – apologetic, even. he only mentions it because he can't help it anymore. i think he dislikes being (or seeing himself as) the sort of person who always has to say what he's thinking. and he feels bad for bringing down the weekend.

so, focusing specifically on the confrontation scene, as it turns out i have a lot of feelings about that (i mean how could i not, it's such a good scene). it's serving an important purpose wrt chas's characterisation and, because it's a very well-written episode, it's all in service of making the final twist more painful

firstly: "i don't mind. it's just that we normally tell each other when we're flirting with someone, and we laugh about it." just to make sure you know it's not the texting someone else that bothers him, it's the possibility that joe could be keeping a secret from him. because oh how very OPEN and TRUTHFUL they usually are with each other! how they always tell each other everything!

secondly, when he finally works up the courage to confront joe about it, he is .... i want to say gentle about it. he's not angry, he doesn't even speak loud enough for joe to hear him. he's sad, vulnerable, apologetic & clearly ready to forgive; all he wants is the truth. he confesses his own kiss with another guy, even though he could easily have gotten away with not saying anything, which i think is particularly significant for once again underlining the value he's placing on honesty & openness. and he instantly accepts the explanation joe gives him with no evidence. } all of which to say:

essentially what we're seeing here is chas reaching a character development apex. literally in that confrontation scene i think we see the culmination of his personal journey over the past nine (or eighteen, or forty-eight) years, where he has finally become the sort of person who will handle this situation in this specific way. (draw a parallel with reaching the penultimate/"depression" stage of grief, where it falls in the episode.) in a different context, it might be something to celebrate. on the positive side, he is no longer the angry person he was 18 years ago! he no longer lashes out! he has learned compassion and is willing to take responsibility for his own mistakes! and to look at it through a darker lens: joe has finally finished manipulating him into the perfect victim! narratively this scene is the end of the road for chas, there's nowhere else he has left to go except his finale

when he finds out mick is a woman, he says: "i've never been so happy." :) that's how you know the end is nigh of course. the betrayal isn't brutal enough unless it comes at the exact moment of maximum contentment, trust, and love. essentially the whole mick ordeal is there to test his trust in joe, to make sure it's finally 1000% solid and ready to be exploded

– by that i mean the script put it there to test him as a narrative device, but i suspect it was also an in-universe test/game. you're telling me joe has maintained this elaborate deception for years, and now suddenly he's leaving his phone lying around? he was doing it on purpose, to set chas up for the "worry -> relief & Peak Happiness -> ultimate betrayal" pipeline. absolute mad lad. someone capable of that has got to be INCREDIBLE in bed. makes you wonder what other little games he set up to torment chas over the years

[ahundredtimesover]

hope you take the time to read this because god you've inspired me. imagine fight for you alternate ending/ storyline (yes i am making a fanfiction of your fanfiction)

where the next day oc goes missing. and then no one knows anything so jungkook buts in cause he was ex bodyguard and leads them to yoongi hobi and the orphanage but they all say they know nothing. after some interrogation and investigation they find her car in a lake but they don't find a body, instead a suicide note that says she's going to overdose on sleeping pills and die a painless death in her sleep, then ask this friend to cremate her (insert name of random dude) and then send the ashes to the orphanage where they would be turned into a tree. she also mentions in the note that she'll be asking the guy to send the orphanage money, along with the ashes, to start their own farms/ orchards which is something she's always wanted to do (it's her projecting her need to be independent) (so basically shes sending them ALOT of cash to buy land etc. plus i kind of imagined the orphanage on the country side so finding land wouldn't be that difficult) at orphanage the lady who was like incharge? like the head who told jungkook about oc's past intimidating bodyguards confirms that she'd received a letter that was typed out along with some cash and her ashes. they'd also started the farm and orchards. the amount of cash she'd received corresponded with the amount of cash oc has withdrawn the day before she went missing. they never found the guy she'd mentioned, the guy who was responsible for cremating her but the rest of the story made sense. she was on her way to kill herself, had an accident, managed to break out, swim up, kill herself and yada yada. so the police declared her dead.

now here yoongi and hoseok and her driver and caretaker blame jungkook for being the last straw. and yoongi is mainly v v angry. and it's v angsty and he even beats jungkook up but takes him to the hospital. and when jungkook asks why yoongi didn't just let him die and he goes "because unlike you i'm not a murderer" and it's sooo angsty and jungkook it's so guilt ridden. he's alos missed her, realises he's in love and with that realisation comes disbelief.

he doesn't believe that she's dead. so he starts his hunt. he decodes her letter and starts finding these clues she'd left behind and boom, he gets it. and he makes his way to the orphanage and is like "you have oc" and they're j like "we don't have oc she's fuckinh dead" but he breaks in and goes to the orchards and there she is, in a casual red summer dress, picking out apples. and he's so confused he's all "why did you fake your death" "because i didn't want to be found and the best way to ensure that was to make sure they never looked" and jungkook is all "well then why did you leave all those clues" "because i wanted to see if you'd find me"

OKAY OKAY so this is totally different from my story and that’s amazing bc then you can write this one! Bc it’s such an OC thing to give the orphanage so much cash and it’s such a Yoongi thing to spit IM NOT A MURDERER and it’s such a jk thing to torture himself with the guilt and do everything in his power to find her and it’s such an orphanage staff thing to protect OC. AND PLSSS that scene of finding her in a red summer dress! The sun is shining and she’s happily picking fruits with the children and jk is floored. I can imagine the angst and the pain ajshshahshs 😩😩

Thank you for letting my mind imagine all this but my brain and my heart probably aren’t good enough for this genre he he but pls pls if u choose to write this storyline, do let me know!!!