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Matt and David from the Grotto for the ship ask please?

MATT AND DAVID WAUGH! There's sooooo so so much to them and I just !!!!

So it seems pretty canon that David has a lil crush on Matt, and I absolutely think that there's a space for Matt to reciprocate those feelings! But Matt has one goal throughout a good chunk of the podcast. See Emily again. He's so wrapped up and distracted by his grief and the hope of possibly seeing her again, that he isn't focusing on the people that are in his life. He definitely cares deeply for David, but he's constantly throwing himself off metaphorical cliffs and into very literal caves!

Emily is a roadblock that Matt can't get himself past. Matt's destroying himself and I think David and caving were his attempts at starting on that road to recovery and starting to move on a little bit, and then he keeps seeing her in the caves! His grief is brought back in full force with the small possibilities that he'll see her again, and he gets tunnel vision over it. Every time it seems like he's about to make a step in the right direction towards moving on and leaning onto the people around him (David) there is some sort of Situation that sends him flying twelve steps backwards.

And David! David is ever patient with Matt, he realises that he's struggling and he makes himself into the perfect shoulder to lean on, but Matt does not lean on that shoulder. He keeps David in the dark and thus, David is unable to help as much as he'd like! Matt is going to get himself killed and he's forcing David to watch him do it!

In terms of romantic relationships, as I appear to have gone on a slight tangent, I think they'd both get enjoyment out of a romantic relationship with the other. David canonically likes Matt in that way, and Matt very obviously cares about David deeply, and appreciates his company. However there's a ton of bullshittery that complicates everything. Matt needs to let go of Emily (not because of the potential of a romantic relationship with David, but because clinging onto her like he is is completely destroying him) but he can't. He keeps seeing her, and so he keeps wanting to see her. David is unable to help Matt at all because he doesn't know anything that's going on. They need to sit down and have a biiiig talk about their feelings but that's not going to happen anytime soon!