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tvxcue · 3 days ago

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when people act like colin would just accept someone he's dating being mean to penelope it's just like. that's not true. he decided to eternally have beef with cressida bc she was mean to penelope one time in his presence. he hears portia being mean to penelope and immediately tells her off so thoroughly it changes the course of the entire featherington family. and u want me to believe he would be chill with someone he's dating being mean to her? be so serious.

#speaking #bridgerton #yes this is a continuation of my stop mischaracterizing marina posting.#but this is also abt ppl mischaracterizing colin like i kind of understand where the 'colin takes penelope for granted' take came from but #i also don't really think that's true. it's more true in the book where he literally says he takes it for granted that she'll be there but #even then it's like. she's just a part of his life bc she's so close to the bridgerton family and eloise in particular. of everything #you can hate book colin for (and i do) his relationship with penelope before they get together is the most nonsensical.#but back to my point! in s1 he's the one who initiates all of their interactions aside from when she tries to tell him marina is in love #with someone else and even in that conversation where he's patronizing to her he still recognizes she's trying to be a good friend #and at the basset ball he apologizes for not listening to her and tells her she inspired him to travel #and in s2 he confides in her multiple times and talks abt appreciating her and her friendship. it's the entire reason #for his involvement with jack's mines (and there's some deleted scene scripts from s2 that show he knew smth was up from the beginning so #if we take those as canon he knowingly got himself involved in a scam in order to protect her/her family)#and i do think the 'i would never court' comment skewed ppl's perception especially bc they never gave the context or a reason #for that comment so it just gets left as him blowing her off (after spending most of the season leaning hard into the unrequited angle)#but it just feels revisionist like. sure she has the right to be angry/hurt abt that comment but to discount their entire relationship #and the multiple times colin has shown how much he values her bc this one comment must be the end all be all of his feelings is just.#incredibly unfair to him. especially considering the comments penelope makes abt people as lw like we're supposed to understand that's #not all she is but apparently that is all colin is. okay. sure. she's literally important to him and he highly values her #friendship but sure. whatever.

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