#mike to el immediately after: you're my leader my inspiration you can do it

[gayofthefae]

I just realized. Mike reused a bunch of speeches but do you know what we haven't talked about? The beautifully improvised

"You're my superhero"

Immediately following him hearing "you're the heart". He tried it. He tried saying something like it. It didn't hit the same.

because

You're the heart

You're my superhero

Mike thought it would work on El because it worked on him

When Mike thought to himself "What does it feel like to love someone?" he could only think of Will. The first day we met. You're my hero, my inspiration. He reused but he said to Will but we rarely talk about how he reused what Will said to him.

And now that I think about it, what he said to him seconds earlier in full earshot of El. He reused something she heard Will say.

That means she knows when Mike repeated it he meant "what Will just said to me? I saw it as romantic"