#shoutout to that gif for revealing evan’s nervous finger fidgeting

[unproduciblesmackdown]

brought to you by talking a lot abt kleinsen and getting the unexpected gift of deh-livetweeting:

shoutout to thinking about and being overwhelmed by how canon kleinsen is

jared seeking evan out in the hallway on the first day of school and making a deliberate Entrance like the insanely cool & funny guy he totally is dude

standing like one whole foot away (if that) from evan and listening intently to evan’s full rendition of his weird summer

just take hold of your bro’s shoulder

This.

wink and finger gun @ ur bro

Wink And Finger Gun At Your Bro

sharing his secrets for “not telling the truth” w/evan

offering, unprompted, to help w evan’s email situation

how much fun jared has writing the emails with evan. for a task that doesn’t benefit jared directly at all (save $20 we don’t even Know if he got) he’s real into it beyond what a chance to crack some jokes at evan should inspire.

jared being awful earnest about The Love One Man Feels For Another being Quite Beautiful and really seeming to want to go the “secret boyfriends” route

not to mention the pre-broadway lines calling evan cute as a freakin button and saying if one of them cries it makes the other cry. oh and the “it’s very heterosexual” thing

how much of the email exchange jared is writing himself. the inspirational refrain. and, arguably, basically all of connor’s emails

how unfiltered evan is with jared in the sincerely me scene....in a way you never see him be around anyone else...the parts of him that “aren’t nice” that he thinks other ppl wouldn’t like...hhhgh its fine

jared being enthusiastically drawn into the dynamic he’s just created of An Intimate And Openly Communicative Relationship Between Evan And His Best Friend. hmm!!!

jared asking for evan’s attention Hey Asshole Aren’t Ya Gonna Say Anything

evan knows jared was Supporting him for the sake of supporting him or he wouldn’t’ve asked jared if he’d wanna get behind the connor project stuff

seriously. jared does wayyyyyy too much shit for evan even if he DID get that twenty bucks

the dramatic Turn To Look Directly At Evan during “from across the silence your voice is heard.” i know alana does it too but those two always have differing as well as shared motivations for doing the same shit

the Exchanged Touch in obc ywbf

jared calling the Intimate And Openly Communicative Relationship Between Evan And His Best Friend he’s still rp-ing “adorably heartwarming” and this time outright trying to insert himself into the idea.

three seconds after trying to make evan jealous he switches gears entirely to try to grab on to a different approach at lightning speed saying he’ll help w the kickstarter more if evan wants. then only resorting to “remember why i’m unavoidably important here” Scathingly Accurate Criticism when evan brushes that off too

actually letting go of that resentment to once again take a different approach, being Into his invitation for evan to hang out

again, have they done this before? just hung out and got smashed together? cuz they may have

not even getting mad this time when evan brushes him off. just disappointed. his Scathing Criticisms arent delivered with any of the energy / sarcasm of earlier scenes. he’s just fuckin Sad in this exchange

jared Specifically being taken aback by seeing zoe kiss evan. and fleeing the scene for the second time in the play even

tho this time he’s. just fuckin Sad. preview of what’ll happen in gfy honestly

when gfy happens and it’s really the only time you don’t see jared back down or try to deescalate

jared being so upset / desperate to get evan to care about him again that he’s directly going the “you HAVE to care about me for practical/strategic reasons” route since the other routes didn’t work

jared also being desperate to say why evan should care about him (which is: because he cares about evan) but not being able to directly say it cuz that’s jared for you. you just get You should remember who your FRIENDS ARE and SO and I Could tell EVERYONE EVERYTHING

running away from his feelings again & the fact that evan basically told jared he knows jared actually does cares abt him b/c he’s jared’s only friend & showing jared that that’s not enough to make evan wanna keep him around. jared running away like he did when zoe comes over and kisses evan. its very heterosexual

jared’s pretty upset for a guy who’s not in love with evan

crying during gfy

crying...during gfy.....

Jared Is Canonically Heartbroken

how jared feels like he’s been Played if he didn’t think evan knowingly took advantage of his investment in evan

how jared feels that Crushed if he wasn’t in love with evan

crying during gfy

you think that is the last gay thing jared does but yknow what else he does. is Not Tell Anyone What He Knows abt the truth re: evan and the connor project. even after being so hurt and angry at evan and them never reconciling. keeping his secret

evan: “wow i wish there was someone who knew what i’m really like and still loved me but thats impossible” /// jared: *is literally right there*

evan: “time to realize the value in all the imperfect sources of support i overlooked / considered inadequate before, not to mention at least partway resolve all these conflicts from good for you” /// jared: *is literally right there*

jared is right there

jared repeatedly being like “hahaahahaha bet ur having so much fun making out w zoe” and then sees zoe politely kiss evan and is Upset

canon heartbreak

kleinsen

seriously...jared spending most of the play trying to break into evan’s Idealized Concept Of A Close Relationship. ok.

jared is in love with evan. thx

and that’s my essay