#trent crimm’s wife

[princebenvi]

trent + laura, feat. eloise. circa 2021/2022

pt. 1, pt. 2

trent has quit his job.

well, he got fired, but he quit, you know?

he committed the cardinal sin of journalism, effectively blacklisting him from ever getting another job in the field he’s spent the last 20 years in, leaving him with no prospects and a future that’s never been more uncertain, but he’s doing great!

honestly. well, he’s a little (a lot) afraid for the future, but he made the right choice, he’s sure of it.

he sighs contentedly and crosses the threshold into his ex-wife’s house, and is met with his daughter barreling toward him at full force. he sweeps her up and spins her around.

“sorry i’m so late love, papa had a very busy day today! lost his job, got locked out of his car, and was kept company waiting for the locksmith by a very kind gaffer who offered dinner for this evening!”

eloise giggles, fully not absorbing anything other than her father’s brown eyes looking in her own.

trent smiles and hums a nameless tune as he spins her around a few more times, before she gets restless and squirms her way out of his arms to run to her room. he sighs with a smile and brushes his hair out of his face, turning to laura who is leaning against the kitchen island, staring at him with her arms crossed and a look of disbelief on her face.

“what?”

“you’re in love with the richmond gaffer, aren’t you?”

trent sputters. “excuse me?”

“you lost your job?” laura says, promptly moving on, and laughing a little bit. “how’d you manage that?”

“well, i quit. was fired. technically fired but it was my fault.”

“what did you do?” she puts her hands on her hips, still laughing.

“i. revealed an anonymous source. to the subject of the article i wrote. to the gaffer. to. to ted- coach lasso.”

she cackles. “oh you are fucked, trent, well and truly. what do you expect to do now? no more journalism for you, not even i can pull strings with this.”

“i’m looking for something deeper.”

she raises an eyebrow and snickers. “deeper?”

“journalism was growing shallow, im changing directions.”

“is this a midlife crisis?”

“i think the midlife crisis was my divorcing my wife of 17 years on account of the fact that i’m gay, but throwing my career away for a man i’ve known for two years might be part of it, sure.”

“so you are in love with the gaffer then.”

“unequivocally.”

“you’re fucked, trent.” laura grins.

“yes, i rather think i am,” trent says, mirroring her smile.

-

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[luminarai]

Trent: I need to embrace my role as a wise gay mentor Trent’s ex wife: Trent: what Trent’s ex wife: last week you told me you were worried about animal control at pride Trent: well, how was I supposed to know they weren’t talking about literal bears

[devotioncrater]

"no hints were dropped" ok not to be that person but here are the hints that were dropped regarding Colin and Trent being gay:

1. Colin mentioning Grindr in a joke

2. Trent touching the arm of a man in the background

Here is one of the hints that Keeley was bi (even though I do believe she's been canonically bi since season 1, but not everyone sees it this way)

1. Her desktop background was in the colors of the bisexual flag

Here were some of the hints that Ted was bi:

1. Bisexual flag colored triangles above his head in the hallucination sequence

2. Inverted pink triangle next to him in that same sequence (and you can't tell me the creators didn't know, when the Homomonument is based on that symbol)

3. Countless (countless!!!) comments about men's physiques ("huge muscular thighs all caked in mud", whistling at a picture of Pep, "look at that head of hair", "he's strong", "he looks like a Rodin sculpture in cleats", etc.)

4. About a man (Higgins) and a woman (Rebecca), he had to say: "that's a crowd I don't mind being smack-dab in the middle of"

5. Him checking Trent out in the pub in 2x07 (his eyes are up there, Ted!)

6. "It could go either way", "I contain multitudes" and other comments in this vein

7. Bi lighting as he entered the Yankee Doodle Burger Barn

8. Giving similar looks to the female waitress and the male waiters in that restaurant (including a waiter in a cowboy costume that looked like he belonged in a gay club, who tipped his hat at Ted when greeting him)

9. "That's cause you were put into a box", "That box ceases to exist today", the box in the hallucination sequence breaking into triangles (as in the bi triangles and the inverted pink triangke), "we've been playing too rigid", "our guys need freedom", "fast, fluid, free, with full support", the "box that one needs to break out of" being a prominent motif in season 3

10. Wishing Beard called him pet names ("Honey, is that an ingredient or something you just called me?")

11. His crush on Pep

12. The connection between Ted and Colin: "my whole life is two lives, really", both wearing orange in Sunflowers, "I just want to kiss my fella" (Colin doesn't say "fella" , but Ted says it all the time), Ted just needs to get inspired and Colin's play is "inspirational" after he comes out, as per the commentators

And so much other stuff that, had Ted not self-identified as straight (*cough* put himself into a box *cough cough*) , you could make the case that he was canonically bi.

Here are some of hints that there was a romantic connection between Ted and Trent:

1. They hit a lot of romantic beats, and not in the jokey self-aware way in which Roy and Ted hit them in "Rainbow", but in an organic and sincere way

2. They both checked each other out: Trent checked Ted out when Ted was changing in front of him, Ted checked Trent out when Trent came up to him in a pub and hit him with a pick-up line while his date that looked a lot like Ted waited for him outside

3. Did I mention that Trent was on a date with a moustachioed man who dressed in a similar style to Ted? Let's mention it again

4. In that very bar, during a 50 second long conversation, Trent managed to say the word "love" three times. I searched the word "love" in the transcripts of the episodes. There's no other instance in which its frequency is this high

5. "Love our chats" incomplete rule of threes

6. "Sport, it's quite the metaphor" (implied: a metaphor for love; see also "love's a beautiful game" from the song Ed Sheeran wrote for Ted Lasso), "Also makes for a heck of a nickname", "Good night, Ted", "Good night, sport"

7. The soft, romantic, melancholic song playing in the background of this scene, while Ted and Trent are the last ones left in the office, with lyrics such as "When your words begin to crumble like the sidewalks all around this crummy neighborhood / From the chalky cliffs of Dover / I'd come over, I'd start over if I could"

8. Trent wearing sunflower colors in the episode "Sunflowers" and in the finale; sunflowers symbolize Ted's home (it's not subtle). He's the only character dressed like that. I'm still looking for any other explanation other than "Trent is Ted's home"

9. Their constant flirting and the way they look at each other with incredible fondness

10. The entire episode "The Strings That Bind Us". It's structured around Ted and Trent's relationship, and the way Trent changed because of Ted (in season 2, Ted defined a soulmate as someone who changes your life forever). The red string metaphor. Ted points out that soulmates are connected by a string tied to their little fingers. Ted and Trent both extend their little fingers out in similar shots. They are connected by a huge block of red in their last scene of the episode. Ted makes several comments about other men that apply to Trent ("Look at that head of hair", "Frames his face nicely", "My favorite one, he was clean shaven"). Many more details that lead back to Ted and Trent: Nate tells the restaurant owner to tell Jade he said "Hello". Immediately after, Ted and Trent say "Hello" to each other. The map that Nate's father used to ask out his mom has the number 1.3 written on it and an illustration of two people at a table in a restaurant. Ted and Trent went to a restaurant together in season 1, episode 3. The last scene of the episode mimics a "Race for Love" scene from a romcom, with Trent chasing after Ted. Trent also does not say a word to anyone other than Ted in the entire episode. He is completely focused on Ted

11. "Trent, what do you love? Is it writing?" and Trent ends up writing a book about Ted and naming the manuscript after Ted and he only cares about Ted's opinion on it (he leaves the room when Beard starts reading, but stays in the office after hours just to watch Ted read. "I just wanted you to like it.")

11. Trent's crush on Ted, confirmed by Jimmy Lance (and also obvious in the show, if you ask me)

Now, why would I believe that none of these hints were intentional? Maybe some could be explained away, but all of them? The hints we got for Colin, Trent and Keeley were so much smaller than this, and those turned out to be intentional.

anon i wish i could offer you the response you deserve, but i cannot stop rereading this masterpiece & focusing on the portions of evidence you provided that i didn't even pick up on until you laid them out. holy shit

[leupagus]

Since we know that the Snoopy rainbow mug is indeed from James Lance's own personal collection, I'm gonna go ahead and assume that Lance just keeps dragging in his own clothing and jewelry for the costume designer to approve and she's like "yeah let's roll with it" every time.

[blessyouhawkeye]

i forgot that trent is not actually canonically divorced. like that's something we just made up but i believe it so strongly it's become canon to me. that man is just so divorced.

[proof1991]

whatever. more james lance be upon ye

[v0idwraith]

can’t believe we learned more about trent’s personal life in that one conversation than we did in the entirety of the 2 1/2 seasons before this

[laiqualaurelote]

Ted Lasso fics masterlist

it’s not about the wins or losses, it’s about the fandom we made along the way - and that, I think, is what I’ll miss the most

meanwhile, a masterlist of all my Ted/Trent fics:

1. The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret (T, 20k)

“Thing is, though, you gotta love the questions themselves. I guess you journalists don’t get the luxury of that, seeing’s how you gotta rush your stories out - y’all just want your answers right off the bat. But I think you gotta live the questions first. Then one day you’ll gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

Trent takes off his glasses. “Ted Lasso, did you just quote Rilke at me?”

Ted shrugs modestly.

“I take it back,” says Trent. “You don’t need media training at all.”

In 48 hours, Trent Crimm lands a scoop, implodes his career and makes some drastic life decisions. And then there's the aftermath. And Ted, of course.

2. they will see us waving from such great heists (T, 21k)

“Well, like the Gambler himself says - you got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em. Know when to walk away, know when to run. And the latter would be about now, because I think this house is on fire.” 

In which Trent Crimm, Interpol, investigates the theft of Rupert Mannion’s painting by a mysterious thief dubbed The Greyhound. FBI Special Agent Ted Lasso gets in the way. Heist!AU

2a. Trick Plays (T, 6.4k)

Snippets from the Such Great Heists universe, including Crimminal Intent, The Prying Dutchman and We Provide Leverage.

3. constant as a northern star (constantly in the dark) (T, 10.5k)

“I just met Ted Lasso,” Sachiko Crimm says bluntly when her ex-husband picks up.

Trent is silent for a while. “And?” he says finally.

Sachiko gives it five seconds, and then she bursts out laughing.

“Stop it,” says Trent wearily.

The saga of Trent Crimm and his independent ex-wife

4. all the men and women merely players (T, 50k)

"So let me get this straight. You, an American whose career highlights consisted mainly of appearing on Saturday Night Live, decide in the wake of the apocalypse to lead a touring Shakespeare company across the ruins of England."

"Oh, I know. Heck, I said as much to Rebecca when she suggested it. I said, 'You could fill two Internets with what I don’t know about directing Shakespeare.' And she said, 'Ted, the Internet doesn’t exist any more.'"

Trent Crimm meets Ted Lasso by chance at a Shakespeare play. Five years and the end of the world later, they meet again at another. A Station Eleven post-apocalyptic theatre AU (no knowledge of Station Eleven necessary to read), WIP but updating real soon!

It’s been an honour to write for this fandom, I love you all so very much (on three!)

[hacash]

Considering how underrepresented bi men are in the media and how many bi men feel they have to ‘choose’ between gay and straight, the implication that Trent could be bi and has a wife who’s a good ally and a daughter who supports him is just the best

[shit-sorry-fuck-mybad]

Trent coming out TWICE because someone just didn’t believe him the first time is so sad :(

Coming out to someone is already something so difficult and working up the courage to do it only to have someone just not believe you feels so shitty

[princebenvi]

trent + laura, circa 2003. the first time.

pt. 2

“there you are! was wondering where you’d got off to,” laura says, walking out to meet her fiancé on the front step to their house. “what’s wrong, love?”

“yes, sorry. needed some air,” trent says into his arms, crossed atop his knees.

she sits down next to him, mirroring his own position with her legs curled up to her chin. she nudges his shoulder.

“i. i’m sorry laura.”

“for what, love?”

trent’s stomach flutters and his heart feels like it’s beating out of his chest. hes gotta tell her. she deserves better.

“im… i think im… i think im gay.”

the two sit in silence for a little while. trent’s stomach feels like it’s going to turn itself inside out. he looks over at laura who’s facing the sidewalk in front of them, eyes closed. she opens her eyes and looks over at him, a small smile on her face, eyes misty.

“trent, we’ve been dating for years now. since university. we’re getting married, of course you’re nervous. it’s okay, i am too.”

“no, i-“

“i know it’s a big step and i know it’s scary, but it’s gonna be okay. we’ve got each other, don’t we?”

“… yeah. yes of course, love.”

“c’mon, i don’t want dinner to burn, let’s head in out of the cold.”

[shitpostblogwahoo]

so like.. trent crimm isn't publicly out in ted lasso, right? i assume only colin knows, since nobody looked at trent when beard said there could be another gay person in the room? and i'm assuming trent has this mask of his wife/ex wife/soon to be ex wife? this proposes the question on how nobody has clocked him for his outfits. are they assuming it's a statement? has he been bullied in headlines? why is this not more important? is it just assumed to be (potential) post divorce crisis? any self respecting reporter would have made trents leopard print shoes the hottest new twitter meme within seconds of seeing them.

[randomfandomss]

This is gonna be Trent @ Ted innit, and we all are going to cry really hard about it.

[tedtrentconspiracy]

this is so validating for all us trent girlies who knew he was one of us but it's hilarious how the half cut off explanation of his coming out actually leaves us with MORE QUESTIONS that may never get answered

[ghostofanovelwriter]

I would like to humbly submit the name “Constance” as the unofficial/official fan name for Trent Crimm’s ex-wife named after Constance Lloyd, Irish playwright and Oscar Wilde’s wife.

[devotioncrater]

honestly the way i see it is this: trent crimm's ex-wife is either a 10x more impassioned/poetic author than he is OR she does not give two shits about writing. no in between