#twd enid x marco

[onefail-at-atime]

After recently rewatching the series, I became more comfortable with Rosita x Gabriel after watching their Season 7 scenes together. The 7x12 "Say Yes" Richonne episode that everyone loves? Rosita is in a dark place. She brushes Tara off to go beyond the walls to search for weapons and goes to find Gabriel in the church. Her anger at the situation and her anger towards him is a great scene to watch. Gabriel reminds her that the community needs her and asks her what she's going to do with her life? "Anything is possible until your heart stops beating" was SUCH a great line.

Rosita is carrying the guilt of Abraham and Glenn's death on her back when she first seeks Gabriel out in the church in 7x08. He tells her then that Alexandria needs her, but still gives her the freedom to make her own choice over whether or not to use the bullet to kill Negan. He didn't have to.

They should have had more scenes together in Season 8 & 9A, but the showrunners clearly weren't prioritizing what they brought together in Season 7.

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Now, as for Alden and Enid? I agree. Poor guy was brought in to be Maggie's romantic interest (which I don't think would have ever worked), so their decision to divert that line to Enid was a weird one and probably only happened because there were no other truly familiar main female leads at Hilltop aside from Tara and Dianne. Let's not forget the fact that the producers did very little to try and age up Enid beyond dressing her in lower cut t-shirts.

Personally, Enid x Marco is a ship that should have happened, imo. Marco was closer in age, and the longer hair he had in Seasons 9 & 10 definitely had Carl vibes. They both deserved a great back story of how upset Marco was at Ken's death and how lost Enid must have felt when Maggie left her behind. Alden should have been the big brother, teasing them both through 9B and then mourning Enid as a sister in Season 10 after also losing the surrogate mother he had in Tammy Rose.

But, unfortunately, Enid seems to have only been made a romantic interest as a way to focus more on Alden in Season 10 ... which was a very odd choice considering how they just wrote him off in Season 11 after 3 seasons of character development.

... I really just need to make a Reddit account for all these TWD thoughts/headcanons. Oops. 🤷‍♀️

Spoilers for season 9 episode 5 of TWD

Gabriel and Rosita being together is so fucking out of nowhere?? They have no chemistry?? I've hardly ever seen them talk in the series before. Istg they just put em together cause they wanted Gabriel to be in a relationship after Anne.

[onefail-at-atime]

Does anyone else feel like Marco and Enid could have been a great couple in Season 9? They're closer in age, and Enid probably would have left to Hilltop's full-time doctor not long after Marco's friend Ken died on the trip back from D.C. in 9A. I feel like it would have been a great opportunity for them to bond, especially after Maggie apparently left Hilltop not long after that.

When we see Marco in S11, he just seems so lighthearted despite everything as he builds up Elijah's confidence to tell Lydia how he feels. We could have had a new generation of leaders with Enid, Marco, Elijah, and Lydia. They would have built their communities back up and been there for when the younger ones like Judith and Gracie would step into their own leadership roles.

That's my headcanon AU and I'm sticking to it.

Cause c'mon, look at those smiles.

[shootfortherightreasons]

;; I’m feeling a little emotional thinking about how TWD is going back for filming within the next 24 hours and how this will be our first full season without Rick. First full season that Andrew Lincoln won’t be getting on a plane and heading to the US for filming this month. First full season with Norman as the highest billed cast member. It’s so weird to think about.