We Agreed That, If You Fixed The Time Machine, Id Take You Back To See Your Mom. A Deals A Deal.

We agreed that, if you fixed the time machine, I’d take you back to see your mom. A deal’s a deal.

no bc codys parents ignore him and hold no respect for him unless they can use him to one up each other (his mother PAID HIM to beat his father in a game of chess and then he left for a whole year so he could train to beat cody in chess when cody was like. 9) and he so desperately wants to be liked and respected by others but hes a nerd/dork/geek at his core and so to learn how to be 'cooler' he literally goes to the mall to people watch bc nobody wants to be around him partially because of his lack of 'normal' socialisation and his poor social skills even though he is so incredibly talented in so many other ways (sculpting/engineering, art, chess, etc)

meanwhile alejandro has spent his entire life trying to achieve perfection in an attempt to be recognised as his own person by the people around him INCLUDING HIS FAMILY who only ever view him as a lesser version of jose and so he has all these skills but no reason for any of them bc his family will never appreciate him as his own person back home and so he learned how to be manipulative and use his looks to get what he wanted from people bc at his core hes convinced that he is inherently lesser

both of them are horrifically mangled on the show and it is treated as some sort of 'comeuppance', cody with the bear in tdi and alejandro with the volcano in tdwt, both of them are selfish and treat people poorly as a result of their horrendous upbringings, both of them are capable of so much as they are currently and also capable of so much more but theyre held back by their trauma and a lack of support from the people around them, both of them are rotten but there is a glimmer of something truly beautiful at their cores but to get there would be horrible work

2006 called it’s coming to kick my ass  

ok so Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc. seriously doesn’t know how to handle emotions. In “The Dragon’s Secret” Shaggy falls in love with someone and he thinks it’s mutual, but she actually just uses him so she can steal something. This is Shaggy’s reaction to all of this:

FOUR FRAMES. they give him 4 frames to react to this. Then of course, 10 seconds of fred talking about traps later, and he’s smiling along with the others again, because it’s not like he just got his heart broken or anything.

*sound on*

cody and alejandro made out when the cameras weren’t looking it’s true cody told me himself just the other day