Alright,
guess I’m not gonna fanfic this any time soon, so here we go.

Pike
dragging Scanlan for calling her magic fucked up is great. So gratifying. But
you know what should truly be addressed at some point about the things he said,
and the things Pike specifically should be upset about?

When
Scanlan made the point of listing off how everyone’s got someone, and he got no
one on VM, he started with Pike and Grog who would always have each other.
Which is, as far as we know, a purely familial bond. That’s fair.

And then he
went on and listed the couples? How they’d always have each other? When I’m not
even sure Percy and Vex were all that official with everyone yet (dragons kind
of made them have bigger concerns), and also, you know, twins?

Like, real
talk. Romantic relationships come and go. I don’t see either of them going any
time soon, or ever, but how is that any more significant than, you know,
twins?!

Not to
mention that Percy and Keyleth had a very platonic to familial relationship
going on as well.

The point
is, in that speech, Scanlan’s priorities were somewhat skewered towards
romantic relationships. I don’t have someone romantically, and that’s part of
the reason why all this is happening. Which places a really, truly unfair
burden on Pike, seeing how the entire proposal thing went down.

So, if she’d
just said yes, he’d have stayed? If she’d just taken one for the team and
accepted his proposal and advances, so he could have someone, too?

That’s just
gross. So gross. Up there with calling someone who’d been looking up to you as
a father figure out for daddy issues kinds of gross, if not worse.

And the
fact that he seems to be okay now that he has people “rooting” for him doesn’t
make this any better. Someone used the Tyra Banks gif in response already, VM
was already rooting for Scanlan. They all did have each other’s backs
unconditionally, and independently of romantic or blood relationships, it’s just
that apparently, Scanlan didn’t value anything else.

He had fair
points about being treated differently for his height and Vax being bad about
his personal space, and also leaving him alone after dying was not a good move,
even without the prank which was… Welll, an entirely different cup of tea. VM
needs like an aftercare ritual after intense fights, so no one has to spend the
night alone, also independently of the romantic relationships, so the burden
doesn’t fall to one person specifically. Like Pike. Poor Pike.