i love how perceptive and mind-opening this fic is. barlissa are good for e/o and so complementary, but if we come to think of it, their pride could indeed make their personalities clash and esp be detrimental to their parenting; they also do have the possibility to fuck-up their parenting no matter how much they don't want to. this makes sense too as established in other fics wherein mel doesn't want to have a child / thinks she can't be a good mother esp bc she didn't have a good model growing up due to her family and romantic rela trauma. in all the prev fics wherein they get together post-gerald / joe, we are always left wondering how easier and less painful could it have been if they didn't deny their feelings from the get go, and we are given this insight wherein the common timeline is probably for the better esp for gina and taylor growing up!!! but as god ava said all the possibilities have pros and cons!!! i just hope barlissa isnt doomed
I loved this comment so much!! Yeah, I think in these ships where it's two characters who have known each other for literal decades, it's easy to say that they wasted time and should have gotten together from the start. But, people change and the people that are compatible at one point in their life might not have always been so compatible! And like you said, we never saw the baggage Melissa carries about motherhood in the "canon" timeline as much as we would in a timeline where she is a mother. It's so corny but I really wanted to play with "maybe everything happens for a reason, including possibly being closeted for decades." Also that like, there are unfortunately tangible positives to being closeted that Barb realizes more and more here that I think are really easy to downplay when you're not faced with them like this. Anyway, thank you for this!!
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