I have an idea stuck in my head of Sportacus being really insecure and I know this sounds like bull but hear me out
Sportacus is so extra exactly 100% of the time. Even when there’s no one to impress, he’s still extra af. I had this idea that maybe it’s because he feels like he needs to impress everyone or they won’t see any use for him? And that he never quite feels like he’s good enough either way?
Like he’s putting himself down from the first moment we meet him. He calls himself “slightly above average” instead of a superhero when, by any other standards, he is one. I feel like he doesn’t want Stephanie to get her hopes up if he ends up failing because hey, at least she was warned.
Maybe it started when he was in love with someone, and not puppy love either like they were in love to the point where he was thinking about marriage, and then they left him with only a note that he was sweet and lovely, but not enough for them. So now Sportacus feels like he always has to adjust himself to what everyone else wants him to be so he can be enough and not lose people he cares about.
(And maybe its worse than that. Maybe he has a list in his head of all the things that people(coughrobbiecough) have even hinted annoyed them about him. Maybe he secretly changes and adjusts his daily mask to fit what the want. Maybe the only time the true sportacus shows is when he’s alone in his airship, and he lays down in bed - with the vest still on because what if someone’s in trouble and he doesn’t know and they all end up hating him - and he lets himself breathe and dreams about home and waterfalls and the day he’ll be comfortable in his own skin)
This is WHAT IVE BEEN SAYING
