Please do make that Eliot body language rant
I cannot tell you how many times Iāve forced people to listen as I extol the way Eliot touches him during the threesome scene, so I am DELIGHTED youāve given me an excuse to do it again.
And really, thatās what gets me is just the way he touches Q. Yes, itās a sex scene, so clearly theyāre touching, but that doesnāt mean you touch everyone the same way. I really wish we had a shot of them from further out because it really sort of looks (to me, anyway) like Quentin is in Eliotās lap for their kiss, but since we canāt see if he is or not, Iāll leave that bit of positioning alone.
Regardless, theyāre close and despite the fact that I really donāt think what weāre shown is their first kiss, thereās this moment where they hover and stare before kissing like theyāre taking a breath before taking the plunge. If you want to know why I donāt think itās their first kissā¦ You can see their hair is caught together and there has to be a severe lack of personal space for that to happen because yes, Qās hair is long, but itās not that long. A strand of Qās hair is stuck almost on top of Eliotās head, which just makes me think he crawled on top of Eliot and it fell around his face and tangled with Eliotās before they lifted back up together.
I am assuming they kissed during whatever they did to get close enough for their hair to tangle up, but maybe they didnāt. But what does happen is theyāre lingering that close and Quentinās holding his hands up like he doesnāt know what to do with them, like he isnāt sure where he can touch, but it looks like he leans in first and Eliot meets him open-mouthed.
It almost looks like Eliot wants to devour him and almost as soon as they start to kiss, Eliot has a hand on the back of Quentinās neck, holding him in place and then squeezing like heās making sure Quentin doesnāt pull away. You can see Eliotās hand slide up and tighten as he presses in closer, rising up and kissing Q harder while Q finally figures out what to do with his hands and moves to settle them on either side of Eliotās neck so theyāre both holding on to each other.
The neck squeeze is important to me. Itās possible that this is just an Eliot thing, but I prefer to think itās an Eliot with Q thing, anĀ āI finally have him and Iām not letting him goā thing. I cannot swear that Eliot never kissed Mike like that, but in the scene with Javier/Fen, heād place a guiding hand on the side of their neck or let his hand slide along their shoulder(s), but there wasnāt the same neck squeeze. We see other people give Eliot the neck squeeze (Margo and Fen both, I believe), but Eliot only does it to Quentin.
And then thereās the morning after scene. You wouldnāt think thereās much reason to squeal over this except omg, yay, theyāre in bed together, BUT YOU WOULD BE WRONG.
Eliot is in the middle of them and I donāt really care as much about why heās in the middle as much as I do about what he does while in the middle. He was drunk, he just had sex, he probably just fell down wherever, the fact heās in the middle isnāt a big deal, but it does let us see something. Eliot Waugh, while unconscious and vulnerable and stuck between his best friend and a guy he only met earlier that year, will choose to turn to the guy first.
āBut heās drunk,ā you say! Yeahā¦ I have no idea how intoxicated he still is by the time theyāre done, but once heās asleep, even if heās inebriated, it seems like heād want to turn towards the greater source of comfort/security. Forget terms of attraction, we know Eliot is perfectly fine cozying up to Margo and this is sleep, this is not sex, so donāt tell me the guy in bed is the logical choice. This is about the emotional connection.Ā
Ā Eliot Waugh is in bed between his best friend and the boy she once said he was obsessed with and given the choice between them, his unconscious mind chose to be close to Quentin. He doesnāt just turn towards him in his sleep, itās more than that, he drapes an arm across Quentin like heās trying to keep him close even in sleep, absolutely prepare to hold on and squeeze to keep Q from escaping his hold. Just let him hold on a little more.
Yes, he was drinking the night before. Yes, you can call him an emotional mess because of the emotion bottle, because of Mikeās death, because of the drugs used to deal with Mikeās death. You can say those affected his behavior in bed just like you can say it was just chance Eliot flipped to cozy up to Q instead of Margo. He had to cozy up to somebody, didnāt he?
Actually, no. Both times we see Eliot in bed with Mike, Eliotās asleep on his back.Ā
We see Eliot kiss Margo, Mike, Fen, and Javier in addition to Quentin, but Qās the only one that I spotted the neck squeeze with.
We see Eliot in bed with Margo and Mike as well as Quentin, but Q is the only one he turns to.
Yeah, you can dismiss it all if you want, but Iām still going to fangirl about it.
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