platonic jia headcanons dump
i'm supposed to be studying rn but i'm going through brotp withdrawals 💔 i miss jia SO FUCKING BAD so i'm logging in for a bit to yap abt them before logging out again
heads up: a bunch of other characters and ships get mentioned. it's not my fault theyre both people pleasers!!!!
this is very very messy, like the order might seem organised at first but then it'll start bulshitting at skme point. bare with me
starting with 1. lia is a lesbian 2. jake is bisexual. because it will be giving context to a lot of hcs here
lia genuinely wanted to befriend jake back in freshman year so she approached him a ton. maria noticed and teased her abt it, suggesting that lia was crushing on him (though she wasn't serious abt it). zoey, however, did take it seriously and was delighted by the possibility, saying that she and lia can go on infinite double dates and be bffs forever ever and other fun stuff. lia who wanted to impress zoey sooo bad said yes and that was the start of her pretending to have a crush on jake
her genuine interest in him didn't go away though, it in fact grew stronger, which aided in her trying to convince herself that she held actual romantic feelings for him
her 'crush' on him also served as a coping mechanism of sorts, projecting onto him and flirting with him to distract herself from the horrors
jake was very confused when lia first started flirting with him, though he never thought abt it that much bcus she started her romantic advances around the same time when his popularity started to spike, so he told himself that it was inevitable since lia seemed to never be impressed with the guys that approached her
lia once tried starting a conversation with him by saying that she found daisy very pretty as well too, but realised that sounded really gay so she never went through with it
they sit next to each other in french. lia is a lot less flirty with him during class, sometimes not at all when she gets too comfortable and forgets that she's supposed to have a crush on him
they're both very, very terrible at french
after they started getting closer and formed a genuine friendship, they regularly recite dumb french pick up lines at each other and other romantic french stuff in hopes in improving each others french (it's not working)
lia originally had jake's contact saved as 'Jake ♥️' before changing it to 'Emotional support white boy' after getting close to him. she likes saving people's numbers with things she associates them with (ex: henry is walmartdeku. i want to list more but it's sorta detailed, i'll probably include that in a separate lia hcs post or smth)
jake originally had lia saved as 'Lia 🇫🇷' not bcus he thinks she's actually french but bcus he always preferred interacting with her during french (plus he didn't know what emoji to put and felt bad bcus he usually saves ppls numbers with an emoji)
lia wanted to congratulate jake personally after the it was revealed that tmc won the competition, but when she saw tmc with jake she pussied out and texted him instead. it took jake a full day to reply, what an ass!!!!!!
things were really awkward after the competition. while jake forgave lia, their already almost non-existent friendship was still clearly strained. lia wanted to mend things between them but jake was always with tmc and she much rather kill herself than face them #coward
they still had french together though, so that was their main source of Actually Bulding A Bond. it took them a bit but eventually they started to regularly text and call each other
lia opened up abt her past with hailey (+ luke n zander) when jake first invited her to hang out with tmc. jake was genuinely horrified at first, unable to comprehend how someone could make those decisions, but then he remembers that he himself wasn't any better (and in some ways, worse) so he stopped judging her so much
-oh on their bullysonas, i think theyre sooo interesting. while jake didn't want to become a bully at first, the thrill of inflicting hurt onto others got to him which made him genuinely enjoy being a bully a lot of times. lia becoming a bully was entirely her own decision, she got uncomfortable more easily and stayed mostly silent when zoey n her friends bullied others. she was more of an enabler and a lot more passive than jake
jake eventually got lia to meet sean, cus he knew he would the most chill abt her. sean was still very skeptical abt her though, esp considering her past with milly, but when he saw how pathetic she actually is he let her slide
it took everything for jake to get lia interacting with the rest of tmc, but she did eventually. it was NOT pretty, but they decided to give her a second chance since they did gave jake two
they're both annoyingly photogenic. it's still possible to get a bad photo of them, just... rarely
jake and lia started to get especially close when they started randomly ranting about their weird ass homoerotic friendships with drew and zoey. it was really refreshing, before this, they thought they were crazy!!!
when lia came out to jake as a lesbian, he was understandably really confused. lia couldn't really explain why at first, since she herself was still questioning everything. they both went on the internet together and discovered compulsory heterosexuality and hyperfixated on that to the point they skipped sleeping
jake had to explain to milo abt lia's lesbianism whenever she was around (with her permission, of course). milo then made fun of him, saying that the only girl he could ever pull didn't even like him. this made lia giggle. jake was not amused, however.
jake coming out to lia was entirely accidental, like once they randomly started talking abt crushes and types and jake casually drops the bomb that he likes guys. lia would be surprised if she still saw jake as the guy she has to get with, but now having insight in his weird ass friendship with drew, she wasn't that surprised honestly
jake teases lia abt girls a lot. sometimes instead of flirting with girls like how he usually would, he pushes lia at them instead. he toned it down when it started to actually really piss lia off
in turn, every time a random guy asks for lia's number, she gives them jake's number instead. jake gets jumpscared every single time
she also sends him tiktoks abt eboys and asks him to rate them. she pays close attention to the ratings, ignoring how the higher rated ones kinda resemble drew. that's jake's demon to fight.
after hailey and lia start to get close again, and a bunch of conversations with zander, jake eventually caught on abt lia's big fat crush on hailey. he is ANNOYING abt it
jake tries to 'educate' lia abt hailey's weaknesses and ways to tease her
they both play those 2 player roblox tycoon games together, it's their guilty pleasure
lia regularly heps jake and tmc with promoting band gigs, she's basically their social media manager atp
andnddddd THATS IT theres probably more but um getting sleepy and i probably have a cold WHATHE FUCK!!!ok bye
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