reasons jeff atkins deserved the world.
• a sweetheart who you know just got along with absolutely everybody - even the assholes of the school and that’s the thing, isn’t it? someone who can be friendly with jocks but also nice to people who the jocks may not like takes a lot of courage. he just wanted to be kind to people no matter what.
• just trying so so hard to get better grades. he was clearly not the type of person who grasped english concepts easily which was fine, it’s okay to struggle which he wasn’t ashamed of. he got help for his grades and happily took criticisms and advice so he could do better for his future.
• CLAY!! he’s being helped by this dorky guy who he owes nothing to since clay angelbaby jensen did it voluntarily but he wants to give back. he gives up his time to help this awkward kid with his girl problems and pushes him to do things that eventually lead to clay experiencing some pretty amazing things with the girl he loves.
• HE NEVER JUDGES HANNAH, not once. clay tells him he likes her and instead of being a dick and holding prejudice on rumours of just ‘warning’ clay, he says “do it dude, get that girl.” because he trusts that hannah is a great girl.
• also just bragging bout clay to his mum and dad. they probably thought he had a crush of clay. what a dork aw man.
• he’s a great date guys. he respects girls and he’s just nice to them which he shouldn’t be praised for but IM GOING TO BECAUSE LITERALLY EVERY GUY IN THAT SHOW IS HORRIBLE - excluding tony and clay, sweet babies.
• he takes his date not to a cheesy romance movie but some horror or sci fi movie and A+ points because he’s not trying to be fake. also good taste in movies. also just a sweetie for taking his date out to see a movie.
• there’s that scene where he’s like “claybaby I’ll kick ur ass” and clay just knows he won’t which is a pretty big deal. some of the characters are a big ??? to what they could do to another person with no regard. clay being so sure that jeff would never hurt him is just so important that kind of on edge clay knows that jeff isn’t violent like that.
• u bet ur ass he’s the best at beer pong gtfo if you think otherwise.
• DESPERATELY ROOTING FOR HANNAH AND CLAY. listen you bet your ass if jeff had been there (sobs because im still in denial) that clay would’ve been pushed to go to hannah and maybe just maybe save her life. the world was against them but jeff was there, taking drunk guys away from them, making clay go to her, sometimes awkwardly forcing clay to be honest, always supporting them.
• ok you bet your ass he was a dork and shy when he was around girls or boys ( im not about to assume his sexuality doods ) that he liked, trying to be smoothe like he tells clay but fucking saying ‘unique’ ten times to complement them.
• HE WAS GOOD AT BASEBALL BUT HE DIDN’T BRAG HE JUST WAS AND HE WANTED TO PURSUE IT AND HE PROBABLY JUST LOVED SPORTS AN FUCK ME HE DESERVES EVERYTHING.
• he didn’t even contemplate drinking and driving because he’s smart and wants to be safe. he wanted to be alive.
• he wanted to live.
• he wanted to live.
