you’re so right abt how saps and thomas treat their non-male friends! idk if you watched the klyx game vods but how saps and thomas (and gotoga!) all treat meagon is so sweet. like meagon is their obvious bottom frag and objectively one of the worst players in the tournament, but they’re all so kind and encouraging to her anyway.
like all three guys are semi-competitive good players and want to do well, but they do not care ™️ about meagon’s comparative lack of skill. and she apologizes so much bc she’s knows she’s not as good, but they just keep telling her it’s totally fine (and not in a dismissive way, but genuinely, it’s okay with them). saps approaches it with his optimism, thomas approaches it from a neutral, nerdy/analytical standpoint, and gotoga is just a supportive, friendly person in general it doesn’t even cross his mind to be annoyed.
and after it’s all over meagon gives a real heartfelt apology, something like “i know you guys probably would’ve done a lot better today if i wasn’t on your team, so thank you for being patient with me” and they’re all so chill about it, telling her it’s all just fun and games and what matters is they had a good time. and it doesn’t read as an excuse, like you can tell all 3 are genuinely just chill like that. it’s so wholesome 🥲
YES YOU ARE SO RIGHT
Like this goes back to how saps is with magic, gray, ymi, jophiel, meagon, stella, etc. Where thomas treats them all relatively the same way (like how he treats his male friends)
Saps has a micro difference for each one. He teases them all the same but he also sees how far he can go with each one. Meagon and magic? No filter friendly teasing, they become very giggly. With gray and stella? He soften himself, he teases them but he chooses the moment, when a lot of their friends are teasing gray, hes gentle with her, when he sees gray can handle it, he teases her back and joke around
I can go on and on, i just love love love observing these 2
