✩ * STUDY : HARVEY + ROSALIND .
okay so one of the bigger… cringe moments of part two is the random / sudden relationship between harvey and roz. it’s not because i have an issue with them, they actually have really great chemistry ( prob bc they’re dating in rl but i digress ). it only has to do with the timeline of this entire season. i remember being sixteen and i don’t think anyone would’ve been chill with a best friend dating an ex less than two months after they broke up… especially when you consider how emotional the break up had been. what teenager is that mature? lmao
anyway, i don’t completely hate the idea of them being together, but it would honestly have to happen years down the road. i’m just going to explain my reasoning and divide it up into sections so hopefully this makes sense. asldkjfasdf
so the entire first season takes place from the last week of october through sometime in late february / early march. harvey and sabrina said ‘i love you’ to each other for the first time at the end of october and were very happy and in love until the whole clusterfuck of tommy’s death happened. lmao the night they broke up was maybe late november / early december, since it was a short time after thanksgiving. this was not harvey’s decision. he was willing to start over but sabrina wanted to keep her distance because she was afraid of what signing the book of the beast would change. obviously their feelings were still there and neither one wanted to move on from the relationship.
now during the winter special, harvey and sabrina share a few scenes where it is very clear that the wounds were still raw and needed to heal. he loves sabrina but is not ready to trust her world or her magic. anything close to it only brings back the ghost of tommy. they still need time, he still needs time. during christmas break is most likely when harvey is starting to spend more time with roz and ( then ) susie. they only got closer when sabrina gets more involved at the academy, having less time to spend at baxter high.
jump to february, when harvey and sabrina are making out in his room, most likely about to have sex for the first time. when she pulls away and their argument begins, it’s clear he was ready to get back to the ways things were. harvey is still not over sabrina. he only says as much. he’s upset with how she keeps pulling him back in every time it looks like he could be free of her. now jump to harvey asking out roz to the valentine’s dance a short time after that moment with sabrina. jump to their first kiss and suddenly starting to date. jump to harvey saying ‘i love you’ to roz like a week later or something. lmao jump to the last scene when they’re cuddling with sabrina across from the table. honestly lmao what……….. why???
for my portrayal, i’ve been going with the idea that, before sabrina, harvey had never said ‘i love you’ to anyone ( aside from family but obviously that’s different ). i also headcanon that they had been dating for about a year before he said it for the first time. harvey is someone who is cautious, takes his time so it was especially jarring to see him dropping the L-bomb after like lmao a week or two of dating roz. FOUR MONTHS after saying it for the first time to sabrina. two months after his break up with sabrina. this is really just rephrasing what i wrote in the other section but it’s important!! it’s odd. i’m not a fan. it really added a whole extra layer of what the fuck to this arc.
if / when roz blogs start showing up and interacting with me, i just want to say that i do not ship them in this current timeline. i can understand why they gravitated towards each other. harvey was heartbroken and the only people who could somewhat understand what he was going through were roz and ( then ) susie. they were around to comfort him, they were all a comfort to each other. it’s easy to slip into something that makes you feel good when you’re hurting. and that’s what roz was to harvey.
for the sake of canon threads, i will and do acknowledge their budding romance but it’s after their first kiss that they realize they’re much better off as friends. it is one of those awkward, yet funny moments where they kiss and it feels like there might be something between them but it falls flat and they just laugh. harvey does not need another girlfriend he needs friends who support him, who support each other.
this is all i will acknowledge as far as a romance between these two!!!!!!!! please don’t ask me to ship them because i won’t. i might be open to it in a college setting or maybe senior year at the earliest. anything before than that is a big no for me. there’s so much that would need to happen for them to feel comfortable enough to begin an actual relationship. time is a huge factor in this. feelings between harvey and sabrina have to move to something more platonic, a place where they genuinely care for each other but any hint of romantic feelings have long since been gone.
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