I just??? love jake peralta??? I love everything about him I love his big-wide smiles and his nervous giggles and the way he scrunches up his nose and I love how his hands fiddle with his police badge when he’s anxious and I love his messy curly hair and I love his big nose and toothy grin and how chill he always is with giving both men and women hugs, and I love how he has a tendency to perch himself on everyone’s desks and I love how his breath catches when his feelings are hurt, how he ducks his head down, how emotionally honest he is despite claiming to be bad with serious feelings. I love how he’s still sometimes almost boyishly innocent, street smart in many ways but also not at all in many others, I love how half the scrapes he gets into are because he tries to do something nice for a friend and it backfires on him, I love that despite the fact that he has trust issues he still loves people unashamedly and with his whole heart, I love his big brown bambi eyes and the lil pudge in his tummy and I love his beat up sneakers and rumpled plaid shirts and how he looks almost close to tears when he meets his goddaughter for the first time and I love how he’s always ready to learn if he messes up, always willing to apologize for his mistakes even when apologies are unnecessary or unexpected. I love how angry he gets when undeserving people are disrespected or mistreated, how important justice is to him on a fundamental level, even if doing the right thing means he himself gets hurt, and I love how happy he is to literally jump into terrys arms, and I love how respectful he is of his friends’ emotions and feelings, and I love how soft and gentle his smiles and looks and touches can be and how careful he is when things are important to him and how his life is a bit of a mess in so many ways but he still tries so hard, to do Better, to get it right, and I love the unbridled excitement that he always carries around with him and I love his expressive eyebrows and the way his eyelids flutter when amy kisses him and I just love everything about jake peralta so much thank u have an nice day