See More Seymour’s Week: Day 4, Platonic Relationship day
See More Seymour’s Week “Platonic Relationship” Day goes out to the platonic relationship I wish was more developed in the show but I spend way more time writing headcanons and fics about. This is about a true fanon platonic relationship: Mort & Linda!
Look, I can’t find hardly any pictures, let alone gifs with only these two in the same scene, so we’ll just pretend and if anybody has any, send ‘em my way!
Ugh, I can’t even tell how you all how much fun it is to write a friendship between Mort and Linda. It all truly stems from the fact that Bob would probably consider Teddy as his best friend (if he was being honest, I think this is the truth) and Linda and Teddy have their own vibes going. But you see Mort making connections, even small ones, with Bob and Teddy, but Linda? Few, but there are moments!
I see the potential there! I’d love to sit around and go through a bunch of episodes in which Linda and Mort interact, but unfortunately I don’t have an easily accessible way to watch the show at the moment to go digging. But, I like to think about how well they’d get along, despite their obvious personality differences.
Much like Mort and Teddy’s friendship, we can infer that Linda being more out there and impulsive in contrast to Mort’s more laid back approach to life could be a great sort of balance. I love to write these two often times as Linda doing her best to push Mort out of his comfort zone and get him to be more adventurous and Mort being the kind of guy who might gently pull Linda back down a bit. I see them being very loyal friends, easy banter, protective of each other’s emotions. I especially love this paired with a little tedmort side relationship because how adorable is it to have two couple friends??
Anyway, I know it’s not a big canon friendship but I wish more people wrote this into fics or talked about it because it’s such a fun platonic match up! If any of you read my fics, you can see the Linda & Mort friendship popping up more and more frequently over the years, specifically when I tend to write more of the aged-down and my “they’ve all been friends since high school” AU. I hope everyone else starts thinking more about Linda-Mort friendship too!!
