Please do talk about the Eudora Patch theory
thank you and also the three anons who sent me this question; y’all saved my life. I’ve been dying to talk about this for like a week but all anyone wanted to hear about was Diego’s hypothetical nipple ring, which knocked several years off my life and nearly rendered me catatonic, but now we’re back, babey!
this is a theory that springs entirely from this exchange, transcribed for anyone who can’t see the gifs or doesn’t want to bother clicking that link:
Eudora, referring to Diego’s outfit: Coming from the guy dressed in spandex.
Diego: It’s not spandex, it’s leather. And you used to like that. At lot, if I recall.
E: God, please, unremember that.
D: Etched into the data bank, Eudora.
now, first off, let’s acknowledge the obvious: they’re clearly meant to be referring to their previous sexual relationship. I know that, you know that, we’re all adults here. Diego and Eudora used to fuck and there was some leather involved.
faced with such blatant subtext my goblin brain presented an alternative option, which went something along the lines of “lmao, what if we willfully misinterpret this to mean Eudora also used to be a vigilante?”
obviously there’s not a lick of text in-universe to support it, but it’s… kind of a fun thought exercise to watch the series and read every reference to Diego and Eudora’s relationship through this lens. it adds a lot of extra heft to their disagreements about effective crime fighting methods, for one, because it would mean that they’ve both been on both sides - Diego got tossed out of the police academy, and Eudora actively chose to give up vigilantism at some point.
if you flip the entire series to Eudora’s perspective, her four episode arc follows a familiar narrative in the more gritty/realistic superheroes: a former vigilante getting gradually lured back into old habits by somebody close to them who’s still in the life and needs the help. it’s season 2 of Daredevil where Eudora is Matt Murdock and Diego is Elektra, except the woman is still the one who ends up dying.
there’s also that line where Eudora’s partner drops that VERY exploitably vague “I can’t believe you two used to…” because, hello? how much funnier is that if he does, in fact, mean “I can’t believe you two used to run around in matching domino masks fighting muggers with your bare hands and the entire precinct knows about it.”
it also makes for a HELL of a backstory if you’re a Eudora fan. her and Diego are both driven by helping people; the only real difference is what they think works. so picture young and less disciplined Eudora, impatient with the police academy and eager to make a real difference, absolutely fascinated by her disaster classmate who was, fairly recently, an actual superhero? intrigued by the possibilities of helping people directly, outside the law? both of them furious about some case that went wrong, some evidence that got bungled, some victim who didn’t get justice, deciding to take things into their own hands and realizing holy fuck we could do this. this is a thing we can do.
they’re spending their days helping each other study to help people and their nights running around getting in scraps actually helping people and it’s not that new for Diego, not really, but Eudora is flying on the adrenaline. it’s the most tangible difference she’s ever made. it’s the most exciting thing she’s ever done. it’s, honestly, kind of hot. I know I said this started out substituting vigilante antics for sex but I think the really galaxy brain option is absolutely both.
(there’s this mental image that’s haunting me of the two of them wearing matching black masks and sweaters sitting on a roof, swinging their feet because they’re new at this and aren’t good at finding crimes yet, arguing about which one of them is the sidekick until Eudora kisses him and Diego “I didn’t hang out with any nonrelated women until I was 18″ Hargreeves almost falls off the dingdang roof) (listen… I know some of my followers can art… if you ever need an idea… this one is free)
and then obviously for maximum drama Something goes wrong and maybe it’s a single incident that gets Diego kicked out of the police academy and makes Eudora renounce vigilante antics for good (although it does not make her give up boning vigilantes, those two are comfortable in a way that says, to me, that they were on and off for y e a r s and always assume they’ll end up together again) (that’s not what this post is about but g o d)
tl;dr Eudora Patch briefly dabbled in costumed vigilantism and it’s like 25% a shippy thing and 75% “if this show won’t give Eudora a rich past and inner life I’ll do it myself”
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