no because you’re so right. Thank you for also noticing that Will’s been a little different. I have my own thoughts that while a part of it is a hockey thing where like he said, he wants to be bigger, stronger and better and he gets weird on the bench when the hockey isn’t working out the way he wants to, but the other part is also the 10 thousand ship edits he must’ve seen, the “you know it’s legal now” cameo messages like be so for real right now. Anyone who thinks he hasn’t changed a little in his public interactions with Mack is in denial or just got here. The vibes are so different from even October 2025
it’s honestly so obvious to me that he is a little different, and yeah i agree that people who deny it are either in denial or just got here recently. i don’t even mean there’s tension or anything dramatic it’s more about the way will and mack used to naturally look for each other. that easy, instinctive bench/celly dynamic feels more contained now. and maybe (this is just my read, obviously) nothing actually changed between them personally. we still get those little glimpses when they seem to think they’re not being filmed and they look relaxed and normal and open but in public? yeah, he feels more self-aware. they don’t automatically gravitate toward each other the same way, and when they do, it sometimes feels a bit more restrained like they know they’re being watched.
which… makes sense. these guys aren’t dumb, and they’re definitely online enough to be aware of the noise around them. it just sucks a little for those of us who genuinely liked their natural interactions, because the deeper fandom digs, the more guarded they get and the more we end up losing those easy moments.
