fatenegato replied to your post “You know what I like about Fugo’s portrayal in the manga, the one...”
puts leggy on him and trish should bond sometime they have more in common than they realize
You have no idea how much I love the idea of them becoming friends post-PHF though.
So much of PHF kicked him in the ass and forced Fugo out of the headspace his childhood put him. Between losing Bucciarati, Narancia and Abbacchio, befriending Sheila E, finally, totally understanding human connections. Fugo only ever lost one person in his life, his grandmother. He never had a bond with anyone else in his life. When it came to Bruno and the others, he loved them but he never let anyone in after his grandmother’s passing, because he didn’t know how to deal with that hurt.
He thought being distant would make it hurt less, but it made it all that much worse. No matter what he does, he loses. So he had to figure it out again. He’s in a fragile state, Sheila is so much easier to understand than most other people in his life had been. He cares about her so quickly, it’s so much faster and easier than any other instance of it in his life. And when he understood those things, why Sheila had become so important to him so fast... God it was so good.
And now he has to take what he’s learned and put it into action. Only, he’s so goddamn scared of getting close to Mista and Giorno, because even after Giorno tells him otherwise he’s still so deeply caught up in the idea that everyone is mad at him. Most of all, he’s afraid Bucciarati is mad at him. That Narancia is mad at him for not getting in the water with him. He’s not afraid Abbacchio is mad, because he’s absolutely certain Abbacchio is.
Trish is the easiest of all of them to try and befriend again. Because he knows now that Narancia cared about her. He knows there must be something, if Narancia of all people cared, she had to give a shit about someone other than herself. And even with all his bad memories of her, even with how he was angry at her for six months he stops blaming her for everything that happened.
And he sits down, stares Trish in the eyes and just. Apologizes. Apologizes for not giving her more of a chance. Apologizes for not getting on the boat, for being angry at her for the past six months. In the end, part of him blames himself because it’s only natural to blame himself because he lived her life before. Being afraid, having no one to turn to, but in the end he didn’t recognize it in her until it was too late.
And it’s just- God. It’s so good Midi.