Is it weird to say that, under different circumstances, I think Fugo and Trish would be besties?
Aside from Bruno, I would probably say that Trish is the most levelheaded of the group (I would count Giorno too, but he has a track record of doing dumb shit the second he’s left to his own devices and just barely surviving). Fugo obviously has a huge ass temper, so it would definitely be a good mix considering Trish’s general ability to compartmentalize to hell and back (Jesus man, we only see her break down ONCE and that was with her having her mother just die, get handed around like a hot potato by weird mafia guys, before having to ride around in a goddamn turtle with a NEW group of weird mafia guys, all the while being chased and having attempts made on your life, AND while still not having met the elusive father who had abandoned you until now).
That said, despite being a generally calm person, Trish still doesn’t take shit from ANYONE. She knows her worth and she’ll be damned if you don’t know it too by the time she’s finished. So when Fugo does, inevitably, fly off the handle, she wouldn’t just sit there and take it.
They both also have a ‘dear god, when will this nightmare end’ type of vibe whenever the rest of the group does dumb shit that matches each other identically (and while Abba does too, he has an extra bit of jaded hatred for the world at large that they lack, because despite the many traumas they’ve both endured, Trish and Fugo are, in the end, scared, angry teenagers).
Plus, both Trish and Fugo have had a… rocky at best relationship with most of the adults they’ve encountered in their lives. Fugo’s backstory is heartbreaking and I don’t want to recount it, but it echoes the distinct lack of trust in authority figures that Trish develops as the story continues too. You might be thinking I’m insane for saying this, but just think about it. She has been thrown around from violent stranger to violent stranger until Bruno’s group gets her, and from there she experiences nothing but horrifying battles until she goes to meet her pops, when we see her break down and confess her fear of meeting her father and being rejected or hated or anything else. This is her letting down her guard and actively trusting Bruno, the first adult she HAS trusted since this began, and it is immediately followed by her getting snatched up by her dad and than waking up with her fuckin’ wrist zippered on, now on the run with everyone but Fugo.
Again, I would also go into why Fugo struggles to trust adults/authorities too, but his story bums me out too much and I don’t want to do that to myself needlessly lol.
This brings up another facet that they share, one that I find they both get a TON of hate for. Both Fugo and Trish have (comparatively) good instincts for self preservation, something that literally everyone else is in sore need of. People have called Trish a coward, or weak for not fighting much besides that one fight, but I would say that this is probably the smartest thing someone in her position could do. Trish discovers the fact that she even HAS a fucking stand DURING THE FIGHT. She barely knows how it works, she’s like fifteen, never had to fight a day in her life, and facing an enemy who could genuinely cause the apocalypse if it went undefeated. OFC she’s not gonna charge out there guns blazing!!!! She would DIE. So. Fast. Trish knows her limits. She knows her capabilities and she knows that if she tries passing them, than she’ll get fucking wrecked and everyone else’s sacrifices were for nothing!!!
Fugo is the same! I’ve seen him called a coward, or a heartless asshole for abandoning the gang after the whole thing with Trish meeting Diavolo, but this is just a healthy sense of self preservation, AGAIN. He barely knows this chick, and you expect him to embark on a journey that will almost certainly end with him pushing up daisies? I think the not. It’s not that he’s heartless, hell, his whole thing is about struggling to suppress his emotions! It’s not that he’s a coward. He’s been doing dangerous, dumb shit for years at this point! It’s that he literally just didn’t want to die for some bratty (in his mind) girl who had been nothing but rude and cold to him.
Anywaysssss. This has been my ted talk on why Trish and Fugo would get along like a house aflame if the circumstances were different… thanks for reading?
