After the clocknapped arc I imagine Timey and Metal Straw are almost like entirely different people like. They aren’t but like. While Timey was going through the Clocknapped happenings, Metal Straw was with Gear. Who is much less hectic and much more emotionally stable than Timey is /lh..
And I think MS has more of a chance to actually process everything going on . And I think just being around a person who has healthier ways of regulating emotions and. Isn’t losing their mind /LH it helps it find more of a calmness that he hadn’t felt in a really long time. And even if they’re grieving they’re ACTUALLY GRIEVING and not just repressing everything like she did before…
I imagine Gear probably had some personal growth as well!! I imagine before he was a bit self-sufficient and had been kind of neglecting a lot of his relationships with others (including Timey) and I think in a way Metal Straw helped him feel more ..? Idk what the right word is tbh but I imagine it helped him separate his personal and impersonal life more. I also imagine he was unsure about MS before but after spending time with them realizes she’s actually just a guy…
Meanwhile Timey is going through the tests or whatever which . Is less healthy. By a lot 😭 and also probably grieving but they’ve got other things to worry about . Like. Top Hat.
And I imagine they just get into this kind of thoughtless and empty state after a while. Probably not too different from how MS was before and ~when the two met actually. And I imagine after Timey escapes beep struggles to act the same as before. And MS and maybe Gear (though he does not know Timey the same way MS does so I’m not sure) (Gear and Timey became friends under much different circumstances than Timey and MS did) would definitely pick up on this but try not to be weird about it. Yeah..
I think both MS and Gear in general would just be familiar with completely different sides of Timey and I think they’d feel a little surprise by how the other views them (MS being more familiar with Timey’s more toxic traits and Gear being more familiar with Timey’s less confident/less masked ones..) (this isn’t to say Timey masks all the time around MS, but I imagine they are kind of a poorly-managed emotional mess for a lot of the time MS lives with beep..)
I imagine Gear would be a bit taken aback hearing abt how Timey treated MS at times and MS would probably better understand why Timey might be acting that way (considering Gear has known Timey a lot longer than MS has at this point. They’re childhood friends)
But anyways sigh… Gear and MS’s friendship is actually very cutes to me…. IDK how to explain it they’re just so sweet . Like I like timestraw because they have issues and problems I can project onto them and force them through. I like gearstraw because they’re just . It’s cute idk
