I know the fleabag au has the happy ending tag but can’t help but wonder if you’ll somehow incorporate our favorite gut wrenching scene somewhere in there…
“I Love you”
“It’ll pass”
But maybe better not just for my mental health 😭
dawg i would never do that to you 💔 not just because it's explicitly said in the show, but because it's dialogue i both don't need and can't rationalize either of them saying... not yet anyway. we'll see. it doesn't quite align with my plans for them 🧡
i'm really mad i put that tag but the pitchforks and torches that would have come for me if i hadn't...
my homage to fleabag, like my blatant one (beyond sort of aligning their ideologies/rants about sex & what's appealing about it + having them land in a confessional), was the "Do you want to fuck the priest, or do you want to fuck God?" question. THAT piece of dialogue was one i absolutely had to slide in. it's arguably The Most fleabag part of my fleabag au, and i'm not even mad. AND, it comes from the counselor that we only see ONCE, and for not even 5 minutes. insane.
i do agree that what you quoted is definitely one of The Scenes, even rivaling fleabag talking about her mother and saying:
LIKE. "I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH ALL THE LOVE I HAVE FOR HER. I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO PUT IT."
oh my god. now, if there's some iteration of that in the epilogue, if some sadistic part of me says 'how can i take this scene and make it even more heartbreaking? how can i put it, unmistakably, in nat's voice? correlate it to what he would ever say/admit to himself?', i'm so sorry. like, genuinely.
that would definitely be the epilogue's homage, if i decide to slip another one in (which is doubtful, because i feel like this au has almost... slightly diverged from fleabag? like, we definitely began there, but at some point it stopped being 'lottienat if they were fleabag' and became something more closely catered to who THEY are, and how much growth they BOTH need to do, even while keeping their respective roles, while in fleabag the priest acts as more of a guide.)
so prepare yourselves? or don't? or do? nat has no boo, which would make it infinitely more devastating, while also making it marginally difficult to implement.
I'm so sorry for this rant. i love fleabag so much. so much so that i couldn't even stop myself from potentially spoiling the tentative, will-i-won't-i second homage all for the sake of talking about it!!