Repaint of an old piece! 2022 on the left. 2017 on the right.
I still have a lot to improve on and a ways to go, and I think the piece on the right will always be dear to me, but it was really fun to give this concept another go!
Isn’t the “Slightly drunken date” one the best dates? Not because it has many sweet moments between Gavin and MC, but mainly because this date revolves mostly around MC’s thoughts and feelings about Gavin as well as how she perceives *cough* and simps for *cough* him. Those thoughts and feelings must be at such a great magnitude, that she actually confesses them all to him by the end in the most hilarious, cutest way possible. That’s why I’ve decided to write an analysis about it.
If anyone's interested in an analysis about MCs feelings towards Gavin in general, could take a look at here
20 seconds in to this date MC already blurts out her first thoughts about her expectations from this date evidently:
“Gavin was going to teach me how to surf. Which meant I’d get to see him up-close riding the waves...I’ll bet he looks handsome”. But weren’t you doing this, so that you could enjoy the activities that Gavin is into together? Wasn’t that the reason you went surfing with him MC? Anyways, Gavin must also have thought the same way, which is why he tells her that she should be more specific on what she wants, and then asks her why she wanted to watch him surf. To much of our surprise, she honestly and directly tells him because she’d thought that he would look so handsome doing it...leaving him speechless during the process. #strike one
Next scene is MC watching Gavin surfing from afar and again, what she thinks meanwhile is...”The waves splashed on his tightly-flexed muscles, glistening in the sunshine...What an amazing man”
She has spent the whole afternoon watching him surf and when Gavin finally gets out of the water during the sunset he finds MC still drooling over him.
“Then there were the beads of water dripping the lines of his body...
It seemed...even more beautiful than the ocean sunset.”
At this point even a guy as oblivious to such simping as Gavin feels the slack-jawed gaze(her own words not mine) of MC on him and calls her out in a flirtatious tone:
While MC is struggling to find an excuse, he helps her out and changes the subject, because you know best boi gotta best boi, yet still...#strike two
After that they go to the beer festival where MC’s amazement continues. Once seeing Gavin on the stage playing the bass, she realizes how less she still knows about him and gets bewitched even more.
“This was a Gavin that I’d never seen before, shining in the spotlight all on his own. as he stood there, It looked like he could take on anything this world could throw at him. As I looked at Gavin, this feeling suddenly welled up in my chest, filling it up entirely...I want... to get to know him better!”
At the moment their eyes met, MC can’t keep those thoughts and feelings built up inside and lets them out shouting...
Funny thing that she was at first in a dilemma about those stirred up feelings and wondered if it was the music or Gavin who had driven her so wild. Her conclusion at the end was though: “From the beginning to the end every throb of my heart was because of this man”.
Leaving the venue, they finally arrive at the lighthouse where the final act commences and at this point MC has chunked down at least 3 cans of beer already and Gav-babe a few more. They both have blemished faces due to alcohol but it just turned on MC even more (I am telling you, she is drooling all over Gavin from second 1 till the very end during this date).
(Btw I need to mention how I like that they don’t start making out or anything while drunk but rather gush out about their feelings about each other. Typical for Gavin x MC, they are so pure and innocent...until...you know...they aren’t...;) when is the Whispers ASMR coming to the ENG server again?)
While MC is getting more and more assertive by every passing moment, Gavin finally gives her the final string of encouragement she needed by saying that his smile, his strength, his joy and sorrows all belong to her because she is the reason for him being the man he is today. That’s when MC takes out the shell from her pocket and gives it to Gavin, telling him that there are many things he still doesn’t know about her, but Gavin has another ace up his sleeve:
On a side note, Can we please agree on how good Joe delivers this line please? That mischievous tone and that bantering voice...its just perfect!
Things not only not end there but also escalate even further from this point on, because let me remind you that our lovebirds are drunk, so Gavin finally lays the cherry on top while MC lays herself on top of him by saying that he is crazy for her too (it only plays Crazy in Love by Beyoncé in every possible cover version in my mind during this scene <3). And that is our # strike three
After this final line of his, there is now no way of stopping MC’s confession anymore so here she goes...
“No more talking! Just listen to me! When I said that, I meant it. Not about the bass playing, but you. I like the gift you gave me, I like the bracelet you gave me. I also like that love letter that I never read. I want to see more sides of you...When you’re eating, when you’re sleeping, when you’re happy, when you’re sad, when you’re wearing a tuxedo, or red in the face from drinking.
All of it! I want to see every side of you
Is...is that ok?“
As we know after this confession Gavin reassures her by saying that he belongs to her alongside all the things that she's just wanted of him aand CUT!
Its just so well written how MCs fascination about Gavin riles up throughout the day and bursts out by the end of it. How she sees him as a handsome, attractive, talented and fascinating man in anything he does as well as how amazed she is by him to an extent that she courageously shouts out how crazy she is for him in public but also courageously tells the same thing to his face when called out on it. She just wanted these feelings out. Those feelings in which she is amazed by every thing he does and wants more of it, all of it. MC literally confesses to Gavin during this date and because of it, this is one of the best dates.
Writer's note: Now that I think about it, it's understandable why mappa didn't include this date in the anime.
Disclaimer: The print screens are from YouTube because I prepared this post on PC so I had to improvise.
