i love the idea of famous jay and cover band matt being still very much themselves but doing a kind of role swap almost where with time, jay engages in the more reckless behaviour and does stupid terrible things for fun and attention, channeling webseries matt (like, a loaded gun is so crazy? lmao? whats that for? such viscerel imagery for Growing Up) and matt is more passive in his household situation, kind of being a grumpy gus sometimes, listening to (and bitching about) their plans instead of making his own, playing his little instrument while he hears them out.
i love all the fics and art of cb matt being a kidnapper but i think there's something to jay actually being the one who, if they were to reunite for real, intiates and does something crazy. i think he would be less in his head. his lifestyle has encouraged him down a more impulsive trajectory. and i think he and matt could be real menaces together, after their intial tension and vomiting of feelings and sorting out of stuff. oh to feel young and crazy again











