Okay, but if we're gonna get Wylan before the S0C plot (in regards to wesper)
(some notes, Wylan is known as Wylan Hendricks during all of this, him being a Van Eck is hinted, but not revealed until season 4. Wylan also doesn't open up about his ability to not be able to read until season 4 either.)
- Let me see them become friends
- Let me see them start off as tentative friends who constantly bicker about Wylan's privileged upbringing and Jesper's love of risk
- Let me see them hang out and get to know each other
- Them having inside jokes
- Them having an open conversation about sexuality
- Wylan showing Jes how to use bombs and teaching him chemistry
- Jes teaching Wylan how to shoot a gun
- Teasing each other and joking around
- Building strong communication skills
- Seeing each other as best friends who are just VERY close
- and then something happens at the end of season 2 that makes one of them realise, "Hold on, this guy is actually really hot?"
- Maybe Jesper gets hurt during a heist, and Wylan patches him up, which leads to touching each other, which then plants the seed to them realising they want more than friends.
- But Wylan, who doesn't believe that Jesper could love him back because of his 'condition', doesn't act on it and instead gets with some other guy, who looks like Jes, but is extremely different.
- 'Not' Jes is responsible, uptight, judgemental, and when Wylan tries to open up to him about the fact he can't read, he is met with laughter and make fun of, which sends Wylan down a deeper spiral of self-doubt.
- Meanwhile, Jes does what he does best when faced with difficult emotions. He throws himself into gambling and flirting with as many red-haired people as possible.
- it's not like having a crush on someone is the worst thing in the world, but this feels like more than a crush. Feels like this is more than a physical thing.
- What makes that last bit worse is that Jesper feels himself getting jealous over the guy Wylan starts a thing with.
- He knows fully well that Wylan is in his full right to get with whoever he wants, knows that it's really none of his business.
- But Jesper can't help but get petty when he and Wylan talk.
- Wylan knows what's going on. He knows that Jesper is acting like a twat and calls him out on it.
- And Jes gets defensive, saying how the guy is clearly a twat, and he doesn't get why Wylan would waste his time with someone who is clearly just going to hurt him.
- of course, Jesper doesn't know that 'not' Jesper already has.
- they argue and then don't speak to each other for ages,
- but then the season 3 final happens Wylan gets hurt and Jes can't bring himself to be petty anymore because one of his closest friends nearly died in a heist and it was Jesper's fault.
-In an attempt to make things right, Jesper looks after Wylan, like Wylan once did for him. Cue that one text post I saw where Jesper watches Wylan sleep, and he goes to reach out to tuck a stray bit of hair behind Wylan's ear but stops himself.
- Things are still tense when Wylan fully wakes up, but after finally sitting down and apologising to each other, they become friends again and Wylan leaves 'not' Jesper, after realising that he deserves better then him.
- That last bit I like to imagine would be the beginning of season 4.
- so then we get to the beginning of soc, where Jesper and Wylan are friends, but with some serious feelings for each other.