Day 18: Something I Like/dislike About Drew! (HOLY SHIT FINALLY I CAN TALK ABOUT THIS-)

Day 18: Something I like/dislike about Drew! (HOLY SHIT FINALLY I CAN TALK ABOUT THIS-)

Ah, my dear sweet Drewy-Bear. There’s so much to love, what could I possibly-

His jealousy.

It’s- it’s his jealousy. (I love me a man who’s desperately and hopelessly in love what can I say?)

But seriously though, the way he handled Jake slowly growing distant is honestly what got me invested in his character in the first place. (Probably because I was going through similar at the time.) I love seeing how his frustrations and doubts build throughout the series, and how they eventually lead to his little outbursts in Episodes 8 and 9, which THEN FURTHER leads to him snapping at Jake in Episode 11. (100% deserved btw. I was cheering Drew on the whole fight.)

And I love just imagining Drew’s side of it all. How much he cared for Jake. How much it must’ve hurt slowly watching him drift away.How Drew thought the Music Club was manipulating him, and how Drew thought he was protecting him. The betrayal he must’ve felt when Jake admitted the truth. It’s all so interesting to think about.

I think another reason why I like Drew so much is the mystery of his character. We never see how he copes, or how he handles Jake’s distance and betrayal. It’s all up for interpretation. We’re given some scenes, some subtext, and we’re left to piece him together like a puzzle. And I love that, because I love being able to come up with my own interpretations, and being able to see other people’s thoughts as well. And I love being able to shove my own problems onto him lmao.

This isn’t to say I’m gonna lose interest in him once his backstory’s revealed and we learn more, quite the contrary. I want to see how much I’ve gotten right. I want to learn everything there is to know about him.

I genuinely cannot express how much I adore this character, and how unironically grateful I am for his existence. He’s genuinely helped me cope though quite a bit, and the amount of joy it brings me to write and analyze or even just talk about him is immeasurable. And I am so VERY excited to see his angst in Season 2. (I’m counting the days lmao.)

Now for what I dislike: I hate like half of his early lines I’M SORRY-

I’m gonna be so honest, I cannot stand this man from Episodes 1-3. His lines make me cringe so bad. Genuinely I can only rewatch him from Episodes 4 onwards, anything before is just to cringe. I’m sorry. Fake Drew fan I am…😔

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Day 13! Jomies Headcanons! (I got quite a few!)

Jake:

💛Unironically listens to boy bands.

💛Has Spotify open 24/7. Is always looking for new artists and songs, and probably has over 3000 songs liked.

💛He’ll listen to any song of any genre, but tends to lean more towards alt-rock.

💛Used to listen to Billie Eilish in Middle School.

💛Whenever it’s too quiet, he’ll either hum to himself or make random noises with his mouth.

💛Physically incapable of standing still.

💛Probably ate an eraser as a kid.

💛Does not believe in closets. Keeps his clothes either on the floor or in his chair. (If it’s in his closet he’ll genuinely forget he even owns the item.)

💛”Processing your emotions? What the hell’s that?”

💛Oh yeah, he definitely has ADHD.

Drew:

🖤Really likes FPS games.

🖤Always has to have his weight shifted on one leg. He cannot stand up straight to save his life. (Heh cuz he’s gay-)

🖤Small waist. (He’s a twink in my eyes.)

🖤Could probably be picked up by the other Jomies. (Has yet to be tested due to safety concerns.) (The concerns being Drew beating the shit out of them.

🖤Doesn’t like black coffee but drinks it anyways. (Why? We don’t know.)

🖤TERRIBLE eating habits. He’ll literally just have a piece of toast and be like “welp that’ll last me for the next 48 hours.”

🖤Those hot-pink girly desserts are his guilty pleasure.

🖤Listens to a lot of rap music. Mostly emo rap. He says it’s cuz it sounds cooler but it’s actually because he finds the lyrics relatable.

🖤Stalks Jake’s instagram for purely platonic reasons.

🖤Doesn’t know how to show affection so he’ll sometimes just randomly punch Jake in the arm. No warning, no explanation.

🖤Cat person. Doesn’t really like dogs. (Terrified of Oreo but would rather die than admit it.)

🖤Bullies cats relentlessly, but will also meow back at them if he thinks no one’s around.

🖤Likes being cuddled way more than he’d like to admit.

🖤Having his hair played with puts him right to sleep.

🖤Struggled to make friends in Elementary school due to his temper. (His lack of attention at home led to him lashing out a lot.) Other kids found him to be intimidating so Drew didn’t really have any friends until Middle School.

🖤Was put in time-out a LOT in Kindergarten so it basically just became Drew’s Corner.

🖤IPad kid. Definitely had a mascot-horror phase when he was 10.

🖤“Processing your emotions? What the hell’s that?”

🖤Oh yeah, BPD. He has BPD.

Liam:

❤️Hands are always fucking clammy it cannot be helped.

❤️Definitely listens to Breakcore.

❤️Has a bunch of those weird, perverted anime stickers somewhere in his desk drawer because he thinks they’re funny. (They were included in a random anime sticker pack Henry bought online.)

❤️Had a super edgy werewolf OC back in Middle School. Drawings of it still exist in that same drawer.

❤️Lets Henry play with his hair when they’re alone together.

❤️Refuses to use chairs properly.

❤️Has so many 0.5 photos of the Jomies. (Except Drew because Drew threatened to break his phone if he ever took one of him. But Liam still managed to sneak a few bad photos of Drew as well.)

❤️Type of guy to moan when someone’s on the phone with their parent.

❤️Knows how to drive a manual. (I imagine his mom’s car is an older one soooooo if Liam wanted to drive around he had to learn.)

Henry:

💚Baby face. (Liam likes to hold his face.)

💚Wears anime merch with pride.

💚Pretends to be a girl online sometimes so people give him free shit.

💚Almost always hits Drew with the 🤓 emoji anytime he says something smart/logical in their group chat.

💚Would definitely like matcha because it tastes like g r a s s.

💚He ate grass as a kid. And leaves. And dirt.

💚The type of kid that always had to be the dog in any game he played.

💚Really likes bunnies. He held one once and felt his life was complete.

💚Oh, and frogs too. He loves frogs.

💚Typically takes the role of mediator during fights, even if he has no context on the situation.

💚Relies way too much on being funny. If a joke doesn’t land he genuinely hates himself for a couple seconds.

💚Sensitive to loud noise. (Unless the loud noise is on his terms.) (Like, he’ll have his music on full blast and shout at his friends standing right next to him and be completely fine, but if a balloon were to suddenly pop right beside him, it’d startle him quite a bit.)

💚Drew glaring at him and telling him to shut up hurts a little more than he’d like to admit.

💚Probably also has ADHD.

Zoey:

🩷This bitch knows how to steal shit. You got a necklace she likes she will find a way to take it.

🩷Can and will find a way to make everything said against her about her gender.

🩷“Oh my God, I am LITERALLY just a girl.”

🩷Definitely took dance for a P.E credit.

🩷Almost everything she owns is covered in flowers.

🩷Everything has to be aesthetic.

🩷Always had to initiate any sort of affection between her and Drew. She was always the one asking him out. Always the one to kiss him first, or reach for his hand. (Whereas Drew never really thought about that sort of stuff.)

🩷Her views on relationships were also very different from Drew’s. She wanted excitement and fun. She wanted to go out and do things. And whenever they were home alone, she wanted to make out with him and stuff, meanwhile, all Drew wanted to do was cuddle and watch stupid videos on his phone with her. (But she just found that boring.)

🩷Honestly, their best dates were their at-home ones. Where they’d watch movies together and Zoey would bring some face masks and they’d pamper each other and cuddle and whatnot. (Fun for Zoey and relaxing for Drew.)

🩷And because of their height difference, Zoey would sometimes grab Drew’s collar and pull him down to her level to kiss him. (And this definitely never once flustered Drew.)

🩷Probably knew Drew cared more about Jake than he did her and that pissed her off.

Lia:

💜Big fan of Olivia Rodrigo. (And one time, while her and Drew were waiting for the others after school, she was listening to one of her songs and singing along, and Drew ended up correcting her on a lyric, causing her to realize he ALSO listens to her music, and he was super embarrassed about it afterwards and made her promise not to tell anyone.)

💜So anyways Lia now wants to take Drew to an Olivia Rodrigo concert.

💜She’s also a big fan of Nessa Barrett.

💜Surprisingly really good at singing. She never took lessons or anything, she just sings in the shower a lot.

💜Sprays perfume on herself like 50 times in a day.

💜Always comparing herself to people online.

💜“Self-esteem? What’s that?”

💜Genuinely could not describe herself if she was asked to. She’s so used to changing herself for others she doesn’t even know who she is or what she wants to be.

💜Imposter Syndrome 100%

💜Had a huge crush on Hailey in Middle School but didn’t even know being gay was a thing so she didn’t really know how to explain her feelings at all.

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Hiii!! What do you think about a possible Drew redemption arc in s2? I haven't seen you talk about it anywhere, so I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!

Ohoho my fellow human prepare yourself!

I am almost 99% certain Drew is getting a redemption arc. Like narratively it makes the most sense. With the way his characters been set up and written it would just feel wrong for him to not have one. (I mean I love villainous Drew as much as the next but I highly doubt RosyClozy’s gonna just leave his story off on that note.)

However, I think his redemption’s going to be a long process. Drew was left in a very unstable place after the events of Episode 11. He was betrayed by everyone, and ended up cutting out the two people he cared for the most. And if we take my Drew theories into account (the ones about him being codependent and having BPD) it’s pretty obvious he is not going to be doing very well.

Losing two people you were close to in the span of a week’s hell. He’s probably going to have some severe trust issues as a result of everything. Probably extremely paranoid, and maybe he’d cut off Henry and Liam. Push everyone away so he doesn’t have to go through what Zoey and Jake put him through again.

I don’t think he’d bully the Music Club the way he used to. Before it was taunts and insults. Now things are personal. He’s going to need some sort of outlet or something to blame for everything and that is probably going to end up being Jake and the Music Club. He’s gonna take everything he’s been doing to them and multiply it by 10. Because Drew is hurting. And hurting people hurt people.

I think he’s gonna get a villain arc. He’s going to get so much worse before he can get better. But if I’m being honest, I still have yet to figure out how he’s going to do the getting better part.

Because Drew’s stubborn. Drew isn’t going to want to admit the mistakes he made when it came to his and Jake’s friendship. He’s not going to admit he was wrong, and he’s not going to listen to anyone else who tries to tell him.

I feel like he just needs something or someone to drag him out of the hole he keeps digging himself into. (When I figure out what that is I’ll make a follow-up lol.)

And obviously, Drew would develop to realize what an asshole he’s been. Him and Jake will make up, and things will obviously never be the same, but at least they’ll be on good terms. Same thing applies to Henry and Liam if Drew does end up cutting them out.

Actually, biggest plot twist ever: Drew joins the gardening club and that becomes his new therapy. That’s why they were established it’s to help Drew’s character arc. My ultimate crack theory.

(Sorry it took me a little bit to answer this! Needed some time to think through my response lol.)

ONE MORE MINOR SPOILER:

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LUKE LUKE LUKE LUKE LUKE LUKE LUKE LUKE LUKE-

HE’S BACK MY BOY IS BACK I WANNA PUT BUTTER ON HIS HEAD I LOVE HIM🧡🧡🧡

ALSO ZANDER NEARLY SAYS FUCK LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOO SLAY KING

Day 16! TMF Crossover!

Okay. I genuinely had ZERO ideas for this one, until suddenly, it came to me in middle of the night: an Owl House crossover! The TMF cast takes place in high-school, and so does TOH. So it’d make perfect sense for them all to attend Hexside and learn magic and whatnot!

I could totally see Jake taking the Illusionist track, but secretly wanting take the Bard track as well. (And I feel like Drew would be in Abominations I just think it fits.) (I don’t have ideas for the others if someone else does please share with me.)

Also like, imagine these two walking around in the same school:

LIKE HOW IS RASPBERRY BOY CANONICALLY OLDER THAN BLONDE BOY??? IF I DIDN’T KNOW THESE TWO AND SOMEONE TOLD ME BLONDIES 16 and RASPBERRY’S 17 I WOULD NOT BELIEVE YOU.

Tbh I feel like Drew would bully Hunter until Willow beats the ever-loving shit outta him. (Actually I feel like he’d bully the whole main cast of TOH. 😭)

(“Freaks.” He utters before being engulfed in vines and launched 80 feet into the air.)

Anyways time to draw Jake and Drew in Hexside uniforms.

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Day 23: Thoughts on Drake/PlumPeach

…Yeah they’re alright I guess.

Okay no but seriously, this is honestly my favorite ship in the show. Specifically, one-sided Drake. I don’t know, I’ve always been a sucker for one-sided, unhealthy, ever so slightly possessive ships. I love the angst these two have, but also all the potential fluff, too. Their relationship is very complicated with how little they actually communicate with/understand each other, yet how much they still obviously care for one another. And I am a firm believer that Jake is straight and will never reciprocate and it will always be Drew heartsick and pining for an oblivious Jake that will never love him back. They’re like the sun and moon. Or like a rose with thorns. They’re so beautifully angsty it makes me want to curl up and cry.

If it wasn’t obvious though, I would NEVER want this ship to become canon. Unless there was a time skip, their relationship would be SO unhealthy. And as I said, part of why I like this ship is BECAUSE it’s one-sided. Having Jake reciprocate would ruin all the fun. (And Drew is NOT allowed to be happy in this house lmao.)