#and look. she knows eloise hates her. but she's not gonna confront her. just grin and bear it

[simptasia]

it’s easy to come to the conclusion that growing up daniel was bullied and had no friends. not only because of. well. his demeanour. but also his reaction to what he thinks is desmond pranking him about time travel. his angry bitter delivery of “you’d think my ESTEEMED colleagues could think of something better than this?” paints a story. he’s angry but he also seems like he’s gonna go off somewhere and cry. so with that in mind, theresa had to be like, the only person in his corner. this naturally really endears me to her. and we know this guy started college as a real young teenager (like to graduate at 16? oof), so everybody else is way older than him. and he’s a genius. and so painfully obviously neurodivergent. he probably has no other friends and certainly no other romances. so theresa was the only one who during that time who truly cared for him, supported him, unconditionally loved him

the whole situation with daniel and theresa is really sweet and eventually deeply sad when you think about it. and i do think about it. a lot

#lost headcanons #sorta #she was his first love and first You Know #wait why am i censoring myself. fuck. first fuck #and i hc dan as bi demi #so she was the first person he was Ever attracted to #so i imagine when he got a crush on desmond he was very confused and felt weirdly guilty #like he was somehow betraying theresa?? and also he didn't know he COULD be attracted to more than one person #it was Something #anyways i've built up lotsa little headcanons about theresa #due to me thinking about dan/charlotte a lot and dan making comparisons in his head #which sounds really bad but i promise its not! #more like ''oh charlotte likes [sex thing] i don't have experience with that because theresa didn't like [sex thing]'' #so most of my headcanons about theresa are about sex and now that i say that i realise thats really really funny jdsakjdsalkjd #I Think About Sex Things A Lot #but anyways fair to assume she was a nice lady #she helped dan with his experiments so she had to have been a smart scientist #and look. she knows eloise hates her. but she's not gonna confront her. just grin and bear it #i'm tempted to make her a little sassy sometimes because everybody else i ship with daniel is some kind of hotheaded/bitchy #which Says something about daniel methinks #but i dunno i still keep seeing her just as Very Pleasant And Sweet #i've defo thought about this because i've imagined dan's backstory lotsa times