#he will do the most asinine tasks and sit there grumpy as hell but he Will do it

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Proposal: Peppino is a really caring S/O, friend, husband, what have you, but he's really oblivious when someone's interested. No matter how much Gustavo flirted, showed special attention and affection to Pep, our lovely protagonist dismissed it as as Gus being really nice (which to be honest, he is).

Rotating this in my brain bc i am still thinking of how to characterize him in this way so thank u 🧡 This is also why i havent tried to do any real shipping content w him (cause i wanna do more stuff w him and the bosses)😭

🤔🤔🤔 I feel like hes not exactly oblivious. He can read a room and take a hint, but hes a little dense (a little bit!!!!). His indifference/lack of a reaction comes off as being completely unaware but in reality, he is thinking of Other Pressing Matters. Like. When traveling through the gnome forest for deliveries, hes very aware of them being Weird and Friendlier than usual (which in the past, HAS actually translated to some level of flirting) but he doesnt want to look too deep into it bc the forest is Hot and its full of Bugs and it makes him Itchy and Sweaty and hes Tired from delivering everything ON FOOT bc his stupid scooter and car cant drive on fucking GRASS.

Like hes Aware but he doesnt pay it any mind. Two to three strangers being sweet with him? Yeah sure that makes sense i guess. He’ll entertain them :) But like, the MAJORITY of his customers in this forest being equally weird and friendly? Maybe gnomes are just Like That. Gustavo is clearly a weird and friendly little guy. Dont think too hard about it 😊👍🏾 Hes got other shit to worry about.

So honestly Gus would be in hell trying to woo this fuckin man 😭 Not because hes not trying hard enough, and not bc Pep is so completely oblivious, but bc in this specific instance, Peppino is just a man stressed about 40 different things all at once, and allocating ANY of that brain power to determine if his friend it flirting or being friendly when Gustavo is just known to be very friendly to everyone is a waste of his precious, LIMITED mental energy 😭

#answered #chattin #pepstavo #like he wouldnt be dense but in THIS specific scenario #gus would literally have to grab his face and yell ‘IM FLIRTING WITH YOU IVE BEEN DOING SO FOR MONTHS-‘ #peppino; panicking from the sudden movement: ‘WHAT HAPPENED WHATS GOING ON-‘ #‘MONTHS. FUCKING MONTHS MY GOOD MAN!!! PLEASE!!!!’ #please imagine this with like #peppino w his back pressed against the counter and hes like wide eyed and a little scared bc sudden movements spook him like a deer 😭 #and gus is LITERALLY standing on his stomach and grabbing both sides of his face #i will probably draw this … #anyway wrt to the first part of ur ask #hes like an acts of service kind of dude #giving and receiving #so i like to think of him caring by simply Doing Things for them #and like vice versa; he will internalize all acts of service done to him #(in a good way) #this applies to literally everyone he cares about #he will do the most asinine tasks and sit there grumpy as hell but he Will do it #bc he cares and its very hard to get him to be a person that Cares #maybe it was really difficult before the tower #but post tower collapse hes like #a bit more happy and carefree #i like to think it would be the personality he had before he went to war and before his business started failing #he gets to be a little soft now :)