#i wish the writers had written her with kore ways to improve tho but

[aceyanaheim]

No one

Absolutely no one

Not a damm soul:

Me: S5 Debbie is actually a pretty realistic effect of S4 Debbie realizing every single adult in her is fallible as a result of Fiona's arrest and her endangering Liam and Liam's hospitalization

Me: further it's what marks a change in her relationship with Fiona since before that she very much saw her as a mother figure but the last mother figure she had left and this one made mistakes that shook the whole family. When Fiona says "I don't know what I'm doing either" and Debbie says "everyone knows that" she's almost resentful. She's grappling with the fact that not everyone in her life is solid as she thought and she's still at an age when she needs them to be. This is also the time when Fiona's working more and Lip is at college and Debbie goes from having a family dinner every night to only some nights seeing her older siblings.

Me: Lip was probably the last person she saw as infallible but then with his alcoholism she also realizes "oh he's a dumbass too" this is what leads her to feel the need to be hyper independent something she fails miserably at because she's fifteen and her brain hasn't fully developed. This is also what leads her to look to people like Sletvana and her fake friends as role models because she feels like the ones she had before she can't use and That along with her needing family both to having friends up depending on one and realizing later she ( felt like she) Couldn't depend on hers leads to a lot of her bad decisions and when you think about that and how she wasn't some simulation doll in s1-s3 but a person who developed and reacted to everything that happened it-

The Uber driver who just wants his tip: ma'am you good?

#Debbie Gallagher #shameless #im normal about this family #i don't condone debs bad decisions but i don't agree with the fact it came from nowhere #i wish the writers had written her with kore ways to improve tho but #she and carl are both middle kids and it Shows #bc no one in the show and out seems to realize that at 8 and 11 no matter how much you are shielded you are not unaffected by things #and at 15 and 16 shit pops up #well with Debbie at 13 really #Liam also falls into this tho he's less the middle child and more the invisible one #both in the context if the show abd it feels like in a meta sense #which i find fascinating