#ricky is not this toxic bad guy yall want him to be

[joondaya]

bring back people disliking ships for the sake of disliking it because yall bring the most stupid takes to justify your disdain towards rina. like i promise you no one cares you don’t like rina but if you keep making the most stupid arguments of course people will put you in your place.

“i ship ricky with therapy” struggling mentally does not and should never stop anyone from seeking happiness and being in a relationship. that’s a very weird thing to say. no one in therapy is unworthy of love or incapable of reciprocating it.

“ricky has treated gina badly/does not deserve gina/made her cry” ricky has been the character who gave gina the most comfort and the one person she goes to when things get hard because they both believe they understand each other better anyone else could. he helped her open up to other people and is the reason people approached her because before that everyone thought she was scary and intimidating. ricky was the only person that said she didn’t intimidate him and assured her she wasn’t as scary as people portrayed her to be. he never treated gina with less than the respect she deserved. his only flaw was not understanding her confession and/or being confused as he had literally gotten into a relationship. only once has he ever brought up nini/his relationship himself after gina had helped him multiple times on her own volition and immediately gave her the space he thought she needed when she dismissed him.

“she deserves to be with a man that wants her” and then said man that “wants” her was ready to drop her after getting his ego bruised because a sophomore didn’t wanna date him. he saw how happy she was to hang out with him, and his course of action was not to cancel the plans for the night (so he could recollect his feelings) but to cancel indefinitely. because of course the appropriate reaction to a girl alone in an unfamiliar city with no family is to shut her out when you just learned that you might be the closest person she might think of as family. like yeah that’s the man that “wants” her. ricky had just gotten into a relationship when gina confessed to him (whether he understood that as a confession or not) so of course he wouldn’t drop it on the same day because he is not that bad guy yall desperately want him to be. he also had so much growth to do by himself and accept the changes in his life and be able to deal with them. he is finally in a headspace to accept the feelings he might have for gina. so unless s3 expresses not wanting to be with gina, you can’t say he doesn’t “want” her.

“rina is toxic” this is a mickey mouse ship not euphoria. ricky is not some evil mastermind whose only purpose is to make gina cry and make her life miserable. there’s a college aged man going out with a high school girl after calling her peers “kids” (carlos) and “too young” (ashlyn). if yall okay with that then rina is not the red flag yall forcing it to be.

“gina is ricky’s second choice” ricky has never made gina a second choice because he never started talking to gina as a replacement to nini or with the intent of ever being something more. it just happened. developing feelings for someone after a breakup does not make anyone a second choice. and during the time feelings were developing nini was not even mentioned. nini only became part of his life once again when gina left. she also initiated the almost kiss which made him realise he could go back to that stability and safeness he was seeking. he has never used gina as a replacement for nini, no matter how many times yall will try to spin that way. gina however was not even over ricky while she even considered ej. so according to your standards if anyone were to be second choice it would be ej.

the post got longer than i expected it to be but all i’m trying to say is that if you don’t ship something just say you don’t instead of making dumb and stupid paragraphs on something that some comprehension skills on these two characters, specially ricky, would’ve gotten you the answers you needed.

#hsmtmts #gina porter #ricky x gina #ricky bowen #rina #ricky and gina #it’s okay to just not like a ship #hsmtmts season 3 #ricky is not this toxic bad guy yall want him to be