#then I realized that having him be younger makes another parallel between Heinz and Candace

[thedupshadove]

I suspect there are a lot of reasons why Candace wants so badly to bust Phineas and Ferb--from over-protectiveness to sibling pettiness to, after a while, sheer frustrated stubbornness--but I feel like there's another one somewhere in there too.

Right now, the boys are mostly just doing scaled-up versions of things a typical child would want to do, but when the time comes for them to chase adult dreams and ambitions? They're going to be unstoppable. There'll be no college they can't get into, no internship or job they can't snag, no grant they can't score, no business they can't start. The world isn't just going to be their oyster, it's going to come pre-steamed with God's own lemon butter.

Candace, meanwhile, is much more of a typical teenager, and is just at the age when things like college and future jobs stop being these abstract things and start being very real worries (and if there's one thing Candace can do, it's worry). And just as more and more of her brain is being eaten up by dread of her own upcoming struggle, here are daily reminders that her little brothers already effectively have a future so much more secure than hers ever will be. It's not so surprising that she manifests a vindictive desire to take them down while she still can.

#phineas and ferb #candace flynn #I love her so much but she is. going through a lot #For ages I wondered if it wouldn't make more sense for Roger to be Heinz's *older* brother #to go with him being bigger and stronger and handsomer and more accomplished #then I realized that having him be younger makes another parallel between Heinz and Candace