#ik the waterbottle scene was directly mirroring shiv but it also mirrors the vulnerability aspect to me

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tom loves caretaking... i think he would have wanted nothing more than to feed greg water out of a pipette after he did too much coke but then greg had to go and ruin his night and tell everyone he swallowed his own cum. but i think he feels the most fulfilled doing that type of thing. 'i'll take care of you' is how he expresses himself the most genuinely. he's shiv's rock, he met her during her 'mess' era, and he immediately latches onto greg when he turns up in his scraggly jacket and L.L bean embroidered school bag. filling up the chasm of emptiness in his heart also means belonging to someone, but it has to be a mix of being needed and the other person being vulnerable enough to stay with him, like vulnerability is the only thing that anchors anyone to him, hence his freakout at greg wanting to work in another department, and him trying to lock shiv into pregnancy because his usefulness to her will be gone if he went to jail. he has control issues of his own and they're so loud. i like you but i need you to like me before i love you. um but yeah nurse outfit tom