#mork wanting to protect and take care of day not because he thinks day can't do it for himself but because he enjoys doing it

[stormyoceans]

to go with the sunshine & sunshine protector vibes:

mork's debt collectors come to collect at day's house when mork isn't there 👀

CASSI WHY ARE YOU GOING STRAIGHT FOR MY JUGULAR LIKE THIS I SWEAR EVERY SINGLE THEORY ABOUT MORK'S DEBT COLLECTORS COMING FOR DAY IS GONNA PUT ME INTO A PSYCH WARD BEFORE THE SHOW EVEN GETS THE CHANCE TO AIR

THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR IS JUST SOOOO. like imagine the debt collectors looking for mork at the garage like they usually do but they can't find him there anymore so they start following him and discover that he goes to this huge expensive house every day. maybe they think mork is cheating them out of money and decide to remind him how things work, so one day, after mork leaves, they go knock at the front door. in the house there are only day and night and thinking that mork must have forgotten something and came back for it, they open the door without even looking who is it. and like.. no one gets hurt, those debt collectors just went there to throw around some threats as a warning to mork (and i want day to be amazing through it all, standing proud in the middle of the room and talking back to those assholes without fear), but it's a big scare for night and no matter how much day begs him to not tell their mom what happened, he still does it, and things escalate from there

cue day's mom wanting mork out of her son's life, mork feeling incredibly guilty and scared because day could have gotten hurt which prompts him to leave thinking that's for the best, and day being forced back into isolation. BUT ALSO!!!!!! mork marching up to those debt collectors and punching them in the face because he's never been a violent man, never dared to fight back, but no one - NO ONE - thinks about hurting day and gets away with it. and that's when he knows he has to leave: that's the first time he has someone to protect, someone he loves and wants and needs so completely, and he can't stand the thought of losing day or day coming to hate him

thankfully day is gonna have none of that and get him back AND NOW IF YOU'LL EXCUSE ME IM GONNA GO SCREAM INTO MY PILLOW FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT

[chalkrevelations]

OK, no, sorry - apparently I can't wait for tomorrow on this bit.

VINDICATED by a shot of a phone screen.

And yet, I'm still seeing people chipping away at Day's agency like it couldn't be him - and his own explicitly stated and demonstrable fear of how people are going to look at him (lit. and fig.) if they know the truth - that's behind his isolation in his room or these cover stories of disappearing to the US or quitting school to focus on badminton. No, it must be his family inflicting this on him and lying about him because they're the ones who are apparently so ashamed?

I honestly don't understand why so many people seem to be jumping to the conclusion that the cover stories are things that Day's family are spreading for their own selfish reasons, rather than something he's insisting on and they're going along with - whether to allow him some autonomy in how he deals with adjusting to his disability, or simply because we've actually seen what a heinous asshole he can be to Night, at least, when he's frustrated about his situation, and who wants to deal with that? When we've seen Mork confront Day in this very episode about how Day is hiding from his friends? Nothing is stopping Day from answering all those various - literally thousands of - social media messages from his friends that we see sitting unanswered on his phone screen. If Day wanted people to know what was actually happening, he'd tell them. Is there actual evidence in the show that I'm missing, that Night and Ramon are the ones making up the cover stories, let alone preventing him from telling anyone the truth?

Night - the guy who was all, "calm yourself, Mother, he's finally agreed to leave the house, perhaps we could encourage this and not ignominiously sack the guy who managed to make it happen;" the guy who has been Mork's defender from Day Negative-One, based on how good Mork is at getting Day out of his shell and regaining his life and his prior self - Night's apparently making the decision to lie to all and sundry to hide what's happened to Day? Why? Why would he want Mork around and taking Day outside where anybody could run into him, then? Not to mention that we've seen the vicious response Night gets from Day when he pushes back on what Day wants, so why would he be telling tales against Day's will, rather than giving in to what Day wants him to tell people? If Day didn't want Night telling the school that he was focusing on badminton, instead of the truth, he is demonstrably capable of ripping Night a new one over it. It's not like Day's not going to find out what Night told his academic advisor, and Night doesn't seem the least bit worried or guilty about Day going to talk to the guy and comparing stories. Until we learn otherwise, I'm operating under the assumption that this is what Day told Night to tell the school. What is Night supposed to do, tell everyone Day's business against Day's will? Wherefore Day's autonomy in that situation?

Night is the one who's looking at Day with hope rather than apprehension whenever Day makes a move to be more independent and move out of his shell - to get the sauce from the cabinets on his own, to leave the house. Yes, my guy was uptight about Day coming into the Shining Institute with him in Ep 1 and yelled about how hard it can be to take care of Day, and I think all of that's perfectly understandable - it's terrifying to suddenly find yourself completely responsible for someone's well-being, particularly someone who will literally put themself in danger to spite you, and he's dealing with a guy who's refused to come out of his room and learn to move around his own house, now wanting to wander around the world with no practice?

Also, wow, god forbid a mom be protective of her baby and have to learn to let go some.

I really feel like there are people determined to impute sinister motives to Day's family when they really are just people who have - like many, many people - never really had to deal with disability in their life and are suddenly having to learn how, all while being shut out by a family member who's going through their own shit and who they're having to carefully calibrate where they think they should fall on allowing him his autonomy, avoiding the way he lashes out at them when he's frustrated and angry, and trying to learn what's actually the best way to help him. I reiterate, they're not doing this perfectly, there's more they could do, but I also don't think they're getting a lot of credit for the fact that they can only do what Day will allow.

[stormyoceans]

They made so uwu shaped so son shaped so little. I'm not sure if i like it since i wanted Day confident , but maybe it'll change

THEY REALLY MADE DAY LOOK SO TINY AND CUTE THAT'S THE SWEETEST MOST PRECIOUS BABY IN THE WHOLE WORLD I WANT TO PET HIS HEAD AND SQUISH HIS CHEEKSIES AND GIVE HIM KISSES AND PUT HIM IN MY POCKET AND CALL HIM A GOOD BOY ALL DAY EVERY DAY

okay sorry i got carried away for a moment here ;;;;;; i do get what you mean tho, and idk if this can help in any way, but i personally think that giving day this look was a very purposeful choice, just as much as making mork look like a 'bad boy' was. sea as day gives off incredibly innocent and vulnerable vibes, so much so that everyone's first reaction while looking at him is calling him a baby and feeling like a protective parent. now think about this in the contest of the story and especially from day's mother's point of view: in her eyes, mork is the scary wolf who has come to currupt her helpless child

of course that's an extremely problematic view, especially since there's a history of people with disability being stereotyped and portrayed as angelic and childlike in movies, but i think that's exactly what the show is gonna try to challenge, because here's the other thing: looks can be deceiving. mork may look like a bad boy, but we all know he's gonna turn out to be a gentle soul with a heart of gold who wouldn't hurt a fly, and similarly i think day isn't gonna be the pure naive baby who can't take care of himself that he may appear to be to other people

if we talk about disposition, i actually fully believe that mork is gonna be the one more prone to self doubts and introspection while day, at his best, is probably gonna be very cheerful and bold SO HERE'S HOW CONFIDENT DAY CAN STILL WIN!!!!!!!!