#posting this at an ungodly hour because i am the spawn of satan

[king-dail]

The life and times of an earthling and a venusian: A relationship analysis

It's 1:23 AM right now but I don't give a fuck i'm writing an analysis on why Doyle and Milo's dynamic means so much to me!!

(Note that i'll only be mentioning plot points from episodes 1-4 on this post)

Ok, where to start? Well, when they first meet of course!

So in Welcome to Galaxy High, Doyle has been kinda sticking together with Aimee because he's a little cautious (and rude) about the non-earth life in the school but as soon as he sees Milo? Instantly jovial, even giving him a high five. After that he spends a good chunk of the episode with Milo as he gets shown around the school, embarrassing himself in the process.

But through all of these scenes does Milo throw in the towel and walk away, leaving Doyle to fend for himself because he's being annoying? No! He stays! With! Him! Even when Doyle is busy humiliating himself over his wounded pride Milo is right there behind him, ready to help him whenever things go sour.

When Doyle decides to not be an insufferable prick and attempts (putting emphasis on "attempt") to befriend the Bonk Bunch, leading to him being thrown in a french fryer, you know who carries him to Icenstein to get him fixed up? That's right, Milo.

In the first few seconds of Pizza's Honor we are already shown that Doyle and Milo are cooperating at the pizza parlor, to the point where I would go as far as to say that they are perfectly in sync with each other (Which is amazing in my opinion considering they've probably known each other for a week at max or two days at the minimum)!

I don't really have much to say about this ep because Milo is barely there, but I will mention that he was 1) the first one to get out of Ollie's taxi when they hit Doyle and that 2) he was DESPERATE to get Doyle the Fuck outta there when Milo thought that he was potentially in danger.

In The Beef Who Would Be King, Milo doesn't get much screentime either but scenes where he is with Doyle are spent showing the viewers more of their dynamic (Also the Harold Horsefly scene. Poor Harold).

Now to the MEAT AND POTATOES of this essay, Where's Milo?

This episode. Oh god this episode.

I actually wrote an analysis on the ending and general plot of this episode in the youtube comments section of this episode BUT I need to go deeper! And by deeper I mean more into ship territory!

The fucking episode starts out them going to an ice cream parlor to get milkshakes which has to be like. The MOST adorably romantic thing i've seen on this green earth. But of course Beef has to be a bitch and ruin everything, kickstarting the main conflict of the episode as well as fucking up their date.

After this Milo is seen being humiliated and blamed for things that aren't his fault like 90% while Doyle presumably comes forward to grab him and get out of there once the time is right (ie. A complete ROLE REVERSAL of their dynamic in the first episode), and even letting Milo vent to him. There was only one time that Doyle was mad at him and even then it was basically for a few minutes.

(Ok here's the part where I yoinked and edited my essay from the youtube comment I made to further prove my point)

Just.

The fact that Doyle was only mad at Milo for a few seconds and went back to being with him, working alongside him with no complaint even running after him when Luigi fired him (Which is kinda anime ngl), while everyone else hated Milo's guts is what fucking gets me!

He genuinely cares for Milo so much that he stayed by his side when everyone turned their backs on him and even dealt out a collective "Fuck you, guys!" to the entire GHG (Galaxy High Gang) when they shit talked Milo after he disappeared!

At the end of the episode when Doyle grabs Milo's hand and tells him "That's what friends are for.", his voice is SO incredibly gentle, and you just know they've taken turns wiping away each other's tears! Even if you don't ship them like I do, you can't deny that Milo brings out the best in Doyle and that Doyle gives Milo more confidence!

Simply being there for each other when times get tough is enough to keep them going and that is legitimately so beautiful! I'm basically rambling at this point but I just have so many feelings about these two it's not even funny!

People really ship Aimee and Doyle like Milo is non-existent because of heteronormativity (Also Aimee and Doyle are... Kind of dicks to each other. There would need to be more character development for both of them before Aimee and Doyle could have a relationship that is based off of love rather than a power imbalance. (I'm not saying it isn't possible but damn are they gonna have to work for it)) when Doyle and Milo's dynamic is SOOOO interesting as well as adorable!

Also Doyle should've gotten to kill Al Gatori. As a treat. Get that gator fuck.

No seriously though fuck Al Gatori all my homies hate Al Gatori.