Ménage à Trois Picspam Series Part I
Fandoms! I'm back! After a very long hiatus...I've finally dusted off my PS. To commemorate my return to insane fangirling, I'm currently making a picspam series dedicated to my fave male Betty and Veronica BFFrenemies TV tropes.
Fighting out of the blue corner, we have the golden boys, every mother's dream - the clueless well-mannered, seemingly perfect gentlemen who can do no wrong, impress the parentals with their brain/wealth/pedigree/athleticism, and if persuaded, even walk on water. Girls fall on their feet because of their general awesomeness, and those, oh so, pretty blue eyes! But all this perfection can only lead to an inevitable quarter-life crisis. A natural progression, really.
And on the red corner, we have our bad boys who start off as obnoxious chauvinistic jerkwads equipped with devilishly charming smirks (instead of a much needed moral compass). They have a penchant for older women - HS English teachers, stepMILFs, duchesses, actual MILFs. You name it, they've banged it! However, underneath the jackassery are just lonely little boys with troubled home lives - daddies who abuse them and mommies who don't love them enough.
Let's meet the girl-fillings in these yummy boy sandwiches, shall we? Smart mouth? Check. Overachieving personality? Check. Anal retentiveness? Check. Absolutely gorgeous mortal enemy friend they are in the shadow of? Check. Mommy issues up the wazoo? Check. Skeletons in the closet? Check. Proclivity to attract trouble? Check. Instinct for revenge and higher moral ground no matter how hypocritical? Check. Two hot boys fighting over them? Check. Lucky bitches.
Now that all three characters making up our love triangle have been introduced, the story begins...
Once upon a time, in a high school far, far away (Massachusetts, California, New York & Virginia, to be precise), there lived a prince and a princess who have known each other since sharing the same sandbox in kindergarten. Love blossomed, and soon, their lives were filled with school dances in the gym, stolen kisses by the lockers, demure hand-holding, inexperienced groping, and my personal favourite, unrealistic expectations of everlasting love. Everyone can see that these two were a match made in teen soap heaven.
But the prince also had a jester to entertain him during the lonely nights when his consort was too busy with painting, studying, shopping or attending cheerleading practices. This jester told lewd jokes for his own amusement and spoke his mind in the most cutting way possible. Their friendship was a standard issue bromance - the strengths of one compensating for the weaknesses of the other. Their own dysfunctional families made them insufferable inseparable since childhood, and their HoYay! moments could all but inspire Ang Lee to create a sequel to Brokeback Mountain.
For the prince's sake, the jester and the princess learned to live together. Then again, they had nothing in common except for their loyalty to the golden boy - she, a prissy Ms. Perfect, and he, an arrogant prick. So they bickered and snarked, constantly engaged in a battle of wits and sarcastic jabs, yet totally unaware of the siren call of belligerent sexual tension.
Alas, true love stories DO have endings regardless of what the fortune in your cookie says. And when the fairy tale romance crumbled {because of: (a) guilt after the arrest of her father; (b) the possibility of incest; (c) an affair with her best friend; (d) her turning into a vampire}, life won't ever really be the same for the three of them again.
PART II ❦ PART III ❦ PART IV