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There comes a time in every fictional love triangle when you have to choose a side.
The best love triangles are the ones that make doing so incredibly difficult.
The ones where youre constantly switching your allegiance.
The kind of love triangle where both options are easy to get behind as endgame.
(Note: Spoilers for the entirety of season one lie ahead.)
Both are completely viable options, but there can only be one for Devi in the end.
I hate to say it, but there is a clear winner and this choice is definitive and final.
Thats science for ya.
Nerd/jock pairings work because the two people push each other to be the best versions of themselves.
(Have you seenSixteen Candles,Grease, orShes All That?
You get it.)
They are extremely mean to each other.
Category: Swoon Factor
Paxton H-Y:Paxton Hall-Yoshida is like, 94 percent Swoon.
He gets not one but two slo-mo entrances in thefirst episode.
Just the sight of him cures Devis psychosomatic paralysis.
If thats not major swoon power, what is?
I mean, the list goes on.
Ben Gross:This is a hard category to judge because a persons swoon factor is extremely subjective.
Ben Gross is not meant to be typically swoony look at his name!
Winner:Objectively speaking, and because Bens handle on Reddit is AreolaGrande007, this has to go toPaxton.
Peter Kavinsky has his daddy issues, Mr. Darcy has his sister, etcetera.
Paxton has a sister of whom he is sweetly, if not aggressively, overprotective.
Paxton is sensitive about being a less-than-average student.
Winner:This show is rooting forBen Grossand so am I!
In the words of an esteemed teen rom-com film, that was way harsh, Tai.
His commitment to being a dick is both impressive and revealing of his deep-seated romantic feelings.
He doth protest too much and all that.
Thats a lot of quick thinking for a teenage boy!
Then hegets her dry clothesanddrives her homeandasks her if shes okaybefore planting a big ol kiss on her.
What an astounding level of maturity!
Is it because hes scared it will reveal his true feelings?
(But also, yes.)
And then he waits around just to see to it shes okay.
Ben is playing for keeps.
He calls Devi out on using him.
When the laid-back cool guy is calling you out, you know something is wrong.
Ben Gross:This is clearlythe Model U.N. incident.
Obviously, her anger is very much about other things, as it usually is.
ThePaxtoncorner of this triangle gets the upper hand here.
Category: Kissing!!!!
Maybe the most important!!
Ben Gross:Oh, boy,okay, you guys.
This blows her teenage mind.
You stayed, she says, floored.
He just wanted to verify she was okay.
Anyway, my heart exploded and Im a ghost now.
Hes the one to whom Devi lets her guard down repeatedly.
Shes let him see who she really is.
But until further evidence is provided, this love triangle analysis is closed: Devi & Ben 4Eva.
May he rock her all night long.
