I reckon so, living like they did and as you said, at no point was she ever like, I want to talk to my Texas friends or at least tell them I’m okay. It seemed a lonely, isolated life for our Juls. And then, tbh, despite their very endearing and earnest efforts at it, she and Val seemed to have not much idea how to handle friendship, jumping into a very intimate and deep relationship like immediately.
Do you think Valentina was also Juliana’s first kiss? I mean, I haven’t watched the whole show but from everything I’ve gathered here and there I don’t think her life back in Texas would even allow her to hang out with friends and get the chance to explore such thing as kissing some random guys.
And another anon:
I wanted to know if you think that Val was Juliana’s first kiss ever
Heh, you guys asked this right before the Sergio stuff went down, although the the second ask was like, a week before so kudos for wondering before the show even really hinted at it, because I DO think that headcanon became a lot more likely. The way Lupe was like, how do you know, and Juls was like, how do I know? I wouldn’t necessarily say her life in Texas made it easier or harder, as we saw, it didn’t really take much actual friendship or time to escalate, but given she even needed to compare… yeah, this coulda been her first EVER kiss.
How can I ask a request? Your favorite Juliana’s not standing Val sad face
What a tough question, anon… I love them all. It is one of my absolutely favorite things in the show, that this tough girl who tries to put up so many walls and hide all vulnerability is not only so affected by Val’s sad face but openly shows it and immediately tries to make things better.
I guess my favorite would have to be the first one.
I truly love hospital era and I have a soft spot for these eps, they were among the first I watched live. Everything seemed so fresh and nascent, both because it was new to me and because they themselves were in this maybe place, not together but had kissed, distracted by Lupe’s shooting but no longer to the point where it stopped further development.
And in that moment, when they weren’t even officially together, Juls could so easily have minimized what Val was upset about, that it was so minor, pretended it was at Val not getting her way, that she had every reason (excuse) to continue putting it off, her mom was still badly hurt, the narcos could come back, it wasn’t fair to ask her to talk about her feelings when Lucho still being around made it clear where Val stood.
But Juls simply couldn’t do that. She knew it wasn’t about Val not getting her way.
Val was upset because it felt like Juls was dismissing her. And thus it was so unthinkable to Juls that Val feel even a little bit sad, she was willing to do the thing she was most afraid of, confront her feelings and lay them out in front of the person who could most hurt her, just to stop that look.
