Those hospital part were some of my favorites too. Also I loved that during those episodes you see val always running after juls trying to keep up lol. The moment you just gif then the moment were juls thought val paid the hospital bill where shes walking away and val is talking about chocolate and trying to keep up and then when juls realizes val didnt pay and she turns around and starts walking away and you see val again running after her and in other scenes too. Thought those bits were cute
Also that moment when juls is leading val away after lupita catches them. Ugh that angry walk of hers is hot lol
I was thinking about how many moments there are when one grabs the other by the hand and leads her around (spoiler alert: a LOT) and how natural it was for them, despite it being a kind of intimate thing, no? But Val started it immediately, the first time they met, and coming from her, it really could just be friendly, she’s so naturally tactile and open, she feel she does that to everyone.
But Juls returning it is definitely not such a normal thing. @dealanexmachina pointed out how careful Juls is when she touches Val, how aware and watchful she is around her, and that’s not just a Val thing, she’s as guarded with people as Val is open. But somehow she’s been able to take Val’s cue on at least this, deciding it’s just something friends, becoming second nature.
Sure, in the hospital and away from Lupe, it’s more a protective thing, wanting to get away from a situation and taking Val with her. She didn’t need to do it, Val was going to come with her anyway, it was just an additional reassurance to have Val’s hand in hers, a way she could feel better about being so helpless otherwise.
Even in this moment, when they’re about to have an enormously significant conversation about their feelings for each other, and so this might have been the moment to put a bit of distance between them or maybe it’d be too awkward? Nope, Val’s feeling down, so let’s take her to a place to do what she wants.
And here she kind of needed to actually physically pull Val along, even if it was all in front of her overbearing strict sister.
But very early on, it was a natural instinct.
So natural she does it when she’s taking Val literally three feet away. 😀
Now, the chasing is totally different and adorable. It’s kind of the opposite of the above, Juls is too focused on something to grab Val’s hand.
Ah, this one, when Val’s happily chattering about the chocolate she’s prepared and Juls is angry and preparing for their Talk (which, Val handled so maturely! All babe, no, I would have but you said not to, remember? So cute).
And this shot that they included right after just made it so extra cute, with her duster billowing behind her, lol. One of the things I loved about the hospital era was that when things were happening to Juls, the show included Val, a lot, her thoughts and feelings, but let the focus be on Juls.
And here we see a Valentinius Carvajalas chase her not-girlfriend in the direction of literal gunshots.
Bonus: Val chasing Juls
And catching her.
And in front of chivis, please in front of chivis. Bitch deserves to know whos the boss hdjdk
Heh, your anger at Chivis. But anon, anon, that’s actually probably exactly why Juls WOULD never do that. She effectively is kind of the boss? She’s at a level higher than Chivis, anyhow. You can’t act like that with someone your gf’s family employs. That’s actually something I super love about Juls, how polite she always is with the staff.
I was going to elaborate on this when I giffed it but anyway, remember when Alerio said that Juls couldn’t use the Carvajal car after instruction from Eva and Val was understandably losing it a bit, after the day she’d been having, and Juls stepped in and was like, it’s not his fault, don’t take it out on him? That was actually one of my favorite Juls moments. That kind of awareness and sense of fairness, after being so shocked by Eva’s visit herself and then the humiliation only burning deeper at being told she couldn’t even get in the damn car, it’s such a clear sign of what a fundamentally good and kind person she is.
I think she’d basically wait out Chivis until she accepted them, like, it’s not as if Chivis is trying to turn her away out of malice, more…well, it is wrong of her, because even if she’s doing it out of protectiveness, there certainly seems to be a part of her ready to believe the worst of the Valdeses. But I think she’ll come around, she’ll have to, and she and Juls will probably end up great allies as people who adore Val and have to tolerate that grump Eva. 😛
the jealousy angle in the interview is so great but UGH imagine juliana being like that over valentina, like bein a little braggy, a touch possessive, hell ye
Hmm, but who would she be like that to? It’s a running joke that Juls is soft with Val and completely different with everyone else, but aside from the few people who get on her wrong side first, she’s actually pretty polite. Especially to any of Val’s people, whether or not they deserve it, Chivis, Eva. Lucho and Sergio, for real, they would crack jokes, say mean things, but she was always at least polite.
I can’t imagine anyone who knew both of them to whom Juls would be like that, like, any new coworkers or friends or just people they met, maaaybe someone being a douche and hitting on Val so she’d shed the politeness but otherw–omg, she might be like that to EVA, lmao. The more she got to know Eva, the more she’d be comfortable in getting her own back. Even if Eva accepted her, you know she’d always be a little prickly, that’s just who she is. And then Juls would fire off a comeback and just sit there like:
