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My Opinion: Trobed is The Best depiction of friendship
On one hand we have Troy: former popular football player who couldn't play because he did a keg flip (and that too as a way to escape the surmounting pressure to achieve a sports scholarship), someone who still has a childlike view on things, does not understand "adult" things sometimes (and I mean adult as in taxes, income, rent kinda adult), possible (unconfirmed because I relate to this character and in some sad need to equate myself to this character I refuse to conclude because I don't know if I have) ADHD, stereotypical jock archetype. On the other hand we have Abed: television connoisseur who views the world via the frameworks of televised tropes as a method to understand human relationships, uses his understanding of human trends to support a group of friends he accidentally landed into, acutely aware of flaws and even is able to replicate/produce personalities if he wanted to but actively chooses not to, probably (definitely) ASD, stereotypical nerd archetype. The way these two characters are complex in and of themselves despite still managing to play around their allocated stereotypes and how this complexity forms a unique dynamic is a testament to how each friendship formed in one's life possesses many facets that fleshes out and gives life to it. This is evidenced simply by Troy's fascination for "adulting" pairing well with Abed's fascination of his adult friends, and their mutual childlike demeanor forming a beautiful common ground (even during the blanket fort vs pillow fort war). Even their conflicts are resolvable, and their willingness to communicate is beautiful. From something as simple as having a personal handshake to something as big being able to construct a Dreamscape in their apartment, this duo manage to encompass what a true friendship built (perhaps initially) off superficial things such as movies just being in the same place at the same time can blossom into a strong bond. I love that. All that said, I'm still salty Troy left on that goddamn boat.
Unironically I play this every now and then whenever I am in a musical rut just because the dynamics!!! are!!! so !!!! good!!!!!!! like from the composition to the fricken transition to the straight up unintelligible abed verse I LOVE THIS SONG
this song goes so unbelievably hard its not even funny
Headcannon #1 (Trobed shippers and non shippers alike this is up to you how you wanna interpret this)
Troy returns, experienced but not particularly more wise. He apparently has not travelled the world like Pierce wanted him to, realising halfway that perhaps it's no use running around giggling without someone to giggle with, no use searching for his place in the world if it means sacrificing his comfort and tearing away from where he had sunk roots in. In a way, Pierce's boon felt like a bane, and so he made his way back to home, to Greendale, to Abed. His return was an emotional one to most. Annie cried and embraced him, her sobs genuine this time, her clear voice wavering uncharacteristically. Shirley had just flown down to see everyone again, and Troy's appearance was a surprise that delighted her endlessly; the mother hen pecked at him with happy tears welling in her eyes as she enquired about his wellbeing. Britta was gleeful, but her enthusiastic greeting was quelled by a "Shut up Britta!" To be fair, she did just say some absurd things about Troy finally being there to help relieve the burden of being the funny one in the group. Jeff had dashed over once he had heard, but will not affirm it, choosing to step into the group study room with a smirk as he spouted off some cool tagline. Troy fistbumped him, telling him how cool that was, as the nostalgia began to flood his system. However, just one person was missing. Troy looked around, hiding his disappointment as he looked around the blue walls of the study room. Everything was as it was, just slightly different. The table had more scratches, the chairs were slightly different, the Dean was chuckling off to one side, a hand on Jeff's arm that Jeff has not swatted away yet. As he looks to Annie for more details, Annie winks at him and mouths "they're not together that way, but Jeff is.. bi." Troy's eyes widen as his jaw slacks. All that does not change the fact that Troy still was missing someone. Someone he had formed an inseperable bond with, who had yet been torn from him by everyone, from the Air-Con guys to Pierce. He gave up. After all, if Abed wasn't still here after Britta's obnoxious Twitter post, perhaps he did not know, or perhaps he did not care anymore. He decided to say his thank yous to his friends and embark on a journey to see just how much Greendale has been saved from ruin when- "TROY!" "ABED-" A thin frame stood in front of him, dressed in a comfortable long sleeved shirt and a sweater vest, his shoes seemingly new. Brown eyes met black, and an unspoken pattern arose. Four hands rose up in the air, and one of each thudded against each chest, whilst the other connected in the middle twice, a resounding echo each time the two met. The rest could only stare in unbridled wonder as the two continued to stare into each others eyes, appraising the other for any signs of distance. With none, arms wrapped around each other, Abed stood in silence as Troy's eyes finally gave way to the emotions that had been threatening to flood out of him. "I thought you'd have forgotten me." "Never. Not when the Dreamscape is there to remind me of what I had lost every single day." Together, their voice echoed as they sung. "Troy and Abed Back Together~"
Trobed and just abed text posts cause there so friggin fun (like why was I left to discover how fun they are by myself???)
Trobed mood board w/ lava and nautical themes
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It really gets to me that Abed accepting that Troy is never coming back is revealed in the same episode (series finale) where he finally leaves Greendale. Almost like he was waiting for Troy, but has finally admitted to himself that Troy is never coming back and there is no point waiting for him.
COMMUNITY OFFICAL ACCOUNT WHEN I FUCKING GET YOU!!!!!
Fucking love relationships where both parts of the trope applies to them
"Nerd/Jock": they're both the biggest nerds to ever walk this planet but one of their favourite pastimes is athletics
"Me and the bad bitch I pulled by being autistic": What's that oh right they're both the entire godamn prism and are both bad bitches
"Can drive/Can't drive": Your honour the dictionary only defines drive as to " to control a motor vehicle" it never states how good
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‼️🔥🗣️HELL YEAH!!!!🗣️🔥‼️
guys and especially my mutuals if i made a trobed reunion animatic would y'all hype me up
Community would've been one of the greatest shows in existence for their ABBA-scored costumed halloween party zombie apocalypse episode alone and YET it's almost directly followed by perhaps the best bottle episode to have ever been made
So, we know that Abed is the one who invited Annie, Shirley, Pierce, and Troy to join the study group. Annie and Shirley make a lot of sense; they're both relatively friendly and clearly intelligent, it's easy to imagine either of them having brief positive interactions with Abed that would lead him to thinking of them. Pierce, while not someone I think Abed would seek out, is 100% down for inserting himself into situations. I bet he overheard Abed talking to Shirley or someone and invited himself from there. Troy, though? Troy is a little more complicated. I know that Troy and Abed are the iconic duo of all time, but it took time for that to develop. I have trouble believing that they just somehow had a good chat or something before the pilot, because in the episode Troy refers to Abed as "slumdog millionaire," which makes Shirley call him racist. I know that Troy was leaning hard into his asshole jock behavior during the beginning of season one, but I truly do not think he would say something like that if he had actually interacted with Abed. We know that Troy thinks incredibly highly of Abed once he gets to know him, and that his adoration is what pulls Troy out of his shitty high school persona. Even if he wasn't immediately able to acknowledge that he aspired to be more like Abed, he wouldn't be casually dismissing him like that if they'd ever really interacted. So, this leads me to the only possible conclusion: Abed just had a stupid crush on Troy from day one and wanted an excuse to spend more time with him outside of class. Abed might pride himself on his objective observational powers, but even he isn't perfectly logical. He'd probably tell himself that it's because a jock archetype would round out the ensemble cast dynamic, but in reality Abed is not in fact immune to Pretty Boy.
Troy: Annie always accuses me of having a favorite person in the group.
Troy: That's not true. I love Abed and all my not-Abed friends equally.
remembering s1ep9, debate 109, and, i love love love how its the episode where troy discovers abed's films about the study group and shows them to the rest, with shirley and troy grappling with abed's incredible prediction skills via his films functioning as a sideplot.
and one of the reasons i love it sm is because of the end scene, where abed is filming his two troy and abed actors doing the spanish library rap, and troy is there and is involved with the scene.
the reason this scene is just so good is bc like--abed is a self-described control freak. but he is letting troy sit in, interrupt, and give his own criticism--basically he is letting troy be involved in this scene. abed's s1 soft spot/crush on troy you will always be famous
