UGH. I would've loved to see any version of that honestly. unlikely best friends totally works for me. he barely graduated high school and the only reason he probably did was because they just wanted to get rid of him. he went away to college for like a month or two before he had to come back bc his mom went off the rails again and his little brother got hurt and someone needed to come be the "parent." his life's always been a mess lmao so the idea of her, a theater kid, and him, the quintessential bad boy, being bffs is amazing to me