was it implied that esperanza valdez was poor or is it fanon? wasn’t she an engineer?
no bcuz esperanza valdez and tristan mclean being best friends in high school and/or college and he goes to esperanza's funeral when she dies but one day piper visits her dad and brings leo with her and tristan just "🧍" for a second as he processes that his daughter is best friends with his dead best friends son
Okay okay I’ve an idea, tristan went from oklahoma to LA with little piper right? What if they went through texas and tristan’s shit old pre-film-star car broke down and esperanza gave them a hand with it?
Tristan’s like “I can’t pay you, I can barely feed my kid”
And esperanza invites him and piper over for dinner and a good night’s sleep and says “just pay me back when you become a movie star”
So ofc tristan pays for leo’s university tuition bc fuck toa and what happens to the mcleans