dan doesn’t want to get married (valid) but he still wants people to see phil as his forever person. like he will cringe at the word ‘husband’ but still make sure everyone sees a video of him pushing phil, a grown ass man, up a hill like a toddler because that’s HIS grown ass man and only he gets to have him and indulge him and pamper him. he just doesn’t want the word for that to be ‘husband’ (or boyfriend). he’s like “we’re immortal tortoises, we’re soulmates, best friends, companions through life” and people go “okay so you’re a couple then?” and he becomes that gif of emma roberts in scream queens where she huffs all frustrated because nooo they’re not a couple, other people, normal people with boring normal relationships are couples and husbands and boyfriends. what he and phil are to each other is so much bigger and more complex and nuanced and unfathomable and no one can understand it. he really thinks he and phil are the first and only people to experience a lifetime kind of love that feels like fate. and honestly who are we to tell him he’s wrong.
