Happy Finale Day, Pals! Look At My Kids!!!!
jake peralta
but can we talk about holt for a second
this is his son – he literally thinks of jake as a son. and that son, whom he’s mentored and nurtured for four full seasons, through defiance over ties and even a stint in witness protection, has been unfairly convicted of a crime holt *knows* he didn’t commit because he was trying to help him make the bust. now that son, a damn good cop according to everyone who knows him, is going to prison. his prize mentee is in love with his son, and they’ve just been sentenced to a 15 year separation. and holt has to watch, knowing that the police system he fought to make better is still deeply flawed and having to come to terms with the fact that as a cop, he just couldn’t do enough to stop this.
anyways come find me dead on the floor
i love brooklyn nine nine’s subversion of the typical “we’re not so different…you and i” reoccurring antagonist/protagonist trope that it has with doug judy/jake peralta. like instead of the “we both take the law into our own hands and have a twisted sense of morality” comparison that happens in more Serious shows it’s kinda like “these two dudes have really similar senses of humor and get along really well…just one of them’s a criminal and one’s a cop” it’s just an incredibly light-hearted new take on a tired trope and i love it
@theonewithalltheposts: can someone please make a gifset of Jake’s horrible comebacks to Amy (+ cc @phil-the-stone)
jake and amy will probably propose to each other at the exact same time and after they both get down on one knee, there will be a few moments of stunned silence before both try to get down as low as possible so that they get to be the one to propose
after a few minutes it’s just the two of them lying face-down on the ground
“I’M KNEELING SO HARD RIGHT NOW,” jake declares
“I AM THE GROUND,” shouts amy