Being receptive to each other’s interests
jake peralta
7 reasons why Jake Peralta is awesome, as explained by phil-the-stone:
3. he’s not your typical suave attractive ~~~“male fantasy”~~~ hero
type? Idk how to explain this coherently it’s really late but. He’s not
Tough. He’s not brooding or angsty or edgy. He’s fun and goofy and a
total Dork most of the time, and he’s got a big nose and a soft tummy
and occasionally jumps into Terry’s outstretched arms. He’s also
sensitive and emotionally vulnerable and, while in no way incapable of
doing his job (which involves a certain degree of badassery) he does
have a number of “traditionally feminine” character traits. And that’s
shown as Completely Normal and a good thing, which is SUPER IMPORTANT
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The more I think about it, the more I want Amy to convert to Judaism for Jake. Not because I have any issues with their relationship, but because I think it would be a ~hilarious~ plot line.
Jake is a secular Jew whose connections to Judaism are more cultural than anything else. Meanwhile, Amy is the most intense pupil/researcher on the planet who has never half-assed anything in her entire life. Can you even imagine how seriously she would take Judaism and her conversion and how much that would drive Jake up the flipping wall?
Imagine Jake buying that one T-Rex menorah and Amy telling him they can’t use it because it’s not a kosher Chanukiah. And Jake’s like “huh? What? It’s a dinosaur, Amy, not a pork chop.”
Imagine Jake offering to sound out the Hebrew in a siddur for Amy with his remedial Aleph-Bet skills to discover she’s already mastered how to read the letters without vowels and is also becoming proficient in modern conversational Hebrew.
Imagine Amy hosting a THE PERFECT Seder (that Charles has enthusiastically cooked for after learning all about kosher laws, having his kitchen completely kashered, and making a menu that includes Jewish cuisines from around the world) that Jake ruins after being caught eating doughnuts in the bathroom because he hates matzah.
Bonus points if Amy finds out she descends from Sephardim and lectures Jake about his Ashkenazi centrism!
Just…imagine how amazing that would be. Please.
Given the magnitude of the antisemitism going on around us right now this isn’t some Great Feat but my mom told me today how upset one of our friends was about the Jewish girl who got a swastika drawn on her dorm or whatever and for some reason After all this hell of the past week, that was the straw that broke the camel’s back and I’ve been genuinely upset all night, literally close to tears.
And here comes Brooklyn Nine Nine, back from the war after a month of sadness, and Jake Peralta stands up there and shuts down even the simplest act of antisemitism and I don’t think how I can describe how much that eased my heart and i just. Thank you to whoever wrote that line. I really, really needed that tonight.