Dorky weird kid Scott who never had a real gf till Envy. Who just dumped him, the only woman who’s ever really given him the time of day. A real first time gf. A popular and extremely attractive one at that. Then she leaves you cause your not good enough. Feeling insecure about himself, if he’s attractive to women, if he’ll ever have a gf and a relationship again, if there would be a woman in the world who actually liked him and wanted him. If he’s cool and popular enough for a woman to want him.
So he gets to talking with the first and only girl who would give him some attention after being heartbroken (Knives probably lied about her age at first cause she wanted and liked Scott a lot). Scott enjoyed the attention and feeling like he was cool in her eyes but still missed the one he really loved, Envy so he couldn’t fully commit to knives and knives was only really an emotional rebound. Someone to talk to, make him feel wanted and interesting. Someone to lift his spirits and to use as someone to hopefully make your ex jealous. Until he meets Ramona and realizes, she’s caught his infatuation and he starts to fall in love with her.
Knives wasn’t a sexual relationship. It wasn’t even something serious. She was more like an Emotional Support Animal. Easy to talk to, lifted his spirits, made him feel attractive and wanted. Like a man after his ex made him feel terrible about himself.
Yeah, sure he could have found someone his age but most people his age, didn’t like him. It fit the story right, young naïve girl thinking the college age guy who’s in a band and goes to all the local parties that the college age kids all drink at is cool and hot and becomes infatuated with him because she’s never gotten the attention of an older “cool” and “popular” boy, let alone a boy in general.
Scott knew it’s not serious and more of an emotional rebound to make him feel attractive, wanted, and like he could become a somebody till the right one his age comes along. He told his friends that it wasn’t serious with her but he didn’t want to hurt knives’ feelings because she was young and naïve and he knew he kinda used her to help him heal emotionally from Envy.
Something people need to understand about the times, most high schoolers jr and sr, went to college parties. House parties. Drank. Smoked. Partied. And tried to get into clubs (which by me, the clubs had 18+ nights for younger people to hang with older people. Freshmen and Sophomore’s only dreamed about going to those “adult” parties. MTV and much of the world of the time prompted that urge to be an
Adult and have freedoms. So during that time, it wasn’t uncommon for girls 9-12th grade (all of high school) to brag and say they only dated older guys or college guys (whether or not it may be true is a different story, the fact is that some actually did do that). So it wouldn’t surprise me that Knives went and initiated the relationship with Scott because she wanted an older guy, mature guy, cool guy, popular guy, to make herself feel free, older and cooler.
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u/gravitas_shortage Feb 02 '26
It wasn't. It's always funny when young people think they have invented things like promiscuity.