A/N I'm spoiling y'all. Don't lynch me when this well of creativity runs dry. 9 As it stood at the end of the movie, it seemed like Link loved Tracy for her personality and her heart first, and her looks were just a not-unpleasant side thing. Whereas Trace was 'in love' for years because of his looks and it was kinda like "Yes! He is a somewhat decent human being, so it's okay that I feel this way!" And though I think she ended up really loving him for his kindness, I'm not sure she would articulate this or Link would understand it. Seems to me that the relationship wouldn't last very long without some security.
(Gah, don't you hate it when authors ramble on so's the A/N's as long as the chapter? XD)
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Tracy knew where her priorities where. She'd had dancing before she had Link, and even if she stopped having him she would still have dancing. (And whatever adventuresome things her instinctive decency compelled her to do.) So when the red light was on, she was only a little bit inclined to soppy scenes with her blue-eyed boy.
Link was a little more conflicted. Before Tracy, he'd had preforming, sure. But while he enjoyed it, certainly more than some doldrum-ridden day job, if he was stripped of it it wouldn't be like taking away part of his soul.
He didn't want to think about what he would feel like if Tracy was taken away.
In many ways he thought she had made him who he was now; the thought of his former, shallow self made him cringe away and go to hide himself in her sunny warmth. It could have beome a very bad, obsessive, clingy sort of love, but Link Larkin was made of serner stuff. Tracy Turnblad or no Tracy Turnblad, he couldn't have risked his entire life as it then stood by dancing with Li'l Inez if he didn't have some sort of instinctive decency of his own.
Yes, the fact that he was a teenage boy couldn't be overcome. He got distracted on camera rather too often, and he managed to say things that offended his brown-eyed girl--on more than one occasion--through sheer male dense-mindedness, but by golly he knew enough to work at pleasing a girl worthy of being pleased.
With such motovation at hand he spent less time earning his pay through his looks and more through his dancing.
Fortunately for everone involved, Tracy noticed both the actions and the motovations behind them. He gave her all the credit for shaking him out of chronic apathy; but whatever the reasons, the effect was the same--knee-melting intensity on stage. Link Larkin's newfound passion for dance reclaimed as many female fans as had been lost to the dissapointment of his undeniable 'taken' status.
And dancing with lead-dancer Inez was always great fun, even if it was an entirely different animal from a dance with Tracy. (Link and Tracy dancing the staid old twist or waltz ended up looking rather more controversial on screen than Shelley and Mikey dancing in new and exiting ways.)
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Hey, is it just me or do Maybelle and Corny give off vibes like there's the potential for a little something-something? That would be an awesome and interesting relationship. XD