Bim and Silver have seen multiple shows over the years, with all manners of songs and stories attached to them. They've both enjoyed them, and shared a lot of time hanging out now. But maybe…maybe going to see the Greatest Showman together is a bad idea.
They've both seen it multiple times before now, but their schedules just never synced up for them to make the outing happen together. So they're both pumped when they finally make it happen, excited for the visuals and the music and having a great time, just as they always do.
It's barely into the film at all, as the song A Million Dreams starts up, that Tobi just happens to glance over at Bim, knowing it's his friend's favorite song (because of course they've listened to the soundtrack a few hundred times together). And seeing the exuberant joy on his friend's face, he finds himself smiling in a way he hasn't in a long time. He catches himself and stops to push the feeling down, stomping on it and trying his best to bury himself in the story.
Then later comes, Come Alive. With it's rousing message of inspiration, of making life into what you want and he catches Bim smiling again and Silver's heart soars. Then it sinks as he realises what it means.
The rest of the film passes in a daze as he refuses to let anything show that might ruin the outing. They've waited so long to see the film together, he won't be the reason it's ruined. They sing together as they make their way home and are just talking and Bim insists they do something but Silver can't. He just wants to curl up and pretend he's dead. So he makes his excuses; oh he's tired, long day of superheroing tomorrow.
When he's in his room, the door is slammed a little too hard behind him and he just sits on the floor leaning against it. This isn't supposed to happen. He isn't supposed to like someone in this world. He's supposed to be trying to get home where he knows hopes Marvin might still be waiting for him to return.
Except it's been years. Marvin probably thinks he's dead. He's probably moved on and found happiness with someone else. Someone safe. Someone sane. Someone normal. Tobi breaks down. It's been a long time since he thought about Marvin and it tears at him to remember.
The next night, Tobi turns up on Roxy's doorstep with flowers and champagne and for the first time he kisses her. It's passionate and she squeals and they go dancing and for all the world it's like they're the happiest couple in existence, because it's so much easier for Silver to bury himself in his fake relationship than to admit to himself that he's accepted that he's never going to see Marvin again, and that he maybe kind of likes his best friend more than he should.
Silver's story continues in the ongoing plotline of Not As You Know Them