[follows the canon of every season of hbo’s euphoria] maddy knew who she was from a very early age. it’s seems like the universe is dead set on proving that wrong. senior year of high school, she was dating nate jacobs. she finds out he’s on grindr behind her back, makes a scene at the carnival, which leads to nate choking her out. her parents forced her to go to the police when they found at, which at the time pissed maddy said off to no avail, but in hindsight was in her best interest. as if that wasn’t enough, nate’s dad cal fucked around with maddy’s classmate jules and recorded it, and maddy became the one who had the disc of it, which lead to nate threatening her with a gun until she gave it to him. then the candle on top of the shit cake??? she finds out from rue bennett , that her best friend cassie howard had been fucking nate behind maddy’s back, 3 weeks after they broke up, even though cassie knew about all the abuse maddy endured with nate. so at the play that lexi howard put on at school, maddy beat cassie’s ass. since then maddy has sworn off guys, and girl best friends. it’s about 4 years after high school. rue is working for alamo after he paid off her debt with laurie, jules is a sugarbaby, lexi is working as a screen writer, and cassie and nate jacobs are fucking engaged, and cassie has started an onlyfans to be able to help pay for the wedding. and guess what she does? hits maddy up, telling her she misses her, invites maddy to her and nate’s upcoming wedding.with an agenda to have maddy- who is now a talent agent- manage her for onlyfans. maddy of course agrees, because if nothing else, she’s going to get her damn revenge, even if that means being fake for a little while. meanwhile, rue is hopping from place to place because she has nowhere to stay, and that means she frequently finds herself at maddy’s studio apartment. they’ve been spending a lot of time together lately, when rue isn’t working at the silver slipper. and rue’s clean… mostly. okay, she’s california sober, because maddy told her she would always have a place to stay, as long as rue wasn’t using. rue still has feelings for jules, despite jules having cheated on her with elliot back in high school and ratting rue out to her mom. speaking of rue’s mom, and gia for that matter… rue hasn’t talked to them since her mom kicked her out at 18, true to her word. jules still has love for rue, and they hooked up a few times, but after everything that went down in high school, things just aren’t the same. things aren’t the same for maddy, either. it’s weird… maddy isn’t gay.. right? she’s never liked girls, she likes men, big ones with masculine energy (hence why she used to be with nate). she’s not gay.. but whenever rue’s around? the way she smells.. they way she carries herself so masculine-ly. she tells herself it’s just because she’s horny, she hasn’t gotten laid in a while. she tells herself it’s because of the proximity, but that doesn’t change the little flip in her stomach when ever rue casually flirts with her. it leaves maddy feeling on edge, kinda pissy and annoyed, because WHY is she feeling like this?? this is the last thing she needs right now. and it’s not like rue isn’t attracted to maddy. she is, don’t get that shit twisted. but rue is a gentleman, she wouldn’t make a move unless she thought it would be well received. and sometimes that line is a little blurred, because sometimes it almost seems like maddy might be into her? but no, that’s not right, since maddy isn’t gay… or maybe she just hasn’t realized she is? rue doesn’t fucking know. maddy doesn’t fucking know, but she does know it pisses her off when rue brings up jules. like, why would she want to get back with a girl who cheated on her? rue deserves better. could maddy be the one who gives her better?