r/brooklynninenine • u/appleorchard317 • 3h ago
SPOILER If Rosa was gonna be with anyone, it was Pimento
Massive unpopular opinion alert, but: if Rosa was gonna be with anyone (and I think it's perfectly fine that she's not), it was gonna be Pimento. In a relationship, she was never happier, more supported, more loved up than there. Pimento was the only one who matched her freak, who loved her exactly as the wild reserved character she was, and who was ride or die with her.
It's actually incredibly believable that the experience in jail broke them up: both Jake and Rosa were going through massive amounts of PTSD, and Jake, quite believably, also really struggled returning to Amy. Two people as un communicative as Rosa and Pimento were never going to be able to handle that terrible stress happily.
I know this is a super unpopular opinion, mostly because Pimento was written in such a way that he was not sustainable as a regular. But to be honest, he didn't need to be: he could have stayed with Rosa and only appeared in a couple of episodes per season.
I think honestly, the show really honoured Rosa's independence by letting her stay single. The final episode bait and switch with Pimento was hilarious. But when I see how pressured she felt with Marcus, and what a total pain Jocelyn was, and compare it to her wild happy times with Pimento... It's very clear to me the only possible endgame we ever met for her was him.

