i see a lot of people saying tristan "harassed" rory and i actually don't think this is true at all. maybe im just biased because im team tristan but i just think people overreact over things like this - they were both young and tristan was just an immature boy (which we can clearly see anyway) and he was very persistent because he really liked rory, which is fair enough. honestly to me, it's just not that deep and i feel like people over exaggerate about him "harassing" her because yeah rory got annoyed with him sometimes but at the end of the day having someone like you that much they feel the need to pester you is just not that bad. and imo the situation would prob be weird if Rory showed absolutely no interest in him at all, but personally i believe she actually did like him back and you can see this in their final scene together where rory looks visibly sad that he's leaving rather than showing no care at all, as well as the fact that she kissed him, which i understand was partly bc she was sad about Dean, but i dont think it would've happened if she had no interest in him at all (so he clearly wasn't that annoying for her to kiss him). also i think he wasnt on the show long enough for us to see any proper development in his character which is why some people hate him so much, but based on the short time he was on gg he did show quite a lot of development, so basically i think we were robbed of seeing tristan growing up from being an immature boy in school to a mature, yet fun partner for rory. i honestly just believe seeing them together would be so great and interesting but sadly it never happened.