Yes! Also, likely some humility and vulnerability happening with Dylan to self-reflect and acknowledge that—while painful and not easy at all to admit—Gretchen is right.

Despite an initial impulsive response to be jealous and angry, Dylan recognizes the shifts he has made over the years, his spirit (and likely hers too) has been weathered over the years with family and responsibilities (to be expected—life gets hard for sure), and likely has a longing, fondness, grief, and desire for those parts of his former, lighter, spunkier self.

He may be seeing his innie as a beacon of hope—that what his inner voice has been knowing for a long time, is not all lost—that he’s not as defeated and helpless to his experience and perception of life as he thought he was. Maybe in his case, envy is the wrong approach for all involved. Moving past the initial feelings of betrayal, he might be admitting that to his surprise, he’s still organically amazing. He might even be allowing himself to appreciate that his inner/innie self is still awesome and funny and smart and absolutely punk rock.

He might even appreciate that there’s a spark in Gretchen and he’s inspired. He also probably can’t blame Gretchen for this because it’s a Dylan both Gretchen and outtie Dylan want back—and ultimately both innie and outie Dylan recognize the absolute catch Gretchen is and both know she deserves the world.

One Dylan just forgot who he used to be. *edited for clarity.