Tina knows she's not entirely a different person because the idea of her parents being disappointed in her still hurts maskormenace | text - be gay do crimes
She talked to Archo about how she doesn't want her siblings to show up any more both because /gestures at everything that's happened since she arrived/ but she also knows she's changed so much she'd be a bit of a stranger to them
But thinking of this lets her know she's still Tina Belcher at her core and is still a fudnamentally Good Child who wants her parents to be proud of her
Later on she'll appreciate how the adults in her life here let her mess up and join a gang because kids do dumb shit all the time and in the end it didn't end up hurting her all that much, since Team Skull is the "you tried" star personified
And this pretty much happened here- being rebellious felt good in the moment but she's just too good of a person for even that much to be cathartic for too long
Bob and Linda would have handled this differently, but then again if they were with her she never would have gotten to the point where she was tempted to be a baddie
magnus, leader of a rebellion: sweats
archie, an ecoterrorist: sweats
Tina as soon as the convo is over: hhhhhh hhhhhh hhhhh horses hhhh hhh hhhh