Why I Love WinTeam, Reason #33,219:

Team's not shy.
"But Team IS shy!" an imaginary person cries. "What about this entire scene?"
I hear you, imaginary person, but I don't think that's Team being shy. I think that's Team being uncomfortable with public displays of affection. There's a whole scene in Hemp Rope where Win explicitly realizes that Team is new to Queer Life and thus less experienced than Win is.
Whether alone or in public, Win never oversteps Team's boundaries. Not once. Team tells him not to hold his hand? Win doesn't. Team says he doesn't want sex? Win leaves him alone. Team doesn't want to feed him? Win complains—then leaves him alone.

They advance at Team's pace.
I absolutely love that because Team is younger and more inexperienced than Win, Win is very, very careful with him. Win's flirtatious, yes, but he never forces Team into anything. Both WinTeam kisses in UWMA are set up by Win, but Team is the one who has make the definitive move.
And the wonderful thing about Team in UWMA is that we see more than one side of him in a short time. When he's not around Win, Team is Violence First Talking Later, playful with his friends, gleefully open about sex as long as no one's asking HIM, totally unafraid of Dean, AND—
THE REASON THE GOLDEN TRIO ARE FRIENDS AT ALL.
The locker room scene is going to be amazing onscreen because it shows Extroverted Team AND Inexperienced with Relationships Team: he hears homophobic garbage about his friends and wants to fight, so Win drags him to the locker room to calm him down (also seen in the Alex scene).
I think Team's gradual accumulation of confidence will make #BetweenUstheSeries a beautiful parallel to UWMA. In was fearless and Pharm was traumatized – Team is like their middle ground.

Like, look how smug he is to play Win's flirty chip game once he's sure everyone's asleep.
WinTeam feel real. They're not a concoction of BL tropes and stereotypes where Team's some ~shy uke~ and Win's his ~smug top~. Team's an extroverted queer kid who's never dated another guy, and Win's barely into his twenties trying his best to look cool for the boy he loves.
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