Guuhhhhh ajwidneiene you and your big brain im giving it a big ol kiss mwah mwah
beau would never find out about the obsession unless he could gauge it from vivis behavior when they first meet. Bro is good at reading people but like we've seen before (read back to the beau/Vivi comic) VIVI is especially hard for him to read. Something something you'd think you'd know yourself but not really sort of deal.
But honestly, I can see beau giving Vivi perfume and his merchandise at first as like, soulless gifts for an acquaintance but Vivi just fangirling on the inside and going "this is going in the drawer under the bed"
I love that Vivi fell for it, tho. Like....he fell for the public version of beau at first, the beautiful version, the calm and graceful and marble statue version. But when he meets him I bet he was so DISAPPOINTED. And yet, he would probably understand it. Show business and all- marketing is the same thing, he was just a dummy to fall for it like everyone else.
Yet yet yet, he managed to see past the prickles and find the sweetness inside beau. He managed to break down his view of him TWICE, to see him as he really was. Aaanndd he fell in love with that (if you could call their situationship "love", its more like "something worse" but i digress).
Im eepyso sorry if im kinda inaccurate with everything I just really liked this ask and what it brought up :3 fangirl Vivi is love fangirl Vivi is life