Thanks for the thoughtful commentary!
In terms of a demo, it's mostly that it's an incomplete work and it burned me up on the inside to not have it be like "reasonably" done, ergo the label lol.
I think conceptually, I saw it narratively as less as a meet cute and more as perhaps another reflection of Toby's boyfail lifestyle, pathetic little sopping mop that he is (and that's why the condoms were a bonus scene--his vision of what they're used for is an imagined reality, as is his flirtatious imposition upon Bart in the glasses/gel dyad). In that he's dragged along in the wake of other's whims, and even his own imagined flirtations aren't properly reciprocated (at that time, at least). But I can very well see how the art depicts more of a meet cute, and I think that messiness of sorts comes out as the compromise for working on a team project together lol.