I know that the underlying theme for chanbig is daddy kink but what if I raised you: soft chan.
Chan who just can’t say no to this boy that got thrown at him with a “make something out of him” order.
Chan who gives up on fighting big over his hair and one day decides to walk up to him and tie the loose strands in a ponytail.
Chan who doesn’t say anything when Big breaks in to his office at night to steal his liquor because he’s crying so Chan might as well leave him be.
Chan who always tells big to wear a bulletproof vest because “this fucking kid has a death wish, I swear”
Chan who refuses to acknowledge that he might have a favorite amongst the bodyguards and maybe his favouritism has something to do with the affection that he feels towards Big (who is now a man with sharp features and long limbs).
Chan who holds his breathe while he stands at the edge of the pool because Big is not coming up and even Ken seems worried about it and why isn’t Big coming up?
Chan who pushes Big against the lockers because “what was all that? were you trying to drown yourself?”
and Big who looks at him with narrowed eyes only to spit a whispered “why? do you care?
and the thing is: Chan cares — he cares so much it hurts so he simply crashes their lips together and Big clings to him: he clutches on chan’s jacket, his hair, his waist, on every single thing within his reach.
Chan who loves Big in the night and holds him so close that their foreheads bump against each other and big laughs and gasps and melts under chan’s touch.
Chan and Big don’t die in this story and when Kuhn Korn summons Chan it goes something like this:
“I believe your loyalty has shifted”
“My loyalty? No, sir. My loyalty belongs to the family but my life? Not anymore”
Little Palestinian boy all alone after his whole family were murdered by Israel:
“I wish I could go to heaven with them!”
طفل فلسطيني صغير وحيدًا بعد أن قُتلت عائلته بأكملها على يد إسرائيل: "أتمنى أن أذهب معهم إلى الجنة!"
really wish "abolish the police" was trending with all the news, it feels like a lot of ppl have forgotten since the height of blm
Vegas hired the female assassin to attack Porsche (and Kinn) to test his skills...
BEFORE his dad asked him to follow Porsche
Vegas dated Tawan first before Kinn, but Vegas wanted Tawan to infiltrate the main family by dating Kinn, something Tawan looked miserable over because he loved Vegas so much.
Vegas has a solid villain motive for doing this - he wanted to prove himself to his abusive homophobic father
The way his dad killed Ken makes me think the dad believed something was happening between them ("What the hell are you and Vegas doing?!") which only made him more violent towards Ken. And the only reason his dad demanded he follow Porsche is because he is using what he hates about his son to his advantage.
In both of the examples, Vegas does not have a true attachment to either Porsche or Tawan. He doesn't care about Porsche's attractiveness, and looks at himself in the mirror rather than Tawan. He doesn't see them, only what they can do for him, so he is a step ahead of his dad each time; before his dad can truly use him, he'll use others first. He has talked often about the main family's treatment of his family (that is a different post!), but it reinforces his rationalization. His family has been used many times by the main family to clean up the dirty messes, so they aren't family. They are employees. Can't care if everyone is a pawn and disposable in the main family's game of chess including himself.
Like Disney, moms are dead here, which supports Vegas being distant from people. Love is a weakness that Kinn has shown, and Vegas noted ("Kinn's got his heart broken again because he gets fooled again by the ones he trusts most and the main family will get weaker and weaker"). Can't get hurt if you don't get attached. Can't be fooled if you don't trust anyone. We see this trust/distrust motif throughout the series with all the characters, except one...
Pete.
Who is loyal to the main family.
Who is fine with being a pawn.
Who volunteers to be disposable.
Who trusts unconditionally.
Vegas isn't an antagonist for Kinn. When we really look at it, Kinn and Vegas are parallels. They are on different ends of the same spectrum and battle with the same vices. Vegas needs a foil, a Dr. Jekyll to his Mr. Hyde, and Kinn isn't it. Kinn didn't save Porsche by battling Vegas. Kinn isn't playing a cat-and-mouse game with Vegas. It's Pete, which means Pete is the true hero of this arch.
Vegas is a proper villain...for Pete.
Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later
Pete reaching out to caress Vegas' lips and face 😭😭😭
OUR DATING SIM episodes 7-8
PLL: Original Sin
First look at “🅰️”
So much scarier than black hoodie!! Love it!!
macau saying "that was fast!" after pete and vegas kissed is really making me think about what vegaspete looks like from macau's point of view. imagine you're macau, your older brother has been shot four times by the major family and hospitalized. a guy you kind of know because he's your cousin's bodyguard shows up at the hospital and starts taking care of you and your brother. until now you've had like three conversations with him total. after a month of this weirdness you overhear this guy call your brother his owner and himself your brother's pet casually in conversation, and for some reason they start making out about it. like isn't being a teenager already hard enough