#I love Fadel's poker face

[braceletofteeth]

If you keep on ignoring me, I'll just keep messing with you.

[ropebunnykant]

at first i didn’t think the “fadel is faking it to get info on style” thing was a genuine theory people were believing but i saw so many people thinking it in the comments of an edit of the scene in the woods on tiktok and just. i fear it comes from a genuine misunderstanding of fadel as a character.

like in general fadel is just. not a liar. like i feel like one thing we’ve learned about fadel is that despite coming off cold and kind of mean and you know being a literal assassin, he has very strong morals, and it seems like one of those morals includes honesty. or in the very least - not lying. cause obviously he has to a certain extent for his work as an assassin, but in general most things about that job go against fadel as he is - he just justifies it all by telling himself what their mother told him, that these are bad people who deserve it. and he has so many opportunities to lie to style and say no i don’t like you, or no, i don’t find you attractive, or x y z, but his method of dealing with style is always avoidance, rather than directly lying to him. so for him to fake a very real, very vulnerable confession, it just doesn’t make any sense.

especially because the other thing we know for sure about fadel is that he does Not do vulnerable. he has an extremely rough and hard exterior for a reason - even BISON says he thinks fadel is rough on the inside as well. if even bison, who is fadel’s brother and the person he cares about the most, believes fadel isn’t capable of love and vulnerability, i don’t believe for a second fadel would want to or even be willing to fake that kind of thing. his vulnerability in that scene came from a genuine place and breaking point - you can hear it in his voice. which like, shoutout to joong because his acting in that scene was fucking incredible and i feel like it’s a discredit to him as an actor to claim any of that felt fake but i digress. and sure, maybe fadel is just a good actor, and sure he likely has the best poker face, but with how allergic he is to acknowledging his feelings, i don’t believe he’d be able to fake it.

plus, we also know for a fact he wasn’t lying because we saw during the episode the ways he was missing style - he didn’t even ask anyone anything at his morning jog, so we know for sure he wasnt just looking for style for show.

and while i understand wanting to justify the fact that it seems like he broke quickly, i just think if you feel the need to question that, you haven’t actually been paying much attention to fadel at all. or you just have a fundamental misunderstanding of how repression works. because fadel has been repressing himself for very likely years, has been holding in an insane amount of pain and grief for so long - like, it’s clear that even bison is unaware of the fact that fadel once had someone he loved and lost. which means the only people he’s talked to about it are the strangers at the loss support group - IF that because i would not put it past fadel to never say a word at those meetings, i mean in both instances that we see him in the group setting, he doesn’t say anything even before style shows up.

fadel has had his heart walled up and been dealing with his grief and loss all on his own. and he has spent WEEKS pushing style away and trying to keep him at arms length. so of course, of course when someone comes in and not only says they want him, his heart, and comes in with sledge hammers to tear down those walls, they’re gonna crumble.

and you know maybe i’ll eat my words, but i just can’t fathom the idea that any of that confession was fake to fadel, and i think if you do you’re just misunderstanding him.

[semantics-error]

Love the brothers so much, but Bison and Fadel are truly the dumbest idiots in love. Kant and Style have LITERALLY the worst poker faces known to mankind and Bison and Fadel out here like ~omg he loooooves me~ That moment when Bison asked Kant if he had anything else to hide? Are you KIDDING? Bison my baby boy. You noticed bruises on a kid not your own brother and you can't see the way Kant's face DROPPED? The way his shifty-ass eyes went wild? And this after Fadel straight up told you (the TRUTH) that Kant probably got his record scrubbed? And FADEL don't think you're getting off easy, the fucking nutcase who's chased you for sex for the last four episodes suddenly isn't interested? WHERE did your suspicious nature go? These two deserve their upcoming betrayals they're literally so dumb <3 PS yes I know that this is all just to show the viewer that Kant/Style are afraid and guilty. But it's hilariously cheesy to have them make such insanely guilty faces and have Fadel/Bison just... not notice?? Wild.

[airenyah]

ah fuck i just remembered that my mom and i agreed that tomorrow (today) when my mom has come back from her night shift and has slept for a bit we'll spend the afternoon watching the second half of thk (eps 4-6). and FUCK. how am i supposed to keep a pokerface during ep6 when literally every little thing makes me cry as i think about the ending?? how the fuck am i supposed to keep a poker face while style and fadel are being cute in the bed in the beginning when i know how it's gonna end? HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO KEEP A POKER FACE WHILE STYLE DRAWS LITERAL TEARS ON FADEL'S FACE WHEN I KNOW HOW THE EPISODE IS GOING TO END?? how the fuck am i supposed to keep a pokerface while style hops and skips into the diner when i know how the episode is going to end and fadel doesn't see how genuinely and with how much sincerity style loves him. how the fuck 😭😭😭😭😭