#SPRITE/ZEE

[madeinjapan-thailand-blbambeyond]

MADE IN THAILAND

RITCHANON SRIPRASITDACHA

[Nickname: FRAME]

PANYA MCSHANE

[Nickname: RYAN]

TATCHANON THONGPAO

[Nickname: TEAM]

THOTSAWAT SING-UPPO

[Nickname: TUSS]

APIVIT UEAMAHASOPA

[Nickname: TEN]

CHINDANAI DECHAWALEEKUL

[Nickname: HEARTH]

TRAIPAT WUTHIBOWORNNANT

[Nickname: NUT]

KOOPPONG CHUMNANYONG

[Nickname: KONG]

[scalefeathers]

can we talk about how none of the Titans have pupils

it’s such a minor thing but it really helps convey the sense that these are a different breed of god: more ancient, more primal, and more distant from humanity than their descendants. No coincidence either, I think, that their costumes look more Ancient Egyptian than Ancient Greek, Chronos’s especially.

Even their bodies seem less organic than those of the Olympians. Chronos looks like he’s made of black marble veined with gold, Selene’s cheekbones could cut glass, and Hecate’s abs are literally chiseled. They’re just as beautiful as the other gods, but they’re unsettling too.

(I’m also obsessed with the fact that the Titan of Time has a literal hourglass figure. Love that for him)

[khaotunq]

is it a character primer or a "tag yourself" meme? Yes. Twins (2023)

[heretherebedork]

The kiss that brought First to his knees.

[pharawee]

"If you can win his heart, you can win the whole team's heart."

[usertoxicyaoi]

"Are you okay? You don't look well."

TWINS (2023). Episode 4.

[respectthepetty]

My tiny color-coded cringe baby is about to get his boy!

The way Sprite maintained eye contact when he was kneeling down to tie First's shoe *bites knuckles*

Sprite had me and First fucked up.

This was a sexual awakening for God's strongest solider.

All's I know is if Sprite would have told First he was the most special-est boy ONE. MORE. TIME. First would have pushed him against those lockers Between Us style.

Blue + Yellow =

GREEN!

And I'm red-dy for Zee to mess this all up.

[monprecieuxx]

See the thing is, to me, Twins at the heart of it has become about loneliness. Regardless of how much they’re explored or present on screen, every character is so painfully alone. By choice, by circumstances, by accident, just so crippingly lonely.

Sprite is alone by circumstance. He’s alone because no one prefers him, alone because Zee is a better bearer of their mother’s expectations. He’s the older twin and overlooked and he still tries, my goodness he tries so hard that it makes me wonder how anyone in his life can see that and not adore him to pieces. He’s so lonely he thinks his brother’s known nemesis is his closest confidant. In this team full of people who hate the one who wears his face he would rather tackle trying to befriend First, that it is the best choice. Idk if it’s naïveté or just unchallenged confidence he built up as a way to survival but it’s so audacious, it’s kind of brilliant.

And it works, it wears First down, he manages to get these people to like him but at the end of the day, it’s not him they like. This timed repose of belonging but only when he is standing in for someone else. Holding onto Zee’s life while his falls to pieces and for what? No credit, no appreciation, not even a hint of understanding from his mother, his father, even Salmon or Tan.

First is similar in the sense of never getting afforded the favouritism Zee enjoys from his father and his sister being a Zee stan just adds salt to the wound. The only people who prefer him are the team and even then they are so factioned he’s part of the in-group and still stands alone.

Zee, see Zee is so interesting to me cause his loneliness is self-inflicted. Maybe it started when the twins were split, maybe when he became part of the team we don’t know. We’ve only seen the worst parts of him until now and he seems to be content functioning in that window too. He’s thrust into this life w/o any input, seems to be doing it right and he’s still miserable. He has the recognition, he allegedly has the skill, he (undeservedly, in a way) has the girl and he still vows to take over Sprite’s life? And do what? Wreak havoc as him? Permanently replace him? Just hang around to fuck w/Sprite?

Idk where im going w/this, just ruminating about characters from this silly twin swap show.

[iguessitsjustme]

Now this could just be the stress talking but someone needs to teach that boy how to play volleyball. At least the basics my god

[scarefox]

Ok but how is it possible that Sprite is so much cuter than Zee when it's literally the same actor? Actors man~

[putterphubase]

i can only hope that when the truth comes out they don’t drag the initial betrayal arc only because first and sprite are really so similar and i want first to see that, despite you know sprite technically lying about his identity.

right now first is already taking up for “zee” against half of the entire team. imagine how soft on him he’s gonna be once he finds out “zee” is actually sprite aka a person who is going through all of this just because of parental pressure and rejection and he’s actually just the good sweet boy he appears to be and not even the guy who first’s dad prioritizes!!!! sprites own parents don’t even prioritize him!! sprite is doing this BECAUSE of the ways that they’re similar. he’s just like you. YOU MUST PROTECT HIM!!!

[hotasfahrenheit]

Someone once told me that when it comes to volleyball, we must communicate with our hearts.

[Twins, 2023, Episode 6]

(Just First's heart melting in real time, no big deal)

[sunshinechay]

His dad didn’t check in with Sprite a single time this entire episode. Didn’t ask how he was holding up. Didn’t ask if this was becoming too much. Didn’t ask if he thought he could keep going. All he kept asking about was Zee. How is Zee doing? How bad are his injuries? How are you doing with HIS volleyball practices?

Sprite may have volunteered to do it, but that doesn’t mean his own parents can go without checking in on him. Yet they don’t, and Sprite doesn’t even think about asking for it anymore. He doesn’t complain about the toll it’s taking on his body. Having to do both sports. He only complains that he isn’t good at volleyball like Zee is so he caused the team to loss. It’s ironic that Salmon is the only one to ask about this because she isn’t even Sprite’s friend, she’s Zee’s girlfriend. Sprite probably thinks she’s only doing it because she is concerned about Zee’s place on the team, not about Sprite and how soon his body is going to give out from under him.

To watch the hope and light die just a little bit more in Sprite’s eyes each passing day is hard. All anyone cares about is Zee. Zee is the one in the hospital. Zee is the one their mother pours all of her effort into. (I honestly have so much to say about their mother and none of it good). Zee is the golden child that their parents immediately go too when he’s sick or injured.

Zee is the one both of them finally listen to when he tells them to leave his hospital room. Neither can even show the maturity necessarily to hold back arguing about Zee as if he isn’t even there. And if Zee isn’t even there, where exactly is Sprite?

Both of their parents seem to only think about their children in terms of what they can do for them. Zee’s talent in volleyball out weigh Sprite’s talent in jiujitsu to them. Zee is the quiet one who did as they said without comment. Zee is the good child who suffers in silence and does not make trouble, whereas Sprite causes nothing but trouble.

It’s honestly no wonder Zee finally can’t take it anymore. His anger at Sprite might be misplaced, but I get where it is coming from. He can’t suffer in silence anymore. He can’t take the weigh of his mother’s disproportionate expectations and his father’s distance. He can’t take that his brother seems to have a carefree life, void of the constraints of the world. It’s no wonder he wants what Sprite has.

It’s also no wonder why Sprite does what he does. He mouths off to his teammates, not knowing or realizing that they are capable of such extremes (who on earth would want to believe that) and causes Zee’s hospitalization. He wants to do everything he can to get his mother to pay attention to him because for all that he might have come to terms with it, he is still a little boy desperate for his mother’s love and affection, even if it comes with strings as thick as rope for him to dangle himself over the precipitous. Even if in the end, she still won’t give it to him. He still want to make things better for the brother who hates him for something that isn’t even his fault.

Sprite has only been shown time and time again that his parents may take care of him, but they do it because they have too. They do it because he was the plus one to Zee’s birth. They might love him because he is their son, but they do not care about him.

So Sprite tries with the team. Tries to get on their good side and make friends and build something with them because he wants them to like his brother (always his brother, never him). Only to be forced back into the corner and belittled and ignored because he isn’t his brother. He doesn’t have the skills necessary to play like his brother does because it’s impossible to build those skills in only a few short weeks when Zee’s been doing it for years. And he can’t even tell them why he can’t play as well as Zee can because if he does that and one of them tells the coach then the whole team is screwed.

Sprite is walking a dangerously tight rope and he is going to fall one day. He is going to fall and he needs to learn about to catch himself because he knows in his heart he has no safety net. He has no one save a single friend who only knows half the story, who only knows what Sprite tells him. He doesn’t believe he has his family to fall back on. He knows he doesn’t have the team to fall back on. He only has himself because it’s been proven to him time and time again. So he tries his damnest to make sure nothing effects him. He tries so hard to get better at volleyball, to make his parents proud, to make sure he does his best for his teammate, to make sure that his brother has a life and a sport to come back too. He tries so hard NOT to think about the fact that his father doesn’t check in with him when he finally comes clean.

[heretherebedork]

Poor First. This boy is trapped between two twins and he doesn't even know it. He has one who loves him fiercely and devotedly and one who has always hated him and he has no idea why he's being ping-ponged back and forth between these two extremes.

He deserves the truth but Sprite doesn't think anyone would love him if they knew the real him and so he keeps hoping that pretending to be Zee will get him the love he wants because the only person he knows is loved is Zee... so why not be him?

But First never loved Zee. First hated Zee. First fell in love with Sprite and all the ways he isn't Zee. But Sprite just can't see that.

And so he's hurting First despite loving him because the only parts of himself that he sees as loveable... are the parts that aren't him.

[pharawee]

First & Sprite

—TWINS, Episode 1

[conscbgb]

"I like First!!"

Now Sprite you have to tell the truth about you and Zee to First...that poor guy is having an headache because of your changin' personality every 2 days 🙈🤪 not knowing you are switchin' with your twin...