#Shin/Neo/Miw

[morathicain]

"Oh come on", Neo muttered and Miw next to him released a chuckle that didn't sound as nonchalant as she probably wanted to. "It's just a scooter", Neo reminded himself as he stared at the pictures in front of him, holding the magazine maybe a tiny bit too tight, "Nothing cool about that." No, nothing cool about a scooter and nothing new about Shin's wardrobe and still ... still those pictures shook him the way they shook Miw. "When did his jawline become so sharp?", she grumbled and stared at the images as if they'd insulted her personally. "Why a damn scooter?", Neo asked at the same time, unable to even react to her insane question. Miw looked up at him, frowning: "You know we shouldn't have let him go back to the city." "I know", Neo agreed, his stomach tightening as his eyes wandered to Shin's waist, his goddamn hip, and his fingers started to flex in anticipation. Just to hold. Just to grab and drag and bite and ... "Keep it in", Miw hissed, apparently by now able to smell his arousal. But Neo ignored her. He watched the way Shin's shirt stretched across his chest, hiding beneath what Neo had touched and marked so often till now and not often enough. "You think that's how he's running around there?" The image was as juicy as it was unfair, because why should everyone else get to see him like this, while they had to be satisfied with images? A damn magazine? "Why is he even in an ad?", Miw asked but they both knew why. They'd long known that there was a second side to their not-exactly-so-shy Shin and they loved it and adored it, but each time they saw proof of it, it felt like a punch to the face. A very sexy one, Neo had to admit. "What's worse", this time Miw actually chuckled, "Between this and the stupid mob shirts, what's worse?" "This", Neo decided with a huff, "Because it will be worse to get off him."

"Where's the car?" Shin looked at the scooter in front of him with surprise, a bit like an owl caught in the light. Very adorable, Neo decided before taking Shin's bag from his shoulder. "At home. I wanted something different today." "Okay", Shin was still a bit confused and Neo couldn't blame him. No. That wasn't right. He could absolutely blame him because it was his own fault that Neo when he'd left to get Shin at the harbor, had chosen their old scooter instead of the car for a change. And so he stood, with his arms crossed, waiting for his partner to finally arrive. Suddenly, Shin squinted at him: "Did you see the photos?" Neo who was proud of his boyfriend for getting this while equally grumpy for not being the one who had been allowed to actually see him in those jeans, scrunched his nose in a pout. "Oh", and now Shin was grinning and he stepped closer, his horrible, horrible tongue peeking out for a quick lick as he looked up at Neo through his glasses, making him squirm because of the heat pooling in his belly, "I see." And before Neo could even react, he felt Shin's hand at his ass, inside his pocket and ... it was out again, dangling the key in front of Neo's face. "In that case", Shin smirked and leaned up, lips almost touching Neo's ear, "I will drive."

If Miw was laughing as they arrived, Neo hunched at the back of the scooter, clinging to Shin with his whole body, wrapped around him like an octopus, it was one thing. That she actually demanded to be taken on a ride with Shin next time, eyeing them with a jealous side eye, was a completely different one. But it didn't matter to Neo. He was ready and happy to share. As long as he got to be the one to pull down Shin's pants as soon as possible, leaving his marks on the way down, Shin's heavy breathing proof that he belonged. "Next time you better call us", he ground out as he jerked Shin off, right before biting and kissing his long throat. It took Shin over the edge with a cry, leaving him a trembling mess in Neo's arms. "Next time?", Shin breathed against his skin, his legs encircling his waist to keep him close, his smile blinding, "Oh, I can't wait for it." And then he had the audacity to bite the corner of Neo's lips and stare up at him with the most innocent of looks. "You!", Neo started, but the rest of his words went under in a fit of giggles and laughter and tickles and kisses until they became moans and huffs again, unrestrained.

"Bastard", Neo muttered as they went out at the noise to the sight of Shin on a motorbike, a pair of heavy boots at his feet, sunglasses on his nose and his white shirt tucked into those damn jeans highlighting his forbidden waist, his biteable thighs. "It's my turn!", Miw smirked as she said it and rushed forward, leaving Neo behind, too stunned to say even more. It had all been on purpose, he realized as he watched Shin's knowing grin and the confident way he lounged on that bike. It had all been on purpose and as his stomach tightened in anticipation, he knew he was doomed. And he was looking forward to it.

the End (?) (read it on AO3)

Tay Tawan

[sollucets]

@userdramas event 13: team spirit

I think something beyond killing a man binds us together.

[justafriend-ql]

Shin, how much does your father love you? 3 WILL BE FREE Episode 2

[respectthepetty]

An appreciation post for 3 Will Be Free.

It had the Jojo as the director.

It had a composer, Yim Tirit Jitjang.

It had a poly plot.

It had a trans character with a dedicated plot.

It had an elite cast.

Everyone, including people we cared about, died, yet it didn't bury the gays.

It had TWO cinematographers: Pongthorn Thongwattana (55:15 Never Too Late, Cupid's Last Wish, Mama Gogo) and Rath Roongrueangtantisook (He's Coming To Me, A Tale of Thousand Stars, Mama Gogo), which shows.

Did I mention the poly plot?

Because it had it!

Sprinkle a little respect on this show for doing the most in 2019 when it did not need to.

[waitmyturtles]

Turtles Catches Up With Old GMMTV: 3 Will Be Free and the Power of Jojo Edition

[What’s going on here? After joining Tumblr and discovering Thai BLs through KinnPorsche in 2022, I began watching GMMTV’s new offerings -- and realized that I had a lot of history to catch up on, to appreciate the more recent works that I was delving into. From tropes to BL frameworks, what we’re watching now hails from somewhere, and I’m learning about Thai BL's history through what I’m calling the Old GMMTV Challenge (OGMMTVC). Starting with recommendations from @absolutebl on their post regarding how GMMTV is correcting for its mistakes with its shows today, I’ve made an expansive list to get me through a condensed history of essential/classic/significant Thai BLs produced by GMMTV and many other BL studios. My watchlist, pasted below, lists what I’ve watched and what’s upcoming, along with the reviews I’ve written so far. Today, I’ll cover 3 Will Be Free, a show that is actually NOT a BL, but BL-adjacent by way of its inclusionary queer content, as written and directed by GMMTV’s Jojo Tichakorn.]

Like I mentioned last week, this review of 3 Will Be Free is slightly out of chronological order with my thoughts on Dew the Movie. But no worries! I needed some time to gather my thoughts on 3 Will Be Free for so many GOOD reasons.

This is the only Jojo Tichakorn show on the OGMMTVC list, as almost all of the rest of the list (except for Dew, Love Sick, and the Kiss Me Again and Puppy Honey cuts) are BLs or BL-adjacent. But I was super happy to get Jojo on the list, because 3 Will Be Free, as so many of you know, was a groundbreaking experiment in decidedly queer content airing on GMMTV.

The dear friends @lurkingshan and @wen-kexing-apologist were my buddies during my 3WBF watch, and the guiding rule that I realized in watching this show was: this show wasn’t CENTERED on queerness, as so many BLs are. This show was INCLUSIONARY of queerness, in an INCREDIBLY real way. Like, in a way that reflects my own life, among my queer friends and chosen family, in my very liberal part of America. 

Really quickly, before I dive into the show, I want to take a moment to actually compare this perspective to what I saw in Dew the Movie, which I’m still taken and shaken by. What a different experience of a presentation of queer-focused content. @absolutebl Sensei, in a question I posed to them before watching Dew, remarked that Dew fell into one of a number of categories of a kind of queer content that would be allowed to be produced as a movie -- that queer content in a movie, arguably, NEEDS to have a tragic ending, say, or punch-down humor. 

One of the lenses in which I’ve been watching shows on the OGMMTVC watchlist has been to keep an eye out for BL tropes -- their births, their presence, their development. We’re still in 2019 with 3WBF, but we know that come 2021, when Bad Buddy comes out, that P’Aof Noppharnach will produce a show with a BL infrastructure, while turning many common BL tropes around on their heads (I’m always referring to @miscellar’s FABULOUS post on this). But, still, by and large, many BLs produced during that time have core elements of BL infrastructure -- I refer often to Love By Chance as being the first referential BL on my list that really concentrates these tropes holistically into an almost-entirely successful show.

So when I say that 3WBF was REFRESHING to watch, as a crime drama that INCLUDED queerness as a fabric of the life that the show was depicting -- I see how Jojo, in this instance, could not be bothered by BL tropes or a necessary checklist of any kind related to queer media, and instead created a different fabric of a fictional life that hewed far more to reality (except for all the mafia stuff, but whatever). While the plot of 3WBF was wild and slightly wacky, the layers of ACCEPTANCE and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT about how queerness is ACTUALLY PRESENT in almost all aspects of our daily lives was just -- it was INCREDIBLY refreshing to watch. And for a cipher like Jojo to present that to us, unabashed, that we as a global population HAVE queerness around us, in the beautiful people we know and love in our lives -- fuck yeah. This show did not shy away from that.

As always, there were a number of themes that I think the show held that I’ll try to get to:

1) How our societies can’t deal with complicated people, 2) How society doesn’t always accept behavioral change, and 3) How chosen family can change our lives for the better.

Besides the inclusionary-not-centering perspective of queerness in the show, I loved that Jojo actually centered very complicated people as his main characters in Shin, Neo, Miw, and Mae (Ter was a bit more linear, on the edge of getting complicated, but his tragic end still struck hard). 

Getting ahead of myself to point #2 -- as I wrote in my review of Theory of Love, society and the general population doesn’t always take kindly to big behavioral change among individuals. We like labels, we like judging people. We like keeping people in boxes to control them. I think about the ways in which, for example, families often can’t accept that children are growing up and becoming adults, changing into different people and personas. If you know someone very well, you want to box them in -- oftentimes for the purpose of trying to control their behavior. 

I posit that society also doesn’t accept complicated, multifaceted people for the same reason. Neo is an out, bisexual man, a prostitute, and an alleged criminal. Miw is a hostess, a sometime-prostitute, and also an alleged criminal. Mae is in the midst of her gender transition journey. Society has its claws out for people like that, ready to judge Neo and Miw and Mae for existing on the borderline of acceptability of culture. (And as I very often write about, most recently for Dew -- having these individual characteristics will very often go against the grain of Asian collectivist societies.) 

What I really appreciated about the structure of 3WBF is that Jojo initially created a world, vis à vis Thana, in which individualism could NOT exist. Thana needed TOTAL loyalty and complicity for him and his business to function on a minute-to-minute basis. Any aberration to that might cost him his life or the life of his son, Shin. Thana had his wife killed. He killed others at the drop of a pin. In the end, he was on the edge of killing his own son, and the people who provided unconditional love in his son’s life. 

We know that Jojo VERY often includes this kind of macro-commentary in his works, most recently in Dirty Laundry -- the macro commentary about the often-problematic forces that control society above the heads of those trying to survive, including politicians, police, and leaders in criminal activity, all categories of power that more often than not are speaking to each other.

Thana was taken down by the people on the outskirts of society, of “normal” life. His son, Shin, was the bridge between those two worlds. 

I think Neo was probably centered at the start of the show to be the main character, but to me, Shin (acted INSANELY OUTSTANDINGLY by Tay Tawan, MY GOD, TAY! WHAT A TOUR DE FORCE) was the ultimate center of this show. For me, the show held Shin’s process of growth so beautifully, it gives me the shivers.

Shin was one smart motherfucker, despite seeming melancholy and indecisive on his surface. In fact -- he held all of that as a character. He was INCREDIBLY complicated and multifaceted. 

He had the opportunity and the resources to make huge changes in his life, including money. He loved Neo -- and he loved Miw, and was maybe confused by that, but ultimately accepted it. He leveraged his strengths and opportunities to change to save his friends. He hated his father, but didn’t want his father dead. He wanted to pursue art, but landed in mafia work. 

He, more than ANYONE, toed, stepped, and played on the line of the complicated gray area of existence in order to survive -- to survive NOT JUST FOR HIMSELF, but his chosen family around him. He stepped into that gray area to find love. He found the courage to ASK and get clarity around love from the people he loved in Neo and Miw. 

And -- to me, MOST BRILLIANTLY: he actually took his dad’s advice. He never played the victim. He was so often close to being one -- especially in the forest -- but there was clearly a steely side of him that helped him keep his spine straight, and helped him to survive, vis à vis himself and the friends that ultimately became his family.

And this is where this show ultimately really guts me. Shin chose his chosen family over his blood family -- the blood family in his father that held Shin back from the kind of change that would help Shin ultimately survive in the world. Shin represented a transcendence, a breaking-free from the powers that hold our societies back from progressive change, a very CLEAR message from Jojo that individual change CAN BE good for all of us at a macro level. Acceptance will not derail society. Acceptance will ENHANCE society.

Shin gained that strength through his chosen family. Chosen family allows us to transcend who we once were, to be who we really are. Chosen family allows us as individuals TO change, while our blood family so very often needs us to NOT change, so that they can continue to behaviorally control us. 

That’s why Neo and Miw are so important to Shin. That’s why Phon and Ter are so important to Mae. That’s why seeing Ter’s transformation vis à vis Mae was so important. (God, between Wad in SOTUS and Mae in 3WBF, Gunsmile has not caught a break in these GMMTV shows!)

Shin keeping Neo and Miw in his life meant that while he had to stay in his life of the family business, that his chosen family would allow him to BE HIMSELF ... while Shin’s own father demanded the erasure of all of the qualities that made Shin, Shin. 

These are huge messages. These very well may be messages that a BL infrastructure couldn’t necessarily hold -- again, because a BL centers queerness and romance. 3WBF, leveraging queerness as inclusionary, allowed for a crime story to hold SO many of these pieces and commentaries, bringing them together as an uplifting and holistic story that those who are down and out are only there because others put them there. Those who are excluded from mainstream society are so very often the ones that push us forward into better progressive change. 

Jojo didn’t fuck around with this -- and, DAMN, neither did Tay Tawan. WOW. I mean, all of them -- Joss, Mild, Jennie, Gunsmile. Total A-game performances. But Tay blew me away. You’d think that that hot-ass dude would only play jock roles, and I totally had him as Pete from Dark Blue Kiss in my head the first couple of episodes. But, HELL no. Tay totally rose to the occasion. What a performance. (Let me PLEASE pray that he can rise to the occasion again in Cherry Magic. Don’t let my darling Kurosawa down, Tay!)

I am SO glad that @wen-kexing-apologist and @lurkingshan convinced me to put 3WBF on the OGMMTVC list (THANK YOU FRIENDS, MY GAWD!). As BL-adjacent -- the show spoke to an inclusionary queer perspective that I am HELLA impressed that GMMTV embraced. I know I’m up for a stumble with 2gether as my next actual GMMTV offering on the list. But I think 3WBF certainly allowed for the door to crack open on GMMTV’s ultimate apology tour starting in the 2020s, after 2gether airs.

[HELL YEAH. 3 Will Be Free was so excellent. And I am having a SURPRISINGLY great time getting through Until We Meet Again. I’m really not a fan of long series runs, but I’m giving UWMA a long leash, because, well, Fluke, Ohm (the other Ohm, now I have TWO Ohms, so many Ohms), Kao, and SOOOO much Thai food. And Earth Cooheart is a TOTAL wonder. Oh my god, I love him way more in UWMA than his role in LBC.

I might be a touch delayed in finishing UWMA because of the Independence Day holiday here in the States, but -- hopefully not, and I hope to have my UWMA review up next week. Cross ya fingas for me. Here’s the status of the list. I’m getting mentally prepared for 2gether, oh boy. As ever, if you have any feedback, I’ll take it!

1) Love Sick and Love Sick 2 (2014 and 2015) (review here) 2) Make It Right (2016) (review here) 3) SOTUS (2016-2017) (review here) 4) Make It Right 2 (2017) (review here) 5) Together With Me (2017) (review here) 6) SOTUS S/Our Skyy x SOTUS (2017-2018) (review here) 7) Love By Chance (2018) (review here) 8) Kiss Me Again: PeteKao cuts (2018) (no review) 9) He’s Coming To Me (2019) (review here) 10) Dark Blue Kiss (2019) and Our Skyy x Kiss Me Again (2018) (review here) 11) TharnType (2019-2020) (review here) 12) Senior Secret Love: Puppy Honey (BL cuts) (2016 and 2017) (I’m watching this out of order just to get familiar with OffGun before Theory of Love -- will likely not review) 13) Theory of Love (2019) (review here) 14) 3 Will Be Free (2019) (not a BL or an official part of the OGMMTVC watchlist, but an important harbinger of things to come in 2019 and beyond re: Jojo Tichakorn pushing queer content in non-BLs)  15) Dew the Movie (2019) (review here) 16) Until We Meet Again (2019-2020) (watching) 17) 2gether (2020) 18) Still 2gether (2020) 19) I Told Sunset About You (2020) 20) YYY (2020, out of chronological order) 21) Manner of Death (2020-2021) (not a true BL, but a MaxTul queer/gay romance set within a genre-based show that likely influenced Not Me and KinnPorsche) 22) A Tale of Thousand Stars (2021) (review here) 23) A Tale of Thousand Stars (2021) OGMMTVC Fastest Rewatch Known To Humankind For The Sake Of Rewatching Our Skyy 2 x BBS x ATOTS 24) Lovely Writer (2021) 25) Last Twilight in Phuket (2021) (the mini-special before IPYTM) 26) I Promised You the Moon (2021) 27) Not Me (2021-2022) 28) Bad Buddy (2021-2022) (thesis here) 29) Bad Buddy (2021-2022) and Our Skyy 2 x BBS x ATOTS (2023) OGMMTVC Rewatch 30) Secret Crush On You (2022) [watching for Cheewin’s trajectory of studying queer joy from Make It Right (high school), to SCOY (college), to Bed Friend (working adults)] 31) KinnPorsche (2022) (tag here) 32) KinnPorsche (2022) OGMMTVC Fastest Rewatch Known To Humankind For The Sake of Re-Analyzing the KP Cultural Zeitgeist 33) The Eclipse (2022) (tag here) 34) GAP (2022-2023) (Thailand’s first GL) 35) My School President (2022-2023) and Our Skyy 2 x My School President (2023) 36) Moonlight Chicken (2023) (tag here) 37) Bed Friend (2023) (tag here) (Cheewin’s latest show, depicting a queer joy journey among working adults)]

[hurlumerlu]

miw/neo/shin for the ship ask ?

Well obviously you can guess that I love them, I haven't been subtle about it (also thank you for diving in the tag and providing me with good gifsets u.u) I love them individually - though Miw's the best and the guys are both sometimes irritating in their own way, you can't change my mind - and I love them as a trio, but I also love how they (still as a trio) interract with other characters in universe and narratively, and I love every single side of their triangle, though again : Miw & Shin have such a fun and surprisingly meaty dynamic, it's definitely my favourite out of the three.

On that subject, it is really nice to see a polyamorous triad that isn't a perfect triangle but where the non-romantic side is given (roughly) as much weight as the romantic ones. Neo isn't here when Miw and Shin meet, and something sparks without him. There's this shift, in their first bedroom scene, where Miw is bringing forth this cute and nice persona but respond to Shin's attempt at sincerity by deciding that putting her more abrasive self forward is a risk worth taking, and it's pretty pivotal ? After that Shin trusts her even when it's... pretty obvious she's lying, and she reciprocate by simply wanting to spend time with him without expecting anything from him. Like, their friendship started before The Clusterfuck, it could have blossomed on it's own, and it is important from that point on (Shin #1 Miw defender).

That being said, I also enjoy having a f/m/m polycule where the woman isn't the arrow's head. I feel like the very few stories who depict this kind of situations tend to rely on the men being bro but desiring the same woman in a weird attempt to, idk, retain some heterosexuality ? Not that it works. But here it feels like they went out of their way to avoid that, and I am here for it. Everyone gets their turn in the middle, but Neo is the clear linchpin of the throuple. Remove him and they fall appart, because of their respective insecurities. "It's time for this movie to end", say Miw, because why would she saddle the rich boy with her trashy mess ? and Shin doesn't object because why would he bother this cool girl that his crush loves more than him ? The three of them are stupidly self-sacrificial in different ways. But yeah, it's Neo's belief that when it comes to love they are allowed to have it all that keeps them together and it's just sweet.

Speaking of insecurities, I appreciate that it does actually take more than them fucking once for their relationship to be all smooth sailing, and that most of their hangs-up are pretty realistic results of, uh, living in our world. Like, Miw & Neo's poverty and their complicated relationship re: sex-work that they keep throwing in each other's face (Neo straight up calling Miw a whore, Miw arguing that Neo's a bad romantic prospect because he's poor and vulgar and uneducated) ? And you cannot convince me that Shin's conviction that he's just not as important to them as they are to him is partly from experiencing homophobia and seeing himself as the gay option vs Miw/Neo as the normal path anyone would want to take. I mean obviously gangster dad is the biggest obstacle in their path but I like that they also face internal ones. I'm often frustrated by the way polyamory is sometimes presented as the solution to love triangles (especially in fandom spaces) because imo, the neat narrative thing an OT3 does isn't that it solves the problem, but that it creates different ones. The show does it beautifully.

On a more, idk, bird-eyed view perspective ? I greatly enjoy just watching them blaze accross Thailand ruining lives without meaning to. The Mae/Phon/Ter mirrorverse doomed trio, Neo's boss, that guy Oat, the hotel manager and her family, Neo's brother, Luang I guess, even arguably Vanika... never has a polycule been such an ill-omen. Incredible Natural Disaster Energy. Three will be free and yes that is a threat.

UGH there was something else I wanted to talk about but I forgot what it was, I didn't expect this to get this long and also I'm sick and my brain isn't working super well right now. Anyway : never forget Neo fucked the step-son right after the step-mom. Or that time when Miw flirted with Neo's brother, while Neo watched them with jealousy, while Shin watched HIM with jealousy. Terrible work, team, eat some pot-brownies and then hit the showers.

[morathicain]

Shin and Miw

Okay, so Shin and Miw? Miw and Shin?

Too many thoughts and not enough brain power but DAMN I love the way they meet.

The fact that Shin, who knows by now that he’s gay, looks at Miw and either thinks she’s gonna reject him anyway and if not seems interesting enough to try to be physical with at least once.

And the fact that Miw, who isn’t one of the dancers, looks at Shin and sees a) easy prey and b) a person safe enough to be alone with and maybe get physical with. And we KNOW how bad her experiences have been with men (at least now we know, oops).

I really love that. I love that they have this moment of bonding and of getting vulnerable with each other so fast and so early. They need it. They need it so much because Shin is becoming Miw’s safe space in some way and he’s the reason to keep them together since all she does at the beginning with Neo is to fight.

And Shin needs her to also have this person he trusts and who he feels comfortable with and who manages to push him to the point where he also lashes out and stands up for himself.

I mean, Shin is the one SHE lashes out at the diner, when she’s high on anxiety because she’s back on the island. Because she trusts him not to hurt her.

Also it totally helps that both are hot AF and Shin needs a pushy person like Miw and she needs a soft boi like him. And I, personally, have all the fun watching those two interact <3

Like LOOK!!!

Shin is gay but he gives her a try and damn that’s a hell of a try! And I like that when it comes to her he’s more fluid because sexual intimacy is a way they later show their love and affection when Neo is involved. They have their own special way to deal with each other and love each other and love that it’s complicated and real™

[kajaono]

I think another thing why 3 will be free is so fascinating is how little Hollywood it is

A Hollywood show would have ended with them kissing and holding hands. This show was more: isn’t it beautiful that they are all together, laughing be free, dancing in the ocean. Why need kisses when they can have this? Everyone can have a kiss. But happiness? Real happiness? That much more rare“

[iguessitsjustme]

Genuinely almost cried when Mae walked away after shooting Thana at the end and that is damn impressive

[kit-teung]

what that whole "do you love him? what about me, do you love me too?" exchange in the pool did is make me want to rewatch 3 will be free

[scrumptiousstuffs]

Wow…just started 3 will be free. So far, I like the vibe! It’s somehow dark and gritty. Definitely a different genre that’s different fromwhat I usually watched!

This is the first drama of Tay Tawan, Mild Lapassalan and Joss Way-ar Sangngern that I watched. And so far, they seem to fit the role nicely!

Update 20/01/23 - completed the whole series in a week! 🫣 can’t believe I actually binge the whole thing. Each character in this drama was carefully curated. They are all in different shades of grey with layers of complexity. But at the heart of it, are 3 lonely souls who finally made a connection with each other, and will hold on to it - it’s a piece of home that they have all been longing for. And while not perfect, they understand each other so well.

Highly recommended for those who like complex characters in a gritty series (and also don’t mind a bit of polyamory)

[sollucets]

miw/shin/neo x puzzle piece hugs

[hecate112]

So i completed watching a thai series called 3 will be free. I love it. I love all the characters and their story. Miw is such a wonderful character.I love everything about her. She has my heart.I love how the relationship between 3 of them progressed from the beginning. I love that this series gave us a good poly relationship. I was rooting for 3 of them to get together from the beginning. And oh my god mae is awesome. Such a wonderful character. Like this show has a transgender character as one of the main characters with such a strong plot. I love how they gave a very good representation for transgender people. I love this show. Such a blatantly feminist and unapologetically queer show. ❤️❤️❤️

[polyamships]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: สามเราต้องรอด | 3 Will Be Free Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Miw/Neo/Shin (3 Will Be Free) Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Polyamory, Gossip, Unreliable Narrator, POV Outsider, POV Multiple, (Incorrectly) Presumed Infidelity Summary:

Like many sleepy seaside towns, this one housed A Secret.

The problem was that most of the townspeople couldn’t figure out exactly what that secret was.

[kajaono]

I AM NOT OKAY!

[kageyamaana]

Home

Home.

Shin had never had a place or person to call that for a very long time.

At first he thought that his mother was his home but he never felt completely safe with her, she still had been the closest to a home he had.

It wasn't until he met the stripper, even if at first he didn't know that he was one, that he first felt at home.

Of course that didn't last because after that night, he never saw him again.

And he thought he never would until that day, when he saw someone he saw almost like an older brother figure die in the hands of a girl who was just afraid.

He saw Neo again, he was just as handsome as before, but it hurt that he treated Shin like a stranger.

And it didn't help that he saw how Neo fell for Miw, the girl who killed Phon, and he could do nothing but watch.

Shin was hurt when he saw Miw and Neo kiss when they were living with Leo, even if he hadn't been in love with Neo it would make anyone feel unwanted if they saw the two people who were there for you be together and look like they don't need you like you need them, so he choose to just walk away not caring who might find him as long as he was as far away as he could from them.

Of course, the moment Neo and Miw found him, Shin was unable to just stay true to his decision of not going with them again.

It wasn't easy to be around them when he loved Neo and knew he had no chance with the only person he could call home.

Shin still had no idea what led to that night but he would never regret what happened, even if he was still confused why he was okay with being with Miw when he had always liked boys, especially when he knew that they wanted him too even if they didn't love him.

All the events following that night were hurtful, especially finding out that Leo was killed, when Neo left him and Miw behind and when he and Miw had to go their separate ways.

It was hard to ignore how he felt empty without those two but he had too especially when he bargained with his father to finally become the heir he wanted as long as he left Neo and Miw alone.

But of course that Neo wouldn't actually just have left them and decided to get revenge on Thana for Leo's death.

When Miw had told Shin about this, he almost went into a panic attack but he forced himself to not do it because he needed to find Neo and make sure he would be safe.

Thankfully outside of getting shot in his arm, Neo was okay or at least James said he would be as long as he took good care of the wound.

Shin was so relieved to hear that and he took care of Neo as he waited for Miw to come, at this point he knew that Miw and Neo loved each other but didn't know if he would still be wanted, which didn't take long to happen.

He didn't expect Neo to say that he loved both him and Miw equally, Shin knew about polyamorous relationships but never thought about being in one, but he felt lighter after that.

He finally had a home....which he almost lost because of his father.

Shin was lying when he told Thana that if he wanted to kill Neo and Miw, then he would have to kill him too.

It was at the moment of knowing that Thana was going to kill Neo and Miw that he realized that both were his home and he couldn't live without them.

Thankfully Mae saved them, even if it hurt to lose his father Shin knew that had Thana continued alive then he would never be able to be with his home in peace.

And now years later, here was Shin on a boat making his way to his home.

Shin had hated having to stay more time at the city to get rid of all the illegal business connected to Thana's business and then make sure that he had loyal and trustful workers which he could leave to take care of most of the business while he would only need to come at least eight times a year to the city to take care of important things.

Of course that every free moment he had, Shin either visited Neo and Miw or called them but it was never enough for the three of them.

So, he was more than happy to be able to return home and this time to stay.

"Shin!" was the only thing he heard as he left the boat before he found himself being brought into a hug

"Neo" Shin says smiling before he was kissed by the other man

"Hey! I also want a kiss!" Miw said walking to them and stealing Shin from Neo which made Shin laugh

"You could have waited until I was done!" Neo says pouting but Miw ignored him in favor of getting her kiss from Shin

"It's good to have you back" Miw says "I missed having you to help me annoy Neo or to have someone to fluster" she adds and Shin shakes his head amused

"I'm also happy to be home" Shin says smiling at his lovers

And with that they start making their way home as they inform Shin about what happened since their last call with him.

It wasn't until the three were in bed watching a movie that a question was asked.

"How long?" Neo asked and Shin looked confused at him "For how long will you stay?" he clarifies and Shin notices Miw is also looking at him, waiting for know the answer

"If you will have me..." he starts looking from Neo to Miw "It will be forever" he adds and he watches as their facial expressions change as they digest what he just said

"Does that mean...?" Miw asks and Shin nods smiling

"I will only have to go back to the city in case something really important happens but otherwise, I can work from here" Shin says and while not surprised, Shin still laughs as his lovers tackle him and start kissing his face, neck and shoulders

Shin couldn't blame them, because he was also happy to not have to leave his home behind again and if he had to go to the city, he would make his hardest in convincing Miw and Neo to come with him.