#and part of the narrative that Porsche and Chay aren't allowed to be selfish | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

nyxelestia · 11 months ago

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#also people make him out to be the Noble Poor archetype so damn much#girl if kinn offered him a motorcycle he wouldn't be protesting it like some blushing maiden#he'd be taking advantage of it like absolutely nothing else#if he had a rich boyfriend he'd be mlking that thing till the cows came home

OP these are too on point to leave in the tags because tbh this is the crux of a lot of how (mis)treat Porsche's character.

I think it's because he initially resisted Kinn's job offer. In a lot of people's minds, you're either Noble Poor or Selfish Bastard and there is no in-between. It's hard to internalize that he can fall in the middle, that he can be somewhat or even mostly selfish but also have limits that are harder for him to cross. (Besides all of this, the whole show is the arc of his corruption.)

the babygirlification of porsche is fucking insane btw. this is the guy that would've let kinn fucking die in an alleyway if the dude hadn't promised him money. he's got his priorities and at the top is always chay. like there's a lot of ruthlessness to be had in surviving to protect your only family

#kinnporsche the series meta #kinnporsche the series #meta #porsche kittisawasd #classism #because that absolutely plays into how a lot of people view these characters #classism but also like a hard time understanding how #someone can be middle class and still fall on hard times #how people can change over a lifetime #i feel like the flattening of Arthee is related to a lot of this too #he was pretty shitty by the end of his life and he makes a convenient backstory villain in AUs #but like the canon character was probably at least a somewhat decent uncle for most of the boys' lives #because if he'd been the same kind of shit the whole time they would've lost the house ages ago #and no way would porsche go to university let alone get chay into an international school #and this is tangential but important because it feels like making Arthee some lifelong villain #is part of the noble poor narrative #and part of the narrative that Porsche and Chay aren't allowed to be selfish #and that they had to always be perfect with money #or else their financial struggles were somehow their fault #lmao that's some class-based victim blaming right there #everything would be totally fine if they just stopped caring about their dumb uncle and stopped wanting nice things

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