#anyway op im so sorry i totally deviated from the topic

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I have seen someone say that we as a fandom kind of ignored korn harassing wai which is tbh not true cause we just appreciate him for being a better friend also another thing about patpran relationship is that doesn't matter how much they are whipped for each other they recognise the others mistake like that time when pat watched korn bully wai, though he didn't do anything but when confronted he did his best to help and redem like they don't let the others flaw get overlooked cause that's a part of being in love anyways pat best boy lol

wow no actually i remember most ppl being uncomfortable w korn and pat and the extent to which they took the rivalry bc the introduction made it seem like bullying. in fact, till ep 6 it didn't sit right w me it when we see korn planning to gang up on pat i realized 'oh this is really smth they just do'

thou tbh after ep 8 onwards, every time i watch wai getting rightfully bullied i think deserve or wish they went harder. pat was onto smth when he picked wai to beat up

yep that thing about pranpat !! and it's such a wholesome thing to do to call out someone you love and reprimand them gently while teaching them what they've done wrong and it's equally important to open ur mind and listen to that person it has to be reciprocal and what are pranpat if not that.

thou while pran was pointing out that what pat did was hardly different from being the bully himself, i don't think that was correcting pat in that context. i mean given how pran too expected his friends to go beat pat up, even back then he must have known that this is just their faculty thing there's nothing he can do. like remember the first ep? didn't it seem absurd back then that even pran seemed to shut up when pat said the thing about his dignity? bc he knew that's what this is about, its not bullying its carrying on their faculty legacy like they've carried their parents' and pat was the leader, being insulted like that he would strike back and pran understood that's why he stopped arguing and instead offer to get wai to apologize.

here, they hadn't been caught by authorities and didn't single-handedly suffer punishment when they weren't the ones that started stuff. later, when pran is mad, its bc his friends are being unfairly prosecuted while the engineering guys who started this roam carefree. and pat keeps trying to defend himself bc really he held back, he stopped actively taking part in this faculty nonsense for pran, but the boys did go too far, and pran's right in being mad. except for the rest of the faculty what pat did was expected, even pran knows that like what is pat supposed to do? fight his friends for wai?? pran refusing to talk to him is more like him sulking tbh like he's disappointed bc pat's the one person in his life he keeps any expectations from and pat's let him down and he knows rationally that its not pat but he needs to take it out on someone and pat's the person closest to him, the only person that would be bothered by pran's hurt and anger, the only person he feels safe enough around to express it at all.

pran wasn't really mad at pat he was just v annoyed and under so much pressure and he needed someone to know but didn't have anyone by pat to express it to so he does, and if pat didn't try so hard tbh once this was done they'd return to normal w a few fights in btw bc that's what he expected his fake rival! pat to do but pat wanted to play loverboy so we got pran falling in love deeper

one thing here thou, but i think the distance in the past 3 years did have an impact on pran's feelings, bc its impossible for it to not. like in the first few eps pran interacts w pat much easier, he's much more closed off but relaxed around pat bc his feelings here have mellowed they don't gush up and suffocate him every time pat comes closer, nor do they fill him w temptations of letting pat close at all so its easier for him to shove pat out of his room and life constantly.

but then pat butts his nose into this and pran falling in love all over again. he's reminded why he fell in the first place, but it's so much worse now bc pat's so close and pat's more nosy and caring than he's ever been and pat wants to spend time w him and pat kept his guitar and lend him his earphones and told him he smells nice and you can see it thru out ep 3 pran feels doomed. that's why we have so many shots of lovestruck pran in ep 3 when we hardly had much before, bc we're literally watching pran fall all over again a second time, helplessly, inevitably, like every time he's thrust into pat's orbit this is the trajectory his feelings will take.

there's a diff in pat too. hs pat would have never gone this far, hs pat would have tried, given it a shot, but hs pat would have given up easily bc he understands there isn't a lot he can be doing in such a situation. hs pat was nosy and in love w pran too, that's why he'd try at all. but hs pat never had pran snatched from him, never had stare across at an empty balcony, an empty room, never woke up in a world where pran was as good as gone. but this pat's experienced it all. that hell of three years that were depressingly lonely despite being what should have been the first time he was allowed to breathe. excepted he wanted pran more than he wanted air and now that pran's finally back beside him again he can't afford losing him.

so ofc he'd go to crazy lengths to keep pran in his life this time. but pran's changed. where pran was happy to play friends w him before he keeps him at an arm's length now. where he was shy before he's clammed shut now. where pran would extend him warmth before he'd turned cold now. and we know already that pat never considered their parents as much of an obstacle, much less in an environment where they were removed. which made his only problem pran. his only difficulty his only fear was pran. if anything happened that would make pran hate him, he'd lose him forever. if pran ever got a solid excuse to keep away from him, pran would slip from his fingers. if pran ever got so busy he refused to see him, soon he'd be erased from pran's life and memories. bc what importance did he have anyway to pran? he refused to even be friends w him.

so it makes perfect sense that pat would go that far he's desperate. that's why he unintentionally acts out romantically more than once. he's going too fast to stop and consider why it is that he can't lose pran but he knows he can't afford to lose him again so he plows on, baffles the heck out of pran. ink's introduction in his life gives him space, time to think about smth that isn't pran. but bc he's given that distance his thoughts fall back on his own behavior w pran and it finally hits him but his previous behavior has always been romantic already so from pran's pov not much changes (and nothing did except pat's slow brain caught up at last) so that leads to the rooftop confrontation.