#bad buddy totd

[dimplesandfierceeyes]

Hi hello, a bad buddy thought a day will keep the doctor away and the brain rot will continue!

Bad Buddy Thought Of The Day: Pran is fiercely independent and needs no help. He CAN do things on his own and he WILL do it too! Except when Pat enters the scene. Because Pat is his exception. Pat is his rock he can rely on when being fiercely independent and competent is just exhausting or just makes him sad. He has Pat and he can hide in his arms and his back or just listen to his voice and he knows. There is someone out there to hold my hand and give me strength.

Anon, you are so correct! BB keeps us all healthy (ignore those brain scan results, it's fine, it's fine)

The weight of his parents' expectations was exhausting. Attending club after club, cram school after cram school, always fighting for top place—he could feel his grip on it all boughing under the the pressure. He wondered how long it would take him to snap.

But then came the river.

And slowly, slowly, Pat reached out a hand to help him hold it all up, and in return, Pran reached out to help carry his burden as well. It didn't change the weight, but it was easier when they could share the load. Essays, tests, match days, competitions, music lessons, each slotted into a careful tally of wins and losses negotiated to keep everyone happy.

And that left time for the silly, for the fun, for the ridiculous. How fast can you run up those stairs? How many sweets can you eat in 30 seconds? How long can you hold your breath?

And somehow, the competing became fun, became something to look forward to, became something that brought them closer instead of a wedge pushing them apart.

He didn't realise how much he relied on it until he didn't have it anymore.

Thought of the day, of course, turned into ficlet of the day for me 😂 and now I feel like seeing if other people have thoughts on this.

How do Pran and Pat support each other? How important is that support to each to them?

If you want, reblog this with your thoughts, ficlets, edits, gifs, whatever you want! We could have a little Bad Buddy chain post 😊

Tagging a few people who might be interested:

@galauvant @incandescentflower @i-got-the-feels @faillen @lost-my-sanity1 @springhaven @dribs-and-drabbles @dudeyuri @soberbutsleepless @lurkingshan @takeadeepbreathandexist @paalove @pokomumee @telomeke-bbs @hyeoni-comb @hereforlou @summerofofelia @ephemeralunicornsstuff @snickerdoodlles @toomoonfic @theheightofdishonor @givemebiscuits @an-asuryampasya

[pokomumee]

@dimplesandfierceeyes Thank you so much for tagging me. I think I can run this thread into the ground all by myself because this brain rot has been rotting my brain 24/7 for the past 5 months. Pran giving up control, letting loose with Pat around because he can, and because Pat is going to makes sure to take care of Pran, because they will take care of each other…yep.

So please have a part of my slightly smutty fic as part of this thread for now. It’s Pat’s POV, but Pran will probably sharing his piece soon, too.

):)

Anyway, Pat’s actual point is, it never comes as a surprise that Pran’d also like to be in control in bed, which, by the way, Pat finds really really hot. Pran can get pretty bossy in bed, and that’s putting it lightly.

Doesn’t matter if he is topping or bottoming, Pran has the unique ability to get Pat to do whatever he wants, exactly the way he wants, just by looking at Pat a certain way that he knows would turn Pat into putty in his hands. Sometimes Pran’d even just resort to giving Pat the pointers before they start the deed. Pat isn’t complaining, no sir, absolutely not. It’s sex with Pran so it’s always going to be good, mind scorchingly good.

Pat loves having Pran have his ways with him, all confident and commanding in bed. It’s so sexy and satisfies something primal within Pat that needs to know he’s giving Pran what he wants, being what Pran needs.

You’d think Pran is so prim and proper, he’d be vanilla in bed, right? Think again.

Compared to Pran, Pat’s the vanilla one, vegan version, low fat, low sugar. His Pran is a man’s man and a minx all wrapped into one, it makes Pat salivate just thinking about it.

But then there is also another version of Pran that Pat had come to notice in bits and pieces a year or two into their relationship. This is the Pran who sometimes desperately needs to loosen the white-knuckled grip he uses to hold onto everything in life, get out of his own head and let go just for a bit. And by a bit, Pat means a lot.

Back then, when school work became too much or the stress of life overall became straining, Pat really wished he could do more for Pran. But Pran’d always been so independent and capable, and he’d try to deal with everything himself, only coming to Pat when he thought everything was under control. Pat really wanted to share the stress, wished Pran would let him help take over some of the burden.

More than anything, Pat just wanted to be able to take care of Pran, let him know it was alright to let go of the control with Pat.

Pran, of course, had never said anything outright, but it didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what he needed. An engineer who loved and cared about him so much it was difficult to breathe sometimes could probably work it out. Which, yeah, Pat totally fit the bill.

It wasn’t as if Pat was actively looking for a way to make Pran lose control, because, no, that’d be weird and counterproductive. But he'd often wonder how he could help Pran to maybe relax a little more, feel the need to always be in control a little less.

He'd be willing to do anything.

Pat just really wanted to take care of Pran in any way possible.

He hadn’t actually expected that one of the ways that he could get Pran to ease up the control would actually be with sex. Pat’s no prude, no one would mistake him for one, so looking back it shouldn’t have surprised him. But, yeah.

Yeah.

):)

more on ao3 if anyone is so inclined ):)

Hi hello, a bad buddy thought a day will keep the doctor away and the brain rot will continue!

Bad Buddy Thought Of The Day: Pran is fiercely independent and needs no help. He CAN do things on his own and he WILL do it too! Except when Pat enters the scene. Because Pat is his exception. Pat is his rock he can rely on when being fiercely independent and competent is just exhausting or just makes him sad. He has Pat and he can hide in his arms and his back or just listen to his voice and he knows. There is someone out there to hold my hand and give me strength.

Anon, you are so correct! BB keeps us all healthy (ignore those brain scan results, it's fine, it's fine)

The weight of his parents' expectations was exhausting. Attending club after club, cram school after cram school, always fighting for top place—he could feel his grip on it all boughing under the the pressure. He wondered how long it would take him to snap.

But then came the river.

And slowly, slowly, Pat reached out a hand to help him hold it all up, and in return, Pran reached out to help carry his burden as well. It didn't change the weight, but it was easier when they could share the load. Essays, tests, match days, competitions, music lessons, each slotted into a careful tally of wins and losses negotiated to keep everyone happy.

And that left time for the silly, for the fun, for the ridiculous. How fast can you run up those stairs? How many sweets can you eat in 30 seconds? How long can you hold your breath?

And somehow, the competing became fun, became something to look forward to, became something that brought them closer instead of a wedge pushing them apart.

He didn't realise how much he relied on it until he didn't have it anymore.

Thought of the day, of course, turned into ficlet of the day for me 😂 and now I feel like seeing if other people have thoughts on this.

How do Pran and Pat support each other? How important is that support to each to them?

If you want, reblog this with your thoughts, ficlets, edits, gifs, whatever you want! We could have a little Bad Buddy chain post 😊

Tagging a few people who might be interested:

@galauvant @incandescentflower @i-got-the-feels @faillen @lost-my-sanity1 @springhaven @dribs-and-drabbles @dudeyuri @soberbutsleepless @lurkingshan @takeadeepbreathandexist @paalove @pokomumee @telomeke-bbs @hyeoni-comb @hereforlou @summerofofelia @ephemeralunicornsstuff @snickerdoodlles @toomoonfic @theheightofdishonor @givemebiscuits @an-asuryampasya