#i do enjoy thinking about how no mafia kinn is mile GENERALLY

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Since I am now blogging openly about KinnVegas, my natural state, my healthy state, my thriving state:

One thing I love to think about from time to time is how non-mafia Kinn is actually just. Mile. Like canonically he is Mile. His dreams of being a musician come to fruition without the mafia because... he is Mile. Kinn is based on Mile and where they diverge is "mafia".

So! Mile is the cousin Vegas grew up running around playing with. Can you imagine.

When they still thought Tankhun was going to take over the family business and Kim and Kinn were encouraged by their father to follow their hearts. When Vegas was either too young to pick up on the idea of seeing his cousins as threats, or else focusing all that energy on Tankhun (an early grudge was formed and never forgotten. a steel tray awaits), and otherwise enjoying the easy companionship of the two nonthreatening cousins.

Vegas's nonthreatening cousin Kinn had long hair and a special interest in the color green and liked to strum his guitar and be polite to everyone and skip school so he could wander the streets to talk to strangers and, once adolescence hit, occasionally overshare with anyone listening about how his tits are too big for shirts to button over.

YOU THINK ON THAT, TUMBLR

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Anatomy of a Scene Let's Just Talk About It (TW: dubcon)

KinnPorsche, Episode 4 Directors: Khom Kongkiat Khomsiri, Pepzi Banchorn Vorasataree, Pond Krisda Witthayakhajorndet Writers: Pond Krisda Witthayakhajorndet, Poi Patchayamon Theewasujaroen, Yok Sitthichai Panya, Ning Bhanbhassa Dhubthien Cast: Mile Phakphum Romsaithong (Kinn), Apo Nattawin Wattanagitiphat (Porsche)

Dominance and submission. Control and loss of control. Where power resides, relinquishing power and taking power for yourself. Letting your guard down and lowering inhibitions. Succumbing to desires unspoken, hidden, leashed, buried. Trust. Vulnerability. Shedding one's armour. And consequences.

The show treated the dubcon LIKE DUBCON. Getting high out of your mind and choosing to fuck somebody you've been curious about is a tale as old as time. Similarly, knowing that you shouldn't fuck somebody in a situation like this, but the person is saying and doing the all the things you want to believe is also a tale as old as time. If Porsche had chosen to take the drug instead of being drugged the conversation would be very different. But the point remains that we DO see Porsche make choices here, inasmuch as those choices are influenced by a drug that lowers your inhibitions. That's why it's dubcon and not noncon. Wrong on Kinn's part, absolutely. But let's remember that KINN IS NOT A GOOD PERSON, as much as he may want to be. He's the mafia heir despite being the second son because he's good at it, and you can't be good at something you don't enjoy even a little bit. Kinn likes power, he likes the challenge of staying a step ahead of his enemies, but he also wants a respite from all of that. He wants to be able to be vulnerable and soft sometimes, and to not have to think so hard and just do what he feels. Sometimes he wants to relinquish his power entirely and have somebody else be in control. He wants to trust somebody enough to allow that. And something in him is telling him he can trust Porsche.

For Porsche's part, this is a man who has been forced to wrest some level of control from a life that has given him very limited control since his parents died. Porsche's real choices are so few; what power he does have is so small. It's why he's such raging id: one thing he DOES have the power to do is take very little seriously. We see that he can be reckless, promiscuous, less than honest, mischievous. He'll fuck a random woman in an alleyway on his break. He'll piss in a koi pond as a 'fuck you' to his supervisor. He'll put wasabi in his boss' drink. He'll scam a spa day out of the auntie. He'll drink on the job. Petty rebellions, but all the rebellion he can get away with.

I made the point before that despite all the ways that Kinn has power over Porsche in general, but especially in this scene (he's the boss, Porsche is the employee; he's sober, Porsche is not; he's older and we assume more experienced sexually with men than Porsche), that Kinn is the one who seems vulnerable somehow. His self-control with regard to Porsche is a fraying thread, and Porsche is deliberately pulling at that thread. Porsche LIKES that Kinn likes him, that he obviously treats him specially, that he has this power over Kinn. How he touches him and grabs him in this scene is taunting. 'You want me, and only I can give me to you, only I can give you what you want.' He grabs his dick. He flicks his nipple. He makes him grope his crotch. He grabs him by the neck, almost by the throat, and kisses him, hard. If he wasn't drugged, these would all be considered Not On. Kinn hasn't consented to being touched like this, and he pulls away, slaps his hands away at first. But Porsche's power over him is an incredible turn on for them both. It's pure D/s. Kinn has been shown to be extremely careful, cautious. But when it comes to Porsche he's not careful at all. He throws caution to the wind in every sense. He goes out and gets drunk with his bodyguards, leaving himself unprotected and open to attack. He doesn't kiss his lovers but he kisses Porsche, passionately. He HAS to know if Porsche is seeing anybody, and what Porsche thinks of him so badly that he's obvious to anybody with eyes. When he gets to touch Porsche, he's worshipful with his body. We see that he practises safe sex with his lovers but he has very unsafe sex with Porsche.

Consequences will clearly arrive with the morning. There's a reason we consider having sex with somebody under the influence to be somewhere on the spectrum of 'a bad idea' to rape, depending on the context. There's a reason D/s dynamics and ESPECIALLY D/s sex should be discussed and the rules laid out BEFORE anything happens. There will be repercussions to this for both Kinn and Porsche, socially and emotionally. And that's how dubcon SHOULD be treated: it should have consequences. Their path to each other, and their entire relationship going forward (professional AND personal) WILL be warped by this first encounter.

On a technical level, the way this scene is written, acted, shot and scored is incredible. That's just a phenomenal amount of trust for and between your actors, and between actors and directors.

Side note: I am now extremely ready for Tawan to enter the tale, because I want to see who Kinn used to be, and how he's different now. Pete alluded to Kinn changing after something happened, Vegas taunted him about having his heart broken, Tay and Time are encouraging him to flirt with Porsche in a way that seems like they're delighted he's into somebody...they all see that Kinn treats Porsche specially and you get the sense that they haven't seen this side of Kinn for a while.

By the way if this gets punted by Tumblr, I'll repost sans video.