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reasons i think ben is a sus ass evil ass bitch!

 music club

ben is the one to invite nueng to the ballroom dance club, bc he has noted that nueng likes to play piano, and he pressures nueng to agree to be in the club both in person and over text. nueng’s joining the club would be helpful to an insidious agenda bc it would ensure that ben - and by extension whoever he’s working with - will know nueng’s specific whereabouts on whatever day and time the club meets, however many times a week. im not saying it’s definitely a dead giveaway as to why nueng is attacked at the club next week ep4 bc palmnueng very well may just be followed from school or home, but it does seem suspicious and so as usual i stand by my theory until proven unmistakably incorrect fdkjhjk

brown nosing bitch

ben sure seems to want answers to shit that is none of his business ! he doesn’t know nuengdiao well and you can chalk some of it up to him just wanting to get to know his crush but of course anything can be creepy if u want to see it that way and- actually u know what hes just creepy ok i dont even have a choice BUT to see it that way tbh! he asks what relationship nueng and palm have, he fuckin asks if they live together based on the more than generous leap of ‘i saw him get in your car’ ??? ok so you can’t imagine that idk nueng was giving palm a ride home bc they live near each other? nah you just need to ask if they live together bc you already have your suspicions about who palm is, you just need to be sure sooner rather than later, especially when it comes to the protection nueng has at home.

insistent for no reason

like i said, he pushes nueng into joining the music club - i didn’t even mention that it’s officially a ballroom dance club, it isn’t even a music club! every scene we’ve had there thus far has shown people explicitly dancing or sitting to talk at the bar! nueng plays piano a couple times, sure, but that isn’t the club’s purpose. so: ben lied bc he knew a music club would be more enticing to someone who just wants a place to play his instrument.

and while at the club, ben approaches palm completely unprompted even tho he saw very well in their introduction to each other that palm is completely Against him being around nueng. he insists that nueng needs space and palm should basically fuck off bc it’s totally ridiculous to think that anyone could be planning to kill nuengdiao, as tho ben, a random high schooler, could possibly guess what the plans of however many hitmen are at work???? like he’s some authority when he’s literally just some guy with a mouth he likes to run off?? and with the most liar ass smirk on his face he says that he isn’t going to hurt nueng, and palm better get used to having him around. ok. palm’s utter hatred for this guy is so fucking funny it sends me like he isn’t having it AT ALL i get to live out my ben distrust through palm <3

defensive for no reason

i daresay ben is defensive in a way that makes zero sense to me. first, nueng asks what he wants from him and ben acts like his very character is being assassinated, as tho he as mr class president isn’t completely aware of the recent uptick in bullying that nuengdiao’s faced. like nueng asking someone he doesn’t know this question is somehow a personal attack on ben. congratulations, you’ve made yourself seem like the defenseless and harmless victim cough i mean Nice Guy! if he really cared about nuengdiao and developing their friendship/relationship, ben would see it from his perspective that nueng has every single right to be cautious - his dad was FUCKING SHOT TO DEATH in front of him like less than 3 months ago????

but instead he acts like nueng is trying to be an asshole without cause, manipulates him into feeling guilty about that, and makes nueng reach out to him bc of that guilt, successfully setting off their entire relationship from that point bc he’s apparently gained nueng’s trust from a frankly transparent .10 second Commitment To His Bit.

THEN when the same happens with chopper asking ben’s intentions with nueng, ben pulls the SAME SHIT - instead of understanding chopper’s concern for his cousin’s well-being?? after chopper watched his cousin suffer terribly from the murder of his father and chopper’s uncle???? ben acts like chopper is completely out of line, blaming HIM for their friendship falling apart cough GUILT, and storms off, and - in parallel to nueng reaching for ben’s wrist and holding it, bc that’s what ben WANTED to happen - chopper half reaches out for ben but doesn’t touch him. ok.

possessive

ben is weirdly fucking possessive/familiar for someone who barely knows nuengdiao, which to me is a massive red flag just in general. he takes out his earbud without permission and gets in nueng’s space, he glares at palm with that gross smirk like he has any right to do so, and twice in the same ep2 he puts a hand to nueng’s shoulder with that unnecessary lingering hold that makes my skin crawl. he plays like he’s harmless dancing around being goofy but it wasn’t just cringe to me; it felt SO FORCED and maybe im accidentally destroying chimon’s acting w this post but hflkjd i can’t help but feel like this man is BAD FUCKING NEWS. he is a FAKE. i would say that palm has really good instincts and that’s why he immediately dislikes ben, but he doesn’t seem to notice anything off about phum, while nueng DOES notice phum is off and does something about it. we see a similar thing when he asks chopper about ben, which brings us to nueng asking chopper’s opinion ep4.

what the fuck is up w benchopper

"he’s nice, he’s talented, so everyone loves him.” RED FLLLAAGGGGG. this IMMEDIATELY set off sirens in my head to translate to he ACTS nice with everyone, he’s talented in everything, so everyone loves him - ie ben is a fantastic actor, as we see when he manipulates nueng through guilt and by acting as someone who wants to be close to him with no mal-intentions. he’s the class president, but he sees the way students bully nuengdiao and does nothing with whatever so called popularity influence he has, not even to talk to the guys and see what’s up? chopper and ben used to be close in first year (10th grade) but different interests had them grow apart, which seems fair enough until chopper warns nueng not to get close to ben bc “ben can’t stay close to someone for very long.” when nueng asks him to explain chopper plays it off with a laugh and a “you’ll know after spending time together :)” like HUH???? GIRL WHAT DOES THAT MEAN U OMINOUS BITCH? did ben try it on with chopper and then saw more potential for gains by moving on to nueng bc of his position in the family? and next week we’ll apparently see chopper even giving advice to ben about admitting his feelings to nueng? so they aren’t close and ben snapped at chopper about being (un)fairly suspicious about his intentions with nueng, but they’re close enough again like some minuscule amount of time later that chopper can offer love advice. alright that makes SO much sense ben is a good guy after all :D

anyway ghjkfk pls feel free to add on to this w ur own ideas/things you’ve noticed and i may or may not do the same when new eps come out. if we get to the finale and ben really is just some guy with a crush i will be truly FLOORED but ig we’ll see lmaofdhkjghldfjk