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accidentalrabbit · 3 years ago

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DARK BLUE KISS

(series)

Thailand 2019

RANK: A

A1-pairing: Pete x Kao

A2-pairing: Sun x Mork

C-pairing: Rain x Manow

Other character(s) i enjoyed: Kitty, Sandee, Pete’s Dad, Kao’s Mom

Overall review:

Surprisingly for a series that is basically two unrelated stories connected by a tenuous relationship to a preexisting cinematic universe, Dark Blue Kiss does a lot of things very right for a solid 92% of its runtime. The acting is remarkable. The production is killer. The writing is thematically complex and dense. And then it…ends.

Before the series even begins it's already good. The opening credits? A whole bop. Soap opera realness. Like Lovely Writer (2021), it's a never-skip. It also directs our attention to important visual elements in the series, which we'll get to soon enough.

Our first lead couple, Pete and Kao, are established before the events of the series, and their plot follows the highs and lows of their relationship as it faces threats from Pete's jealous anger to Kao's difficulty coming out to his friends and family…and also the überthreat of Non, an absolute teenage menace hellbent on destruction. These lead actors have worked together in these roles in several projects, and their chemistry is captivating, even when one of their characters (usually Pete!) is driving me up the wall. Their first kiss in the pool is a major milestone for the underwater kiss industrial complex, which i'm choosing to believe without additional research began as a BL television trope here.

The second lead couple are actually my favorite both narratively and thematically, and they have quite a bit of effort to put in before they get together. Sun and Mork are very different personalities, and the one major trait they have in common is their incredible stubbornness, which certainly does not help them work through their clashing ideas of what love looks like. Mork is a sweetheart with a brittle tough guy shell, while Sun is an indefatigable perfectionist who gives me anxiety. Sun hires Mork as a barista near the beginning of the series, which almost activates my extreme discomfort with the boss-employee romance trope but for the fact that it's largely an attempt to keep Mork from going homeless without insulting his pride. Watching them negotiate boundaries in their frenemies dynamic is a treat, right up until Sun fucks it up. But we're not in a rush to get there just yet.

Rain and Manow are a pretty minor C-pairing, but i like them! They don't do a ton thematically like our A-pairings do, but sometimes heterosexuals deserve rights anyway. Rain is a loyal, big-hearted dork with a crush on Manow, and Manow is probably a Pisces a sensitive and dedicated ingénue who has a crush on Mork until she finds out he's gay, at which point she gets Rain as a participation trophy. It's surprising how much personality they're each imbued with given their very limited screentime, and i like that once they get together, they have the fewest problems of any of the couples here. It's thanks to Rain and Mork's initial defense of Manow from generic Street Assailants™ that most of the A2 plot happens at all. And Mork is a good wingman to Rain in this subplot, because he is perfect.

Alright, let's tackle some of the big themes Dark Blue Kiss chooses to focus on. The first major theme that jumped out at me: You cannot maintain a relationship without open and honest communication. This one is fairly simple on its surface, and it's most obviously hammered home by Pete and Kao, but as the plot progresses, their story keeps adding new corollary elements. So while it's obvious that Kao lying to Pete about always prioritizing his feelings is going to fuck them over in the long term, it's also not entirely his fault that he feels this pressure: You cannot have honest communication without understanding, and they both seem to be missing some key piece of what is making the other tick. Pete in particular makes this harder at every turn by letting his paranoid jealousy and anger escalate into a war against a literal teenage boy. You can't have honest communication if you're never willing to trust. But of course, he's not completely wrong! Trust has been violated, and Kao knows it. You can't build trust on a foundation of lies. But wait…isn't that the initial theme? That's right! This is a vicious cycle! And the narrative understands that the thing about vicious cycles is they tend to require massive disruptions to correct, which is why the scandal where Kao gets accused of molesting Non goes hard in the paint to force them to do something. And if Kao's character seems very passive in that situation, it's because the first failure of communication started with Pete, and narratively he's gotta put in the work to fix it.

As for the second major theme, concerning violence, nonviolence, and justice, i found it a little more interesting just because it was unexpected. This theme is carried primarily by our second lead couple, where Sun is our lawful neutral champion of liberal nonviolence and Mork is a bit of a vigilante figure. At the beginning of their arc, we see they both have some valid points: Mork (and Rain) use violence to defend Manow against generic Street Assailants™ (which is good), and Sun is opposed to the injuries that Mork (and Rain) are likely to incur if they make a habit of this behavior (a fair point). Over and over again, Mork steps in to resolve a potentially violent encounter with fisticuffs, and over and over again Sun chastises him for this dangerous and immature behavior. But the unexpected thing about this dynamic is how wildly it tips in favor of Mork being the moral center as soon as he actually takes Sun's advice. When the Street Assailants™ show up and trash Blue Sky Café, making Rain watch as they beat the everloving shit out of Mork, he refuses to fight back, and he suffers immensely for it. When Sun hears about this, he immediately blows a gasket and blames Mork for all of it, and suddenly it looks like we have a theme: The liberal discourse of nonviolence demands that people suffer abuse without complaint and then blames them when the violence they were resisting finds them anyway. Or, if you want a less spicy take: Interrupting the cycle of violence only works when all sides of a conflict deescalate. If you bind only one party to nonviolence, you are exposing them to unmitigated cruelty. I think that is just a wild idea to explicitly hitch a BL plot arc to. And i love it. (n.b.: The fact that he becomes the moral center does not justify Mork later clocking Sun upside the head outside the club, but that scene is viscerally satisfying. Thematically speaking, he probably shouldn't do that again.)

I think the most intricate theme the show builds up to is the one that unites its lead couples and requires a bit more active engagement with the text, and it concerns the relationship between socioeconomic class, homophobia, the closet, and precarity. In each of our two lead couples, we have one character who is wealthier and more open about their sexuality, and one who is less wealthy and further in the closet. The well-off, out leads are Pete and Sun, and they both have less fraught relationships to homophobia and precarity. Pete in particular hits the jackpot: He is very wealthy and he has a kind and affirming father who is outspoken and has connections to other wealthy and powerful people. The idea of remaining in a self-imposed closet with Kao despite the massive levels of comfort he enjoys at home is the extent to which he considers homophobia a problem.

Then we have Sun, who has a slightly more complex backstory. He is a small business owner who is doing relatively well but he does still have to worry about the cost of maintaining Blue Sky Café. He comes from a less well-to-do family than Pete, but the closest he comes to hurting for cash is when he might not be able to pay rent for the café. The consequences of him losing his business would not be catastrophic for his family's future; his brother Rain would be fine relying on their father alone, and although he is shown to be homophobic, there's no indication he would let Sun starve or go unhoused. In fact, despite their strained relationship, it's due in part to their family's wealth that he's able to own the café in the first place. So the main point of contention that Sun has is that he doesn't want to rely on financial support from someone who doesn't respect his sexuality, a feeling which is totally understandable. But it also means he views the closet as a capitulation; it is a worse scenario in his mind than the unreal concept of losing everything, because the true loss of everything is not a possibility he really has any context for. If he loses his business, he'll have to eat humble pie and start over from where he was a few years ago, but he's unlikely to have to start from nothing. The pain of regression means more than the pain of destitution.

Meanwhile, we have two less-well-off lead characters who have different relationships to the closet. Kao and his mother are more or less meant to represent a declining middle class that are managing to keep the illusion of financial security afloat but who are potentially one professional misstep away from being unable to take care of their responsibilities to Kao's sister and her continued education (and upward mobility). Kao's fear of coming out is not only about how his mother would react; it's also about what could happen to his mother's job (and his own!) if others find out about him being gay. His fundamental disconnect with Pete comes from Pete's inability to understand the precarity of his position, because he can only understand the closet as a willfully chosen insecurity, and not as a defense against greater precarity. And what's wild is that the narrative basically makes Kao's fears come true! While his mother does accept him unconditionally, his queerness is at the root of a scandal that (temporarily) ruins his career and threatens his mother's promotion, and even after his portion of the conflict is resolved, it is unclear what her path forward is.

And Mork is the most precarious of all, a working-class hustler in danger of losing his home and without any family support system to fall back on, for whatever reason the audience wants to project onto his character. Mork scarcely has time to think about the potential utility of coming out before Sun takes him in, let alone the inclination. In fact, i think a lot of his initial resistance to Sun's advances can be read as disdain for ~*bourgeois decadence*~ tied up with a certain kind of internalized homophobia. It doesn't help that his entire support system is (a) Sun and (b) Rain, who is dependent on Sun. After working through this phase, though, Sun continues to push him to come out about their relationship (in between fighting with him about other things). From Sun's perspective, continuing to keep the relationship private even after Mork has achieved some meager level of security doesn't compute, because for Sun, he was willing to come out even when it did have consequences for his lifestyle, and he made it past those challenges. But what Sun doesn't see is that his homophobic father still continued to subsidize parts of his lifestyle even at a distance, a level of security that Mork fundamentally does not have. While Sun may theoretically understand the concept of homophobia, he doesn't see how poverty or homelessness might be related and much more immediate concerns for Mork, particularly if their already imbalanced relationship doesn't work out. If he loses Sun, it's easier in his mind to have nothing and be sexually unmarked than it is to have nothing and also face people knowing that he's gay, particularly given his fraught relationship with street violence.

So that's it, right? The more wealth you have, the less danger homophobia presents, and the more likely you are to see the closet as irrelevant, and the less wealth you have, the more precarious you are, and the likelier you are to see coming out as a luxury you can't afford. And then Non shows up and throws a wrench into everything, at least for the pure class-reductionists in the audience. Yes, he comes from a family that clearly has wealth, and he is afforded a great deal of immunity from the consequences of his actions because of the power his father holds over the livelihoods of Kao's family. But he is rendered precarious because of homophobia and juvenile dependence on this same man, and the system he lives within gives him very little recourse if he is abused thanks to his father's wealth and influence. So we can see the narrative is very careful not to imply that the potential danger of coming out is ONLY a function of some preexisting material privilege. Homophobia is actually in itself a distinct and material danger that is both independent of AND informed by socioeconomic class, and its factors are both interpersonal AND systemic. And the fact that Non is functionally outed by Pete to correct the related homophobic injustice happening to Kao? This show chooses a wild amount of morally complex violence right before its finale, and i still don't know if there's a way to fully unpack how that arc is 'resolved'. It's fascinating to see how Dark Blue Kiss uses its five gay lead characters to explore the nuances of class, queerness, and the politics of the closet with an intersectional approach, and the series comes to a very uneasy conclusion about the closet's purpose and utility! Y'all. I live for this shit.

Let's talk minor characters: Sandee and Kitty are cool ones that basically serve as thesis statements ex machina for our A1 and A2 plots, respectively. Sandee finally gets to be something other than comic relief when Pete and Kao start to fight, and she (correctly) diagnoses the problem as Pete's anger and jealousy preventing communication. The existence of Sun's ex-girlfriend and queer icon Kitty is hinted at by the apron Mork wears, so it's a bit of a gag when she actually shows up and gets to talk to him. I love a good setup/payoff moment. She also dispenses good relationship advice to Sun and (correctly) identifies the problem as his unwillingness to be wrong, to listen and apologize to Mork. Put a pin in this; we'll be coming back shortly.

This might be the only BL series i've seen where i fully stan the parents of a lead couple? Pete's dad, even while knowing his son is in the wrong, gives him excellent advice about anger and forgiveness without coming off as stern, and Kao's mom is a moving and sympathetic portrayal of a parent who doesn't quite know how to say what she means to her gay child. Both of their actors knock it out of the park. Where is their spinoff?

Alright, so the title is Dark Blue Kiss. What does the series do with that? For starters, the title literally manifests in the name of Sun's Blue Sky Café. Then there are the visual motifs around the color blue; it's kinda fun to pay attention to all the places it shows up. The swimming pool, the PeteKao thermos, the stitching of the letters on the café aprons, the stuffed bear, the bedrooms, the lighting in the club where Mork and Rain hang out—blue is a color that signals elements or locations in the show's key relationships, usually with both an initial setup and later payoff. And darkness also plays a role: See how often our lead characters rely upon the cover of night, or some more literal cover, to open up, express their feelings, swallow their pride or fear, and have difficult conversations. Darkness is paradoxically the narrative element that reveals. Put all of this together and, well. Pete and Kao kiss underwater; Sun and Mork kiss under the night sky. Kisses…in dark, blue places. Dark. Blue. Kiss.

Finally, some miscellaneous bits that tickled me: I love that Mork stays playing Pokémon Go. I love that besties Mork and Rain sometimes share a bed and there's not a no-homo moment between them. I love Kitty's flower shop that does gay weddings. I love the couple's t-shirt gag on Sun and Mork's road trip. I love that Pete reinvented the Build-a-Bear. Let that be a wrap.

I had a good time, but:

There is nothing about the first eleven episodes of this show that i would change, because those episodes are so tightly written and escalate so unimpeachably that they ought to lead to an absolutely killer ending, a finale so emotionally satisfying that this would go down as the greatest Thai BL series of all time. Unfortunately, that is not the finale that we got. Let's explore what happened.

There is no final reckoning with Pete and Kao's plot arc. After their swimming pool kiss redux, i kind of expected a conversation where they talk through what they learned about their relationship. It seems like the previous eleven episodes are building up to a recognition by Kao that he distrusted the two people he loves most and broke a promise he knew he couldn't keep, and a realization by Pete that his myopic jealousy prevented him from listening to his boyfriend's very real concerns about how his class and sexuality could (and almost did!) ruin his future. They would unite around the importance of being honest and listening to each other, and then the series would roll out the denouement, have a few more cute moments, and roll credits. Instead we get…Pete confirming he's still jealous and possessive and Kao blithely joking about events that nearly ended his professional career and relationship (interspersed with moments of them being cute). I got narrative whiplash. It feels like someone who watched clips of the first nine episodes and had a completely different takeaway wrote everything from the moment they get out of the pool onward.

Similarly, Sun immediately reverts to being as annoying as possible. In the penultimate episode, after the wake-up calls from Kitty and Mork, Sun (presumably) realizes that he's the one who fucked up by refusing to put aside his ego and listen to Mork. His stubborn unwillingness to apologize and be wrong almost costs him their fledgling relationship. So in the finale, i was expecting a version of Sun who is willing to put aside his own feelings to make Mork comfortable—a version that still needles and frets over him, to be sure, but not one that pushes and bowls over him. Maybe Sun could even explicitly acknowledge what he did wrong: "I thought i was protecting you, but you were trying to protect me (and Rain, and Manow), too. I just didn't try to see your point of view." Instead, we get an absolute farce, where Sun continually badgers Mork into publicly confirming their relationship, culminating in outing their status in front of everyone at his own birthday party. This is played for laughs, as if we didn't just sit through eight hours of watching a less extreme version of this behavior go horribly wrong for the other lead couple! And almost worse, Mork now simply declines to resist these advances, smiling as if this is what he wanted, actually, and his thematically important complaints about being steamrolled by Sun in the episode right before this were meaningless. They hollowed out my boy at the last minute, and to what end. We've already seen the many ways he both resists and capitulates to Sun throught the series; is it too much to ask that he be allowed to choose Sun without coercion or spectacle in the last episode?

As i alluded to while talking about Bad Buddy (2021), there seems to be a deep undercurrent of cynicism running through many Thai BL series, and while the Backaof-directed projects i've seen resist that undercurrent initially, they seem to realize last minute that they've been too sincere with the material and suddenly need to veer into narrative non-sequiturs to lower the quality of the show to an acceptable level. And so Dark Blue Kiss gives the viewers a collage of interactions between our main couples that would have made sense six or seven episodes of character development ago, but now just serve to undermine the story being told. Which is wild, given that they've already undergone multiple series' worth of character changes, so you would think that letting them evolve one final time would be worth it to cement the themes here. It's not like the lead characters are gonna get a fourth series installment at this point. And it's not a good excuse to say it's because all relationships have flaws or the characters are only human. That apologia is a cheap elision of the problem. We know they're flawed; we just watched like ten hours of them having pretty hard-to-miss flaws. But the point of setting up themes in a story is that the audience walks away at the end understanding why you told this particular story. So in a well-told story, the most competent ending would emphasize the characters behaving in ways consistent with the themes the creator was interested in getting across. If the narrative i'm shown chooses instead to focus on actions and dialogue that are tangential at best and contradictory at worst to those themes, i start to have questions.

So yes, parts of the finale truly lower the intelligence of the whole show. And yet…the rest of the story is so compelling and well-done that i can't bring myself to drop this show below A-tier status. It could have been higher! But at least it's not going lower.

Unfortunately, you have been chopped: Kiss (2016, parent story/prequel), Kiss Me Again (2018, prequel), Our Skyy (Episode 4) (2018, spinoff/prequel).

These are not necessary viewing to enjoy Dark Blue Kiss and in fact, if you are like me, they might make you enjoy these versions of the characters less. I know this both from confused reviews asking about weird retcons between this show and its predecessors, and also, Dark Blue Kiss itself communicates that there have been major character shifts that i, for one, am not interested in revisiting. In episode one, the way Pete and Sun interact communicates that they recently had some romantic tension but are now good friends, and it takes all of a couple minutes (which is incredible acting and editing by the way; you can see a lot of this conveyed in their eyes and gestures). I'm cool on that obviously lopsided love triangle. Characters bring up how Pete has grown much less impulsive and irrational than he was…before, which is a fairly clear signal from the writers that he's been toned down from earlier iterations, and i don't know that i want to see how much of his bad energy needed to be trimmed off. And the little we see of Sandee's background relationship is enough to let me know i don't need a whole heterosexual backstory on how it happened. I did try to watch the Our Skyy episode and the helpfully provided GMMTV PeteKao compilation, and about halfway through each, i was fairly bored. Dark Blue Kiss holds its own.

Character(s) entitled to financial compensation: Non, which i understand is a very controversial choice. However villainous and reprehensible his actions may have been, the fact that he is a scared child in a homophobic and abusive household remains undeniable. I can't help but empathize with a fictional gay teenager who panics under duress and grabs for any way to shield himself from physical abuse, and Dark Blue Kiss really went there. Also, abuse ≠ accountability, and if someone thinks what happens to his character is ultimately any kind of justice, they are probably bad at analyzing media.

Conclusion: Dark Blue Kiss makes several points about violence, trust, jealousy, and precarity in its first eleven episodes, and it delivers these messages without sacrificing, but rather by enhancing, the writing of its characters. As a gay who doesn't appreciate media reneging on themes to give the audience cheap and muddled resolutions, the ending is not nearly as narratively satisfying as it could have been—but even still, the series overall evens out to a comfortably high score on my personal enjoyability index. So don't get anything twisted: I love this show down. I'd even watch the finale again, despite myself. Team Mork forever.

Next in the queue, we have select parts of the Gameboys (2020-21) franchise, and notably, it's not the original series…

#dark blue kiss #A tier #thai drama #mine #reviews #dark blue kiss the series #pete x kao #sun x mork #rain x manow #when i complain i get kinda caught up in the moment #but then i step back and realize. oh yeah. i loved this actually #the theme song truly slaps #i spoiled myself watching this and lovely writer at roughly the same time #no other intros have done it for me since #i wrote a shit ton christ

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bldreamer · 5 years ago

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Sweetness To Your Love | MorkSun

Dark Blue Kiss : MorkSun

Summary: Mork is stressed over final exams and Sun tries to cheer him up with a little sugary goodness. Based on THIS prompt from @anon. Genre: Stressed!Mork. Sweet!Sun. Warnings: None?

A/N: More thanks to @kdramama for turning my spelling error into an idea x

Mork has a sweet tooth. Not many people are privy to the fact. Most would take one look at him and assume he takes his coffee black and his ramen heavy on the salt.

Sun is privileged enough to know that couldn’t be further from the truth, and he learns to take advantage of his insider knowledge as often as possible. Particularly when Mork seems especially stressed.

Final exams at the university are fast approaching and while Rain seems rather blasé about the whole thing, Mork is on edge.

It’s so subtle Sun misses it at first. Mork in an introvert at the best of times, let alone when something is troubling him. It’s only when Sun smells the unusual excess of cigarette stench on him in the middle of his shift that he realizes something is up. Mork knows better than to smoke while he’s working.

Sun bites his tongue when he feels himself itching to lecture him on his bad habits and keeps an eye on him for the rest of the day. Noting the delicate nuances in Mork’s behavior. How quiet he is while he’s working, how distracted he seems when he serves customers, how little he argues back when Sun has constructive criticism to give.

Sun’s usual approach would be to push and shove and nag relentlessly until Mork shoves back. He knows the young man well enough to know that won’t work in this case. If anything, he’ll clam up all the more.

Instead, he waits for a new day to dawn and settles on an alternative tactic which he puts into motion at five AM on a Tuesday morning before the sun has even approached the horizon.

“Mork, wait.” Sun catches Mork’s wrist as he heads to the door for school. Red faculty shirt bunched in his hand, backpack slung over his shoulder. “Here, try these for me after lunch.” Sun hands him a to-go cake box, two glazed cinnamon doughnuts tucked inside.

Mork frowns. Eyes on the box in his hand. “What is it?”

“New recipe. I’m thinking of adding them to the menu,” Sun smiles, “Let me know what you think.”

“Me?” Mork points to himself.

“Mh, you’re my new taste tester.”

“Since when?”

“Since now?” Sun shrugs. “I could always ask Rain if you’re not interested,” he says, faking offense.

Mork shakes his head. “Whatever, I’ll try it.” He checks his watch and huffs. “I’ll see you later.”

“Have a good day,” Sun says.

Mork throws him a confused look over his shoulder before he leaves.

Four hours later Sun receives three new LINE messages.

Doughnuts were good, old man.

Put them on the menu.

Fridays only. I hate going to the gym.

Sun smiles, it’s not much but it’s earned him more words than Mork has said to him in person all week.

Thanks for the feedback.

Don’t call me old man.

Two days later, a rainy Thursday, Sun sends Mork to school with a box of caramel oat cookies. They’re not as good as the doughnuts but still worthy according to his official dessert taster. Not that Sun has any actual plans to add either to the cafe menu. The cookies are far too expensive to make and the doughnuts are way too precarious to fry in batches.

Sun keeps those tidbits to himself.

Friday, he tries his hand at a chocolate ganache sponge cake before dawn. The mess in his kitchen, chocolate glaze smeared on almost every surface and himself, is completely worth it when he sees Mork smile for the first time in over a week.

“Chocolate, my favorite.”

Sun gives both his brother and his boyfriend the weekend off to study. Rain sits in his bedroom with Manow -Sun hopes they’re busy with schoolwork, otherwise, he’ll be having words- and Mork sits alone in the quiet spaces of the cafe surrounded by papers and textbooks. Sun keeps him topped up with the sweetest drinks on the menu and the odd chocolate chip muffin left over from the week.

Mork doesn’t say much but the cups are always empty when Sun comes to collect them half an hour later and the muffins are picked at throughout the day. Sun worries for his teeth but at least the sugar will give him an energy boost.

On Monday, Mork doesn’t ask what’s in his to-go box. He’s running late and Sun has to rush after him because he forgets the box on the end of the counter. Blueberry pancakes, because he remembers Mork saying he visited an aunt in California when he was a kid and he’s had a thing for American diner food ever since.

Tuesday, Sun makes Mork sit down for breakfast when he doesn’t have to be at the university until ten. He places a generous slice of lemon cheesecake in front of him and a glass of chocolate milk.

“It’s lemons so it’s healthy,” Sun argues when Mork gives him the eyebrow.

When Mork comes home after school complaining of a headache, Sun decides it’s probably best to rein in the sugary treats for the time being. He doesn’t even think his plan is working anyway. Mork smells less of cigarette smoke but looks just as gloomy when he thinks people aren’t watching.

Sun doesn’t see him for almost three days after that because Mork goes back to his dorm and Sun doesn’t have the heart to argue with him and persuade him to stay.

Friday he returns for his shift and Sun can see the dark circles under his eyes from the other side of the cafe.

A few hours later he finds him curled up on the bench outside, shirt tucked under his head, hands in between his knees, chest rising and falling softly.

Sun stands over him and smiles, pushing his fallen hair back from Mork’s face from the cool breeze. The young man usually so alert doesn’t move an inch. He must be exhausted. Sun pulls off his overshirt out from under his apron and carefully lays it over Mork’s shoulders.

Sun checks on him every half hour or so, happy he remains undisturbed and relatively in the same position until closing.

It’s dark outside, the cafe is eerily quiet, Sun is wiping down the tables when he hears the groggy voice over his shoulder.

“P’Sun?” Mork says, rubbing his eyes.

Sun turns around, cloth in hand. He smiles at the sight, Mork’s t-shirt crumbled, face puffy and eyes bleary but less dark than they were earlier.

“How long was I asleep?”

Sun checks his watch, “A couple of hours,” he lies. It’s been closer to five but it’s no matter. “I’ll let it slide this once on account that I took some really cute pictures on my phone.”

Mork glares, it’s less intimidating when he yawns afterward. Sun smiles fondly.

“Next time I’m docking your pay,” he warns jokingly. “Do you feel better, at least?”

Mork nods. “Mh.” He throws something in Sun’s direction, and he catches it easily. His shirt. “Put that back on, no one wants to see a half-naked barista. It makes you look desperate.”

Sun looks down at his attire, he’d forgotten he’d only been wearing a tank top this whole time. He meant to grab another shirt from upstairs but he hasn’t had the time.

“Are you jealous you missed out?”

Mork shrugs. “I can see you without clothes whenever I want, why would I be jealous?”

“Huh?”

Mork tilts his chin upwards, cock expression taking over his sleepy one. “You’re not the only one with a camera phone, P’.”

Sun smirks, feeling the heat on the tips of his ears. “Nong Mork, are you flirting?”

“Take it how you want,” he shrugs, walking towards the stairs. “You coming to bed or what?”

Sun throws the cloth on the table and yanks off his apron. He checked the door not five minutes ago so he knows it’s locked. He runs after Mork who has made it half-way up the steps and grabs him by the waist. Mork wriggles away and grumbles about safety being the top priority. Sun laughs and chases after up to the bedroom.

Mork scores third highest in his class when they graduate and Sun couldn’t be prouder. He looks damn handsome in his robes too, despite his constant grumbling. When he comes down from the podium Sun grabs Mork by the sides of his face and kisses him firmly on the lips, much to Mork’s chagrin.

Sun makes him a three-tiered chocolate cake topped with a mini Mork made out of icing he spent the entire week perfecting, right down to his rings and his hip chain.

“I don’t look like that,” Mork tuts, bright eyes shining in the sunlight. “He looks angry.”

“Yep,” Sun nods, laughing when Mork pushes him hard enough he trips. “Watch the cake you brute,” he whines with a grin.

“Where’s my cake?” Rain grumbles. He could have done better if he had put his mind to it, but he did well and that’s all that matters so Sun keeps his opinions to himself for a change. “I’m your brother.”

“And he’s my boyfriend.”

Mork rolls his eyes from the side. He’s still shy about the title and Sun kind of loves it.

“Didn’t your girlfriend make you one?” Sun asks feigning innocence.

Rain narrows his eyes.

Mork snorts, and Sun tucks himself into his side, the large cake box safely under his arm.

“Speaking of my girlfriend, is it okay if Manow stays over tonight? Her parents are out of town.”

“Do her parents know?”

Rain nods. “I’ll even call them if you don’t believe me. Pleeeease P’Sun? Your boyfriend practically lives with us. How is it any different?”

Mork kicks a leg out and Rain skillfully doges it.

“Fine. But I want her parent's number. And no funny business, we share a wall.”

Rain is about to complain about hypocrisy -it’s true, but Sun is the older brother and he pays the rent so tough- when Mork interrupts.

“We won’t be here.”

“Huh?”

Mork puts his arm around Sun’s shoulders. “I booked us a room out of town for the night.”

Sun is speechless. “You booked us a hotel room?” he asks. “With what money?”

“He sold those cakes and cookies and things you kept making him,” Rain chirps and Mork pulls his arm from around Sun’s shoulders and chases after him until he runs away laughing.

When Mork returns, messy hair and breathless, he looks guilty.

“You sold the things I made?” Sun pouts.

“Not all of them. Come on, P’.” Mork tugs on his arm. “You gave me a box of twelve cookies, how was I supposed to eat them all myself?”

“You could have said.”

“I appreciate them. I really did. I just didn’t want them to go to waste. And I saved most of the money myself,” Mork says, cupping Sun’s empty hand. “Don’t be mad.”

Sun shrugs. “‘m not mad.”

“I booked us the hotel to say thank you,” Mork explains. “I know you’ve barely been sleeping between the extra work at the cafe and making me desserts in the middle of the night.”

Sun sulks, looking away and playing dumb.

Mork smirks, putting a finger under his chin so their eyes meet. “You think I didn’t notice none of those things went on the menu?”

Sun shrugs. “I’m still perfecting the recipes.”

“P’Sun,” Mork cups his cheek. “I told you I’m not good with words. And I can’t bake for shit.”

“Mh.”

“So let me show you how much I appreciate you instead.” Mork pulls Sun’s hand to lay on his chest. “I already packed for you, Rain is watching the cafe tomorrow with Manow so we can spend the whole day doing whatever. Please?”

Sun huffs. Giving up his pout with little fight. “You really booked a hotel for us?”

Mork nods. “Four stars, all-inclusive, giant pool,” he explains.

“I’m not worth five stars?”

Mork snorts. “I didn’t sell enough cookies for five stars.”

Sun tries to fight the grin but it’s a losing battle. He bites his bottom lip and chuckles. “Nong Mork, the boy who hated me. Now whisking me away for a romantic overnight getaway.” He shakes his head, chuckling. “Where is this hotel?”

“Not telling. But you might want to hold onto that tight,” Mork gestures to the cake. “We’re taking my bike.”

“You have got to be kidding me?”

“Nope.” Mork nods behind him and when Sun looks over his shoulder, Rain is in the distance wheeling Mork’s bike towards them with a bike helmet on each handlebar.

“Then I’ve changed my mind,” Sun whines. “I am mad and I’m not getting on that deathtrap.”

“You rode a bike when you dragged me across the countryside for your stupid coffee beans.”

That’s true.

“That’s different,” Sun grumbles instead.

“How?”

“I was driving,” he tuts.

“You’re not driving my bike.”

“Why not?”

“I said no.”

“Mork.”

“Shut up, and put your helmet on.”

“Moooork.”

~Fin

#sunmork #morksun #dark blue kiss #darkbluekiss #my writing #sun #mork #fluke gawin #podd suphakorn #poddfluke

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Pls do sun 🥺

hiiii nonnie! oh of course!

favorite thing about them:

he’s just... such a sweet man. all he wants to do is open his own café. honestly, i liked him from kiss me again and the way he gets over kao silently and then becomes good friends with him... wonderful. he just wants to love and be loved and build himself a quiet little life! also the love he has for rain is so sweet :’)

least favorite thing about them:

my mans does NOT know how to apologise nor does he know how to give advice fhsnfh, he gets better with the apologising but the advice... it starts and ends with [little pat on the head] “i understand, it’s gonna be okay.” this is absolutely me roasting sun in good fun, it’s not that deep i promise!

favorite line:

“why are you bringing this up again? it’s irrelevant. why? are you saying someone like me has to try harder than others? do i have more to prove than others? it makes no sense.” this one HITS me every time. that entire scene with sun and his father? yeah. as someone with unsupportive parents, i constantly feel this gaping need to prove myself as something more than everyone else just because i... am who i am. and i felt so seen by sun in that scene, honestly, it’s one of the best lines.

brotp:

SUN AND RAIN!!!! i love their relationship so so much, they’re such wonderful and supportive brothers who take the piss out of each other but ultimately love each other. also sun and kao... gay best friends. the excellence of it all. they catch up over coffee in a café that’s not sun’s and he roasts (haha) the coffee while kao talks about uni :’)

otp:

morksun!!!!! they’re so soft, man, i don’t talk about them nearly enough! that last scene where they’re playing with each other’s hands literally took me out, i love them!

notp:

idk... sun x any girl because he’s (explicitly) gay

random headcanon:

ahhh i mentioned this in my post about kao but i like the idea of sun and kao meeting up every weekend or so as kao taste tests all the new recipes and makes suggestions. pete tags along now and then and he and mork go do their own thing, like bowling or chilling together and taking the piss out of each other but still ultimately loving each other. i just... love the idea of sun’s café being a place where people he loves can come and go easily without any forewarning. all sun wants is a café of his one, someone to hold, and a family he loves... and now he has it. in the form of mork and rain and manow and kitty and kao and pete and... god.

unpopular opinion:

hmmm idk if i have an unpopular opinion about sun? maybe that he needs to work on his apologies fhsnfh

song i associate with them:

i have one for this one!!! oh the surprise. yours now by ato is a big sun song and i dare you to tell me otherwise. especially the lines “that's my little brother in the corner / he don't look like me, but he's like me / says a lot about the world if you ask me / i'd give him the world if he asked me” and “today, we got to talking 'bout philosophy / and the human passion for action / the desire to take one step forwards / despite inevitably taking two steps backwards” and ESPECIALLY “it ain’t much but it’s everything... amen.” like that line hits me so hard when i think about sun in relation to it. his café and his little family isn’t much to the outsider and to his father... but it’s everything to him.

favorite picture of them:

just went through my files and found this one... he’s stunning in every picture honestly but i really loved this blue shirt fhsnfh, look at him!

send me a character!

#he looks so disbelieving in that picture fhsnfhsf #thank u for this!!!#rahul answers #character ask game

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bucksbisexual · 4 years ago

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAA OKAY LAST ONE OF MY OPINION POSTS HERE GOES EP12:

[breathes in]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

i’m so fucking happy with this ending

it’s such a good happy ending this is truly what the gays deserve i’m just happiness in physical form rn

i don’t even know where to start but i’ll try to make this as chronological as my brain allows me because my memory do be sucking

i’m gonna put a keep reading because this shit will get loooooong kjshfkf okay let’s do this

so.. we start with PETE EXPOSING NON(T)’S BRAT ASS!!!!!!!!!! FUCK YES THATS MY BABY THATS MY BOY!!!!!!!!!!

kao’s mom being a fucking badass and telling her BOSS how to do shit. i love her yall I LOVE HERRRRRRRR

also kao’s mom telling kao that she wasn’t the most amazing person ever was so cute because you can see kao’s light bulb turning on sjfkhsgsh please i love them

yes i will say i love x after every single one of these u can’t stop me

from the teaser i thought kao would dashi run run run to pete’s house but thankfully he took a taxi lmao

at least he didn’t run there because he had to run from pete’s house (or may i say, mansion) to the POOL my man is a whole athlete oh my god

KAO YELLING HE LOVES PETE!!!!!!!!!!! IN THE MIDDLE OF A CLOSED SPACE WITH PEOPLE IN IT!!!!!!!!!!!! AND HE DOESN’T GIVE A FUCK IF THEY HEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THATS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT BABYYYYYYYY

also a beautiful parallel to the scene from ep1 (i noticed there’s a lot of parallels in this episode we stan character development and repeating things just so the viewers can see how consistent the couples are)

the kiss from that scene............... beautiful amazing gorgeous idk many words in english to describe how i felt while watching and how i feel about it

to that i think we cut to sunmork but i don’t remember what happened because of the kiss KJHFKSL SORRY

anygays i rlly like how this whole episode is sun being a clingy bih and mork gay panicking while trying to act like a confident gay when he knows that sun outconfidentgays him i love them lmao

okay after that i think it’s petekao having food with their parents all together and god i looooooove this scene

pete’s dad being the lgbt ally dad all of us lgbt fellas with homo/transphobic dads wish we had will never fail to make me soft i love that man pls be my dad too

also kao’s mom :-(( i love her she respected her son’s decision on not coming out until he was ready even though she already smelled it (reminds me of my mom lmao) and was always there for him even when kao didn’t say anything :-(((((((((((

petekao bickering will never get old i swear i love every time they do because that’s so..... men it makes their characters more real

i know there’s a lot (not that much because i admit this episode was kinda short?? idk maybe it’s just me) between that scene and this one but THE SQUAD EATING ALL TOGETHER AGAIN!!!!!!!! AND THEM TEASING PETEKAO!!!!!! PLEASE I LOVE THEM

pete literally not knowing how to stop the audio and broadcasting live TO THE WHOLE COUNTRY that time when he told kao he loved him through the teddy bear...... peak pete culture

the fact that ppl love them and they have a whole hashtag on twitter makes me soft because usually when someone is famous in bls the fans hate the other part of the couple but in this one??? oh no honey we stan petekao in this household hate is not allowed it’s actually prohibited illegal

okay let me backtrack a bit skjfhsjf

OH YES I FORGOT!!!! manow wanting to talk with mork was so weird when i saw the teaser for the episode but after seeing them talk i was like oooooh okay i understand

sun saying “what’s your girl saying to my boy” is probably one of my favourite lines of this drama KLHSJFLF

rain reading their lips fskjfjsf and when mork said “fuck you rain” HIS FACE SKJFHKSJSLFJ HE WAS SCARED SHITLESS but also the end of this scene was so cute i love these three

i just did a bit of skipping through the episode to try and actual make an order out of this mess and the petekao+parents thing comes now,,,,,, anygaYS

then it’s more teasing between sunmork blah blah

then MORK SPEAKING THE MF TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!! quoting the actual dialogue “it’s my choice to tell or not tell anyone. i should get to decide”

OUTING SOMEONE ISN’T COOL!!!!!!! IT’S NOT OKAY!!!!!!!!!!! NO LGBT PERSON WILL EVER WANT TO BE OUTED!!!!!!!!!!!!! DON’T DO THAT SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rain had good intentions but it doesn’t mean that it was right of him to do so

okay this got serious,, sun going to rain’s bed with not one but Two pillows when barely two people fit in that bed.... oh to be that iconic and carelessly gay

back to petekao because we will never get enough of these two (which is why i’ll probably watch the our skyy episode tomorrow just to cry over these fools)

it’s so weird to see tay being like this after watching him being himself in other things like the live lunch and taynew meal date and other things i’ve randomly watched during this week to retain myself from finishing this series in a night ksfjhsfkshlks

also kao helping pete shave and pete being like do u like my moustache or should i shave it for u my lord SFHKFJ the domesticity and just the feeling of two idiots being in love i love them with my whole heart

kao staying at pete’s house because it’s both of their first days as interns and kao!!!!! he works for pete’s dad!!!!!!! pete’s dad accepted him into his company!!!!!! i love them

also the bickering between those three sjfkhs “hello im pete im from thailand” “that’s all you’ll say today” THAT WAS SO FUNNNY SKJFHSKFHSFJSFL

THE MESSAGE IN THE TEDDY BEAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KAO CALLING PETE LOVE PLEASE IM GONNA CRYYYYYYYYYYYY I LOVE THESE FOOLS

okay so the squad eating together is right after this but i already talked about it ksjfhsfh next!!

idk if it’s a big time skip or a small one but guess what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MANOW AND RAIN ARE DATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY STRAIGHT BABIES YES I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU AAAAAAAAAAAAA

manow is so pretty and rain is so cute they’re both so lucky my bisexual ass is crying

pete being “angry” at kao being so handsome,,, a mood

but also.. pete being possessive was h*t

there i said it and i don’t regret it

random but i will miss kao’s annoying ass saying “about aboyz” sjfkhsfh

pete being like “i will have to give u more love bites (ffs gmmtv just say hickies we are all at an age where we know what love bites are) so no one flirts with u” and kao being like “bitch try me” sjfhksfj i’m loving bratty kao

also that scene turned into furry kao real quick KJHDKJFSHJF

okay now it’s: mork’s birthday party time!!

rain and manow arrive first and are the cutest couple around because the two main gays haven’t arrived yet (being gay AND punctual? not possible)

sun and rain fighting in the kitchen was peak siblings culture skfhksjf

mork being ready to leave his own birthday party with a stranger who also plays pokemon go just to have a battle................ dumbass bisexual energy

said stranger is eARN FROM 2GETHER!!!!!! FILM IS IN THIS TOO!!!!!!!! first the girl who plays yuri in yyy and now film who plays earn in 2gether is here too??? damn wlw keep winning (also headcanon: theyre dating/seeing each other because LESBIANS periodt)

okay petekao arrive and wont u guess whats their present for mork,,,,,, the mf TEDDY BEAR and kao rlly says that they should use it since theyre so lip sealed lmao

rain and manow literally gave mork a present not for him but for sun im- i love these two

MORK FINALLY SAID YES TO BEING BOYFRIENDS OH MY GOD DUDE U ACTUALLY HAD ME WORRIED THERE FOR A SEC

also sun being a whole koala and being a horny bitch is so funny sfhskfjskl my man has his priorities set

their last scene is so cute :-(( poor rain will have to live with this until he moves out sjfhksjf

oh boi the ending is near hhhhhhh

kao teaching his class an equation that ends up in i < 3 u is the most kao thing i’ve ever seen

also kAO IS BOOKED AND BUSY BABYYYYYYYYYY GET THOSE COINS HONEY

pete being like “u haven’t spent enough time with me lately >:-(” was cute jhkfjs my man is needy of kao and i understand that because have u seen kao? exactly

kao teasing him with not having forgotten the cup this time and pete being his possessive self was.. splendid

every reference to something that happened with non(t) hurts but also i love how they just tease each other because they know that now their relationship is stronger than it’s ever been and that nothing and no one will come between them

the scenes they show during the last last scenes :-((( BOYFIES!!!!!!

and i love how they decided to end the show with them holding hands in public

i would explain why i do but it’s 6:26 am and i’ve been writing this for at least half an hour already and my laptop is heating up a lot and im sweating because it’s hot in here so get down on the floor pipiipipipipipipi

kdjhkdfhs sorry im not sleepy this is just my brain without a filter it’s just gay shit and a big repertoire of songs

god okay that was my opinion on the last episode of dark blue kiss...........

needless to say that i will eat every bit of content related to petekao after this because writing this i already miss them and i can’t wait to watch our skyy tomorrow idk where but i will

i really really REALLY liked this drama and it’s one of the two bl dramas (not counting the untamed) i’ve given a full 10/10 rating on mdl because it’s THAT good

everything about this drama is just.. chef’s kiss i love it i will probably rewatch it when my plan to watch is empty but it’s a pretty long list so.. hopefully i’ll ignore that and just rewatch sjkfhslf

i’ll of course watch kiss and kiss me again just for the petekao, the squad and rain scrumbs because i’m sure that the petekao compilations don’t show everything

but yeah im just.. i love this show it’s been a rlly long time since i started writing this but i’m still happy because it’s so good and truly gave us a good happy ending and i swear i cannot emphasise enough how important good happy endings in lgbt media are!!!!!!!!!!

anygays im hungry and ready to submerge myself in the dbk tags, see u all tomorrow for my our skyy petekao episode version of this,,,,,

till then, stay safe ! bYE

#dark blue kiss #dbk the series #dbk #dbk reaction

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