#they are my awkward adorkable loveable duo

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Hi, I would like to read your opinion about something... Do you think first and khao feel uncomfortable with each other when it comes to skinship? Cause both are very touchy people when it comes to friends and co-stars, hugging and kissing others but when it comes to each other, they can't even hug without panicking or wanting to let go as soon as possible. Overall, I see this behavior the most with first since it makes it even weirder since he literally is so touchy with EVERYONE, but khao. And for khao, i feel like he doesn't get close either , but he feels that first is not comfortable with it. Now we can see that he has somehow become a little more used to it, but it's still very noticeable.

Ok, firstly a disclaimer, whatever I say in this post are my personal thoughts. I know nothing about the boys personal lives beyond what we are shown either by themselves or their friends/colleagues.

But if you ask me, our boys (especially First) are actually quite selective to whom they bestow their physical affection or “skin-ship”, like you call it.

From the outside, First is super friendly, kind and appears affectionate. However, he really only initiate contact with people he is comfortable with off-screen. Now, whenever he is in working mode, First has no issue doing skinship with his partner (e.g with Gawin - the picture below, I’m pretty sure was while they were filming Not Me because First’s looks like he is in a hospital gown, presumably after he got shot)

Off-screen though, the only people he seems to hug or allow physical contacts are his inner circle (basically his bestie, Mix and Earth) or people he pretty much adopted as brothers (Tay whom he calls older brother and Pond his ototo. First also seems to have a cat-mouse brother relationship with Off, which is quite cute. Plus, I’m convinced both First and Khaotung have adopted Joong as their son 🤣)

Khaotung is actually (in a way) a bit “free” with his affection but because he is such an introvert, you rarely see him initiating it 🙃 - instead it his Nongs or Phis coming to him and pretty much baby-fied him - Tay, Lego, Nanon, Force, Earth, Sea, Perth etc. This was most obvious during the recent Musicon and GMMTV StarLympics 2023 Concert.

As for Khaotung and First, they do plenty of “skin-ship” but perhaps not the usual fan-service gestures that we are used to with other CPs (hopefully I and some of my moots here have convinced you that our boys brand of CP is not the norm ? 😅)

If you are asking me if they do overt skin-ship, fan-service-y gestures, then not really. I answered in a previous ask before that our boys are terrible at usual fanservice. With the same ask, I mentioned Khaotung seems to defer to what First is comfortable with (in terms of what to show on-screen). They are definitely better now and has settled into a comfortable equilibrium.

Now, when the boys emotion gets beyond them (like when they are excited or if they are super comfortable without the need to worry about camera or audiences), they treat each other like an extension of their own body (and those are my favourite moments of these 2 🥰). I swear Khaotung pretty much has “property of First” tattooed somewhere on his body...