anon · 3mo
any new phaerae thoughts after seeing them together at isac? i guess we kinda knew this from the switch practice room but it's so interesting to see how tsundere taerae is with hanbin given how i kind of attribute that to how he acts with people he doesn't know too well as a defensive mechanism or how he acts with matthew as a silly bit/maybe not a bit. with hanbin it feels like there's history behind it if that makes sense? like in the clips where hanbin runs up to him and hugs him and where hanbin keeps leaning back on him it's more of an exasperated fondness that comes with years of dealing with hanbin's touchiness lmao. like ooh i hate that you keep doing this but keep doing it anyway bc i actually don't hate it and you know that. and hanbin knows him so well to know how to push it just far enough where taerae isn't scared away like he is with gunwook sometimes lol. i wish i was at isac like sorry for being insane taerae but my camera would've never left you. there are probably so many things that happened that we'll never see godddd.
lowkey they are exactly how we thought they were the first time we wrote them but we just didnt realize they're not like this with ANYONE ELSE like omg the months we spent being like yeah we just dont know taerae at all i guess hes not shy or tsundere like we thought ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT HE IS... BUT ONLY WITH HANBIN... like whats going ON i was ready to completely disavow my earlier characterization choices but now im like oh... no we had the correct read on the situation. hanbin is soooo posessive with him!!!!!!!!!!!!! so pushy and posessive and taerae pretends he hates it but he's next to him the whole time.
idk i guess my main takeaway from this is we should have trusted our intuition. like. taerae is not like this with ANYONE ELSE. maybe he knows something we dont (that the more he pushes hanbin away the more hanbin will come back again)
