SO, this is fun because I think my CBX read (and also my [KJD x BBH x ZYX] thoughts) are all kind of similar with like, very mild differences? In this case, I actually think KJD takes on the more benevolent, mediating role between and [BBH x KMS] that aren’t totally familiar with one another/don’t totally understand one another.

My impression of [KMS x KJD] is two people who really /do/ understand one another. I think KMS needles KJD and pushes him in a way that can sometimes be uncomfortable for him, but I also think that’s a friendship where KJD feels comfortable in the discomfort? I think KMS is a little more explorative with gender/sexuality than KJD will ever be willing to be; I think he’s more explorative of boundaries and how they wax and wane; I generally just think KMS is a little more willing to experiment(?) just on the offs, because he feels like it and because he’s curious about something. Whereas I think KJD experiments more out of spite, or to prove something to himself? I think he feels as though he works himself into a creative hole and then needs to branch out lest he experience creative-atrophy.

I’ve talked a little bit about my impression of [KMS x BBH] and my opinions haven’t totally changed on them… I still think there is a fundamental gap in how they operate, in how they understand one another, but I /do/ think they’re not only more aware of one another now, but also a little more anticipatory of how each other are? Like they’re starting to get it, and kind of anticipate how one another react with a little more depth than just a surface-level presumption about the other. I think they’re just a little more comfortable now, and I think KMS especially is gentler with BBH because I think he’s more conscious of BBH’s insecurities and also the off-and-on tension between [BBH x KJD].

As a trio, I think CBX hinges around KJD (similar to how in the previous trio, it hinged around KJM)! My feelings towards [BBH x KJD] is that it’s playful (sometimes mean), “two people that Get each other, but in a way that creates just as much bad friction as it does good friction”, friendly in an easy, comfortable sense. My feelings inversely towards [KMS x KJD] position them as more of a playful (needling, but NOT mean/cutting), “two people that Get each other, but have different ways of Being” with a little more neutral/good friction than entirely bad friction. I think their dynamic as an OT3 is pretty healthy though, because KMS tempers BBH and vice-versa. KJD seems most comfortable between the two of them, probably because BBH is willing to go along with KMS in the things that KJD is less comfortable with, and KMS is willing to prod and poke and distract BBH from becoming too overbearing. CBX is like my ultimate, “dude all three of these guys together are like… functional” even with all the extra bits that Should complicate things.