#blackeugene

[brother-lipsmackariah]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: เขา...ไม่ใช่ผม | Not Me (TV 2021) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Black & White (Not Me TV 2021), Black/Eugene (Not Me TV 2021), Black & Sean (Not Me TV 2021), Sean/White (Not Me TV 2021), Black and everyone, White and Everyone Characters: Black (Not Me TV 2021), White (Not Me TV 2021), Sean (Not Me TV 2021), Eugene (Not Me TV 2021), Gram (Not Me TV 2021), Gumpa (Not Me TV 2021) Additional Tags: Cats, Canon Compliant, Black and White Have a Twin Connection (Not Me TV 2021), Black is a softie, my second not me fic that involves Black adopting strays on the street, he just has that Batdad vibe, Canon-Typical Violence, canon SeanBlack rivalry, black being an asshole, but he's also soft, gramblack are besties, Not Beta Read, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Summary:

Black impulsively adopts a random kitten on the street and names it after his twin brother. Surely this will end well for White in the future.

[bossthebicon]

chapter 17 is out :)

The King and His Detractor

Show: Not Me

Ships: Sean/White ; Dan/Yok ; Eugene/Namo ; Gram/Nuch ; Todd/Black ; Gram/Black ; Black/Eugene

Summary:  After an assassination attempt on Prince Black’s life as he was ascending the throne, Prince White is forced to take his place, and inherits his Royal bodyguards, Sean and Yok. As he becomes King and is forced to marry his brother’s fiancee, Lady Eugene, White suddenly discovers how corrupt the Royal world is. What he doesn’t know, though, is that the very bodyguard that swore to protect him with his life, is actually plotting his demise.

Tags: Alternate Universe - Historical ; Ayutthaya Period ; Political ; Mystery ;  Slow Burn ; Tension ; Royalty ; Polyamory

a historical retelling of not me???? I GOT U BB <3 this will be my longest, most ambitious fic ever, so safe to say I’m coming back to ao3 with a bang :’) hope you enjoy!

[thequeenofsastiel]

Saw someone call Black’s gang a "gay gang" which is some bullshit bisexual erasure given that at least 3/5 of them(4/6 if you include White) are bi but you know what else is new, and more importantly it made me bask in the fact that Not Me is the bisexual rep I've always known I needed.

I love this fucking show.

[scarefox]

Can’t believe I am doing this but I need to analyse this and point some things out some people brush over or twist around...

I am watching this as someone who doesn’t know much about the novel and has a neutral stance on the whole Gram/Black/Eugene triangle. I am taking it as it is without much expectations (I have some hopes but it’s not my story).

I don’t know about yall but Eugene does look like she’s considering Grams feelings. She has his doll on her bag now. Like she said she needs time, maybe she thought it over. She didn’t really say no to him the last time, she just said she needs some time alone after the breakup with Black.

And the dancing was pretty close till Black showed up.

Black sure doesn’t look happy about the whole thing but he has bigger problems. He’s not even mad. I mean he broke up with her, so she can be with whoever she wants. He literally told her to not waste her time on waiting for him. The fact that it’s his best friend might be a bit bitter... and the minimal tension between Gram and Black in this whole scene is suspicious.

It feels like he kind of leaves her to Gram, since he thinks he doesn’t come back alive. So she’s better with him (sounds familiar to the previous situation with Gram not butting in between Black and her dating, thinking she’s better with Black)

But Black obviously still loves Eugene. Otherwise he wouldn’t ask for her last hug before he goes on his mission.

I am not sure what Black means with “If you’re sure you can stand it.” when Gram demands to stay during the talk with Eugene. Is it because of Grams feelings for Eugene or because Black basically says goodbye forever and sounds super suic*dal? From Grams POV this talk can also sound like a final breakup but contradicts with the hug and kiss.

Friendly reminder that Gram doesn’t know what’s going. All he knows is Black pushed Eugene away the past months, mainly ignored both of them and didn’t care about her feelings AFTER Black contacted her again and gave her new hope just to leave her again. He doesn’t know it was White at this point.

Black looks lost and sad after Gram pushed him away when he tried to kiss Eugene. But he doesn’t look at any of them. This is the point where he starts feeling the twin connection.

Which is interesting, because it is BEFORE White drowns himself. But Their emotions are pretty much the same. Almost like they synchronized (and due to the tent scene we know they can connect due to emotions as well, not just from physical pain). They both feel lost, alone and ready to get harmed for the cause in that moment.

Unlike some people here say, Gram doesn’t just stand there when Black chokes, he tries to help him together with Eugene??

He even helps him up afterwards??

Tell me he doesn’t look worried and confused after Black says this to Eugene and runs off??

The next day Gram sees “him” when he comes to the gang together with Sean, looking fine, talking about actually being Blacks twin brother named White.... Gram doesn’t know that not all previous Black interactions were with White, that Black came back inbetween. He also had the hardest time to believe the whole twin-swap.

I agree that the twin reveal scene feels a bit disconnected and too lighthearted in relation to the rest of the episodes events. And that might be the main issue here. Maybe they tried to end the episode on light note instead of angst or it should have happened at a different point in the timeline. The scenes purpose was to show that they accept White and don’t have a grudge against him for lying all the time. But there is no way they will ignore Blacks absence and him being in danger the next episodes.

Regarding Grams sexuality, since I saw people calling him hetero... he lowkey flirts with White here and he highkey flirted with “Black” (White) in that one episode in his room... also this: (link)

(imo something like pansexual still makes more sense internationally, maybe some translation differences in Thai language/culture? Since the topic is sexuality and not identity but that seems to get mixed in some cases in Thai? SOGIE is basically just another acronym for a LGBTq movement including all variations of sexualities + identities)

That’s how I see it for now. I guess / hope we will get more puzzle pieces the next episodes 🤷‍♂️

I am not really in the mood to start a discussion but If you want to add something, please do in a civilized manner, I am not here to fight.

[suurrealism]

me too jennie

[theraypeutical]

so let me get this straight

black loves eugene , eugene kissed gram & gram is in love with black. ♻️

[uriyeonwooyeppeo]

They could easily solve this whole gram/black/eugene situation with a little sprinkling of polyamory. Just putting that out there

[random-crap-i-like]

I just realized something...

Black had no idea that Eugene was brought into his world again, nor about how White as Black had confused/upset her to the point of it pissing off Gram.

Lol at the twins messing up each other's relationships.

[luvvwins]

OKAY LAST RANT BEFORE I ACTUALLY NEED TO GO TO BED!!!!

...okay...i get that they didn't really realize black was gone. i get that black isn't the nicest person...but you just found out that black has a twin...WHY IS GUMPA THE ONLY PERSON WHO ASKED BLACK WHERE HE WAS?!?!

why does Todd (the man who tried to kill him twice) care more about Black than his so-called friends?

This makes so much more sense about why Black went to Eugene and White before he does whatever dumb shit he's about to do with Todd. Because those are the two people who truly showed that they cared about him.

Like...we all know he's trying to protect White, but he's probably more than devastated that the group that he considered his only family other than his twin brother didn't even seem to realize he was replaced. Sean cared more about finding White than anything else. Yok seems to only care about Dan (though who can blame him tbh). Gram is into Eugene (still not okay this). White (and Gumpa) are the only ones who have shown any care.

AND THIS WHOLE THING WITH EUGENE?!?! I just...I don't approve of all that Black has done...but he deserves so much better.

[glamgoblin]

The ToddBlackEugene agenda though 👀

[brother-lipsmackariah]

SeanWhite//BlackEugene: Love Symbols

[bossthebicon]

it just hit me that black & white have BOTH kissed each other’s significant others, like... I’m sure freud would have something to say about it lmao

[fullsunsunoo]

Gram 🤝 Black 🤝 Gene

[elnotwoods]

the way the writers just pulled stuff out of their asses on a lot of plot points and characters makes me wonder about gram a lot.. like up until maybe episode 8 we all thought that gram joined the gang because of black since they’re best friends, but he never really was the one with the strongest opinions, he always hesitated when they came up with plans for the next mission, he had to think for a long minute if they should take yok to the hospital after he was shot.. so rn it feels like he only did that to stay closer to black because that would help him keep an eye on him… so that he would know if eugene is single the moment it happened…

[suurrealism]

not me theory time 😕🙏 (literally just an excuse to word vomit and write everything that i think about) (i’ll just add things onto here as the days go by ig)

•if the series goes in any direction that the novel did, then sean may have known black & white since they were younger. so, he didn’t see an id card and it genuinely was just white’s glasses - but, as he’s known them since they were younger, it was a dead give away. (i am certain this won’t be canon, but i’m chucking it in here anyway)

•if any characters get an unhappy ending, it is going to be dan and yok. in the preview for episode ten where yok says something about ‘throwing himself out of the gang’ if dan ‘does anything suspicious’ - they will find out that dan killed sean’s dad, and he’s done that. whether it was in the past or not, he’s done it and although yok wasn’t aware that it was sean’s dad - he still let dan into the gang’s lives. so, he’ll have to leave the gang and will probably leave dan in the process too because he killed his friend’s dad. then, in an attempt to prove himself (his love for yok & that he really is sorry etc.) dan will save yok (presumably from being shot or something) and will die. IF this is the case, then the “promise me you won’t leave” scene is 100% foreshadowing 😕😕😕😕

•sean is going to know straight away that black isn’t white, so he’ll ask black where white is and black will realise that something was going on. black will make white go and break off whatever they had going on. the only reason i think this is because of the og trailer 🤷🏻‍♀️ when they kiss & white spits after, idk i don’t think that it’s black & sean kissing. especially since in the preview for episode ten, white is stood at the place sean took him.

•again, not sure abt this one but i’m chucking it here anyway. black MAY have been abusive towards eugene, and that is why she reacted the way she did to the dance she was doing. either that, or she’s seen something that black has done and it has scared her since. idk

•i wish i had a gramblack theory but i have none anymore because i really don’t know what to think 😭😭

•this is purely crack, but putting it here just so that if it does become canon - i am a genius: gumpa is behind something. (he’s not, but he just needs more screen time)

•dan might not have a ‘redemption’ because p’nuchy wants us to know that we shouldn’t trust police whatsoever 👌👌

i have so many more, but i can’t remember at the minute - so bare with me and i’ll add more to this post eventually 😭😭

•i doubt they’d stay that long, but the marks that the restraints would have left on white’s wrists? something to identify him by? or the missing button?? honestly, i think that the eyes are a dead give away because somehow gun makes his eyes look so different when he’s portraying white & black

•i have no clue where to go with this - but their mother calling ‘black’? idk, seems sus. if she knew that he was in the hospital, she would know that white was visiting him?? no???

•todd is tawi’s son? or they’re brothers💀 idk, just adding this here anyway

•black and white’s mother… tawi… this one is far fetched as hell

[onstoryladders]

at the end of the day. shipping anyone with black is a losing game 😩. like gramblack turned into a chernobyl cesspool and toddblack is doomed because at the end of the day todd goes against everything black stands for and no amount of hate sex can change that. BUT i can’t even revert to gramblack with some industrial strength fix its because THAT toddblack scene was just like ‘sorry black is in deep love with todd’ but toddblack is STILL doomed so like. guess i’ll die

like i was happy to delulu myself into finding a way for gramblack to work but a blind man could see that todd and black are in love with each other so now its like ‘how am supposed to ship gramblack when black is in love with todd??’ but there’s not a single scenario i can think of for toddblack in which they can be together without blacks character going out the fucking window (and honestly these writers are too experienced in that area so i dont them tempted) even blackeugene is a dead end cause now she’s going with gram like!!! what else am i to do except DIE i just want some good love and good lovin for my boy black!!!!

🎶 Shipping Black is a losing game 🎶

Well, anon, it depends on what shipping means to you. To me, shipping just means enjoying a certain dynamic or seeing the potential of two characters, it doesn't mean I want them to actually get together in canon.

In this case, I will FOREVER be a GramBlack shipper because the potential is there, and they also had the perfect buildup for it in the first half of the series, before all went to shit. Does this mean I would be happy if they made them canon now? Absolutely not, because it would make no sense. They ruined it, it only lives in my heart as nothing but a wasted opportunity, the never ending echo of 🎶 we could've had it all 🎶

Personally, I would like ToddBlack to be (and always have been) friends in the series, no romantic involvement. I just love the idea of such an intense bond being platonic, because love doesn't have to be romantic to be THAT deep. I can multitask, though, so I can see why anyone would ship them together. I mean, I also wrote a one-shot about them lol

So yeah. Shipping Black in the hope of seeing him get together with someone in a satisfactory (and well developed) way in the series is indeed a losing game, but anyway getting into a relationship is not the only way for a character to get a happy ending. I just want him to get the support network he so desperately needs, I need him to get the love of his brother and his friends (Gram come back from the war!).

Above all, I need him to survive 🙏🏻