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The Minor Clan v the Major Clan

I’ve seen a lot of people having differing opinons on whether Vegas parading the main family bodyguard’s around the minor family compound and showing how better the minor family bodyguards are treated was either a) accurate and the minor family do actually treat their bodyguards as more than objects or b) all for show and everyone fears them and are simply play acting for the main family bodyguards. 

Personally, I am on the side that thinks what is shown by Vegas is correct. Vegas acknowledges that the minor family does the dirty work, they are the guns and the labor. They are considered as lesser than the major clan who live in luxury and excess, they are high-class, whilst the minor family are very much lower class. I think Vegas is genuinely kind to the market community outside of the minor family compound. These are mostly older people who work to support their own families through whatever means possible, selling street food and groceries who are likely backed by the minor family in return for a percentage of commission on their sales. The minor family offers them protection from anyone that tries to scam or take advantage of these families and shopkeepers in return for a physical barrier between the rest of the world and the minor family house as well as information as gossip and rumours can float very easily in a busy market place. These families see Vegas and the minor family as young masters who are very generous and protects them, the darker side of the family can be overlooked. 

We are mere working class people, this is not something we need to be involved in. See no evil. 

Secondly, the minor families bodyguards. I find it very likely that these men are the sons of the shop vendors outside. Coming from the same lower-middle class background, the minor family offers them employment, income and care for their elderly parents and younger siblings in return for their loyalty and their lives. I believe this differs from how the major family recruits their bodyguards which is likely through an intense screening process picked from a pool of former security guards, police officers, intelligence agents. My best evidence for this is Ken, a clearly foreign bodyguard who is likely recruited from an overseas agency, maybe former Interpol, or security intelligence. There is a very clinical process for the major clan in recruiting their bodyguards, it is merely a job where the best of the best are chosen. There is nothing relational about it. They simply demand their lives in exchange for money, nothing more. The major family can put a price on these bodyguards. 

Your life is mine because I bought it. 

In direct contrast, the minor family sources their men from the local community. These bodyguards were likely struggling, disenfranchised boys who are offered a way to escape the poverty cycle. They are given a purpose in life, a community with other men just like them, and are allowed to be in a position of power that life has previously withheld. There is some fear thrown into their loyalty, but it also garners their respect. Sometimes people see people who are stronger, more powerful, more forceful, more evil then themselves and that only strengthens their respect towards that person. That is how the minor family bodyguards perceive Vegas, someone to be feared but as long as you do no wrong to them, you have nothing to fear. As long as you don’t cross Vegas or the minor family, there is nothing to be worried about. They will not just begin torturing or shooting off men for fun. Vegas only lets out the crazy to traitors or people he doesn’t care about. He hasn’t once been shown to get angry, rude or violent with his own bodyguards (unlike the major family). Vegas clearly understands peoples’ emotions, so being able to relate to these men would allow him to strengthen their loyalty towards the minor clan in a way the major family would never even attempt to engage in with their own bodyguards. 

We are not so different, you and I. I know exactly what you’ve been through. 

Also in Ep 2 when Macau goes to his dad after Porsche pushes him into the pond, Gun chastises Korn ‘you’re not only teaching them how to use guns, but also manners’. Why say that, if Gun doesn’t value such a thing? The minor family and their manners have even been brought up by Porsche who notes not only do they have manners but they actively use them towards others including the bodyguards. 

They haven’t hurt me. 

Furthermore, I’d like to discuss the familial relationships between the Major and Minor Clan brothers. The major family brothers are clearly all distant from each other. If there is any sort of care towards each other, its subtle at best and non-existent at worst. They do not work together, they hide and scheme by their lonesomes, never letting anyone see their hand. In contrast, Vegas and Macau appear incredibly close knit. They are always seen hanging around together, they share jokes and are physically affectionate with each other. In Ep 7, Macau apologises to Porsche and extends an olive branch at Vegas’ request which evidently influences Porsche’s perception of the minor family as forgiving and having manners (something that in his experience cannot be said for the major family). In Ep 9, Macau forcefully restrains Pete and enthusiastically asks for him to join them at a sermon he appears very interested in only to fall asleep during said sermon which betrays his intentions that he did not give a single shit about it and only did so because Vegas had plans for Pete. Macau does this because he knows it’s what Vegas wants and he will help his brother scheme and entrap because Vegas likely makes it very explicit to him about his plans and doesn’t keep Macau in the dark about things. Vegas actually cares about Macau and vice versa, so it would make sense that Vegas does actually care about his community and his bodyguards. The minor family understands very well that the relationships they make are their strongest assets. They work as a team strengthened by intrinsic relationships rather than the major family who are burdened incessantly by duty. 

There is loyalty that is forcefully taken and demanded. Then there is loyalty that is willingly given. 

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Fish Food For Thought

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"I can never love others as much as God does, but he sure makes me want to try."

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Is there any reason for them to be holding hands like THIS?

bitches on AO3 really got me shipping Arm and Tankhun i hope y'all proud of yourselves

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my top five kinnporsche characters

this is just for fun! also let me know y'alls tooooooo

No.5 - Chan

he's competent and he's hot, i rest my case

No. 4 - Big/Ken

i mean they're technically the same person, just let me have this okay. i loved everytime these two were on screen. they are the mean girls, the bad bitches, the popular girls. everything about them, i love. also ken gave us the single greatest line in kinnporsche

No. 3 - Vegas

red is my favourite colour that's a lie. but come on, what's not to love? he's an evil pathetic little babygirl who keeps a hedgehog in the sex dungeon. he reads, he's a businessman, he can cook, he cares for his little brother but he's got the moral compass of a roulette wheel. he's a murderer, he's a sadist, he's a slut. HE RIDES A FUCKING MOTORCYCLE????? *chefs kiss*

No 2 - Macau

if this wasn't fucking obvious??? i am a slut for the sin city brothers and my entire tumblr is practically dedicated to this funky lil sweater man. i love him, i want nothing but the best for him. i hope he's happy, i hope he's well fed, i hope he never experiences sadness in his life. i love him. *holds gently*

Honorable Mentions

ep 1 + 2 feral gremlin porsche in his raccoon era (what's not to love?)

gameplay as porchay in this one scene - adorable (even though barcode did an amazing job, i keep thinking what could have been if gameplay played porchay hujgehrgujsetg)

filmania pete (the black uniform and the hairstyle, oh daddy) + pete's bar outfits (do you know how sexy you are?)

anytime timetay were the epitome of couple goals (and we ignore everything else, also jj chalach i'm look SO DISRESPECTFULLY BRO IS SO HOT AND I'M SO UNNORMAL ABOUT IT)

kinn during the cafe date <333

And No.1 is....Arm!

hahaaaaa is this a surprise? i feel like i'm a lot more vocal about macau but arm was was the first character i really latched onto. when he came in with the 'who's the nerd?', I HAVE NEVER GOTTEN ON MY KNEES SO FAST FOR A MAN I SWEAR- what's NOT to love? he's smart but does dumb ass shit, he's tech-savvy, he's super jacked, he's wears glasses, he's a foodie. he could be the next chan, but he's a lazy piece of shit that said oh hell naw to actual responsibilities and just watches series with khun all day because he can. he's loyal to a fault to his friends and i just know his dick is big on god

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Headcannoning that Vegas’ hedgehog is from Macau. Macau comes home one day with a hedgehog, said he found it at school, and asks Vegas to hide it from their dad and to take care of it whilst he’s at school. He also makes an off hand comment about how it reminds Macau of Vegas, prickly and hard on the outside but soft on the inside, the Vegas only Macau truly knows. Macau pets the hedgehog fondly before handing it over to Vegas. Vegas, knowing he has trouble forming attachment and is not equipped to look after anything, not even himself, takes it and the next day he tells Macau that it died because Vegas fed it something that he wasn’t suppose to. Macau cries but reassures Vegas he doesn’t blame him. 

But the hedgehog isn’t dead. Vegas keeps it in its cage in his office because he can’t bring himself to kill it. Not only did it mean something to Macau, a gift from his darling brother, but also because maybe, just maybe, he would be killing himself. 

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This post is just going to be about Macau because now he's my second favourite character (I say without having ranked the characters, I just know I worship Arm and no one will take his place)

But I absolutely need an internal monologue of his thoguhts regarding his brother trying to get into the pants of the man who pushed him into the fountain and gave him a head wound. The fact that he seemed to apologise so easy AND that he apologised first, made me think either A) he's actually not an annoying little brat or B) deception and faking emotions almost seamlessly runs in the minor family so well but internally, he's already planned Porsche's death in about thirteen different ways and all of them include a fountain. Either is fine with me, I love him.

Also also, given the fact we saw him in uniform and it's the same uniform as Porschay, this suggests that the school they go to is some fancy ass school because I doubt a mafia family would send their youngest to any random public school. This means that the school is likely very expensive and well revered, so either Porsche has worked his ass off to pay for Porschay's education (which is very likely) or Porschay is just super fucking smart and is on scholarship (very unlikely given the fact he's absolutely oblivious to obvious Kim and his obvious dumbassery) and I think that's adorable.

I need more Vegas and Macau interaction omfg, they are so sweet as bros (unlike the major family cough cough cough)

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i love how collectively, this fandom has agreed to almost exclusively refer to Chan with the accompanying prefix of daddy or DILF

and it’s what he deserves 😌☝🏻

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BIG WAS HOLDING ONTO PORSCHE, SEE HE CARES, I AM STILL ON MY BIGKEN DON'T HATE PORSCHE CAMPAIGN AND THEY WORKED SO WELL TOGETHER IN THE BEGINNING OF EP 7