#im sorry for the extremely late reply and the terrible english anon

[stormyoceans]

do you have thoughts about what if talay agreed to move in with puen in episode 6?

GOD I DO WONDER WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF TALAY ACCEPTED TO GO LIVE WITH PUEN

the thing is.. ep 6 and ep 7 are ESSENTIAL in talay's journey to realize and accept not only his own feelings for puen, but also puen's feelings for him, so it's hard to imagine things going differently. in this case, puen moving out of tun's apartment and going to live with tun's parents causes a separation that, however brief it may have been, makes talay understand just how much he wants puen to be part of his life. it also ends up making talay much more open to affection: he will never be as amorous as puen is, but he now admits to puen that he has missed him and goes from declaring "i don't like to be hugged" in ep 5 to giving puen the first of many hugs to come

maybe im wrong, but i feel like moving in with puen and being with him 24/7 at that particular point in time would have actually made talay withdraw into himself even more, because it was a stage of their relationship where he was very confused on the nature of their feelings for each other. we probably would have gotten some cute domestic scenes out of it, but i think they would have also been filled with an underlying tension (not of the good kind) and with a feeling of pressure, of uneasiness, that would have come from talay being too overwhelmed by puen’s presence. unlike what talay said, i don’t think they would have fought that much, just their usual banter that puen actually really likes, but talay always feeling on edge would have definitely made him lash out a bit more

i do believe that eventually we would have gotten the same outcome as the show (the two of them reconciliating in front of the 26 pictures building), because there are some events and choices that were always meant to happen: they were always going to reunite with up and aou, joob was always going to die and talay was always going to push puen towards pang……. i just think that talay moving in with puen would have actually made things way more painful (IF YOU CAN EVEN BELIEVE THAT)

just imagine the scene in episode 7 in front of tun’s parent’s house where talay tells puen he is leaving friend credits, except it happens in tun’s apartment after puen comes home to find talay packing his bags and ready to move out……. I WOULD NOT BE HERE RIGHT NOW BUT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE 16 STOREY BUILDING I WOULD HAVE THROWN MYSELF OFF OF