#kp the series

[schrodingers-hoarding-problem]

i love when characters are crazy in just the right way to be perfect for eachother, but way too batshit insane to be healthy for anyone else

[crystallinemoonlight]

the bodyguards: tankhun is crazy, worse than kinn!! he watches the same series over and over a dozen times, who DOES that?! he's MAD

kinnporsche fans:

[sarcastic-candy-dealer]

Tankhun: Kim, are you ignoring Chay?

Kim: I'm playing hard to get

Tankhun: Why would you do that? You're already hard to want

[saladbroth]

he's my specialest babygirl. i love him dearly

[theresoneicouldcallking]

j e f f s a t u r - b l a c k t i e (2023)

[kprecfest]

KP Rec Fest is a fest to spread some love in the KinnPorsche and KinnPorsche RPF fandoms by reccing your favorite works to others!

The fest will run from January 8 to January 21. Everyone is welcome to participate! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Rules:

Any transformative work can be recommended: fics, fanart, gifsets, edits, meta, podfics, fanvids, thread-fics, covers – the list goes on!

Post your recs to any one of our @kprecfest accounts (on Tumblr, Twitter, Pillowfort, Dreamwidth, or AO3) and we’ll reblog / retweet / collect them.

Do not repost the work you are recommending. Do not rec works that you cannot reblog/retweet, cannot find the owner for, or cannot link to directly.

How to participate:

Rec whatever you want, whenever you want! All prompts are optional!

You can also pick freely from our list of rec prompts (e.g. gifsets with <100 reblogs, fics for a rarepair) and fill as many as you want.

For an extra challenge, you can generate a bingo card with prompts and try to get a five-in-a-row, or even a full blackout.

If you are a creator, we have two special prompts for each Saturday during the fest.

January 14: Recommend someone else’s work by creating a new fanwork for / inspired by it January 21: Recommend one of your own works

Check out our carrd (linked in the description) for full instructions and prompt details, and hit up our asks for any questions!

[live-from-flaturn]

Fuck it.

At this point I will happily take a 45-second-long ‘special episode’ that’s just Porchay absolutely decking Kim in the jaw followed immediately by a shot of them holding hands in front of the sunset.

[chaotic-aro-incarnate]

Korn: Perfect. I have three sons, three male heirs to carry the family name. I have ensured that my legacy will go on.

Tankhun: *is Tankhun*

Korn: ... well one gay son isn't the end of the world. Besides, Kinn is now the heir so-

Kinn: Papa I'm gay and have a boyfriend.

Korn: ... at least there's still Kim-

Kim: *leaving dead bodies for his ex-boyfriend like a stray cat in order to win him back instead of talking even though he was the one who broke up with him*

Korn: ...

Korn: I should have had daughters.

[dream-launch]

This was all I could think of during that conversation between Kinn and Porsche

[kwonzoshi]

Vegas in a nutshell 😂🤣

[ronanlvnchvevo]

Ok so I want to talk about this scene in particular, because I love it so much and feel like every time I watch it I learn some kind of new insight into Pete, and I think it foreshadows a lot of the future vegaspete moments (which--STAY WITH ME I know my brain rot is showing ok, I KNOW but it’s good I promise)

So the first thing I notice about this scene every time I watch it is how visibly uncomfortable Porsche is. Not only do we as the audience, who know Porsche’s motivations for wanting to witness this moment, and who get to see those fun flashbacks, know that he’s uncomfortable, but I think it’s clear to the other three in the room that Porsche is Not Having A Good Time. When Kinn’s determined that this is no longer a productive learning experience for Porsche, he calls out to Pete and signals for Pete to go with him outside. THIS IS EXTREMELY FASCINATING TO ME, because I think Kinn knows (HE KNOWS) that, in addition to basically being his bestie, Pete is probably the most empathic of all his men (he’s been tankhun’s babysitter without complaint for how long?), and that Porsche probably needs someone to talk him through whatever’s going on in his head. 

Up until this point, and in only three episodes I might add, we see multiple different occasions where Pete shows a deep emotional understanding of the people around him in ways no one else does. This comes in the form of him 1) not immediately ostracizing Porsche because he’s the bratty new guy, and instead taking him under his wing; this is significant because he’s THE ONLY ONE in the main house who doesn’t give Porsche any attitude, or treat him like he’s the gum stuck to the bottom of their shoe like everyone else does. 2) He’s the only bodyguard who is visibly uncomfortable when Tankhun is punishing Porsche with the mermaid costume AND is the only one who speaks up on Porsche’s behalf (T: Give him a treat! P:...that’s enough. He didn’t mean to). 3) Despite disagreeing with Thankhun’s punishment, he STILL feels obligated to educate Porsche on the trauma he endured as a reason for his “absurd” behavior. His interpretation of TK’s behaviors, and the rest of the family’s for that matter, also demonstrate just how perceptive he is. 4) OBVIOUSLY the scene in ep 2 where he stops Porsche from trying to beat Kinn’s ass after getting choked out. In this scene, it’s clear he’s taken the time to analyze the situation from Kinn’s perspective, or at least that he’s spent time thinking about how difficult things were/are for Kinn (“He used to love his people. The reason he became cruel was not totally on him”) and the fact that he doesn’t just blurt out Kinn’s secret in that moment speaks to his character, I think. I could go into even greater detail here, but I’ve already let this get out of hand, and its not even the main point I’m trying to make in this post.

SO PETE TAKES HIM OUTSIDE on Kinn’s order, right? This is where the ENTIRE conversation takes an incredible turn towards vegaspete foreshadowing for me. And Yes, it’s a conversation about Porsche and what he’s going through, but I think it’s important to acknowledge the double purpose its serving (which, bravo to the writers for that) and how at their cores Porsche and Vegas are going through very similar things. It’s also an important conversation because it reveals some truths that I think are important to remember when we think about how Pete could have fallen for Vegas despite him being his captor (and aside from him just being a really empathetic dude).

Porsche begins their impromptu therapy session with “He must really have no way out. That’s why he’s acting stupid.” Porsche is obviously saying this about the man they’re extorting, but then he relates it to his own experience with debt collectors “I know it very well, that having no way out can really make you do anything.” Immediately!!! I was thinking ‘you know who acts real stupid a lot, because he’s trapped in his family’s cycle of violence? Vegas.’ I digress. This scene is a turning point for Porsche in particular. He makes his first kill, yes, but that’s just meant to really bring home the realization he’s having that life isn’t as black and white as he’d always thought it was. Up until this point, Porsche has always seen himself the Victim of debt collectors, and he viewed them as an unnecessary evil (it’s not his fault his uncle gambles away all of their money!). It is at this point when he finds himself, the Victim, the Good Guy, with no choice but to become the Evil Debt Collector. Sometimes there is no choice. Sometimes the Good Guy must do a bad thing in order to survive. Things are more often stuck in a gray area than they are just good or just evil. “I never thought that I’d be like one of them today,” he says. This leaves him smack dab center in a moral gray area, and so clearly reeling from the realization. (he tries to save himself and stay The Good Guy when he tries to talk the guy down, but the guy shooting anyways forces him to instead acknowledge this truth once and for all.)

BACK TO VEGASPETE: Pete quietly lets Porsche say his piece in its entirety, and then gives a response that shows he’s understood this to be a universal truth for a long time. “We’re just teaching him a lesson,” is his first response. He doesn’t try to justify their actions, nor is he attempting in any way to reframe their situation in a way that makes them out to be either Good or Bad guys. If he did, he’d be playing into a narrative he doesn’t believe, and as we know, “theres no legacy as rich as honesty.” Instead, he goes on to give the one of the most iconic lines of the series: “There’s no heroes nor villains in this world.” Heroes being the paragon of all things good, and villains symbolizing all things evil. This certainly has broader implications for the series as a whole, but for vegaspete, it goes to show that Pete never looked at Vegas and saw villain. It’s more likely he saw him for what he was at his core: a broken man lashing out at a world that refused to love him despite his best efforts. He saw all of Vegas’ actions, not as isolated evil incidents, but as reactions to things around him and the way the people who were supposed to love him treated him. It’s also why it’s believable that he believed in Vegas’ capability to do good and love when he saw the way he treated the hedgehog. Animals often love unconditionally. Animals also cannot judge you or your motivations the way humans can. Pete saw Vegas loving the only living thing that ever loved him back, and he knew Vegas was simply the product of his environment and circumstances.

[ravenpureforever]

This is random but like something that gets me about VegasPete is how they parallel the other relationships in such an interesting way.

Because unlike the other two relationships, Vegas and Pete get to leave the mafia behind.

Kim finds light in Chay, and it forces him to embrace the darkness of the mafia he’s been running from.

Kinn and Porsche find light and happiness within each other but they are now so entrenched within the mafia world that they can never leave. Kinn will not leave his father, Porsche will not leave his mother or Kinn, they are bound to the mafia and won’t leave.

Chay can’t exactly leave behind his brother or mother either, and even if he’s removed from it, he’s been kidnapped once, he’s been targeted twice, he’s tied to the mafia, he’s not going anywhere.

But VegasPete? They get to leave, they are willing to leave and they are happy to be gone. And it’s such a fascinating narrative choice how the couple that started off the darkest is the one that embraces the light and the one with the most innocent meeting has the saddest ending.

There’s something about how being confronted with the unapologetic truth of who someone is from the beginning, messy and raw and cruel and bloodthirsty, allows for a later tenderness and honesty and growth.

VegasPete are arguably the darkest couple, and yet they get to leave, they get to be embraced within the light, they get to be together, away from everything else, they get the lives you know Kinn and Kim wish they could have, and it’s such an interesting narrative choice.

The softer the meeting the more brutal the ending and the more brutal the meeting the softer the ending, and how could it go any other way in the world of the mafia?

[crystallinemoonlight]

still not over the fact korn murdered porsche and chay's family and then planted some lousy gambler as their guardian who ruined their lives and put them into constant debt that drove porsche to risk his health and life street fighting. it's insane. especially bc in the later episodes arthee showed a scary lack of care towards porsche, calling him naive and stupid, trying to extort him using his dead family, he did not give a shit. people don't just change like that overnight, he didn't just get evil and uncaring, that stuff was already there. and he was picked to look after two traumatized children??

korn must have done that on purpose, either to put porsche in a constantly vulnerable state he could later exploit, or to keep him busy so he'd never have the time or capacity to think too much about his family's past. there's no way he didn't know.

[sarcastic-candy-dealer]

Kim : I'm a stone-cold killer. Nothing has ever gotten to me. I'd like to see you try and make me feel a single thing.

Khun : Yesterday Chay told me that he didn't like you very much.

Kim : *voice breaking* Oh, he did?

[its-a-secret-hehe]

Explained this show to my mum and she bought me a harness for my birthday. Neither of us will ever look at eachother the same way again.

[tinycowboybro]

what if i just started posting kinnporsche fan art ? what then ?

lmao this is unfinished but idk this show is silly and so is big

do i even tag like spoilers ?

tbh who’s gonna see this and not know abt it

nvm