An ☀︎

like maybe it's just cause im super aroace and don't really understand what romance is/meant to feel like but whenever i think about shse i just think that those two are not the type to have the clean label of boyfriends, and like not in the fanfic 'ive accidentally been dating my best friend for a year' way but more that labels aren't a thing that matter to them or their relationship

i do see them as the type where everyone looks at them and Thinks They're Dating or pushes them to finally ask the other person out because obviously you're into each other!!! why aren't you dating yet???? but i think that's something pushed onto them by the people around them

like im pretty sure neither of them would deny being boyfriends if someone said it, but i don't think it's the label THEY would use for themselves

*particularly i think suho might deny it at first bc he worries about how sieun would react but sieun does not gaf in the slightest. he does not care about what other people think of his relationship with suho. shse is shse business and as long as it makes sense to the two of them, sieun could not care less about what others think. once suho learns that sieun doesn't care whether people call them best friends or boyfriends or 'just roommates', he also stops bothering because if sieun doesn't mind then, hey, he doesn't either!

suho and sieun strike me as both being very secure in themselves and their own identity. the moments they falter and start to doubt themselves are when they hurt the people they love or blame themselves for allowing the people they love to get hurt. i think if either sieun or suho DID care about labels, then the other would care as well, because they care about what the other person thinks, but external comments wouldn't shake them because they're not insecure about their relationship

Painland week Day 1: Dancing together / First date

[song "At Last" by Etta James]

now imagine gotak & juntae start dating, there’s such a possibility for angst there with juntae remembering and realizing that gotak could’ve intervened then, but didn’t. (atleast not till he met sieun + baku came back.)