#commentary:2jae

My dear anon,

WHAT??? WHO SAYS I’M STILL CRYING A DAY LATER???

I just??? have so many emotions???? Like…… okay, first of all, I would have loved a RECENT selca of the two of them, but the fact that this is from predebut at the filming for their music video??? HAS YOUNGJAE HAD THIS PICTURE ON HIS PHONE FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS??? I mean, I can’t help thinking about the possibility that this is the very first 2jae selca. At the very least, the earliest we’ve ever seen!?! (Though if anyone else knows of another predebut 2jae selca, PLEASE SEND IT TO ME!!) Ahhh, I just have so many emotions about the picture itself… and then the fact that Youngjae hasn’t made a instagram post for any of his members birthdays over the whole last year… but then he’s one of only two members (plus Mark’s dad) to post for his Jaebumie hyung’s birthday??? Ahhh…. so many emotions.

AND THE HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEARTS VIBE. I’m still screaming inside. Just the idea of tiny first year Youngjae being the cutest, goofiest kid and upperclassman Jaebum with the cool, chic image meeting him and them falling for each other… Jaebum waiting at Youngjae’s desk for him before class, and Youngjae always showing up only just before class starts because he oversleeps and making Jaebum late for his own classes, but Jaebum doesn’t even care, lingering every day just so he can ruffle Youngjae’s hair and shove some sort of snack or drink at him and then stroll out all casually cool. Youngjae acting like he hates it because “it’s embarrassing, hyung. People keep staring and asking me about you.” and Jaebum all like, “Good. They’d better know you’re mine.” (And then his awkward nerd self coming out like, “You are mine, right?” and Youngjae having to reassure him with affection because Jaebum is a needy child.) But Youngjae actually loves it and he probably locks himself in a bathroom and cries at Jaebum’s graduation because he doesn’t want him to leave… and then Jaebum switches to waiting at the gate for him before and after school, and Youngjae complains about him looking like a creeper, but he’s secretly always happy when he sees Jaebum waiting for him, and………. OKAY, I’LL STOP. 

Hello, my dear anon!

I’m glad to hear that I wasn’t the only one paying attention to how obvious Jaebum’s heart eyes to Youngjae were in the livestream!

And can we also just talk about the simple fact of the extended staring??? Because there was so much staring!! Like, I actually did the math just to see how much staring there really was… and found that Jaebum spent 32 seconds looking at Youngjae. 32 seconds. Out of 2 minutes and 3 seconds.

He legitimately spent ¼ of the video with his gaze on Youngjae, AND THE SOFTEST EXPRESSIONS CROSSING HIS FACE!

Plus the little blinks he would do when he would catch himself and look away again!

Ahh, forgive me for my trashy feels and gushing over such a small thing, but I struggle to deal with how much care and attention Jaebum devotes to Youngjae on a regular basis as it is, and the way it surfaces like this here when he’s clearly too tired from their performance to really catch himself just warms my heart so much!

My darling anon,

I just screamed messily about the ideas you stirred up, but I’m also just gonna leave this here like this… because the fact that Youngjae definitely had his tattoo by the time he posted this in May…

combined with the fact that Jaebum was then singing the same song in June… and the way that the lyrics reference not only tattoos that Youngjae has, but also sleeping together like 2jae used to do at their dorms, still do on tour, and Jaebum wants to do again and will soon get the chance!? is just too much to deal with, and we all need to take a moment to think about this…