#confession scenes

imma do top 10 because all my lists are top 10 and TRADITION demands consistency 

My Top 10 BL Love Confessions

* 0. Togawa’s can’t hold it in any longer in Old Fashion Cupcake has now scooped the top spot. Look, it’s just brilliant and you know me, I love a desperate emotional kiss. It just works so well. The want and thirst dripping off of Togawa this whole show culminates perfectly in this scene, and the way Nozue can’t help but respond, but is also so confused. GAH SO GOOD. 

1. ShinWoo’s “thinking about you” confession in Light On Me. I’m on record that this is my favorite and it still sort of is. I just LOVE the quiet earnest high school cheese of it. Because it’s not about ShinWoo wanting anything for himself, it’s about what he could do and give to TaeKyung, acknowledged or not. 

2. Yuzuru running the clock down on those Seven Days so he can ask Seiryo to be his boyfriend outside of the “game” because he’s too scared about the dishonesty that the game implies (since he is a character driven by brutal honesty). You knew this one was coming. This is me, after all. This is possibly my favorite BL of all time.

3. Speaking of favorite BLs...... “You’re the lucky one, you always have been,” to baby (is not asleep, he’s NEVER actually asleep) in We Best Love.

(And of course the desperate drunken kisses in WBL2, but I don’t think that strictly counts as a confession scene, more a reunion confession scene?) 

4. Utsukushii Kare: Kiyoi’s "yell it at that idiot, and then storm off" version. Because it’s about being seen as a real living human with needs and not just a god on a pedestal. And then the way he has to articulate this later for Hira to finally realize his own worth and right to actually be Kiyoi’s boyfriend. 

5. A First Love Story (where did the kimchi go?) in the street “I like you, hyung.” 

6. Semantic Error’s seme subscription service. Technically the confession (or demand in JaeYeong’s case) comes just after the kiss in the scene prior: “We like each other, why can’t we just date?” But the whole sequence is great and such a classic example of a seme dealing with an extreme tsundere uke and trying to force a confession out of him. (Never gonna work, buddy.) 

6. SeoJoon’s “I think I actually like you” in To My Star and JiWoo’s absolute terror at this and the prospect of happiness. 

7. See You after Quarantine’s “I like you and I didn’t mean to hang up it was just a power outage and please don’t be mad” adorable awkwardness. 

8. The locker room scene in Love By Chance. THE LOCKER ROOM SCENE... ICONIC! The car first kiss “I think I like you more than a friend” is probubly Ae’s first confession but I like the one where he’s like “no, actually, I really do want to date you and fuck you so just PLEASE just be my boyfriend.” The desperation in it is so telling. 

9. " I love you so damn much” in Puppy Honey 2. Old guard here, but sometimes they just did it best, tsundere seme bringing the drama right up until the last gasp. 

10. Until We Meet Again: “Do you understand?” “I understand that we love each other.” 

Of course. And then THAT kiss. Gah.

Others I like

Pete in Kiss, “I broke up with her because I like you,” plus Kao’s response “Yeah, fat chance, I don’t trust your player ass.” Fair, dude. Fair. 

Grabbing his face “It’s you Tine, I like you” from Wat in 2gether. 

Forth to Beam, “shall we try being boyfriends?” in the hospital bed in 2 Moons 2. Similarly Ming’s “You’re my earth” very poetic confession to Kit kneeling in bed together. 

Addicted’s kidnapping OBEY sweatshirt in leu of a confession, just trash terrible and dumb and great. 

I was reminded of Type’s “I love you, asshole Tharn” in Tharntype. It is a good one. 

Mark’s drive by “I like you” smooch and then later “meet my friends as my boyfriend” in Love is Science? 

Okay that’s it! What are some of yours? 

Random Drabble

- “What I’m trying to say is, I have feelings for you,” Xxx said, looking at the floor with a deep blush. Clenched fists making wrinkles in their pants. The last thing they expected was for Yyy to let out a laugh. They felt their heart crack. Was it really so ridiculous that they should have feelings like this? The least they could do was let them down nicely.

“What are you talking about?” Yyy rolled their eyes, “Stop playing around.” What?

“Y-Yyy… I’m being serious,” Xxx stated, taking a step forward, “If you’re rejecting me that’s fine, but please just say so.”

“I’m being serious too. You’re always joking, but you need to know where to draw the line,” Yyy sighed. Their look in their eyes was almost… disheartened?

“I wouldn’t joke about something like this,” Xxx continued, sincerity threading their tone. They reached their hand forward to touch Yyy’s shoulder. “I really do like-”

“Stop!” Yyy smacked their hand away, taking a step back and crossing their arms over their chest defensively. The late afternoon sunlight shone through the open window of their classroom, the curtain rustles slightly as a breeze went by. “Stop talking like that,” Yyy said quietly, “Please.”

“Why?”

The air was thick with anticipation as an almost unbearable moment of silence passed between the two.

“Because I like you too,” Yyy admitted as they tearfully glared at the ground. “I have for so long so it hurts when you joke about it, does that make sense?” Their eyes looked up to meet Xxx’s. Their breathing slowed.

“Don’t you think it would hurt too if you tried to confess and the other person didn’t take you seriously?” Xxx said with a flustered smile, shuffling from foot to foot.

There was another moment of silence as they started at each other, Xxx scratched the back of their neck.

Yyy let out a laugh.

-

Just the way she looks at him sometimes with sadness or fear or conflicting emotions, or when she calls out to him with her heartfelt words, is enough to make that man feel like he has to stop, pause, or put whatever he’s doing on hold and explain himself to her.