#duenbohn

Exhibit B.

Bohn and Duen are fighting again. Constantly. Duen makes Bohn jealous (and you can’t tell me he’s still so naive NOT to know what he’s doing!) and gets angry at Bohn being jealous. He provokes Bohn and makes a deal which hurts Bohn double. There’s no advantage for Bohn whatsoever. He’ll still have to sit through the double date he didn’t agree to go to and he’ll still be jealous (if Duen’s story isn’t something dumb like an accidental kiss with a dog).

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Frong and Thara are bickering as well. Mek and Boss are bickering, even shouting at each other. King and Ram are bickering. And they all apologise or clear it with a mature talk. Frong has a damn reason for reacting the way he did when Thara tried to console him. He was devastated to know his mother might have cancer and Thara understood. He wasn’t angry with Frong. Still, when Frong realised he’d treated Thara unfairly, he seeked him out to apologise, making an extra effort to call him “Doctor” instead of accepting the more informal offer. King apologised for telling a lie about Ram (which was an unlucky try to protect him) and when Mek and Boss fought it was because Mek needed to tell Boss HOW worthy of love and affection he is. And instead of getting angry when he saw Mek’s pictures, Boss said: Me too. And they could move on.

Exhibit C.

Bohn has to persuade Duen to sleep over. It’s hard work because Duen behaves as if Bohn wants to ravage and rape him. Which isn’t the case at all. All Bohn wants is to have him close and to know he’s there. He probably wouldn’t be adverse to something more, but he even refrains from touching Duen as much as possible. And Duen doesn’t ask. They don’t talk about this fear.

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Boss sleeping over like he did all week, but now IN Mek’s bed. Without any discussions, but because they both want to.

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Ram sleeping over at King’s place because King OFFERED. It was an offer to help and Ram was never pressured to take it. He could have asked any of his friends to sleep over, but he didn’t. He accepted the offer and stayed, because he felt safe with King.

Exhibit D.

Bohn asks Duen to move in with him. Duen says “No, we’ll wait a year”. It’s absolutely okay if he’s not ready yet (and they should definitely work on a few issues before even thinking about moving in) and I guess Bohn would accept a “No”. But Duen combined his “No” with the accusation of Bohn probably not being able to  stay with him for a year.

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King and Ram suddenly living together! I mean they have a reason to and it feels natural, but they aren’t a couple yet and they still move in together. Or as King said it: “We live together.” They instantly seem very much in sync and King even lets Ram’s dogs stay!

Exhibit E.

Bohn and Duen don’t touch. Or very rarely. Duen pulls back and Bohn ... has tried less? And gets even more desperate. If we’d know WHY Duen is like that, it would be something else, but he won’t even let Bohn hold his hand or give him a peck, which is even weird for an aromantic or asexual person. Especially since he’s thought about having sex with Bohn once? At least theoretically? And shouldn’t he have told Bohn at least about it?

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Mek and Boss touching so much. OMG, the way they are all over themselves in the bed! No panic, just contentment.

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King and Ram touching more and more. It’s the wrist grabbing and also King touching Ram’s shoulder and his hair to comfort him. It’s not desperation and Ram doesn’t pull back, but he welcomes it, even leans against King for more. And King lets him.

Exhibit F.

When Bohn or Duen say something hurtful, it seems kinda on purpose. Especially with Duen in the last episode when he flirted with Frong in front of Bohn. When Bohn says something hurtful, it’s mostly a reaction to something Duen did as well, but he has those moments of being mean on purpose as well, even if not as bad.

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When any of the other couples fight, it’s never on purpose. They either poke fun at each other and sometimes it goes too far, but they apologise. Frong did it at the beginning, but he’s under a lot of stress and has changed his behaviour already.

Conclusion?

Okay, you wonder what’s my conclusion? I’m not entirely sure, but a lot of those scenes were directly next to each other as if to highlight how much goes wrong with Bohn’s and Duen’s relationship. Now in the trailer with Bohn being very irritated at Duen, it makes me feel ... as if it is all on purpose. Why should they present the other couples with such care but the main couple like that? I haven’t read the book, but (HOPEFULLY)

either there will be a big moment for both of them to learn and change their behaviour to something more healthy. Like a real talk with Duen saying why he’s like that or something like that. And them not being mean to each other anymore!

OR this is all one long way for a breakup. Which would be unusual for the maincouple, to be honest, but it would make sense. At least for me it would.

So this is all MY opinion and I have NO idea how’s going to play out, but it was weird to see all those parallels, making Bohn/Duen seem even more dysfunctional.

Thanks for reading my rant and meta-rambling! <3 If you want to add or comment, feel free to reblog! =)