#teepakorns

nuria!!!! hi hiii hello!!! ahhh thank you for this, i’ve been itching to talk about pete!

favorite thing about them:

i absolutely love the way he loves! i just said this for tang yi but i love how relentless pete is in his love. this is, like, the only continuity between kiss, kma, and dbk, but in each one he loves kao wholly and so much and that’s honestly my favourite thing about him! the boy is just so so gone for kao and it’s so sweet to see honestly. i still have to laugh thinking about the fact that the entire plot of kiss revolves around pete loving kao even though they were barely a side couple lmaooo 

least favorite thing about them: 

this comes as no surprise to anyone who knows pete: his possessiveness. i think dbk did this well in the fact that they showed why he was so jealous and possessive: because he thought he wasn’t worthy for kao. and he really does... grow in dbk, to a point where he’s still possessive i guess but not to the extent he was before, and he promises to become a better person. love is healing! 

favorite line: 

pete has so many golden lines but i’m gonna limit it to two from dbk: “that doesn’t make sense. i’m good because i want to be. i don’t have to be a better person than everyone else because i like men.” this one just hits! it has so many layers to it and i think about this line every day honestly. first of all, just the raw truth of the expectation of needing to prove yourself more than other people just because you’re lgbt and you feel like you need to make up for that, and how he’s at a point where he has realised that’s not true and that he is completely normal the way he is. and then also, pertaining to pete’s character specifically... “i’m good because i want to be.” hit me so hard when i was rewatching for the first time. it proves explicitly how pete, with kao’s help and love, has made strides in his character development because he wants to! //  “i think every parent knows who their kids are. they just choose whether to talk about it or not.” this one GOT me! like in my specific situation... i just. it got me so hard, that entire scene was wonderful.

brotp: 

PETE AND MORK!!! we got some rights in that one scene where they talk about beating non up lmao but god... i love them so much. two rough and tough kids who heal because of love and grow and are best friends... i would like to see it [slides p’aof a couple of dollars]

otp: 

petekao. whomst is surprised.

notp: 

who do people ship pete with other than kao? mmm maybe mint? pete x mint is a no-go.

random headcanon: 

i have so so many but this little fond headcanon i have is that on kao’s birthday, he surprises him with a little photo album of all the photos they’ve taken together over the years. from when they were first year uni students, to now in their own home with stable jobs and each other. kao flips through to see himself with and without glasses, a polaroid of their intertwined hands, a little photo of pete kissing his cheek, but mostly candid shots of kao against scenic backdrops for the first pages. somewhere around the middle, you see more of sandee, thada, and june coming in, and kao’s hand unashamedly wrapped around pete’s waist. and then more pictures of pete and kao crop up, holding hands and resting together, taken by their friends in secret. there’s one where pete is looking at kao that’s captioned with “lovesick idiot -- sandee.” where kao starts tearing up, however, is when he sees a photo of him and pete curled up into the couch at kao’s mother’s house, a blanket wrapped around them and pete’s head tucked into the crook of kao’s neck, kao’s arms around him. the angle is shaky and the picture is a bit blurry but it’s clearly taken by kao’s mum. he can make out a little caption in her neat scrawl: “my peaceful sleeping sons” and that’s when it hits, for him. that he’s allowed to have this. the last picture has to be another one of kao, one taken on their many trips together, and likewise, the little caption has to be “you’re in every view i see <3″

unpopular opinion: 

i feel a lot of people judge pete too harshly for his actions in dbk and while i get where they’re coming from because i was that person as well, i think a lot of actions, while inexcusable, did have a reason behind them at least. i don’t know. when i look at pete, i see a hurting kid who has to live up to so many expectations and feels that kao could do so much better than him and expresses that in the wrong way.

song i associate with them: 

class of 2013 by mitski. this is one i’ve thought about before as well. i think this very much summarises a lot of his feelings about unworthiness and insecurity and expectations, especially the lines “mom, i'll be quiet / it would be just to sleep at night / and i'll leave once i figure out / how to pay for my own life too” and “mom, am i still young? / can i dream for a few months more?” it just hits!!

favorite picture of them:

this is a bit of a cop out but i literally ADORE this poster for dbk and i honestly think it’s my most favourite picture of pete. there’s just something about the way he looks at kao, man, it’s yearning as hell and slices right through to the heart. do i love them!!