#also id like to point out the power of kimchay back then--

[snickerdoodlles]

Serious KP question time: does Kim, at any point in the show, call Porchay "Angel" or not? 'Cause, in fanfictions, it seems to be his default nickname most of the time but i can't remember if it actually happens in the show? Or is that just something the fandom collectively decided on and it stayed?

100% fandom. neither Kim nor Chay ever use pet names for each other in show canon, nor does Kim in show ever carry that sort of religion-related symbolism or references (unlike Vegas or Gun)

some context for why 'Angel' is a Thing despite that;

kinnporsche was hugely popular when the original filmania trailer dropped. there was like 50 fics for the show before the BOC trailer came out, and the Kim/Porchay pairing made up a third of them.

I think Kim calls Chay 'Angel' in the Kinnporsche novel, just because several people did start reading the novel in that year of the show being in limbo and the nickname was even more prevalent in fic back then? I can't say for sure though because I've never read the novel. but even if it is or isn't a thing in novel, the same case occurred: people were really, really hungry for kinnporsche when it first dropped. then there was a year of no news in which we all turned to the novel and/or other fic to supplement the lack of a show, and some nebulous shared fanon most fics drew from started to emerge and grow the longer the show was in limbo. Kim calling Chay 'Angel' was one of those fanon tropes, and then it stuck around even as the show properly got started because they're a secondary pairing and this fandom isn't very good at moving past that old shared fanon or book canon, even though all 2.5 canons are completely different stories from each other

#kinnporsche #also id like to point out the power of kimchay back then-- #the filmania trailer had 2.5 scenes for each character and none of them were shared #and not only were these two tagged in a third of those early fics #most of those were *only* kimchay fics. no other pairings #good for them!! #anyways #fun fact it took me a YEAR AND A HALF to get on board with the 'angel' nickname #which i only did only because i was making jokes about kimchay's shared avenging angel kink #and later so i could make a joke in the twitter verse fics #i do not like pet names for them i was so >:T every time i saw 'angel' in fic for THE LONGEST TIME lol