Listen listen I am a massive Style enthusiast and like 90% of what I post is Style BUT I saw K2 art and my brain is chewing so hard on it that I might have to draw/write something for them. Are you staying with me alright, with my K2 au, I see Stan being somewhere in the aroace area (he’s unaware of it, aka I love projected on characters I relate to) and is amused by his best friends being flustered/figuring stuff out early in college.
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Just curious, not hating. Why do you ship K2? Any specific interactions between them or like just the dynamic?
Omg, this is such a good question, and for me, it's really both. I love their interactions in the show, but more than that, I love the dynamic you can derive from that! Consider the following snippets;
From both the above sequence and the below one, there's something to derive immediately; Kenny respects Kyle, more than their often far and few in between individual interactions in the show really display. So, why is that?
I think the main reason has to do with situation and how it relates to personality. They're both self sacrificial, intensely loyal people, with powerful morals and the ability to get up and put their money where their mouth is. I also think their respective roles within the town can lend themselves to a very unique relationship between the two of them, and this is just me going off the deep end with speculation, but I do think Kenny could (subconsciously) love and desire to protect Kyle from a young age, in part due to their situations.
There's something bittersweet, I think, about two people who really do live in vastly different worlds yet have developed the same passion and goodness, yet Kyle's situation grants him a little more naivete towards the world, at least in some ways. The worst thing Kyle's experienced within his family is fear of his mother, who is generally very good, while Kenny has to duck to dodge bottles and work tirelessly to support a family who can't (and often won't) grant him much in return. And that's not even going into Kenny's deaths and immortality, which clearly weighs heavy on his shoulders. When Kenny shouts at Kyle about not understanding his immortality, he's right. Kenny has an impossibly heavy burden that Kyle (despite having his own troubles, and many of them) will never have to bear. And that must foster such a sense of loneliness, especially in the scene below; Kyle is so well loved by Stan, no matter what sense you consider that as, but Kenny is so heartbreakingly alone. It's those kind of contrasts in situation that lead to their contrasts in personality, despite the two of them stemming from the same inherently good temperament.
The unique tragedy of Kenny's situation in general grants him a sense of introspectiveness that the average person may take much longer to develop. Due to all of that, I can see Kenny kind of wanting to cradle that spark of naivete in Kyle. He's oddly protective of him, and Kyle obviously trusts him to live up to that - in Jewbilee, Kyle has absolutely no doubt that Kenny's going to find a way to help them. He is putting his complete and utter trust in Kenny, and as a result, displaying a sense of vulnerability he rarely shares to anyone but Stan. He knows Kenny will save him - his deep trust in Kenny came earlier than any other kid's in the show. He knew that Kenny was trustworthy from the very start.
The point of all of this is that Kenny and Kyle's trust in one another indicates to me a much deeper connection (or even just a possible connection) than the show often shows. The episodes that center around the two of them and their relationship are oddly intimate, in a way? There's not a lot of episodes where Kyle and Kenny get a scene together in which they're alone, or the attention is solely on them, but when there is, the scene is often really personal. Kenny blows up on Kyle in a way he's never done before about his powers, a deeply personal aspect of himself. Kyle places his full and utter trust in Kenny in what could be a life or death situation. Kenny reveals his secret to Kyle, because he trusts that he won't tell a soul. Kenny and Kyle are two sides of the same coin - shockingly similar in values, yet heartbreakingly different in situation.
I think that kind of relationship is really interesting to explore, especially as they get older and develop into more concrete personalities. The potential purely personality based dynamic of flirty/annoyed about it is cute enough, but I think that they have even more potential than that, and I'd go so far as to say they understand each other in a way that genuinely competes with some more strongly established relationships on the show.
Thank you for the ask!
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i need a k2 reincarnation au where in their first lives they fell in love and promise each other to love one another in every timeline theyre in, they go through the cycles of life and death and remember one another but as they go on kyle starts losing his past memories while kenny has the misfortune of remembering his and at first it was heartbreaking to see kyle no longer remembering him but as long as hes nearby and sees him smile and laughing thats all hes asking for
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