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Forever thinking about @criticallyobs’s idea that this line from Kang is almost certainly what led to Sailom crying —

Because the last time they were in a situation similar to this, Kang was flirty

And he made sure Sailom knew he wanted to see him

So while in the love motel, Kang thinks he’s respecting Sailom’s wishes and putting him at ease

All he’s really doing in hitting home for Sailom how much things have changed — reminding him that they aren’t in the luxury motel in Korat where they made love for the first time. They’re in a pay by the hour motel, and, in Sailom’s mind, Kang doesn’t want anything to do with him anymore.

#I am making myself so sad it’s hard to continue!! #but I want to get to the white shirt snuggles #and also one day finish my rewatch #kanghan kirttin sukprasert #sailom homchan #kanghansailom #dangerous romance #kess babbles about dangerous romance

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I’m having a complete meltdown about these two heartbroken boys:

Kang who is so determinedly trying to care for Sailom’s knee while looking the most miserable we’ve ever seen him. Unable to look Sailom in the face except to steal little glancing looks at him. Such a far cry from the arrogant facade he’d been managing before he saw Sailom almost die.

And then Sailom who’d briefly SMILED at the idea of Kang following him, suddenly being left alone and letting us see the full weight of how miserable and lonely and scared he is.

You can FEEL how desperately they miss each other in every second of the part of episode 11

#kanghansailom #kanghan kirttin sukprasert #sailom homchan #dangerous romance #kess babbles about dangerous romance

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“I promise that after graduating from this school I will continue to grow and improve. I will strive to become a better version of myself. And I will make a positive difference in the lives of others.”

I feel like my own child just graduated from school. I’ve never been so proud of a fictional character in my entire life!! KANGHAN this is why I have defended you so staunchly!! I love you so much!!

#kanghan kirttin sukprasert #dangerous romance #Kess babbles about dangerous romance

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Kang learning to fight for Sailom

If Kang feels this way, why was he such a dick to Sailom? I saw this question over and over again after last week.

To answer it, it’s important to look at their dynamic before their breakup.

Before they ever started dating — before they were even friends — Kang first noticed Sailom because he was willing to fight back. He looked Kang dead in the eye and he always found a way to one up him:

Then, once they grew closer Sailom consistently held Kang accountable and pushed him to be a better person:

But from the moment Saifah confesses, Sailom completely shuts down. He doesn’t protest when Kang walks away from him. He doesn’t knock on Kang’s door. He ‘plays’ along with letting Kang buy him in the escort scene. As I’ve mentioned before, Sailom had believed all along that that they were always going to come to an end, and so he accepts Kang breaking up with him as his lot in life. Sailom has never gotten to have nice things. Why would Kang be different?

Hear me when I say I’m not trying to argue that one of them is right or wrong — they represent two sides of a relationship with two very different perspectives. Even though I sympathize deeply with them both, I’m trying to show Kang’s side for the purpose of this essay because his is more confusing.

From Kang’s perspective, this is Sailom giving up on them. Kang initially pushed him away in a mess of grief and fear and anger. While he immediately regretted it, though, Sailom hasn’t said or done a single thing to indicate he cares they’re over. He hasn’t argued, he hasn’t begged, he hasn’t tried to stay. Where Sailom might have thought it was appropriate to leave the umbrella, it must have felt like a very definitive action to Kang.

Although Sailom cried in the escort scene, those tears could arguably be explained by the trauma of his experience. Kang wouldn’t have believed they were for their lost relationship (as much as it felt like it to us the viewer, seeing them hug).

So coming into episode 11, Kang feels deeply rejected. He feels like Sailom never needed him the way Kang did Sailom. He’s convinced himself Sailom doesn’t care. Which means Kang is frustrated and hurt.

@thirstkanaphan speculates that this is actually Kang trying to (badly) warn Sailom off escorting, which I think is very believable. These are bluntly delivered words that mask a much deeper concern.

@criticallyobs also adds that this is very believably Kang speaking to himself (“I won’t LET myself be concerned”; which, sure buddy, good luck with that).

Then, what’s the much worse scene — taking back the pin, makes even more sense to me. Because at first Kang is quiet. He’s been staring at Sailom with barely concealed longing all day.

He looks exactly like he did in episode four — like all he needs is a moment alone with Sailom in the bathroom to crack.

But instead of falling into his arms, Sailom thanks him. I love this gifset from @kangsailomthat shows his complete sincerity.

This is indisputably a farewell. This is a “we’re never going to see each other again”.

Kang is reacting to what he sees as Sailom permanently trying to leave his life. (Again, badly)

@thirstkanaphan also points out that this is (in Kang’s mind) his last chance to touch Sailom. In that scene you can see he’s fidgeting. His arms had been moving even before that. Taking off the pin was a discrete action he could take that gave him an excuse to physically touch Sailom.

Neither of them want this separation! Sailom is reacting to what he thinks Kang wants or needs. And Kang is taking the lead — as he does in VIRTUALLY ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP — from Sailom. He is hearing and seeing that Sailom is seemingly fine with their breakup.

But Kang doesn’t want to be apart. He has not wanted to be apart since immediately after the haze of grief wore off after learning Saifah confessed. Kang either starts (or more likely continues, given how quickly he got to Sailom’s side after Sailom called him) following him. He keeps watching Sailom, making sure Sailom is okay. Which is how he’s able to save Sailom from the shooting.

From afar, Kang likely saw Sailom looking fine. Sailom smiles at multiple times when talking to his boss and Name. Sailom puts on a brave face with every single person he interacts with. The only time he shows a crack in the facade is when he’s hidden inside a car.

Seeing Sailom cry in the shower completely upends everything Kang has been telling himself. He sees first-hand how much their breakup has been tearing Sailom apart. He understands exactly how lost Sailom has been without him.

While up to this point, Kang has been being an ass — in part in the hope of getting Sailom to push back; to fight for them — in the shower he realizes that in their relationship he needs to be the one to take the lead. Whereas Sailom will push him in other aspects in his life, Kang has to be the one to fight for the two of them.

He recognizes in that moment that he needs to convince Sailom how serious he is about them. And then he resolves himself to continue protecting Sailom and their love from them on. (Demonstrated beautifully in this gifset by @tirpse)

#kanghansailom #kanghan kirttin sukprasert #sailom homchan #dangerous romance #dangerous romance the series #kess babbles about dangerous romance

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A complete emotional journey embodied by two words.

#kanghan kirttin sukprasert #kanghansailom #dangerous romance #rewatch is slow going (shocking) but I’m so into it #Kess babbles about dangerous romance

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We haven’t talked enough about Sailom’s protectiveness in the hospital room:

At first, he’s being fueled by anger, and maybe there’s a level of naïveté here, where he doesn’t fully seem to process the threat in front of him.

But Kang immediately does.

While Sailom seems frozen, Kang desperately scrambles to get to his feet and in front of him.

Only then does Sailom recognize the full magnitude of the threat. He now understands this man means to kill them. He has felt the sharp intake of Kang’s breath; is holding Kang’s weight.

And at once Sailom is driven to act. He turns them, making sure he’s blocking Kang as much as possible.

Where he wasn’t scared before, now he’s terrified— he understands exactly the sacrifice he’s making for the boy he loves.

#kanghansailom #dangerous romance #sailom homchan #kanghan kirttin sukprasert #kess babbles about dangerous romance #dangerous romance the series

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Kang literally TOOK A BULLET FOR SAILOM.

He has been FOLLOWING HIM AROUND TRYING TO KEEP HIM SAFE. (It’s fiction, I’m going to enjoy that whereas in real life I might feel otherwise.) He would not have been able to rescue Sailom in either the escort scene or the shooting had he not been.

He TOLD US that he didn’t want to be apart from Sailom.

He felt the crushing pressure of the fact that he believes Sailom’s brother shot his father. To quote @criticallyobs if you don’t see how that would be stressful, take a step back and think about how overwhelmed you would feel if your boyfriend/girlfriend’s sibling did that to your parent.

And he even got OVER THAT before learning Saifah is innocent. He slept side by side with Sailom and tried to defend him from the knock at the door STILL BELIEVING Saifah was guilty. Which means he needed time to process!! Which we’ve seen before!!!

I was mad too in part one but truly what more do you want from him??

#kanghansailom #kanghan kirttin sukprasert #dangerous romance #kess babbles about dangerous romance #dangerous romance the series #apparently ready to throw hands like Sailom in that hospital room

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Kang’s gradual and complete breakdown

On rewatch, we were given a significant number of clues as to how bad Kang’s mental state is going into his conversation with Grandma Ging:

First, he stops and looks in on his dad. It’s easy to imagine that Kang is remembering how excited he’d been at the newfound hope that they might be able to repair their relationship, but that now seeing him on life support, Kang’s wondering if he’ll ever get to talk to him again.

Then, Grandma Ging tells us two pieces of what I think are critical information — Kang was supposed to stay in the house but he left in the middle of the night.

The last time this happened, when she was in the hospital and the dad stayed, we know it was only Kang and Sailom in the house. So now, we can infer Kang would have been all alone with all those big, dark, empty rooms. He would have had nothing to think about but his dad is possibly dying and how he pushed Sailom away. He would have been helpless but to remember how Sailom was with him the last time — how back then they were on the cusp of becoming boyfriends.

Then, Kang asks this. He outright tells us he couldn’t sleep and he needed comfort.

We know Kang has trouble sleeping when he’s anxious.

It’s not hard to imagine that he’s been like this every night since Sailom packed his things.

@criticallyobs speculates in their reaction episode that “hug you to sleep” might have been something Kang did with his mom.

He’s also asked that of Sailom, on a night before important exams. (I’m not crying at the idea that Sailom has taken on a role Kang’s mom used to play!! My screen just suddenly got blurry!!)

So before she ever brings up Saifah, we know (1) Kang probably hasn’t slept in days, (2) Kang is anxious, (3) Kang has been drowning in worry for his dad and thoughts of Sailom.

Well, then immediately after he came to her for comfort, she asks him about the subject that’s been torturing him. And look at him — he looks sick at the idea.

He is a relatively simple thinker so he asks this. In his mind, why would Saifah confess if he were innocent? This is a great example of a situation where he would normally lean on Sailom to help tease out a complex topic but can’t anymore.

And then, it gets even worse. Because if he didn’t want to talk about Saifah when he walked into the room, do you know who he really didn’t want to talk about? Saifah’s brother.

Grandma Ging is telling him here, Saifah would not have done this because not being in our home badly hurts Sailom. Someone who loves Sailom would not want to see him hurt.

I feel like any time I defend Kang I need to put these screenshots in, because not doing so would seem like trying to hide these words. Which again, are terrible.

But I said before, in ‘In Defense of Kang’ that what Kang is actually doing here is (obnoxiously) trying to justify his own actions to himself. He’s leaning on words he’s probably heard from his dad. He CANNOT have been wrong about Saifah. That is impossible to think about, because then it means that he threw the person he loved into a “difficult situation” for absolutely no reason (leaving aside the fact that he handled the situation badly even if Saifah were guilty). Grandma Ging has just point blank told him, if you love someone you wouldn’t do something like this.

This is Kang’s face immediately after he gives that little speech. He doesn’t believe his own words. He very clearly feels worse than he did before he walked into the room.

He already knew on some level that he made a mistake in sending Sailom away the night Sailom first left.

But this is when the full magnitude of his actions start to hit him.

Kang had already been grappling with the knowledge that he’d badly wronged Sailom when Sailom called him. He got to experience exactly one second of hope that Sailom wanted to reconcile, only for it to turn into a waking nightmare. This initial anger is his fear and self loathing bursting out.

((I do want to caveat before I continue that I do not believe it is entirely Kang’s fault that Sailom turned to escorting. Sailom turned down a genuine offer of help from his friends.

But Kang’s actions indisputably played a role. And he was forced to see in horrifying detail the consequences of him depriving Sailom of his support.))

Seeing Sailom scared and groggy and confused, shirt still hanging open from his near assault showed Kang in painful detail exactly how badly he failed to take care of the person he loves. In the face of this, anger so so quickly gives way to overwhelming regret.

Kang’s breakdown here is the final escalation of how he’s already been feeling since the moment Sailom walked out of his house. The escort scene gave the final blow necessary for Kang to shatter. It ensured Kang will never ever forget the importance of his role as a protector.

However, Kang had already been well on his way here for days.

(Find Sailom’s version here)

#dangerous romance #dangerous romance the series #kanghansailom #kess babbles about dangerous romance #kanghan kirttin sukprasert

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Kang just thought about him and Sailom getting married for the very first time and very clearly went all soft and dreamy about it. I’m obsessed

#kanghan kirttin sukprasert #dangerous romance #dangerous romance the series #kess babbles about dangerous romance

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A big thank you to @dramabiscuit for calling out this line in one of my own posts that I had forgotten. It feels EVEN MORE RELEVANT now

#Always having feelings about #kanghan kirttin sukprasert #kess babbles about dangerous romance #dangerous romance #kanghansailom

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Little details in episode 7

I FINALLY got to rewatch episode 7 so sharing a bunch of the tiny things that jumped out at me:

This angle!! The way his face is so scrunched!! He THAT desperately wants Sailom to understand what he is trying to tell him.

The way Sailom doesn’t look at him once while Kang is focused on him —

But then when the boys burst in he steals this glance

And Kang seems to sense it, but he’s too late and Sailom has already looked away again

This little pleased smile when Kang realizes he’ll have more chances with Sailom

Sailom pretending like he can just hide in his blanket cocoon and Kang won’t be able to find him

The way Sailom instantly knew when Kang gave up at the main door that he would come to the bathroom—

And Kang likewise knew he wasn’t asleep

The way after Kang asks this question—

He makes this adorable nervous face

How they are a package deal at KANG’S FAMILY EVENTS now

How Kang instantly puts a hand on Sailom’s shoulder and then they have an entire wordless conversation by making faces at each other. VISIBLE FROM MARS

I just love the idea that Kang and Pimfah immediately went back to close friends now that all the awkwardness is over

Sailom’s little hidden smile after Kang flirts with him on the bus

The fact that after Kang asks this question he LOOKS AT SAILOM FOR PERMISSION. Husband behavior!!

Sailom has a dedicated voice just for teasing Kang (see also their first tutor session and I know I’m missing at least one more)

And Kang has a dedicated voice just for protesting when his grandmother is teasing him about Sailom

the first time one of them has admitted it out loud to someone else!!

Another wrist drag!! I’m really into it, as is Sailom, I imagine despite all his protests

The song playing is Wind! I think it was @lamonnaie who talked about the idea that Perth & Chimon could exist in this world as real people. I keep laughing at the thought of Kang talking about how Perth is his favorite and Sailom teasing him because “that’s because he looks like you!” But now I’m also charmed at the idea of the reverse — that Kang has a thing for Chimon because he looks like Sailom

I LOVE this stumble fall because of COURSE it would lead to an (almost) kiss!! They’ve been flirting nonstop. They are touching in multiple places!! It is the only natural conclusion and I admire the writers for showing that progression. (We were ROBBED)

This is astonishingly brave of Sailom. This man clearly terrified him and could fire him in an instant and he still sticks up for Kang

This is after Guy rejects him. Kang gets this cocky “challenge accepted” smile and you know? This feels like really important growth for him. Also it’s a good look for him. Both seem like important observations

Kang scores a goal! He’s GENUINELY good. (I see you, Kang’s Dad, you DICK)

After Kang misses, Sailom makes sure to smile so that if Kang looks up to see him he won’t see him looking disapproving or sad. MY HEART

Sailom is RUTHLESS with his tests (affectionate). He lets Kang get through an entire pretty self-deprecating speech while sounding on the verge of tears without comforting him and waits for the most important line, which is this — that Kang is motivated on his own to get back up and keep trying. Only then does Sailom tell him he’s already got the friend’s approval. But Sailom needed to see that Kang was willing to keep trying first before he personally was willing to go all in. I love him.

And ending on this look. Sailom’s Look Of Love got a lot of attention, rightfully, but this is a pretty amazing one too.

#I LOVE THIS EPISODE #dangerous romance #dangerous romance the series #kanghansailom #kanghan kirttin sukprasert #sailom homchan #Kess babbles about dangerous romance #little details series

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In their podcast episode discussing Dangerous Romances eps 1&2, @criticallyobs said something I haven’t been able to get out of my head:

How much do we think Kang—

goes on to wish

that wasn’t true?

#kanghan kirttin sukprasert #dangerous romance #kanghansailom #dangerous romance the series #kess babbles about dangerous romance

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Farewell to Sick Kang Theory

How do I even explain this ridiculous post?? Inspired in no small part by all the trailer footage of Kang fainting in the early days of Dangerous Romance I posited a theory that Kang had a chronic, life threatening health condition, which would explain why his dad talks to him the way he does.

Well yesterday @poetry-protest-pornography reminded me via this post that the theory is officially officially dead 😭. So while I LOVE everything we are getting on DR right now, I want to take a moment to pour one out for the AU that will forever hold a piece of my heart:

Kang’s mom died of a heart condition that he inherited

Afterwards, Kang’s father (and grandmother probably to a slightly lesser extent than the dad) were overprotective. At home, everything he did was monitored — was he eating healthy, sleeping enough, not stressing himself out.

the constant pressure of being told ‘you are weak, you are fragile’ is what manifested into the same bully Kang we saw in early episodes because he so desperately wanted to feel powerful

i love how this could overlap so closely with canon and still work. He still escalates with Sailom and brings a gun to his house but that scene might almost impact him MORE — he plays the hero and for the first time in his life he feels STRONG; he feels useful, and he’s addicted to it so he imprints on Sailom even more immediately

Episode 3 feels too fast for Sailom to learn so let’s say they start studying together and Sailom only gets pieces of this — he’s gradually realizing how Kang gets treated at home and Kang still drunkenly reveals how his dad makes him feel but Sailom doesn’t know WHY

In this verse you could do an interesting flip where Kang begs for the bike and does pass his tests and then the dad changes his mind and not only takes it away but (temporarily) takes away the tutoring because he didn’t like how hard Kang was exerting himself with all-nighters

so then Sailom coming to live with them would in part be so the dad can monitor their study sessions and make sure they are an appropriate length time and not too taxing on Kang

of course Sailom has been seeing all this happen — he’s been spending all this time with Kang and now has heard this pattern over and over where Kang gets talked down to — and he’s both furious at it and it’s increasingly nagging at him. He’s starting to feel like he’s missing something

but he’s also falling so deeply in love that he kind of willingly forgets to ask; he just wants to spend the time he’s getting with Kang

Here I don’t think we need the Pimfah love triangle at least on Kang’s side (I still don’t believe he ever truly had feelings for her anyway) — Kang would still be the king of mixed signals because he’d alternate between love-sick staring & wildly romantic lines then running away from his feelings

Pimfah knows about Kang; her dad runs the hospital where he spent most of his childhood but she doesn’t talk about it out of respect for his privacy

but maybe she still has feelings for Sailom which would lead to the rain scene after Sailom rejects her

oooh Kang taking care of Sailom would be SO IMPORTANT to him— he’s never gotten to be on the other side, to be the caretaker, and maybe later that memory of how much love he felt in that moment would stick with him

(because obviously in this verse the big end would be Kang doing something heroic to help save Sailom from Name and then collapsing and not waking up and having to be rushed into emergency surgery — which would necessitate him being willing to let Sailom take care of him as he recovers)

The art room would still happen but it would be Kang thinking “I can’t be with him because I don’t have a future to give him” and thus self-sacrificing

of course though, he wouldn’t be able to fight his jealousy or the strength of his feelings and he would still kiss Sailom in the locker room

and all this would come to a head in the fainting scene in episode 7. Because Kang would have spent the day flirting with Sailom and trying to act all tough and strong to impress his friends

but after he faints, he would be forced to go to the hospital to have a check up to make sure everything is okay with his heart

No matter how much he protests or just tries to play it off like he’s going home to rest, Sailom would insist on coming with him

so Sailom would finally learn the truth — I can so perfectly picture his face too. It would be the same face he had when the dad unveiled the bike. Mapping every interaction he’s had with Kang and suddenly feeling even more deeply empathetic towards him

The bar scene is obviously crucial, so that could be Kang later offering to buy them drinks for helping him; but maybe he’s keeping his distance from Sailom; he (stupidly) thinks Sailom won’t want him anymore now that the truth is out

and then I don’t know how the bleachers scene happens in this new context — maybe Kang had started playing football but after he fainted it was expressly forbidden and he is being really pathetic and in his feelings about that and thinking he can’t have Sailom

Which would mean the hug scene would be equally if not more meaningful to Kang here — because it would be Sailom saying ‘I think we have a future, I believe you have a future, I want to be with you. Stop avoiding me, you asshole’

I don't know I just really love it!! And it would be so powerful seeing a chronically ill character spouting insanely romantic lines, and being jealous/possessive, and getting to play the protective hero!!

Am I glad I don’t have to worry as much about Kang possibly DYING for the romance of it all? Yes. But will I still miss it a little bit? Also yes.

#Sick Kang theory #Maybe one day I’ll write the 40K AU #dangerous romance the series #kess babbles about dangerous romance #kanghan kirttin sukprasert #dangerous romance #kess sometimes writes fic not meta

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Sailom: “Aren’t you worried about people finding out about us?”

Kang: “it’s actually my life’s dream that everyone in the world knows you belong to me.”

#Unhinged behavior but I love it!! #kanghansailom #kanghan kirttin sukprasert #sailom homchan #dangerous romance #dangerous romance the series #kess babbles about dangerous romance

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The way Kang finally stops and genuinely asks:

He doesn’t try to pull it open, he waits —

And he gets the reward of consent being finally given — Sailom letting him in into his heart instead of Kang trying to force his way inside.

#Kess babbles about dangerous romance #kanghan kirttin sukprasert #sailom homchan #dangerous romance

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A love letter to the football plotline

So … I admit I was pretty condescending of the line in the pilot trailer where Kang asks Sailom to help him become a professional football player. I thought it was stupid. I thought I had no interest to see it on my screen.

I was INCORRECT.

The way Dangerous Romance has been setting this up the entire show is brilliant. And the potential payoff is so beautiful.

We’ve been shown over and over that Kang likes football. But he’s never once actually admitted this out loud. It’s very possible he didn’t realize how much he cared about it, he’s been that thoroughly screwed up in the head by his dad. All the hints we’ve seen include—

His precious little usb that he takes everywhere

Him playing FIFA for fun

The gift of the jersey, although none of us are certain if it’s for a team or player he actually likes

The fact that he’ll kick around with his friends after school

Kang is also very good at it. Quite naturally talented for someone who doesn’t seem to have ever participated as part of a formal team. He’s fast and he seems to have an innate sense for where to put the ball.

Episode 5 was in part about Kang panicking because he has to start figuring out what he wants to do in the future. Well, then Episode 6 starts off by forcing him to do something he does not want. Kang is vehemently not interested in cheerleading.

Wanting to avoid Pimfah aside, I don’t think it’s something he would have liked regardless. He gets too concerned with looking cool in public to enjoy something like that. And our boy is not really a “hoo! Rah! Ray!” kind of guy.

When he storms away from cheerleading practice and winds up playing in the pickup football game, he wipes the floor with the seniors — many of whom have been practicing more than him, ostensibly in preparation for Sports Day. And then something amazing happens — one of them acknowledges his talent; and he ASKS Kang if he would want to be on their team.

This actually really gets me. How often has Kang been praised for something he is genuinely good at? And when has he ever — besides with his inner circle of Sailom and now grandma — been encouraged to do something like this? We know Kang has been taught — has been conditioned to never try for anything that would be difficult or taxing.

And look at Kang's face. He has to really think about this. Does he want to play football on a team? This takes him so much more effort to work through than it would someone else.

Here, the flashback (yes, I know) is so revealing!! Kang thinks specifically about telling Sailom in the library that he doesn’t have a life dream. This is one of two instances this episode (the second time being when he tells Sailom he doesn’t have feelings for him) where the flashbacks are being used to show us an instance where Kang isn't truthful (although in this case it’s an interesting flip — we’re now finding out he lied in the past, vs later in the art room when the flashbacks are used to show us he is lying in the present).

At some point, maybe before his mom died, Kang dreamed of being a football player. Then over years and years of his dad’s treatment, he buried it deeply inside. He didn’t try out for teams. He stopped openly talking about how much he likes the sport.

All until this key moment — when someone besides Sailom looked at him and believed in him. In this moment, asked directly, Kang has to decide to for himself. He has to be the one to make up his mind to say yes. And he says I’M IN.

And here’s why I love this:

1. To be a fully realized person, Kang needed an interest that’s fully his; that exists almost entirely outside of Sailom; that he CHOSE for himself (Sailom is still welcome to come to his games and be the Troy to his Gabriella -- even if/when Kang achieves success on his own merits and through hard work, he'll still perform better knowing that Sailom is there to support his dreams!).

2. However naturally good he is, he has a long way to go. He has to learn to be part of a team; how to pass; how to share; that sometimes giving is better than taking. And all of these are lessons he’s going to need to carry with him more broadly in life. As much as wanting to be a professional soccer player is kind of an elite goal, it’s also humbling.

3. This goal is going to be HARD. It’s going to mean practices in terrible weather. It’s going to be injuries. He’s going to have to work harder than he ever has in his life. And he’s going to have to learn how to fight for something he wants, despite all obstacles

I’m sorry I doubted you, Kang playing football plotline. You’re perfect, in every single way.

#dangerous romance #dangerous romance the series #kanghan kirttin sukprasert #kess babbles about dangerous romance #kanghan krittin #meta meta meta