Nice Ask Week! Mar, if you could make the Lone Star writers include ONE THING in season 5, what would you ask for?
I was in the middle of writing a whole list bc I “couldn’t pick just one” but! BUT!! I HAVE ONE ACTUALLY!! I WANT TARLOS TO VISIT THE REYES RANCH (lol I forget, is the Reyes Ranch even canon or is it just so unanimously fanon that it feels like it is?) either way… I NEED CARLOS ON A HORSE SO BAD !! I NEED TK TO SEE CARLOS ON A HORSE SO BAD!!! I NEED THEM TO GO TO SUNDAY LUNCH, OR A WEDDING OR BIRTHDAY AND LAUGH AND JOKE AND BEING THE COOLEST FUNNEST UNCLES FOR ALL THE KIDS RUNNING AROUND!!!
I NEED Carlos’ sisters to tease him in front in TK. I NEED for Carlos to teach TK horseback riding and either be impressed by his city-slicker(🤣) boyfriend and take him to a romantic spot Or for this exact thing that @lemonlyman-dotcom describes in this post to happen😂 I also NEED for one or both of them to go all heart eyes at seeing the other with the kids or just for Carlos to see TK being casual and charming and familiar with the Reyes family🥹 also BONUS POINTS if someone gets injured, or goes into labor, or one of the kids gets sick in some way, and TK flashes his paramedic skills, just flexes those paramedic muscles you know? 🚑💪
Here’s what I want: I want the ranch to go up for sale. Gabriel should have been the one to inherit it, and he and Andrea were to move there come his retirement. Obviously Gabriel wasn’t doing all the ranch work (he was a Texas Ranger so he wouldn’t have the time) - there were workers and some of Carlos cousins working on it, Gabriel just had the overall picture of what needed to be done, ongoing and future projects etc, took care of some legal and tax matters and so on.
Carlos has one cousin who is studying to be a vet and taking side courses in some other important and relevant subject when it comes to owning a ranch and the plan all along was that she was gonna take it over at some point from Gabriel and Andrea but she is still in school and the sad truth is someone needs to take over the legal ownership and the tasks that Gabriel did until then or it will have to go up for sale. Legally the inheritance would go directly to Carlos and his sisters, and his sisters are ready to be co-owners and split the tasks until it’s ready to move on the family line. But they need Carlos to be with them on it, partly because he lives the closest and knows the ranch best because Gabriel took him there a lot when he was younger, partly because Tía Lucy has said that that is the only option (in order to force to Carlos to reckon with his past with Gabriel because she is a spiritual woman who knows stuff)
Because the thing is, Carlos’ childhood memories of the ranch are more ambiguous than his sisters’. He has fond memories of it but it also reminds him of a time where he didn’t feel like he could show his true self and be seen by his family, where he didn’t think that his dad was proud of him, and where he would look at all his family members bringing long terms and new partners and kids to lunch and parties and think that this is something he would never have for himself🥺
TK and Carlos are invited to an upcoming facility party on the ranch, and TK talks Carlos into going there a few days before under the pretense that he just thinks they both need a few vacation days and with suggestive comments about how badly he wants Carlos to take him horseback riding 🐴 and then ride Carlos in a field of blooming daffodils😏🌼 but really he suspects the truth about Carlos mixed feelings toward the ranch and thinks that Carlos would benefit from confronting and processing some of those feelings and memories, that also connects to his grief for Gabriel.
So they go, and everything above mentioned transpires, giving Carlos some good healing memories associated with the ranch + some Carlos grieving and reminiscing and processing and talking to TK about it all who listens and wipes at his tears and rubs his back and kisses his salty wet lips and his forehead (idk if this happens before or after TK rides him in a field of daffodils).
It all ends happily with Carlos agreeing to take temporary co-ownership over the ranch and having processed a lot of stuff related to his past and his relationship with Gabriel 😌😌
The forementioned list that I was originally writing before I remembered my Reyes Family Ranch wish continues beneath lol
It may be boring but I really want some domesticity!! I want to see them wake up together, or go to bed, or more about which tv shows they watch or if one of them keeps the other up reading romance novels or them fighting about the other always forgetting to take the trash out. I want a look into their routines!
I am also a sucker for tenderness and h/c like many people in this fandom, but controversially I don’t especially wish for one of them to end up in the hospital.. 🫣 like I mean I don’t not want it I’d just rather have them be tender with each other in everyday life scenarios like one of them have a tough day at work and be snuggled by the other, or have one help the other put clothes on or shower or get into bed because they got injured in some way, or Carlos being hungover and gross and feeling guilty about it bc TK’s sobriety or either of them being sick and gross or just grumpy or otherwise unreasonable and the other loving them and anyway and caring for them🥹
Apart from this I am also a huge sucker for open conversation about and realistic depictions of sexuality, so unrealistically as it may be, casual comments about the realities of gay s*x, embarrassing or awkward things happening like failing with trying something new (maybe in some silly episode where they get inspired by some call or something), them going through a dry spell or getting to comfy in a routine that isn’t as exciting as the beginning of their relationship, stuff like that!
And okay, lastly, I want them to have a conversation about Carlos buying the loft, not telling TK about about Iris for so long and lying about where he was going when he ended up at the Keyes house and how that probably all relates to his mechanism of defense and way to feel secure is to take control and go all solitaire because those things still nag at me and I need resolve.
This ended up so long omg I am so sorry but I can’t cut it bc I WANT IT ALLL😭
Kim, ‘Key’ Kibum has always had a “fuck it” attitude but if THIS is how he’s acting in JANUARY I don’t even want to KNOW what the rest of 2024 is going to look like