5 Parallels in Unintentional Love Story and Bad Buddy
So I was stalking @respectthepetty, as one does, and I came across this post about Hotae and Donghee's relationship in Unintentional Love Story. [Disclaimer, I've only seen the first ep, and I'm not currently watching this show, so this is purely based off of posts i've seen in the tag or made by my mutuals.]
If any of my mutuals know anything about me at all, it's that I'm a Bad Buddy girly. It was my first BL ever, it was the best of times (encouraged me to get into the genre more) and it was also the worst of times (P'Aof made my standards astronomical and it's hard for a lot of other works to compare). I regularly talk about how Ep 5 4/4 lives in my brain rent free, and I never need an excuse to find a way to connect other shows to BBS. But this time, it's a bit much.
So, getting into Hotae and Donghee. Here's 5 things I've understood so far:
Hotae is a bit of a womanizer, who's only flirted with/dated girls from high school days.
2. Hotae and Donghee have known each other/been friends since school days, and know each other well.
3. Donghee knows he likes Hotae, but he also knows that he and Hotae as a couple are doomed, so he does everything in his power to discourage it.
4. Hotae and Donghee are both incredibly and equally stubborn, and give as much as they get. They're not afraid to get physical with each other.
5. Hotae realises that he likes Donghee, that Donghee's the first and only guy that he's liked, but he's liked him for as long as he's known what it means to like someone romantically, and he's decided that he's never going to give up pursuing him.
Sound familiar to anyone?
In conclusion:
(listen. i didn't make the rules. i can't not meme, it's physically impossible for me)
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In the story for the Werewolf Ice, you said that each of Val Kilmer's characters should turn into werewolves. We couldn't agree more on that! But could you please tell us what breed and color of wolf you have in mind for Val’s characters?
I am extremely headcanon-promiscuous, so each iteration would definitely come with its own distinct type of wolf. Overlaps, if they happen, would be circumstantial. When I write Iceman, he has a completely different family in each story, for example. I like the diversity, and enjoy being forced to come up with a different background that makes me consider what it was about THAT background that made Ice himself.
It doesn’t always need to be deep, either. Werewolf Iceman is an Iberian wolf, a subspecies of gray wolf that lives in Greenland. Just kidding. It’s the Iberian peninsula. I picked that wolf for Top Gun Iceman because they are trim, tightly muscled, and golden in color, just like Iceman’s tits in the volleyball scene. Also, Iberian wolves are cool.
Time for a
~Thunderheart Intermission~
Werewolf Ray Levoi is a Eurasian wolf, also a subspecies of gray wolf. Because Thunderheart takes place on an Indian Reservation and features a character of mixed indigenous/western European descent, I incorporated that into the lore of the story. The ancestral werewolf who gives Ray his power lives in modern day France, where she is worshiped, respected, and mostly feared. Ray’s mother is from a line of females (my werewolves pas down their power matrilineally) who immigrated from Europe to America. They are out of place in the US. Lost and isolated from their arcane culture. Ray specifically struggles with that on both fronts. His mother the European werewolf was too afraid to pass most things down to her son, and white settlers initiated multiple genocides to wipe out local werewolf populations, even seeking to kill the local ancestors to hobble them. This is because werewolf magic works to prevent things like consolidation of magical power. They’re like the water cycle but for magic. That makes hoarding magic very difficult! So Ray has almost NO connection to his werewolf side. He can’t even get in with the local werewolves because there aren’t any left (that he knows of…).
Similarly, he feels disconnected from his father’s people, the Oglala. His dad died when he was young, so he had very little exposure to Oglala culture. He’s white passing, and only goes back because his bosses at the FBI want him to root out activists, which he will do suuuuuper successfully by ingratiating himself with the locals. This will happen because he [checks smudged writing on partially censored document] shares an ancestry with the people his bosses are trying to put in the ground. For obvious reasons, this does not make him popular there because everyone with a brain cell knows what the fuck is up.
This is Walter and Ray doing their First Look on their wedding day. :) The sexual tension here is palpable.
But wait there’s more!!! In this AU, Ray is a black Eurasian wolf. Why? Because all black wolves have a little domesticated dog in them. That’s where they get that color. I didn’t pick a representative identity for the wolf and dog parts, since that’s not what I’m going for, especially given the fact that this AU is working with indigenous Americans: marginalized groups of people frequently compared to animals by virulent racists. Instead, the color is meant to symbolize Ray being torn between the magical and mundane worlds, being unable to find complete belonging in either place.
~the intermission has ended~
And now what you probably came here for: a small, unofficial official list of potential Val Kilmer Werewolves.
Tombstone Kilmer: red wolf that is always a lil dusty
Batman Kilmer: a timber wolf that was born in a zoo next to the bat enclosure
Real Genius Kilmer: a coyote pretending to be a wolf
Willow Kilmer: a tundra wolf wearing a wizard hat
Prince of Egypt Kilmer: Wepwawet's cousin
10th & Wolf Kilmer: human. too human.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Kilmer: extremely smart great plains wolf that willingly does enrichment puzzles with human field researchers for fun
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