Moonlighta00 - Angel✨

Just look at how happy they are. Look at all that joy on their faces, these boys who have been under so much pressure and so much fear, trying to be the discipline for an entire school, indoctrinated into a cult, fearing his own desire and here they are and they are free. They are free and in love and they can be themselves and they can smile, smile freely, smile and laugh and love and the world can fall behind and into shadow because their smiles will light up the day and even the night.

You're allowed to be weak. At least with me. It's okay, Akk.

THE ECLIPSE (2022)

I love the three World Remembers gays. They are effeminate, visibly queer and by far the bravest students in the school. And I love that in this episode we got to see them outside school with their boyfriends. Characters like this are usually treated solely as comic relief in dramas. They never have love lives of their own because they’re supposed to be obsessed with shipping the main characters. But these three are so different because they play an important role in the story. They are rebels. They are protestors. They are the only people standing up to the authoritarian administration. I really like to watch how our main characters react to them. I feel like (aside from Ayan), it’s a mixture of discomfort and envy.

There’s this scene from the first episode of Kan having a moment of yearning, followed by internalized homophobia and moving away from Thua:

And then we see the gang pass by happy and carefree, carrying their protest signs. 

Kan and Thua watch them, and Kan makes this remark: 

I think its so interesting that this is right after he chastised himself for getting too close to Thua.

In episode 5, right after Thua has been verbally abused by his stepdad in the car, he walks into school to see the gang being bullied by homophobes. There’s such a contrast between Thua and these characters because they stand up for themselves. 

It ends up making Thua more depressed.

Ayan is friends with the gang and supportive of them. I loved this moment from today’s ep:

But Akk is so freaked out when he sees them. It’s not just a “oh no, they will see me being friendly with the enemy” kind of thing. He really seems to be worried that they’ll pick up on the romantic tension between them. 

It’s really sad. I will be sooooo happy if Akk, Kan and Thua become friends with these three later in the story. And they can have group hangs at the Café for All.

oh.

OH.