tw: death
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Honestly, if I didn't know Only Friends was a Thai BL/BL-adjacent, I would start to suspect Mew wasn't real. Because he speaks like Ray’s and Top's better angel, saying the things you would expect a therapist to say.
Why he's omniscient and mysterious
Why he's the narrator
That everything happening now is not really happening because Mew is the one person who could have saved Top and Ray from disaster, their own self-destructive behavior, but he doesn't exist.
Because if Top hadn't met Mew would he still be in Boston's clutches, being manipulated and having his boundaries violated, cheating on whoever was his current bf or Beam's, using harder and harder drugs and sex to seek obliteration.
And here with Ray. Obviously this scene is very much about Ray and Khaotung did an amazing job, but notice how Ray doesn't react much to Mew' physical presence and if Mew were not there, this scene could have played out in the exactly the same way. Maybe Mew is the loving presence that Ray badly needed. Or maybe Mew is Ray's guardian angel and this is "I'm with you til the very end"
Because doesn’t this seem similar
Everyone is so mad at my boy, Mew, but he's doing the best he can. He just can't interact much with the physical plane. That's why he has to use persuasion to convince everybody, duh.
All this being said, Only Friends IS a BL about relationships, so this is not going to be the case.
I'm still gonna need to see Mew interacting with other people besides Top and Ray ASAP though.
