What’s your latest record? Is it up to the criteria? Better than the criteria. Make sure you can keep this momentum going. But..I’m still nervous every time I swim.
Boun Noppanut as WIN & Prem Warut as TEAM
BETWEEN US THE SERIES (2022) dir. New Siwaj Sawatmaneekul
no disrespect to the reincarnated soulmates but nothing i love more than the very realistic depiction of being a high-strung anxiety riddled college freshman who can't stop hooking up with someone you met two days ago two weeks into freshman year bc you just found out that being fucked stupid is the only way you'll relax enough to get any sleep at night
Team should probably go to therapy for what are clearly unresolved-trauma-based anxiety issues but instead he got himself a blonde emotional support playboy
i need to know all of your thoughts on the dialogue in THAT last scene PLEASE 🥺
Hi, Anon! :D
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk abut this scene.
Essentially, I put all my thoughts into this fic.
Like………I've rewatched this scene so many times, and the part that keeps stabbing me in the heart is here:
To me, this just feels like Win's giving so much of himself to Team, and Team probably doesn't have a clue how significant all of this is. Win's breaking the rules, but only for Team. He's older and more experienced, but he's willing to give up control.
Arguably, he wants to.
He's the one everyone else depends on, the one who'll step in to take responsibility for running the resort business because his older brother has no interest.
It's no wonder he'd want someone else to lead for once, but it's incredible that that someone is a first-year he's only known for a few weeks at this point. He's a third-year, and in all that time he's never met someone who interested him so thoroughly he's starting to bend his life around him.
It's not just that they're vers that I love, it's why they are. (Why I think they are.)
Some vers couples just enjoy the physical sensations of being both top and bottom, and it doesn't get any more complicated than that. But with Win, I think part of why he's into it is psychological, too. I think he wants someone he can rely on, and it's beautiful that he chooses Team: someone younger who suffers from sleep problems and possibly anxiety and PTSD.
And it's not like Win's totally clueless about that, either.
He's seen hints of it already because he's been paying very close attention.
I just love how their relationship is set up in these first two episodes. In the first episode they had a hookup where Win made sure that Team knew what he was doing, where he was, and who he was with. In the second episode they established more concretely that this is something they both want to continue, at least for now, and that Team can stop whenever he wants.
And and and! I wanted to make a whole other post for this but I'll just do it now:
The sad string music, right? It plays over them making out initially, but y'know where it stops?
It stops right after Team asks Win if he's done this before: broken the rules and hooked up with people in the locker room after practice. Because Team already knows Win went into the club's files to find out Team's room number to check on him earlier.
Win just puts his forehead on Team's, and it's such a sweet and affectionate gesture when they really, really don't know each other that well yet, but Win's starving for someone to love whether he accepts it about himself or not.
And then my favorite music transfer yet!
It starts up again when Win kisses Team.
And then back to forehead stuff. :')
Usually I tend to see a piece of music in a scene as representing one character's emotional state, but I think here it feels more like the music represents their relationship's direction, if that makes sense?
Like, the sad violins are what could have been: if Team hadn't stopped Win and clarified what they're doing, where they stand with each other. If they'd just hooked up again the way they did that first night, without continuing the conversation of what they are to each other, they could have ended up in a much darker, less healthy place.
We get two music changes after we reach what I'm calling Team's song until I find out the official title (it's Prem singing from Team's POV, for anyone who hasn't heard yet). The first change is when Team asks Win directly if he does this a lot, and the second…
Is after Team asks what'll happen if he wants to end whatever they're doing. And I love that Win's staring into his eyes, because I think it shows that he's actually listening, no matter how out-of-it he seems.
It's only when Win effectively tells him there won't be larger consequences, they'll just stop, that they get the big escalation of the jubilant part of Team's song.
And I think this just cements Win's whole belief that he's never going to have someone who stays, something that lasts. But the music isn't sad, it's triumphant. Because, I think, they're doing what they should have: Team clarified what they were doing, and Win reassured him that he doesn't have anything to fear from Win himself if he wants to end it.
Almost like Team can be afraid of anyone else, but not him. /excessivecrying
Team really asked that man if he always used his power to fuck his junior swimmers and what would be the consequences if he wanted to stop. And Blondie said I never do any of this, you can stop when you want, this is not transactional. YOU drive me fucking crazy and I only break the rules FOR YOU and Team, my good good sis, why don’t you google soulmate next time.
If anyone ever says consent isn't sexy, talking about sex isn't sexy, or talking about the state of a relationship isn't sexy, point them towards Win. *None of this has to be sexy, but Win just makes it that way
He asked Team if he was with someone, if he was drunk, and if he knew where he was as a form of seduction! He showed up the next day to make sure Team was okay physically and mentally, then let him know that he did enjoy the sex and had no regrets. Then, he let Team know that he isn't fucking anyone else and if Team doesn't want to, they CAN STOP!
Like...damn, my man! Win is putting the capital D in Disclosure.
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