Rewatching me and thee cuz well my life is absorbed by it completely now. And I notice how thee never imagines peach in an intimate way during all his soap opera style fantasies that he slips into (intimate as in there's a marked lack of physical intimacy or peach doing anything outside of his otherwise normal behaviour, it's almost like peach simply reciprocating his affection is enough. Peach is enough. He is everything. His presence is everything to him-)
I wonder if that is because soap operas never talk about sex (no clue how Thai soap operas work but Indian ones will never get physically explicit - there's not a kiss or sex scene in pretty much any soapie here so far, explicit that is) or if thee doesn't really view sex as romantic as such, in the sense it is something he can buy, a need to fulfill - just like he thought he could buy the night with aran in the beginning (it also makes me wonder if thee has ever had intimate relations, cuz rome did mention that both brothers tried to break the "rule" many times). All in all, thee very likely doesn't have a positive experience or attitude with sex (I think).
His growing attachment with peach, the way his affection has grown into love is very emotionally heavy for thee. Being seen and treated like a real person for the first time, being heard and cared for, in all your supposed idiosyncracies. Sure he is very much mesmerized by peach physically, but it's got very less to do with his feelings. Every time he has confessed it to peach he has had the energy of a full blown down bad teenager crush 🥹. Man wants to spend his life with peach, wants peach all to himself. There's never any seductive heat in his affection. Which, I'm not saying is a good or bad thing mind you. But it's a very thee thing.
I feel like the kiss happened in ep5 because of how oblivious peach has been every single time. Thee has made himself clear so many times and this idiot will not reply 😭😭. He wants to be as clear as he can. And he ASKS (I'm sorry I'm still a little heady over this one on god do I love this). It's his ultimate declaration of love.
Point is, im very curious how they deal with this. I just know ponds expressions are gonna kill me when it happens 😭😭😭. SKFKEHCYWHSJDOAKKABDHWJ