#tawanaran

[romemok]

ME AND THEE // EP 8

There's only one thing I'm asking you. I want my life back.

[yourstype]

[EPISODE 3] TAWAN-ARAN 😍🥰😍😍 — ✦ ME AND THEE

[whitnerd]

My heart’s already softened. It’s practically melted. But I don’t know. Things are so good right now. So good I don’t even want to move forward or backward.

Peach and Me EP 1

[heretherebedork]

What a well-deserved slap.

[dragonsareawesome123]

[ourplacetobefree]

I don't think Tawan realizes how abusive he is.

I don't know the book lore about his background, but the way he seems to believe that he has sole possession of Aran's attention and personhood might have something to do with it. He doesn't seem to realize that he's in the wrong in every way. For attacking Peach, for doing it while on the job and embarrassing Aran, for making their realtionship public. He sees none of this as an issue. And THAT'S the red flag.

I don't think Aran either even realizes what kind of relationship he has with Tawan. He seems to be aware that Tawan scares him sometimes and that he feels suffcated by his intensity and has probably written it off as him not being able to handle that kind of attention.

But really, we have a perfect example of a truly intense character already...Thee. Thee is intense in every sense of the word. It comes from his passion and his care, but what he doesn't do is try to control Peach and enforce his will on him, like Tawan. Even if he finds himself close to crossing the line, his voice is not the only one he listens to. He takes advice from Mok and listens to Peach when their conflicting upbringings causes a misunderstanding between them. They talk about it and continue to work on it. But Tawan seems to only value his own thoughts and feelings. Probably a learned trait of his upbringing, which is not a justification, just an observation.

Thee doesn't override Peach's wants and needs in favour of his own and try to isolate him from his friends and disrupt his work, like Tawan.

I hope they don't give Tawan and Aran a happy ending relationship because sometimes a relationship can serve as a lesson for the audience, not just ideals. I don't want this to given an apology that explains away all the warning signs just because PerthSanta is a main gmmtv ship. Tawan and Aran shouldn't be together because when someone shows you who they are, BEILEVE THEM.

[calciumcryptid]

I've chosen to believe one of Perth's past characters got issekeid into Tawan's body and is living in Help! I Got Transmigrated A Villian in a Gay Lakorn! type genre hitting all the narrative beats of "what the fuck did this guy do to fumble a super model this nice is he fucking stupid" and going "fuck him i can worship a super model >:(".

[thereisnocontextonlyzule]

I think one of the most interesting things in Me and Thee is the foil Tawan provides for Thee’s narrative

They both start out the story pursuing Aran and although Thee quickly pivots to Peach (as he should) the two continue to have clear parallels in the show

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, but one of Thee’s defining characteristics is that he’s open and willing to learn about how to interact with others, to listen to how his actions make people uncomfortable or upset and change to fix those things

Tawan, on the other hand, remains firmly rooted in the idea that he has done nothing wrong and refuses to listen when others try and communicate that his actions are toxic and harmful

Where Thee is learning to communicate with his partner (although he isn’t always prefect at it) and therefore with others, Tawan actively shuts down or ignores any attempt Aran makes to do the same

Thee has learned that his jealousy is unfounded and not to take it out on Peach, not blame him for the way that he draws in others the same way he drew in Thee

Meanwhile, Tawan makes every petty instance of jealousy Aran’s fault, even when Aran tries over and over again to have an actual conversation about how he’s misunderstood things

Where Thee listens when Peach explains why he doesn’t want a private jet or to stop working or about how important Plub is to him, Tawan makes his borderline stalking of Aran by inserting himself into his work Aran’s fault, because he ‘wouldn’t have gone this far if he’d just answered the phone’

Tawan is what would have happened to Thee if he wasn’t actually interested in becoming the best partner possible

As much as I love Perth and Santa, I’m actually hoping they don’t end this series together, because I think it would be a desservice to the amazing relationship building in this show for them to completely redeem Tawan in the short amount of time they have left