Today is a beautiful day to remember that Cordelia Naismith and Aral Vorkosigan are #couple goals no. 1, awesome on their own right each, and alone make up 78% of positive adult partnership representation in modern fiction.
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Today is a beautiful day to remember that Cordelia Naismith and Aral Vorkosigan are #couple goals no. 1, awesome on their own right each, and alone make up 78% of positive adult partnership representation in modern fiction.
Art by Vincha
Tell me the truth. It was you, wasn't it? You only came out of guilt because they arrested me. You felt guilty.
What are you talking about?
Song Joong-KI as Vincenzo Cassano
Jeon Yeo-Been as Hong Cha Young
Ok Taec-Yeon as Jang Jun-Woo
Vincenzo (2021): Episode 4
Chayenzo +TV Tropes (Part 4/?)
Vincenzo headcannon
After three years of being the Cassano mafia boss and taking care (wiping out) their rivals aka Lucianos and relocsting the Cassanos to their original home cack in Italy after the disaster that was Paolo's leading, Vincenzo readily gives the job to someone else, say his cousin and his wife is the main consigliere of the family now.
He does not have many responsibilities but because of his connections, reputation, skills, bonds and the fact he cannot just part with the mafia, Vincenzo becomes a part-time consigliere where Ie usually becomes an ambassador of sorts cleaning up the trash (like babel but like 10% downscale). His main job is to take care of and run the safe haven that is Pagliuzza and it's residents. So Vin gets in touch with Mr Ahn and Mr Cho where they have cleared his name and created a new identity and personal particulars with the name Oh Joo Hyung.
Vinny takes the legal exam to become a lawyer in Korea and gets his license online (idk if it's real bear with me here it's a headcanon).
After the initial shock and get-together of the Geumga Plaza, Jipuragi has an additional member to its growing team of one paralegal and paralegal in training, one hell of a tenacious lawyer who also dubs as a CEO and three interning lawyers, an new lawyer by the name Oh Joo Hyung arrives.
And there is gossip from the interns that the two older, experienced lawyers are long lost lovers who reunited from their long distance relationship and decided to work back to strengthen their marriage.
Our resident couple decides to humour them and the other teamts as well, mainly because why not.
And besides, it's not like a confirmed relationship on paper to show the government is gonna change their dynamic of finger flicks bets on whose method of convincing their witnesses or where they sleep together in the fluffy bedroom of the mini apartment, where a certain pigeon has visited again after a three-year-long break and has learnt manners, to increase convinience, or its tying up money-hungry detective and threatening them by kicking the wheeled chair off an abandoned building.
Their marriage is not a big deal. It just happens so suddenly and secretly. It starts with him casually joking about it in one of their pillow talks.
This leads to her sending him an envelope via post which contained a contract for the registration of a marriage certificate with her signature already on it.
He returns it to her casually the next day along with the other documents for their current case, followed by a box. Form signed and a box containing a ring. Her ring. She raises an eyebrow and catches the sight of his left hand's ring finger already sporting a platinum band with a plate encrusting small diamonds. No wonder he had shoved that hand in his pocket long than usual. From her desk, she could see that bastard smirking like no tomorrow, hiding behind his papers.
After everyone has left and it's just the two of them, Vincenzo well now Joo Hyung is now stopped by Cha Young straddling him holding out the box to him
"I don't recall you asking me to marry you"
"I definitely did, remember three years back? Surrounded by an orchestra and flashing cameras? And art gallery was it? Ragusang. You forgot to process the papers so they were delayed sweetie."
"Omo! Yah, that wasn't you it was Mr Anderson wasn't it darling"
"Hmmm, fair point."
*takes ring and holds it out but instead of and awkward hesitancy, he leans into her ear and asks*
"Will you marry me"
*she smirks and pulls him by his tie to crash their lips together as he slips the ring onto her finger*
"I better go process the registration then."
"Hmmm, yeah you do that, makgeolli and ramyeon tonight?"
"Add fried chicken, beef jerky and pajeon as well. Oohh! Also buy soju and wine and whiskey. I wanna get wasted tonight. Ah! It's a great day to be alive!"
The next day Mr Nam sees their hands and sends a picture to the Geumga plaza chat group the photo.
It blows up with replies varying from "Finally!" "Why weren't we invited, I made him my baby girl's godfather" "He's a mafia you idiot, we cant be there for safety reasons." "Wait, they were not married three years ago?"
For Vincenzo and Cha Young, weddings were a waste of time and money and an unhealthy amount of words and worries That doesn't mean they didn't go to Pagliuzza for their honeymoon, rather honey month, and took endless wedding photos with Cha Yong rocking every dress from satin ball gowns to mermaid styled body cons with tulle accents and to velvet evening dresses.
this conclusion still made sense for chayenzo. both cha young and vincenzo like what they do, and they're good at it. asking vincenzo to leave the life he's just built isn't something cha young would ask, and asking cha young to leave behind everything for him isn't in character for him either. vincenzo explicitly saying something romantic and initiating a kiss means he finally accepts that he is unequivocally in love with her, regardless of time or distance. and cha young kissing him back means that no matter how far he goes, she's also in love with him.
the emotional maturity in this relationship blows me away. they never tried to sway the others decision or make each feel sorrow. they know they're strong enough to handle this for some time.
vincenzo saying he has a room out for her, that he's thought of her this whole time and the 'villains never break up, they're tenacious even in love' line just absolutely proves that to vincenzo they're already together regardless of that second kiss. to him they share a soul, and that's all that matters. and I think hearing that confession and confirmation was the final thing cha young has wanted to hear even if she knew this already.
it doesn't mean that it wouldn't hurt. it would. but eventually they will find their way back to each other. even considering the circumstances he came back in an year, which seems like a long time, but it honestly isn't. one day they will find their way to each other and won't have to say goodbye ever again.
The love that Vincenzo and Cha Young have for each other is so pure, selfless, and unflinching that the two would literally give up their life for each other without hesitation. it’s the kind of love that bonds one half of a soul to the other- the kind of love that melds two beings together with the feeling of completeness and the knowledge that despite any jagged edges that either half may have, that the two will always fit together perfectly as one whole. that unconditional love is the beating heart of this story, and it is the reason why Vincenzo and Cha Young are bound by fate neither can exist without their other half now that they know what it’s like to finally feel complete. It's the "deep blue but you painted me golden" type of love. [x] VINCENZO [2021]
hanseo: can we go get ice cream?
vincenzo: did you ask cha-young?
hanseo: she said no :(
vincenzo: then why are you asking me?
hanseo: because she’s not the boss of you
vincenzo, internally: it’s a trap it’s a trap it’s a tr
10,000 BC 2,000 BC #archaeological excavations Vinca and Starcevo Serbia, visit to the National Museum Belgrade