i love you but i don't really show you...come inside of my heart, if you're looking for answers ♡
~ Come Inside Of My Heart by IV of Spades
(originally a valentines' wbk ships [2] special from me but with OPM, the other pairing is togasaku which is also up for viewing if you're interested ^^)
I haven't watched ep 5 and 6 entirely yet but I skimmed through them and I don't know if I'll watch them today bc the ending feels... Very.. netflix
The first episodes were so less gihun centric that I thought maybe the finale would make up for that but I guess it kinda didn't
I know where every fix it fic will start - by not using the last game
That last game takes sooo long and is kinda boring
Idk I felt I knew were this was going and gihun sacrificing himself for the baby well.. I didn't like it
The baby as a player fucked everything up
The unmasking between gihun and inho was so anticlimactic. Maybe it's my ao3 brain but come on, that was gihun's whole life for 3 years, finding out who the front man is, finding him, stopping the games, and when he finds out youngil is the frontman they don't even talk??
Srsly it's not just my 457 glasses, they deserved to talk, to discuss humanity and their beliefs
But gihun just leaves
They pushed them so hard in the promo and i know it was mostly netflix at fault bc they know how well the fans liked 457 as a ship but even before that - we had a whole s2 with them obsessed with each other and then s3 there is nothing left of that - mostly bc of a baby
Tbh I would have preferred to have a pregnant junhee die, that would have been so fucking tragic but it would have made the whole dynamic better
Junhee's death was brutal - also it didn't really make sense to me. Why did she jump? Why didn't she just let them shoot her? And bc she jumped, she could have tried to get to her baby (making the scene even more tragic) it would have fit better with her conviction to do everything for her baby. Giving gihun the job to look after it kinda felt a bit cheap
So to finish my last thoughts: I wanted more gihun, the season needed more gihun and we didn't get that which is one of the reasons it fell flat for me. He barely talked!! If you hype up the frontman /gihun confrontation and unmasking then you better show up with a great scene and not whatever this was (as Isaid I know that was mostly netflix's fault). More hwang brothers. There were so many characters I didn't care about which got so much screentime and I feel they could've cut a lot of that to show more important character moments - their scenes didn't even feel like a good commentary on what humans will do to each other in extreme situations.
So overall: this season was a miss. I will be reading fanfics and rewatching 1 and 2
I need In-ho to be haunted during those 6 months after the games by the spectre of Gi-hun. Every time he looks at that baby and that jacket, I want him to be overwhelmed with grief.
The final words ringing in his head. So much so, he can never look at horses again.
(The finale may have been shit but the fandom content is going to be fire.)
the shittier the ending, the better the fics!!!
GIHUN HAUNTING INHO!!!!! 😩🙌
i need this too. i need inho to constantly see gihun around him. i want him to be unable to look at that baby without remembering how much gihun fought to protect her, how much he cared for her mother...
inho being haunted by another baby mama, its what he deserves for being horrible 🙏
I finished season 3. The first 3 eps were so good. After that it felt as if the entire writing team just said "ok now let's see how bad we can make this" as a joke and accidentally handed it in as the final script
where instead of (the angsty stuff) feeling like he doesn’t deserve to love, he’s just so used to having tsubaki around that he didn’t think of any, any reason to verbally affirm that he reciprocates tsubaki’s affection.
non-angst idea, i just think that what if, the reason why there’s no umetsuba progression is because this is the progression that we have.
ume has always been vocal, and showy with his affections. words complimenting kotoha, actions that shows the people in town how much he cares for them, fond looks at tsubaki whenever he talks about the people in roppo ichiza, and well, just admiring that long haired guy that makes his heart beat fast.
now, the problem lies with what his friends are now saying.
tsubaki nowadays, have been so busy with his career in the red light district that ume hasn’t seen him in weeks.
tsubaki has started to reject his invites of eating out and chatting around, focused on creating more creative performances now that he’s finally a regular!
but–
“i miss tsubaki,” ume unconsciously said, picking at his food that kotoha made. and suddenly, all of the people inside pothos have turned to him with excitement and glee in their eyes.
ume blinked. “what?”
the former tamon commander, hiragi sighed in relief. “have you finally decided to answer to tsubaki’s affection?”
“huh?”
“tsubaki-chan will be so delighted that his love for ume is going to be reciprocated!” one of the old man at a different table said with a laugh.
“and here i thought our umemiya wouldn’t realize,” another man from the same table added, laughing along.
“but i’ve always liked tsubaki! !” ume complained. feeling hiragi’s sharp stare, he turned to his former deva before the bleached hair man pulls out a gas-kun10 to down it without drinking water.
“you mean to tell us, that, all those time of eating out, and shopping with tsubaki is you reciprocating what he feels for you?” hiragi asked.
“yes??? i do spend a lot of alone time with him!” umemiya is now feeling frustrated.
“just to be sure, boy. you do tell tsubaki-chan you love him, right?” an old lady from the counter asked.
“i— uh, hmm, do i?” umemiya starts thinking animatedly.
“you’re an idiot, ume!” kotoha shouted, seemingly fuming with anger.
cue to shenanigans of ume’s attempts of confessing to tsubaki, but it often gets interrupted, delaying the series of confessions inevitably.
bonus! a jealous umemiya scene, seeing tsubaki’s newly found friendship with genji sugichi! if he’s remembering it correctly, the twins have said that he stated in the war that he likes tsubaki…
ume hasn’t even confessed, and yet he’s already feeling jealous.
note! i hope everyone can see the vision here, like, PLEASE I FEEL LIKE IT’S POSSIBLE WITH UME 😭
my favorite romance trope of all time is "they look even prettier from the person who loves them pov" and uhhhh this panel from the tsubaki and umemiya meeting flashback
everything else from that flashback is clearly from tsubakis pov, except for this panel. They're standing across from each other and closely before this there was a panel of umemiya clearly from tsubakis eyes, and this one rly looks like it's through umemiya.
They look glowy and bathed in sunshine and so adorable.
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