25th Bam - Blog Posts
Its funny it seems V woke up bc of resentment but Rachel raised Bam on kindness and fear of loneliness instead of resentment. If Bam had had as much resentment as he did the crippling fear of being alone, V would’ve woken up so much earlier.
i know they had their reasons but it really was fucked up of team shibisu to greet bam for the first time in years with “hey so you know that organization and identity that heavily traumatized you and treated you like an object that we freed you from? could you go back to doing that for us? pretty pretty please?”
y'know we all clown bam for his fashion choices but we can't forget that ha jinsung buys all of his clothes and you know his google search history looks like this
Also, shout out to Baam, whose first instinct upon seeing grass for the first time, is to eat it
“I wish I could have met baam before you did” au
A fallen star on the beach 💫
🍪 for @jusalilweird
Ya know, at this point in the manga, Khun should really just put a tracker on Baam. A microchip, some sort of piercing or jewelry that most people wouldn't think to remove. He gets kidnapped, separated, hijacked? No sweat, two seconds, got him.
I don't condone tracking people, but it's a safety precaution at this point in the story. Lol
I wanna take a sec to talk about how Khun treats Bam because I might start crying.
So many people have called Bam a “monster”. Some have called him a “god”. It’s way more than I’d like because that sweet boy is just trying to exist. Even some of Bam’s own friends — and Bam himself — tend to forget that Bam is, in fact, just human.
Khun does not.
When Bam starts to feel disconnected from his own humanity, Khun is always there to ground him. Khun flat out says he doesn’t want Bam to be used anymore. While he sees Bam as someone incredibly powerful, he doesn’t venerate him. He treasures Bam deeply, but because of who he is, not what he is. When he found out Bam was an irregular he didn’t even flinch (he pretended he was bothered, but from what Rak said after that, it seems like he never doubted Bam for a moment and instead immediately decided to help him). He’s just Bam, a lonely and kind boy who wants to protect his friends, and Khun’s going to look out for him and make up for his short comings.
Khunbamweek2023 day 1: sleep
did kid khun ever wear suspenders?
07/23/23
KhunBam Week 2023 day 1 - Sleep
Lukewarm moment
Bonus:
Season 1
Khun: [laughs at something Bam said]
Bam, to himself: this is great. i’m going to get a good grade in being Khun’s friend, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve-
I have a fondness for the checks-and-balances with these three
Isn't it tragically beautiful how Khun could be considered the best thing that happened to Bam, who craved an emotional connection more than anything else? I don't think he fully realizes how lucky he is for having someone like Khun at his side.
bam’s selfishness is one of my favorite character contradictions and is also in general a really good take on the “selfless chosen one” and “hero who wants to save everyone”. people are not going to like me calling bam selfish, but he is. at different times in the series he’s selfish enough to want to save everyone, selfish enough to put himself first, selfish enough to pretend he wants to save everyone, and selfish enough to put first the people he cares about even at the detriment of strangers. the moral inconsistencies caused by the disconnect between his innate compassion and the inherent selfishness that comes with being a human is one of the most fascinating and most nuanced things about him, giving him a depth that’s not really seen in action protags with their moral superiority.