#Payurain was the fluff now I'm here to suffer

[sonnburn]

For the sake of argument, let’s say that the novel perspective of the Prapaisky first meeting —where Prapai is clearly joking with Sky about trading sex for safe passage— is what was intended for the characters in episode 8, it just didn’t translate well from the book to the show. With that context, Prapai and Sky’s first meeting comes down to a massive case of miscommunication.

If Sky knew Prapai— knew that his arrogant, cocky attitude was just him joking around and trying to get a reaction out of him, he would have known he could refuse him freely. He could have pushed back without consequence, he was safe to do so. But in that moment, Sky was trapped in a dangerous situation— one in-part related to his asshole ex, where he feared everyone else present there were also assholes, and he’s being propositioned into having sex to be allowed to leave. Prapai is a stranger, Sky has no idea what this guy’s personality is like, no idea he was joking, he just assumed from the request and dire circumstances that he was being serious. Probably because that kinda thing was something his ex would do, and Sky had no reason to assume Prapai was any different. Sky thought he had no choice but to agree to it, so he did.

Prapai is the same as Sky in that he doesn’t know Sky. He doesn’t even know why he’s at the race since Sky is stubbornly staying quiet. He knows nothing about his history, his trauma, or his experience with people coercing these kinds of things out of him. Prapai thinks Sky is in on the joke, he thinks he is flirting back, playing into the fake threat as a form of roleplay. So Prapai reads his signals as mutual interest and goes along with it because he is attracted to Sky and he’s the kind of guy who sleeps around anyway. So if Sky is agreeing to it, then he must be okay with it, so why not take him home and have a little fun if that’s what they both want?

This set-up hurts because they are both reading the situation completely wrong! Since they’re strangers meeting for the first time, they both make all the worst assumptions about each other. Prapai is genuinely intrigued by Sky, he even asks for his name and number after-the-fact because he wants to see him again. When Sky leaves without a word, he just assumes he’s playing hard to get and doesn’t realize anything is wrong. But because Sky wasn’t in on the joke, he doesn’t recognize the sincerity in Prapai’s attempts at getting his contact info and he leaves feeling resentful and used— cementing his first impression of Prapai as a manipulative asshole who threatened him into having sex. When Prapai was actually just flirting with him and still fully believes the sex was consensual.

AND NOW Sky thinks that all Prapai wants from him is sex because he doesn’t realize that Prapai’s been genuinely interested in him from the start, and Prapai assumes that Sky must already know he’s seriously interested in him BECAUSE he had sex with him! Prapai has no idea why Sky would doubt his interest in him, he thinks he’s made it obvious, meanwhile Sky has EVERY reason to doubt Prapai’s interest in him because of his own sex-related trauma that Prapai unknowingly triggered.

God, these two are making my head spin! They’re gonna feel so bad when/if they figure it all out.

#love in the air #love in the air the series #prapaisky #paisky #lita #lita sky #lita prapai #love in the air sky #love in the air prapai #these poor dudes #they're not just on different pages they are reading completely different books #the frustration of miscommunication #sky's backstory is gonna be so angsty #i'm here for it #inject it into my veins #Payurain was the fluff now I'm here to suffer #it's hurt/comfort hours baby! #lita spoilers #i guess???