For Ibelieveinmartinfreeman Who Asked For “past/present”

457 Story Bits with Ruereii #2

See you in my 33rd Life

Genre: Reincarnation, death loop

Gihun didn’t expect his attempt to sway Namgyu’s vote to 'X' to spiral into a conversation about drugs from someone named Thanos. But somehow, there he was, staring at two options: a red edible and a blue one. He recalled the Frontman’s story about The Matrix. Seeking truth, he chose the red edible.

When he woke up, he was back in the dorm, but something was off. The beds were rusted, the sheets scratchy, and the high-tech jumbotron was gone, replaced by a chalkboard hanging on the wall.

None of the players looked familiar. He glanced down. His number: 456.

He was in the first edition of the Games.

It didn’t go well. Without the motion-sensor doll, Red Light, Green Light was enforced manually. Gihun didn’t make it. He died. And that’s when it started.

Reincarnation. Over and over. Sometimes he came back as a young man, sometimes an old woman. Each time with a new number. Each time wearing a new face. Each time meeting a different fate but always dying before the end.

By the 28th loop, he was exhausted. The Games had evolved to become more brutal and intricate. He had the taste of betrayal from his own teammates, being backstabbed (quite literally).

Yet he held onto that sliver of hope that humanity is good. That someone was different.

This time, he met Hwang Inho, who looked like a younger version of Oh Youngil. Amidst the chaos, they formed a bond, a shared sense of justice, and an unlikely friendship born from survival.

Together, they made it to the end. But Gihun, worn and weathered from lifetimes of failure, made a choice. He sacrificed himself, believing Inho could change things for the better.

He didn’t know if he’d come back again. But if he did, maybe he’d finally get it right.

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Erik Lehnsherr + Charles Xavier in X-Men: First Class

Andrés De Fonollosa loved Martín Berrote as much as Martín loved him: way more than an egocentric narcissist could love another human being.

It was not just a passion, or “that mere physical admiration of beauty that is born of the senses, and dies when the senses tire. It was such love as Michael Angelo had known, and Montaigne, and Winckelmann, and Shakespeare himself. “ - as Oscar Wilde would say.

Their love was the purest, the most platonic and yet so down-to-Earth feeling.

Thanks to Alex Piña and all the crew that worked on the script, if we go deeper and read between the lines we will see how Andrés spelled out everything for us.

Starting off with the “Ti Amo” scene. We have no clue who Andrés was having an eye contact with while singing the first 40 seconds or more of an I-love-you song. Was it Tatiana or was it Martín? I think that those two were too close to each other on purpose. And Martín wore that PINK shirt so that we would make sure it was him sitting literally half a meter away from Tatiana.

Then the dance scene. Andrés is looking at people dancing. There are Bogota, Marseille, Tatiana and Martín dancing. But when we get to see Andrés from the behind, it is too obvious that he’s looking at Martín dancing (since we can’t see Tatiana at all!). We also get to see a wide happy smile on Andrés’ face.

Later we hear Andrés making a speech to Sergio. He starts with talking about Martín, his best friend, happy and loyal. (Not to mention how he can’t help smiling when he says Martín’s name). Andrés talks about betrayal and it’s so clear that he cares more about Martín’s loyalty than his own wife’s! Andrés says that he will betray his wife at some point because of his death caused by the disease. But he ended up betraying Tatiana because of Martín and actually leaving Martín because of the disease (More on that later).

Moving on to when he talks about the magnitude of the dilemma that the whole betrayal thing depends on, it’s like he’s holding Tatiana in one hand and Martín in another, comparing their ‘weight. As we saw in the beginning of the last episode, his already almost impossible desire for Martín was surely heavier and more valuable than Tatiana for Andrés.

And in general, their bond (i like to call that so) was the most important thing for Andrés (as well as Martín).

At some point in his life he had to make a decision between two things: he could either give Martín hope and disappoint him twice more when he would die or confess his feelings for him once more and let Martín live with the purest idea of their true love for the rest of his life by leaving him. Since the magnitude was as huge as ever it was such a hard decision to make, even for Andrés-the man of honor. And he decided to leave for “the love. For his commitment to Martín” as he explained.

He also knew how bad he was at relationships, and he didn’t wanna treat Martín as terrible as he treated other women.

Andrés wouldn’t be able to forgive himself if he ever disappointed Martín so much leaving him with the broken idea of their love. He was narcissistic so he would never have courage to do something that made him hate himself even a little bit.

And about the kiss, I don’t think that it was the first time. (I have some questions like what was Andrés doing in the same room as Martín dressing up for the dinner with Tatiana? And MOVING ON to drinking wine? What had they have done?) Anyway, we all could read Martín’s feelings in his eyes but for Andrés’ feelings, we have to go deeper and find it all out.

“I’ve never felt anything with any of those women remotely similar to what I HAVE with you, not even close”, “i also feel that what we HAVE between us is extraordinary, unique, marvelous”, “do you think I don’t love you?!”, “I LOVE YOU MARTÍN”, “you and I are soulmates” and that smile on his face and the passion he had for Martín says it all I believe... every detail in their kiss was so soft- we got to see the side that of the criminal psychopaths that we had never seen before.

They were not just best friends or even lovers. They were more. They were soulmates. Two souls collided as one. Two hearts beating as one.

I also wanna talk a little bit about the scene when Andrés tortured the man that laughed at Martín fixing Andrés’ bow, more specifically laughing at their possible relationship.

Andrés knew that he and Martín would spend their whole lives together in a parallel universe, where his disease didn’t exist.

His disease was exactly that tiny mitochondrion, that 1% against 99%.

“I would give anything to feel this but it’s impossible”, “something that will never exist” it is because of Andrés’ disease. As I mentioned talking about the bow scene, he would make it happen...in another lifetime...with no disease...

“Leave and heal the wound”-Andrés was the one leaving trying to heal the wound and...well, the disease but it was “impossible”.

“I’m sure that one way or another, time will bring us back together”. Yes indeed. It will. Soulmates are meant for each other and at the end... they always are brought together...

...”It was such love as Michael Angelo had known, and Montaigne, and Winckelmann, and Shakespeare himself.”

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