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FRENCHIE and KIMIKO The Boys (2019-) 2.06

FRENCHIE and KIMIKO The Boys (2019-) 4.02

if the boys played dnd who would dm? asking because a friend keeps insisting it wouldn't be hughie bc he's not that kind of nerd but she doesn't know him like i do...

I feel like,,, well. Hughie would definitely be a DM but like the story to how he gets there is what's interesting me.

Cause maybe it was a thing his dad and maybe mom(??) were into? We don't really know too much abt House Sr.'s teenage life. I imagine he'd have introduced Hughie to DND and got him like really into it (I mean he's a nerd and he's good with tech so probably also good at math) and so he'd like join forums and groups online of people who turn supes into DND characters or character builds

That segues into MM talking offhandedly about DND (having heard it from his daughter) and that gets Hughie all interested and MM being the dad he is asks Hughie if he's willing to help his daughter find a safe for work/kid friendly beginner friendly DND campaign and Hughie goes "Better yet, I'll make one!" and with the power of found family, Hughie's pretty blue eyes, and MM's daughter's expectant look he caves.

Frenchie and Kimiko join gleefully because Hughie just "looks so happy" and Butcher gets dragged kicking and screaming (he actually really likes DND he's just too much of a bitch to admit it. He does make the campaign border on pg-13 though instead of rated E like MM wished.)

Exactly this, the writers weren't even kidding themselves 😄

My favourite thing about Kimchie is that their bond is so believable because Tomer and Karen's stratospheric levels of chemistry literally transcended whatever alternate angle the writers were unconvincingly trying to sell.

Like the infamous 'family' scene. I got a lotta strong feelings about how I don't think it ever remotely undermined the possibility of romance in the first place; it is so very very carefully worded and framed to avoid exactly that - which I love! But even if we accept they really were trying to make them 'just' family for a minute, they attempt that during a scene where I have literally never seen two characters look more in love 😆

Idk man, if I were writing a totally platonic innocent childlike sibling relationship between two characters and wanted no one to ever ship them, I simply wouldn't make them kiss twice or dance a slow dance together, or have a character drunkenly insist she isn't jealous over her friend's sexual life while being weirdly invested in how exactly he's going to use his penis.

THE BOYS | 3.08 - “The Instant White-Hot Wild”

does anyone have kimchie fic recs

please help i’m surfing ao3 and all im getting is weird kinky homelander/hughie stuff with background kimchie

I GOT THE KIMCHIE MOMENT OF MY DREAMS BUT AT WHAT COST

Yes!! I love Kimiko but the way they handle her disability makes me so sad sometimes!

I haven’t seen season 4 yet, but hearing that she verbally speaks was actually so disappointing! It feels so common for shows with characters who are mute to eventually “cure” the character which sucks and I’d really been hoping they’d avoid it :(

I just wish that disabled characters were allowed to be disabled and have other characters adapt to their needs instead of the disability just being written as something to eventually "overcome."

Disability In The Boys

Can we please talk about the disability representation of Kimiko in the boys?

I love seeing a disabled character as a disabled person and a disability studies student. However, I have a huge problem with Kimiko and her relationship with other people and the way they communicate.

Kimiko lost her ability to speak due to trauma she experienced in childhood. This led her and her brother to make up a sign language to communicate. This is an amazing aspect depicting for one, that children will find a way to communicate, that communicating with others is a part of being human, and that a disability does not mean you have to 'suffer' with it but can find ways to be included in social life.

However, The Boy's handling of Kimiko's muteness within the group is a problem. I love that Frenchie makes an effort to learn and communicate with Kimiko. It is so important! Disabled people deserve to be integrated into active society. Yet, the implication of ONLY Frenchie learning that Kimiko's language is 100% a negative representation in relation to who learns it. Frenchie and Kimikos relationship is portrayed with romantic undertones and in Season 4 a comfirmed romantic partner. It implies that only a romantic partner should make an effort to communicate differently.

Why do the other boys not learn even basic phrases of Kimiko's sign language? I understand Butcher not learning but the others?!

These people are her friends and like family to her. Families such as hearing parents with deaf children in real life are statistically more likely not to learn sign language almost 70%. And we as a society need to talk about this. It is a blatant form of discrimination and exclusion of disabled people.

So why does a show like the Boys who points out so many difficult issues within the show does not make an effort with their disabled protagonist? Furthermore only showing a love interest learning it. Even more so it is depicted as something romantic to learn to communicate wit Kimiko through sign language.

I think the cutest couple in tv has to Kimiko and Frenchie, like they are soulmates, and I don’t really like that trope but for them I make an acceptance. They are true love and the way they both fight for each other, protect each other.

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idk why it needs to be said, but Kimiko and Frenchie have never been platonic 😭 since that finale, I’ve seen mostly positivity about their confession/kiss, but I have also seen people claiming that the writers are “pandering to a minority” by making them a couple…??? THEY HAVE BEEN BUILDING UP TO THAT SINCE THE MOMENT THEY MET!

Frenchie has always been queer, yes, but it’s SO obvious that he’s been pining for Kimiko since the very beginning. and when she told him he was “family,” it didn’t necessarily negate their romantic vibe. family is simply comfortability and love between two or more people, and it isn’t reserved to platonic relationships.

and for those who claim they were “more like siblings,” I beg of you to answer this: what does your relationship with YOUR siblings look like?! because if it looks anything like the dynamic between Kimiko and Frenchie…that’s concerning.

he literally calls her “my heart” exclusively for the better part of three seasons. which, in French, is typically a romantic endearment.

needed to speak my truth because I’m tired of this debate and the strangely purist takes people have expressed about these two and their relationship. they are allowed to like each other as more than friends, and I’m not sure why it’s such a taboo thing for two fucked up people to find their soulmate in one another. 🤷‍♀️

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