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snickerdoodlles · 11 months

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setting aside the fact that chess is a proven terrible metaphor for a strategic person/character in the first place, i have the silliest hangups about chess master!Korn in anything because Korn’s canonically terrible at playing chess. he wins because his victims know better than to beat him, not because he’s good at it.

#there’s a possibility canon meant to make him a good chess player and just suffers from the fact that the writers don’t know chess #but honestly I doubt that #Korn is terrible at all his hobbies #and the way his mafia games reflect his chess strategies feels deliberate #he’s just so bad at these games #his strategies might make sense on a street gang level #but in the show context of ‘’high class mafia’’#they’re extremely out of place and extremely stupid #which also feels deliberate #and again plays into the ‘Korn’s bad at chess’ theme #im trying to cut myself off from a ramble about the shows choice to show a scholars mate between Kinn and Korn but like #ep5 game is such a good metaphor for Korn and Kinn’s relationship in this context too!#Kinn's only making a show of playing Korn’s game #and lets himself lose as a means of escaping his fathers direct machinations #he hasn’t yet removed himself from the situation #which is why he’s still stuck playing Korn’s games #but Kinn yields to Korn because that’s currently his best defense #not because he wants to #:(#anyways Tawan the only bitch dumber than Korn #love that for us #kinnporsche #*im aware that a certain amount of this is show writers navigating extremely stupid source material that thinks it’s clever #and the show writers made their own dumb choices for other things too #but this isn’t about that #and that explanation is boring anyways

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