Congrats to Jiang Yanli & Wei Wuxian & Jiang Cheng (The Untamed) for winning Best Siblings in a BL!
This was definitely the most unexpected round in terms of seeding vs actual results!! Not only did we have our first ever exact tie, but none of the top 4 seeds based on submission number made it into the finals! This was a truly a bracket with many twists and turns!!!
Thank you to everyone who participated!!! I had fun and I hope y'all did too!!! Keep an eye out for the next bracket (poll for the next topic will drop shortly after posting this). Congrats again to all our lovely contestants with all types of sibling relationships from messy and complicated to sweet and heartwarming!
disclaimer I do have my own answer that I think you all can guess if you’ve been around here. I just want to know what the people who loom think so I can do a little thinking on whatever siblings win. there will be a follow-up post with individual siblings if I remember this LOL
Carmen rarely calls Natalie "Sugar" in season 2. We can see that Carmen's emotional distance from Natalie seems to decrease once she becomes project manager, flipping his entire life over once again; fulfilling just a sliver of his dream of turning 'mom and dads piece of shit,' into what it is now.
The nickname "Sugar" was given to Natalie from her mother in attempt to belittle her for a minor mistake she made in her childhood: one of the many ways Donna victimized her children.
Carmen often referred to Natalie as "Sugar" during season 1 whenever he needed a favor or was beyond frustrated with his sister. Although it's a very small change, shortening it to "Sug," and then even replacing it with "Nat," was an amazingly subtle way of the writers showing their sibling bond repair itself.
I wish I had the art skills to draw the ninja because I love them and want to draw them and I cannot because alas I don’t know how to art very well and until I can art better I will not be posting my art on here
Anyways, I can write, so imagine this:
Young Kai and Nya, Nya not being able to sleep and so Kai stays with her, humming lullabies until she does fall asleep (because Kai is a wonderful older brother and he absolutely would do anything for his sister), and then, years later, it’s Kai and Lloyd, and Lloyd can’t sleep, so Kai stays with him, humming the same lullabies he would hum to Nya until Lloyd does fall asleep.
And then at some point Kai gets really badly hurt, and he needs to rest, but he just can’t fall asleep, and Nya and Lloyd are both there remembering the times their big brother hummed for them when they couldn’t fall asleep, and they both just start humming the same lullabies he hummed to them.