"Neither of us are who our parents thought we were." "Yeah. But our parents are crazy." "Yeah."

The Brothers Sun (2024-), 1x08 - "Protect the Family"

THE BROTHERS SUN 1.03 - "Whatever You Want"

*Hands your 7 dollars*

ID: screenshot from the Brothers Sun where Bruce hands 7 one dollar bills to the Admin and asks "How much education would this buy me?" END ID

“Neither of us are who our parents thought we were.”

DRAGON BALL Z X THE BROTHERS SUN on Netflix

unrelated rare fun fanart stuff these days, i like both shows for many culturally related reasons, but for THE BROTHERS SUN? Would love to see a second season being greenlit please, that show's good and not bc I'm a bias for Michelle Yeoh lol

Give it a watch if you like Taiwan triads matters with dysfunctional Asian family problems with 2 brothers living 2 different lives in 2 different sides of the world (yes it's very much a US series with the whole cast being Asians, we love representations in this house)

Babies

Bruce has utilized his younger sibling energy to maximum effect in The Brothers Sun. His brother is an infamous, lethal assassin, whose mere reputation is enough to scare the most hardened criminals. Bruce gets him to do what he wants by threatening to snitch to their mom. Does in fact snitch and gets Charles—again, a deadly assassin—in trouble for hitting him. Later he convinces another criminal, this one unrelated to him, who also kidnapped him, to divulge her tragic backstory so he can express his sympathy and then invite her to family dinner instead of fighting his brother to the death. That’s his sister now.

Within the span of one quality time montage and like a week of hanging out together, his emotionally stunted brother becomes a softie who lets Bruce drag him into a karaoke duet and invite his girlfriend to their secret safehouse, even after the other gangsters point out what a bad idea that is. Who else is doing it like him.

If I have a coin for every time I watch a movie about 'a Chinese family that has a dickhead mafia boss kinda dads who only cares and hungers for insurmountable power and makes his oldest son in an assassin by torturing him mentally and physically and has mothers that are either estranged or dead, where after an assassination attempt at the older sibling, they run halfway across the world to find and protect their younger sibling from the impending threat but also has an estranged relationship with them because they haven't seen each other in years and were separated in the formative years yet they love and remember each other enough that they would do anything for each other and get beaten up (by them/for them) even though they only met just few minutes ago after years of separation, and they again slowly warm up to each other and feel guilty for each other's pain even though they weren't the one that was to be blamed for the suffering they went through and the actual culprit were their parents, and have younger siblings that are sweet sinnamon rolls that can and will kill you if provoked the wrong way and the older son is a literal personification of a puppy that has been kicked many times with three big truck full of daddy issues (although he too will kill you if you threaten to take away his family) but in reality he wants to do nothing with power and just wants to live a very mediocre life and live with his younger sibling (and mom) but the world is having none of it, so he goes to a few days of existential crisis and then rediscover himself and defeats his dad (even though he still loves him) with the power of Michelle Yeoh, Chinese culture and traditions, younger siblings that are little shits, and melodrama by his side' then I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

So the moral of the story is that Michelle Yeoh is always going to win, regardless of how powerful you are.

The Brothers Sun Text Posts — because Tumblr needs more content for this show...

Bruce:

I bring a sort of "such a nice boy" vibe to the Triads that the other gang members don't really like.

Love visual storytelling so much!

THE BROTHERS SUN 1.08 - "Protect The Family"

Brothers sun ending was a slay tbh. I hope the next time we see Bruce he’s a depressed, exhausted med student who actively hangs out with the aunties and has a really big info network in the US

so i found a new blorbo CHARLES SUN and…

you would have to sedate me i’m sorry

*feral* the show is so good, excellently paced and well-acted…. plus, it has all the stuff we enjoy the most:

whump, crime family, family drama, daddy issues (MAJOR!), mommy issues (MAJOR!), well-done action sequences, trauma, “protect the family” sense of duty mindset, lots of baking (by my poor blorbo charles as a coping mechanism), sibling issues, oldest son vs youngest son dynamic (- two brothers, who have both spent their lives competing for attention, approval, and freedom; in their own different ways -), conflicted tortured oldest son, did i mention major daddy/mommy issues and PLENTY OF THE GOOD OL’ EMOTIONAL WHUMP.

and oh their troubled mother is played by THEE MICHELLE YEOH !!!!!!! ✨MOTHER✨

ahhhh charles, his father brainwashed him, turned him into a ruthless killer and put him through so much trauma. my man just wants to have a normal life, bake pastries etc and reconnect with his mother and brother. like look at him (HE NEEDS A HUG AND SEVERAL CHURROS)

i am a sucker for this type of genre. 10/10 no notes. HIGHLY RECOMMEND MY FRIENDS, GO WATCH IT 🎉.

Now I’ve finished The Brothers Sun season 1 I want to write a nightmare one shot where Charles has a nightmare about either him going through with killing Bruce or Bruce dying after going to face their dad and when Charles wakes up he’s upset and disoriented and goes to find Bruce to make sure he’s ok and maybe even gives him a hug. Bruce is half asleep and is all like “wtf Charles is hugging me and crying oh my god am I dying??”

I just love a nightmare fic where the person who has the nightmare is usually calm and doesn’t like showing their emotions too much but when it’s about something really unsettling they break down and need comfort and at first don’t even realise it wasn’t real it’s the perfect amount of angst and hurt/comfort for me.

POST INCOMING, BUT OTHER WRITERS HELP

THE BROTHERS. MF. SUN.

Its immaculate, incredible,amazing, fantastic, god tier, available on Netflix

I haven't finished the season yet, but I'm on EP 4. And I need someone to write x reader.

Please gods.

I beg.

And SOMEONE SAVE PRETTY BOY, HE DIDNT DESERVE TO GET KERSPLODED

It wasn't even exploded or was KERSPLODED

Update: I finished it.

Someone write SOMETHING- PLEASE