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oh anon this is so interesting!! i was actually talking with crys who cares ~taegi~ a lot....they seem to care abt each other in very subtle ways. personally i don't think they're like bestie close!! more like older friend caring for younger friend. and i think it's partially or largely related to age gap.
unlike some groups like nct dream or itzy, the age/leader hierarchy is very much present in bangtan. i think it's why namjin don't seem very drawn to each other but they seem to work together when need be, because it's the leader and eldest unit; otherwise, they still have an age gap and it shows. 2seok....i think they probably converse well with each other, because hobi is enthusiastic and jin plays off of that well and is very casual, but just aren't particularly close again because of age? you could compare these relationships to that of, say, yoonjin, the two eldest that get along well and don't have much age gap separating them. then to vmin, same-age soulmates. i think an obvious exception to age = closeness is namseok; they don't seem to be particularly close despite being same-age friends.
taekook didn't used to be an exception either!! they were fairly close, and i think it was a result of the lack of age gap. however, as shown by namseok, it doesn't mean that they'll stay close; i think taekook drifted apart naturally in part because their personalities were a match in playfulness, but as tae got more serious and kook got more and more obsessed with playing around with jimin, that commonality faded away. and as mentioned in the dw post....that kookmin happening was a strain on tae's relationships to each of them individually. i think they're trying to reconnect, like i also said in the dw post, there's a few slightly closer moments for them recently, but they're fairly distant still.
and i don't know if you've noticed, but my kookmin oomfs definitely have: they barely interact in spontaneous content. for example, v's birthday (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X51EI1Jq7vg), jungkook doesn't even look at him 😭 like dude, you not gonna wish him a happy birthday? what goes on? and there was this other recent clip i saw, where they paused to take a selfie....when i say they dispersed so fast. my god. like as soon as the selfie was taken they split up. no conversation, no check if the selfie turned out well, nothing. i was like damn i thought soop was going to change things what is this 😭 thankfully since then they've been getting gradually a bit closer but those clips really STICK with me as like. such coworker energy. this is kinda evil to bring up again after saying soop made their rs better but, BUT....that one message from jungkook to taehyung where he said literally nothing personal to them or their relationship just like "thanks for doing your job well"....like holy shit. prime bbb coworkerisms. i'm sorry. i joke about that but it's depressing i'm glad they're better now. but still pretty coworker. but positive outlook where it stands rn!! jungkook is close to jimin for obvious reasons, jimin and tae seem a bit strained but they have their shared history and ~park jimin~ to keep them going, and then tae and kook are working on rebuilding what they left behind in 2017 ^_^