this tinhat contains so much delusion, it might astound you

lovely anon, i apologize for the delay. i wrote a lot for you :3 enjoy:

the beginnings of my renhyuck tinhatting originate in the grandma's house content, when haechan made renjun summarize all the things they did that day. and renjun started listing them, looked right into his eyes....and there was this brief pause. and then he went, "watermelon! watermelon." looked down at the watermelon, and then back at donghyuck, and the sheepish expression he gave him....head tilted to the left, then slowly up, mouth slightly parted, eyes trained on donghyuck in the softest manner imaginable....i can never fucking forget that. my god. that's the moment where i was like, i think renjun has a crush. and all content following that has not only confirmed that for me, but also strongly suggested that haechan LIKES HIM BACK -- /AND/ that both of them are dancing around each other, unable to admit it one way or the other.

i spent so long trying to think of what links i'd include in this but i feel like you could literally point to anything they've done recently and it would point to this conclusion. i can describe a few moments that pop into my mind as very definitive of their pining dynamic....

firstly, that they are all over each other on camera. all those clips of them like "let's break up," being on their "honeymoon," "our concept is newly-weds," to start. and then things like "renjun fits perfectly in my arms," putting those stickers that represent a precious item on each others' foreheads, "watch me only" on the teacup ride, hello82 intimate boom dance. not to mention everything happening in 7illin, including haechan treating renjun like the one girl the guys let play on their team, then coddle her, treat her like she's fragile, and are thoroughly surprised when she does well....and how hyuck rearranged the bed arrangements so he could be close to renjun....(i haven't finished watching 7illin but i've been kept updated with some clips....like the bed cuddling....they r truly obsessed with one another and we know it's not company cpisms because THEY ARE NOT EVEN A CP PUSHED BY THE COMPANY)

then, you have them off-camera. idk if anyone else has noticed but as far as i can recall during these past few months, haechan has only talked about gaming with jeno, and renjun has only mentioned hanging out with jisung and jeno. correct me if i'm wrong, but they haven't talked about doing things with each other. the only activity we know they have in common is going to chenle's house to see daegal (and chenle i guess....but i think we know daegal is the pull factor here). so what gives? they don't even fight as much as they used to. they're actually one of the most in-tune, well-suited pairings in the group. during vlives (which i consider to be more honest about dynamics, because they're live and unedited), there are no signs of distance between them; they sit next to each other and talk & interact casually throughout. hell, renjun even felt up haechan's stomach in the recent 00z vlive (the ust....). so why are they not as obnoxiously interactive as they are on-camera?

pulling from a very recent twt thread convo with kels and kelly, this is my theory:

"renjun can't figure out how much of haech's actions toward him are for the camera and haechan doesn't have the courage to do anything when there's NOT a camera

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i can see rj pining 4 him, bewildered but accepting of his advances bc he craves it so....but dh turns it down offcam and it throws him off, he doesn't know where he stands....& then dh can barely keep it tgt oncam did u see how he lost his cool right after what he did on hello82"

also from yesterday's convo with kels:

[9:22 AM] kels: renjun just needs to realise hyuck likes him

[9:24 AM] cha: whereas hyuck is incapable of being vulnerable enough to let him realize

that's like the summarized conclusion of my thoughts on their dynamic. i keep looking at it and trying to elaborate but that's really it. they are dancing around each other. and they will continue to do so until something changes for them, whether that change is internal (between the two of them) or external (outside intervention). as i said to moch and kels the other day, "renjun womanisms are canonical and there's nothing we can do except watch hyuck feed into them." and that's rly all we can do. we're really just going to have to watch and see how this plays out.

(feel free to ask for the links to whichever moments i've mentioned here, i'd be happy to provide those based on which ones people recall/don't recall/haven't seen etc etc)

[p.s. anon, i went to go confirm the wordings of the moments i mentioned and MY FUCKING GOD. i just discovered something even more incriminating for these two. licherally insane dw post incoming (so tinhatty that i might have to friendslock it unless other people want it too)....when i say i haven't felt this way since KOOKMIN....i will. go document my potential findings now]