PatPran

"All my life, I'm always told not to be friends with this one guy. But we all know that forbidden fruit is always sweeter. From two people who can't be friends, without knowing it, we became two people who can't be just friends."

- Pran about his relationship with Pat, Episode 11

PatPran is the slash ship between Pat and Pran from the Bad Buddy fandom.

Canon
Pat and Pran are both neighbours. Their families run rival businesses, and from this, the families developed a deep hatred of each other. Due to this, Pat and Pran have been enemies, even before they were born, and competed against each other for grades and any other activity. This rivalry continued until the age of 12. Pat's sister, Pa, accidentally drives her bike into the water. Pran saves her from drowning. After this, the boys start to respect each other, and though not officially friends, they are both are kind to each other. They get assigned to the same music band and become good friends. However, their family find out, and Pran is transferred to a new school.

Despite this, Pat and Pran find themselves, once again reunited. Pran is an architecture student, and Pat is an engineering student. Both are the class presidents of their respective subjects. These faculties happen to be rivals, hence igniting the rivalry between the boys once again. The architecture and engineering students get into a fight, and likewise, Pran and Pat fight, but are interrupted by the teacher.

They have a chance meeting outside by the bins and get into an argument. The two start kicking the bins and argue about which is over the property line. They argue about anything.

They also both apply for the "Freshy Music Festival" and once again compete against each other. Afterwards, Pran gets into a fight Pat's friends, they mistakenly believed he was Wai. Pat saves Pran from being beat up, by pulling him into a gap between the buildings, and covering his mouth. Pa is nearby and drives them away. Later, Pat sneaks into Pran's room, and asks if he can back off. They devise a plan to stop the fighting between their friend groups. But it doesn't work, and erupts into a fight. The pair both go to the store to get bruise cream, but there is only one left, so they are forced to share. It becomes obvious that the two are not bitter rivals compared to their friends or families. They decide to add each other's Chat IDs so they don't need to sneak into each other rooms.

Fanon
PatPran is a popular ship in the BL genre. It gained significant popularity in 2021 and was praised for being a healthy depiction of love in the BL genre. The BL (or Yaoi) genre itself is known for hurtful tropes, gender stereotypes, issues with consent, and repetitive structure. The pairing of PatPran was praised for avoiding many of these tropes, and helping to revolutionize the genre.

PatPran is the most popular and central pairing in the Bad Buddy fandom. The second being InkPa and third KornWai. Other couples beyond those three are rare. On AO3, PatPran is the most written ship for both Pat and Pran, and the most written ship in the แค่เพื่อนครับเพื่อน | Bad Buddy: the Series (TV) tag.

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 * JAN 10th, 2022
 * JAN 17th, 2022
 * JAN 24th, 2022
 * NOV 15th, 2021

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 * OhmNanon refers to their actors Ohm and Nanon