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[doctorskuld]

Welcome to the HIStory3: Trapped 圈套 Community on Dreamwidth

Even the though the fandom is spread around on various social media platforms, I think there are enough people on Dreamwidth who have seen the show to merit a separate community to celebrate our favorite disaster gangsters and their disaster cop boyfriends.

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To start things off, let's introduce ourselves, tell each other how we came into the fandom, and what our favorite things about Trapped 圈套 are.

Comments

[bonibaru]

I am always dying for pre-canon fanfic of the two of them, I can just imagine them butting heads and it is so delightful knowing what follows later.

My headcanon is that the incident during the gang arrests in Ep 1 is really one of the first times that MSF and TY interact in person, alone, outside of a structured police interview setting, court setting, or even arrest - that MSF has been watching and tailing and investigating TY forever through official channels (and not always with a clear basis, hence the lawsuits) but is getting more and more frustrated and reckless at his own lack of progress, which makes him careless enough to run in to an armed gang standoff without a warrant and then run out after TY alone leaving the rest of his team behind to arrest all the gangs. That their tension with each other in those early scenes is part and parcel of it not being a common interaction for them yet. That Tang Yi for the previous year allowing himself to develop a regular routine for MSF to follow (as mentioned outside the suit shop in Ep 1) so he could start using the police to catch his own enemies (as deduced by MSF in Ep 1) was a stroke of genius finally brought about by Tang Yi's grief & anger starting to abate enough after 3 years that he could think more rationally through year 4. And also, a strategy entirely possibly proposed or encouraged by Jack, who joined the gang at about the same time if I'm not mistaken (a year before canon starts? IDK where I got that. It might be fanon and I might be wrong). Maybe I just need to write some pre-canon stuff and get it out of my head lol

THIS WAS MEANT TO BE A QUICK POST THAT SAID: WHERE IS MY ANDY SPINOFF SHOW but it kind of spiralled.

[clevermanka]

I TOO WOULD LIKE AN ANDY SHOW AND ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO BE CAST IN A SUPPORTING ROLE BECAUSE I LOVE HIM AND WANT TO BE HIS FRIEND SO HARD

[doctorskuld]

Andy is the brother who would totally pass you a bottle of [preferred alcoholic beverage] the night after a particularly bad breakup.

[clevermanka]

Please help me figure something out? Is it implied at the end that Andy and doctor (whose name I don't remember help) are together? I didn't notice that on earlier watches, but on my fourth (I love that I can say that here with nobody judging me) I was like "wait what?"

And I kind of hope that isn't accurate? I like the idea that they're those two mutual friends of Person A and they just can't stand each other but recongize it's just a personality conflict not a disagreement of morals or something. So they still complain at length to a fourth friend about each other, knowing full well that Fourth Friend is getting the dirt from both sides and not caring because hearing it all would drive Person A up a wall or hurt their feelings AND I WANT TO BE THAT FOURTH FRIEND OKAY

I feel like I just wrote a self-insert fic there and I should probably go back to the sexy times I just left off writing to respond to this comment XD

[doctorskuld]

Is it implied at the end that Andy and doctor (whose name I don't remember help) are together?

Nope, they are not together, they have different boyfriends!

When TY and MSF have dinner together after nightclub stakeout, TY show MSF a picture of Andy and his boyfriend, and the person is not Jiang Jin Tang (Dr. Sass).



During the final episode, TY and Jin Tang are chatting, and it's revealed that somebody might be trying to steal Jin Tang's boyfriend, who is in Mali.

You are totally allowed to write yourself as an honorary member of Tang Yi's Gay Posse. XDDDD

[clevermanka]

Oh no no my mistake, I'm sorry I got that mixed up. When you said "somebody might be trying to steal Jin Tang's boyfriend, who is in Mali" it reminded me what I was actually worried about was that I thought Andy was trying to steal Jin Tang's (thank you) boyfriend but knowing that's in Mali (that part I missed) puts me at ease.

an honorary member of Tang Yi's Gay Posse
Can you imagine the parties? the drama? the CONSTANT SPECTACLE? oh god it'd be my 20s all over again except with better clothes and hair SIGN ME UPPPPPPP

[doctorskuld]

Ah, no worries, sorry for the misunderstanding there!

I get the impression that Andy is very happily paired off with his man, which is a relief!

Can you imagine the parties? the drama? the CONSTANT SPECTACLE?

Can you imagine 22-year-old Tang Yi and his Gay Posse partying it up in Taipei's gay nightclub scene? I bet the stories are LEGENDARY.

[no_detective]

22-year-old Tang Yi and his Gay Posse partying it up in Taipei's gay nightclub scene - yeah, this is getting pasted right into the plot bunny farm :)

[doctorskuld]

Oh, I love that idea! That episode 1 is the first time that TY and MSF are actually alone, hence the sudden escalation! I would honestly love to see a pre-canon fic leading up to their first confrontation. You've thought about this alot!

And it's canon that Jack joined Xin Tian Meng a year ago from the start of the series. If I recall correctly, it's mentioned offhand by Ah-De, in some protest about Jack still being new?

[bonibaru]

That's what I thought I remembered - that Ah De brought up the newness & set the time frame. I don't think that's meant to be coincidence since it's close in sequence to MSF telling ZZ that Tang Yi's routine suddenly became predictable a year ago and now MSF knows where he is every day at any given time. For TY to have made a change like that which, I remember thinking at the time, borders on carelessness for a mob boss (I watched a lot of The Sopranos back in the day) - there had to be a reason, and to open the series with MSF trying to bust up their gang meeting and not even being patient enough to wait for a warrant and Tang Yi knowing almost to the minute when he'd arrive - TOO MUCH COINCIDENCE.