bintaeler anon here and I'm here to yap about bintael again, especially in regards to this video https://x.com/i/status/2034296789281784211 (bin asking tael if he can get up from the floor and rushing to help and tael going "of course, I have strength too" and then getting up on his own) I feel like this encapsulates their dynamic pretty well right now hear me out! bin LOVES doting on everyone even a second younger than him and he loves being affectionate as well but the thing with tael is that 1) his whole thing with physical touch (as we have discussesed before, and also which bin is aware of as well (one time he said tael doesn't like his head being patted for example) and 2) it's kinda interesting but I have a feeling that while tael does like being doted on to some extent (I mean he's quite literally the maknae of his family) it's like? he doesn't always want to be babied? I guess? or more like he doesn't want to require the help of others for certain things? If that makes sense (see linked video) so bin had to find his own way of being affectionate with tael knowing that the cuddling, complimenting and babying he usually does with the younger members (see: geon and maet and previously gyub and yj) wouldn't work with tael - so that's why he probably started the teasing and upped it to the extreme recently because it's his way of showing affection towards tael, and! it's also interesting to see how many of tael's charms he is discovering recently like you'd sometimes see him say stuff like "wow I didn't know tael could do that / was like that" it's kind of like a process of watching them get closer over time as well and I mentioned this before but we know that tael is like really formal with the older members (so much so that on a live he once mentioned that he can't be "friends" with someone older than him, but is fine with people younger than him (😭)), but recently with bin this is slowly starting to get better as well (god bless) like while he often called bin an informal "Shb!" even in the past, he usually stays pretty formal according to kfans but recently while he's joking around with bin more kfans have pointed out that he's using more informal phrases sometimes (e.g. "what are you doing 😡" when bin ate his food during that fansign)

So yeah I think their dynamic is pretty unique and they're slowly getting closer... as a bintaeler I am enjoying all of it and hope we get to see even more!!!!
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and I mean everyone knows but recently I've seen so many fans talk about cheonanz and bintael it's like everyone is waking up to the potential