pairofkings
" "The first step towards greatness is believing in yourself." - Santa " -Brady Parker
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Wonder if Brady and Boomer had s'mores before....
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61723948
Hair and Power by Anonymous is such a good trans Brady fic, that I needed to recommend it with this post.
Pair of Kings never had the "guy character dresses up as a girl for - reasons" because they knew king Brady trans would be too powerful.
Boomer's PSA to the island about having safe sex.
Pair of Kings never had the "guy character dresses up as a girl for - reasons" because they knew king Brady trans would be too powerful.
I don't need to add anything to this
brady is/was the better brother im sorry
i said what i said and i meant it
I wish Disney released their shows on DVD. I'd give them kudos for anticipating our streaming future, but they didn't do that. They just tried to get more people to pay more for cable.
There should be more P.O.K fanfic on AO3. I feel like there is a lot to work with and fans have room to really build the world.
Actually, with Brady Potter, it probably was less challenging to remember
Real talk: The triplets parents were evil in naming all the kids with the same letter. I know people accidentally forgot/swapped Boomer and Brady's names all the time. Imagine if Boz had been in Chicago too. Just trouble
Real talk: The triplets parents were evil in naming all the kids with the same letter. I know people accidentally forgot/swapped Boomer and Brady's names all the time. Imagine if Boz had been in Chicago too. Just trouble
I know it was a kids show but I would have appreciated some more Kinkow lore. Like when was it founded, does it trade with other countries? Realistically, they know about the rest of the world so the rest of the world probably knows about them. I bet it's a place talked about in schools and on the globe, but Boomer and Brady just didn't pay attention in school.
I feel like Chuck got scarier through the years. Now he's got a strange feral Gollum energy.
Adam Hicks went to prison and after coming out, made a rap song that was kind of good.
I've grown as a person, happy birthday to Boz too. His season was sort of enjoyable as well.
Happy belated 29th birthday (1 day off) to these two Goofy Gubers. I can't believe the show has been gone for this long.
Happy belated 29th birthday (1 day off) to these two Goofy Gubers. I can't believe the show has been gone for this long.
In episode 19 The Trouble With Doubles, Mason claims the code to the vault is his birthday: 118
Which is it, Mason. Better keep your story straight.
You were afraid of Pupaley? I can't judge you, I was afraid of that Zack and Cody episode where they went into the haunted apartment room.
My non-horror, media-related childhood trauma story is that I was scared shitless of a particular episode of that Disney sitcom with twin kings. The episode was about this Bigfoot-looking creature they found in the woods. The way it just looked like a goofy little guy, but would suddenly turn into a scary beast with glowing red-eyes was so fucking disturbing as a kid.
A funny P.O.K joke would have been if throughout the first season, Brady and Boomer did not know Lanny's name and called him names like Randy or Andy, and the names progressively got further and further from his actual name.
"This is our cousin, Louisiany."
Is the Pair of Kings fandom on here at all?
That show was the fucking best but I’ve like never seen any buzz. I need to rewatch it.
I also love the fact it’s so wacky! Both with its twin leads and concept.
Not even a random child, his distant descendant was groomed by him to help kill his other descendants - the kids cousins - and only the kid could hear him speak. Pair of Kings was such a fever dream kids show!
A friendly reminder that Lanny’s ugly Fish, Yamakoshi, was actually an Evil King turned into a fish who proceeded to groom a child into murdering the next kings for him so he could steal the crown for himself.
Pair of Kings Harlem Shake video by DenBlueFun99. They edited this wonderfully!
Always been my own personal Pair of Kings headcannon that Brady is trans. Doesn't necessarily fit with the plot but... y'know, spices up Kinkow.
Makes the name calling of Lady Parker far hurtful.
Even though it was a children's show, I'm glad their characters mourned his absence with the audience. They didn't pull a Due South and just replace the main actor with a man who looks NOTHING like him and claim "that's the same guy, I dunno what you're talking about."
I’ll never forgive POK writers for destroying these two beautiful bonds in season 3.
The first episode is such a brilliant tv movie. The show was unfortunately on Disney XD, a far smaller platform. Disney had Good luck Charlie, Wizards of Waverly Place, Suite Life on Deck, and Ant farm at the time of it's airing. Too many powerhouse shows were ongoing at the time. XD only had Lab Rats and Zeke and Luther as popular live action shows. There was far less incentive to watch XD - let alone a new show! It's sad to know such a great show had so little chance for success.
Let’s talk about the fact that Pair Of Kings had everything to be a great series and yet it wasn’t?
I mean, it had magic, space for racial diversity (Kinkow is literally in the Southern Pacific, and the main characters are biracial) and cultural diversity/differences, politics, war, it’s a coming of age story, and the base for the characters is good.
It had everything to be awesome, yet most of the writing in it sucked; there was little to no planning, which resulted in lots of inconsistencies in the story line; most of the characters didn’t really get character arcs except for – specifically in season 3 and not that well done either – Boomer, Lanny, and Boz; the lore wasn’t properly developed (the lore is literally one of the most important parts in worldbuilding); not to mention that the show was downright misogynistic various times.
And it really hurts me that it was like that because it had so much potential, the character dynamics were great, the comedy was on point, the setting was amazing – how did Disney dare to waste it?
He believed humans deserved the show and could handle season three as a deserved punishment. He was wrong.
God created the earth with the knowledge that with Creation would come the show pair of kings. He planned for its destruction because he was also burdened with the understanding that its third season would exist.
Season 3 was also tragic because they altered Boomer's character into more of the serious/less dumb brother. Boomer and Brady played off one another excellently as equals. Boz and Boomer did not, seen by making Boz the 'outsider' comic relief while Boomer became the "mature" brother. Frankly, tragic!
friendly reminder that this beautiful bond was completely destroyed by season 3, which turned Brady into some kind of asshole who left his goddamn twin without even talking to him properly just because of some stuff Candace (not even Mikayla herself!) said.
and that’s why season 3 (and Boz) doesn’t exist for me. no one can replace Brady for Boomer, and definitely not some stranger who appeared out of nowhere and suddenly happened to be their long lost triplet.
I appreciate this headcannon but I'm always struck by how Brady confused a turtle with a rock, and used it to keep Zadoc stationary on the skateboards. If he's really smarter than Boomer, he's certainly playing with fire sometimes and risking the island with feined stupidity.
Brady Parker Character Analysis - Pair of Kings
There is no way that Brady is as dumb as he seems. Like - if he’s willing to go to great lengths -including sacrificing his own potential (aka singing)- then I wouldn’t be surprised if Brady dumbed himself down so that he’d always be Boomers equal. Brady actively attempts to come up with plans to prevent Boomer from embarrassing himself - and the majority of his attempts in the past succeeded. He sacrificed his own chances at getting his voice heard for his brother. In Brady’s own words in the episode “Tone Deaf Jam”, “Our brotherhood works best when we’re both equally bad at everything.”
That gives us a unique insight into how Brady’s mind works, he’d do anything for his brother, he doesn’t want to be better then Boomer at anything because he cares too much about Boomer to overshadow him at anything like that.
There’s actually been moments where there’s proof that Brady is smarter and more capable then he appears, for example, in the episode “Oh Brother, Where Arr Thou” he defeats the pirate with the pirates own peg-leg and in the episode “Brady Battles Boo- Mer” he tricks the ghost into coming out of Boomer’s body - and then even while at a disadvantage, he manages to defeat and capture the ghost. In the episode “Kings of Legend” it’s actually Brady’s idea to move back the statue of Zadoc another 4 feet since the darkness had grown 2 feet - he actively came up with an idea to move the statue so that the kingdom would have more time. That was a pretty smart idea on his part, common sense really - he also had the kingdoms best interests at heart, he’s more empathetic then Boomer and he also recognizes his faults. In one of the episodes, he displays the ability of understanding his own faults by admitting that when around Mikayla he has trouble controlling his impulses to flirt with her, that shows a form of empathy and self-knowledge and actually wisdom that few people show - it’s maturity. Out of the two brothers, Brady comes up with the majority of their good ideas, he’s actually more mature then Boomer at times.
In the episode “Sleepless in the Castle“ we’re introduced to Sleep Ninja Brady who is smooth af and capable of taking down four fully armed and trained guards by himself without any help. This is the guy who makes it a point to seem just as physically weak as Boomer is, he also makes a point at being really clumsy - but sleep ninja Brady isn’t clumsy, sleep ninja Brady can do handstands and backflips and he never trips or falls. At some point in the episode, Brady actually admits that he was awake during some of the times in which “sleep ninja Brady” had beaten down his own brother - revealing that he is in fact more capable then he seems and he’s aware of it, it also brings to light that he’s capable of pretending to be something else without anyone being any wiser to his act.
In the episode “An Ice Girl for Boomer” Brady transforms a cave woman into a beautiful lady, he transforms her into the perfect girl for his brother, something that I doubt Boomer could do. Brady is more selfless then Boomer, in fact he is selfless enough that in the episode “Kings of Thieves” Brady comes up with the idea to become Sirocco, to prevent Lanny from stealing the money of the people. He stopped Lanny and returned the money, he disguised his voice and appearance so no one would recognize him. Brady actually throws a bag of money at an old lady when she screams at him, hitting her in the face, and then apologizes sarcastically.
In the episodes “The Evil King” Brady actually avoids mentioning that Lanny had pricked him (aka cursed him), he’s suspiciously silent when Lanny lies badly saying that he was cursed too. It’s not the first time that he straight out ignores Lanny’s quest for power, deliberately ignoring him and looking the other way.
Now the episode that actually brought me to the conclusion that Brady is smarter then he appears is in the episode “Pair of Geniuses”, not only did he manage to come up with something to give them some time before they’d get caught by Mason and Mikayla (a plan that actually succeeded, they had no idea that Brady and Boomer had been gone for a week until a week had actually passed, which was Brady’s intention.). Brady is prepared in advance to be able to deceive Mason and Mikayla whenever he and Boomer want to get out of the castle. When Brady gets his brain back after being cursed with dumbness, he instantly says “PI = 3.14159, Monaco is the second smallest country in the world. The universe is not infinite, at the end of it is…. Woah. That was a rush.” if the reversal of the curse brings a persons intelligence back to how it was before they were cursed, that means that the small bit of info we get after Brady gets his brains back is knowledge that he actually knows.
He knows what the first 6 digits of PI is, he knows what the second smallest country in the world is - and the last sentence implies that at some point he probably read some information or theories from a science magazine. He was also smart enough to know that if the rest of the island got their intelligence back they wouldn’t like him anymore. There’s times where he’s been genuinely stupid, though everyone has their moments.
Who knows, maybe all of that were coincidences, rare glimpses of insight. Or maybe Brady is smarter than he seems and dumbs himself down for his brother and actively gives in to his more sillier urges. This is a self-conscious empathetic teenager whos whole world is his brother, he’s mature enough to know that he has to mature in order to be a better ruler, he’s wise enough to recognize when he’s wrong and when he has faults and to attempt to make up for it. An idiot wouldn’t try to keep themselves silent so that they don’t flirt with a girl who doesn’t want to be flirted with, in that one episode “Poetry Slam” he recognizes that he’s been going too far when it comes to Mikayla, he recognizes that she doesn’t like him flirting with her - and he admits that he knows this - and he also recognizes that he has trouble controlling his impulses and keeping his mouth shut around her so he actively makes a plan to prevent himself from making her uncomfortable - and for that to happen, he refuses to talk to her and tries to avoid her during the first half of the episode, he bites his tongue and tries to control himself around her because he doesn’t want to lose her. Of course, Brady does make a mistake later in the episode with trying to ban Poetry, but everyone makes mistakes, and he manages to win her friendship back in the end using the very thing she loves - Poetry. In “Pair of Clubs” Brady manages to trick the kingdom into going to his club over Boomers.
Brady’s done a lot of dumb stuff, he’s said dumb things and done dumb stuff - but he’s shown more ability to plan for the future, to recognize consequences, understand himself and others then Boomer has. Brady’s shown more maturity and throughout the seasons he’s shown more and more examples of the intelligence he’s seemed to have been keeping hidden from his brother. He may seem thoughtless, but he’s anything but that, he’s kind and he genuinely cares. He’s shown a lot of character development throughout the show.