Normally I’d hate the ML, but not as much this time. He needs to have a talk, real talk, with Irene. It’s not his fault he was tricked into going to a new world, and not only his but multiple lives including his brother’s were held hostage by that bitch fake saint. They’re espers and they’re dying without guiding and she thinks it’s okay to toy with them like that? You think it’s okay to use someone’s pain and life as hostages to get what you want?
Of course he’s crazy: he was forced into a new world by the person he trusts the most, forced to work like crazy, couldn’t get back, and he knows no one in the world. After being betrayed like that with no way home, of course he isn’t going to like Seohyeon right at the beginning and even if he falls in love later, he doesn’t trust anyone in that world since that bitch probably is out to kill FL now since fake saint didn’t match with him like initially planned. Then he finds her burned and dead, realises he did it to her accidentally, and kills himself. Then he finds himself back in the past with no way to find her. How the fuck do you even begin addressing that kind of trauma???
As for Seohyeon (Irene), it’s just as bad. She has no context so how is she going to know why he’s so freaking paranoid and protective and jealous all the time, so to her he’s just a psychopath who doesn’t love her. She was stuck in an abusive relationship for years before inevitably dying, and now she’s finally found what she’d always longed for: a loving family. She’s changed and realized their past relationship was NOT okay and learned how to speak her truth. Now she’s forced to face the root cause of her trauma but not only is he very different he’s also showing severe signs of obsession with her and she can’t understand why. All those years of trauma need addressing too, and the only way to get some closer is to actually speak to the one who caused them.
Of course ML doesn’t know what he did was wrong, at least not all of it, if she never told him she wasn’t okay with it. Doesn’t make it right, but if you think about it, he’s in a huge flight or fight mode for years and finally finds something he cares about: of course he’s afraid it’s going to be taken away again, it’s already happened once and the person that caused it is still alive and has a lot of power. On her end, she’s go to tell him that enough is ENOUGH. He’s lost it and thinks he’s hallucinating half the time, of course he’s going to be super happy if the person he saw dead is alive and of course she’s going to be confused as to why he’s acting affectionate.
They need to sit the fuck down and talk. Afterwards, romance or whatever might be able to happen, but he needs to realise what he did wrong first and how to change himself, and she needs closure and understanding about why some stuff happened the way it did. From there, FL can decide whether or not to accept him. But I’m not going to hate the ML completely on this one for going bonkers from severe mental and physical trauma and the source of it continues to be thrown in his face over and over again, day after day.
Normally I’d hate the ML, but not as much this time. He needs to have a talk, real talk, with Irene. It’s not his fault he was tricked into going to a new world, and not only his but multiple lives including his brother’s were held hostage by that bitch fake saint. They’re espers and they’re dying without guiding and she thinks it’s okay to toy with them like that? You think it’s okay to use someone’s pain and life as hostages to get what you want?
Of course he’s crazy: he was forced into a new world by the person he trusts the most, forced to work like crazy, couldn’t get back, and he knows no one in the world. After being betrayed like that with no way home, of course he isn’t going to like Seohyeon right at the beginning and even if he falls in love later, he doesn’t trust anyone in that world since that bitch probably is out to kill FL now since fake saint didn’t match with him like initially planned. Then he finds her burned and dead, realises he did it to her accidentally, and kills himself. Then he finds himself back in the past with no way to find her. How the fuck do you even begin addressing that kind of trauma???
As for Seohyeon (Irene), it’s just as bad. She has no context so how is she going to know why he’s so freaking paranoid and protective and jealous all the time, so to her he’s just a psychopath who doesn’t love her. She was stuck in an abusive relationship for years before inevitably dying, and now she’s finally found what she’d always longed for: a loving family. She’s changed and realized their past relationship was NOT okay and learned how to speak her truth. Now she’s forced to face the root cause of her trauma but not only is he very different he’s also showing severe signs of obsession with her and she can’t understand why. All those years of trauma need addressing too, and the only way to get some closer is to actually speak to the one who caused them.
Of course ML doesn’t know what he did was wrong, at least not all of it, if she never told him she wasn’t okay with it. Doesn’t make it right, but if you think about it, he’s in a huge flight or fight mode for years and finally finds something he cares about: of course he’s afraid it’s going to be taken away again, it’s already happened once and the person that caused it is still alive and has a lot of power. On her end, she’s go to tell him that enough is ENOUGH. He’s lost it and thinks he’s hallucinating half the time, of course he’s going to be super happy if the person he saw dead is alive and of course she’s going to be confused as to why he’s acting affectionate.
They need to sit the fuck down and talk. Afterwards, romance or whatever might be able to happen, but he needs to realise what he did wrong first and how to change himself, and she needs closure and understanding about why some stuff happened the way it did. From there, FL can decide whether or not to accept him. But I’m not going to hate the ML completely on this one for going bonkers from severe mental and physical trauma and the source of it continues to be thrown in his face over and over again, day after day.