Sorry in advance for not getting the joke

almondie June 30, 2025 6:07 pm

What makes me uncomfortable isn't the story itself but how some are so quick to say that MC's got an unreliable narrative like I think we can at least try to believe the poor man for the time being hmm?

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    yorozuya June 30, 2025 6:13 pm

    you gotta understand teach is a fictional character lol. an unreliable narrative is just a writing device used to tell a story through a deceitful perspective. it's already been established that he has spots in his memory, has attempted to kill guwon twice in his sleep without reason, and is suffering through both physical and psychological trauma. i think it's fair to question the way in which he sees the world

    lla696308 June 30, 2025 6:24 pm

    Plus, when it starts off in chapter 0, it makes his father look like it’s somebody trying to kill him and that this dude saved his life and then he starts, begging him for help and telling him his name the next second suddenly he can remember everything to that point and now in this chapter all of a sudden that his father that was struck down right in front of him and the context of the dialogue completely changes and suddenly. Plus, why would he strike down somebody who’s completely healthy without asking if they can do anything to benefit him whereas he saved somebody who is on the floor dying and even scrounged up evidence of his educational degree in order to take him back with him? Makes no sense

    almondie June 30, 2025 7:34 pm
    you gotta understand teach is a fictional character lol. an unreliable narrative is just a writing device used to tell a story through a deceitful perspective. it's already been established that he has spots in... yorozuya

    I do know what an unreliable narrative is I just don't think that it's appropriate here. Just because it's puzzling to put things together doesn't mean that the narrative is unreliable. + The MC being severely traumatized is exactly my point. His narrative looks like that precisely bc he's traumatized and that doesn't mean it's not credible. I personally don't think he's acting strangely at all and in my perspective, the author is doing a pretty good job depicting how being traumatized affects the way you perceive reality (it wasn't safe in the beginning for MC's brain to view guwon for what he was and in many cases it's easier to put the blame on yourself or even on the dead instead of facing the fact that your "savior" is xyz. Witnessing another person getting murdered like that could have served as a little shock that alerted him to the real danger and how it cannot be avoided by such coping mechanisms & so on and so forth. You get me).

    All that being said what's weird to me is that some people are actively deciding to put all this aside and be like: "The way you're coping with your trauma is soooo sus u sure you didn't kill your own father?????"
    I mean sure it's technically "all fictional" you can have whatever hypotheses you have, especially since we still don't know much yet. (I guess one way for this story to have a hint of a romantic ending would be for MC to have done at least some of those horrible stuff. I just hope that the story doesn't go in that direction and was somehow disturbed that people didn't show as much empathy toward MC. That's all.)

    lla696308 June 30, 2025 9:05 pm
    I do know what an unreliable narrative is I just don't think that it's appropriate here. Just because it's puzzling to put things together doesn't mean that the narrative is unreliable. + The MC being severely ... almondie

    Oooo I didn’t think of it that way like him trying to kill Guwon while he was asleep twice could’ve been his mind telling him this mother fucker killed your daddy, attack! Every time him got close to him while he was unconscious