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Guwons innocent demeanor is what unsettles me the most. This story is so interesting and I can’t wait to see how it unfolds. I agree with your takes. Some people in the comments do be pissing me off with how much they either baby or simp for Guwon or how much they downplay teach trauma or find him annoying when he’s probably most human for his reactions
Okay but has anyone actually accepted that nothing is that simple, right?
Teach is traumatized and has a head injury, he doesn't actually remember what happened clearly. Plus, made clear this chapter, Teach is scared of Guwon and that fear is filling in the gaps in memory to fulfill a bias made by said fear. Regardless, the truth may be somewhere in the middle. We can't fully trust that Teach didn't or did kill his father, as much as we can't trust that Guwon did or didn't kill Teach's father. Based on the first chapter it seems that the man killed was not Teach's father, but perhaps it was based on Teach's memory, we simply don't know yet. Teach did somehow move from leaning on a wall to laying in the middle of the room between memories.
Guwon is also not simple. He knows the basics of being "human" but everything else he is basing on his experience and the actions of others (who are extremely careful because of their fear of Guwon and are not actually doing what would be best/what they would do). Guwon follows the lead of the village, who in turn follow the rules to the letter out of fear. This doesn't mean Guwon doesn't act selfishly or recklessly, he is actually moving based on his whims (and although he understands why others are scared, he doesn't actually conceptualize why they don't feel as he does). Trying to say red flag or green flag misses the fact that Guwon is not actually working with human concepts as a human, but more as a newborn humanoid creature (regardless of his origin).