i love boze, and i agree with this point sm (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
agreed because theres a lot of weird coercive shit jaekyung does that dan will never know about like exposing him to heesung- he didnt even say sorry for how he treated dan with the spray, how could he say sorry for smaller things if he cant even address he’s the reason dans so fucked up rn
GAME RECOGNIZES GAME AYYYYY (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
exactlyyy. like not a single apology or even "my bad" has come out of this man's mouth EVER to kim dan. and that random hug before the hiatus felt more gross than anything, it didn't feel like this grand turning point like the author so badly wanted. from dan's perspective that hug happening months after them basically ignoring each other except for r*pey booty calls would've skeeved me out soooo bad. like yuck get off. also yeah that heesung stuff was lowkey horrific. writers shouldn't underestimate the power of a genuine "i'm sorry" ......
unfortunately i feel like for the whole plot we’ll either get an apology and then dan will be like “everything is okay now!!” or something will be said about his past and it’ll be “excused”.
honestly i would rather 30 chapters of slow burn trust building then that to happen ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
no but horse face was abused in quite literally every single way possible as a child guys!! so Dan SHOULD forgive him because even though he also grew up poor asf he had his sweet sweet grandma to give him love throughout it all (we will just ignore that JK's coach and coach's mom took him in and gave him so much care growing up).
A gambling mobster alcoholic abusive poor dad is so fucking funny i can't make this stuff up
There’s a true crime creator I watch (Boze vs the world) who says something great about the killers she covers. “We can be sad for the child that was failed without excusing their actions down the line”
look I know it’s not that deep but I think the author and a lot of writers can take a lot for that statement. At some point a character is written too far gone. And controversially, that’s fine. What’s not fine is them demanding a sympathy switch from the audience through all of the characters suddenly forgiving a deplorable character for their actions.
As a fucked up example there’s the Sadistic Beauty BL Side story (if i remember correctly) where at the very end the victim doesn’t forgive his abused, at all. Like not at all. Still hated him actually, but settled because he was so broken. Ofc that’s not a perfect story either, seemed like the author really tried to make the abuser look sympathetic because he was basically shitting himself in guilt over what he has done.
A different example is Warehouse, where the characters have such stockholm syndrome (one from the present abuse he faced and one from the past) that they understand how much they’re not good for each other. Despite that they do come together in the end, while the victim made it very clear that they cannot and will not EVER be able to start from scratch. What’s done is done.
I can list a bunch of other examples where a redemption arc (imo) works, like Low Tide in Twilight.
All of those were saved by really good writing too. It just seems like the author of Jinx isn’t a strong enough writer to dig herself out of this hole she’s created. I do feel bad for kid Horse Face who was abused, but ultimately it just feels like the author writing the classic trope that a lot of stories do to make an abuser look forgiving. Like she’s just going through the motions before the sudden Kim Dan forgiveness party.
Idk at the end of the day I just be yapping. I would love to be proven wrong honestly, the author is so artistically talented but good god I’ve read uglier because of strong writing. Maybe she should get a co writer for the next one lol. This story is already too far gone