Haha only a few days ago, I was talking to someone on here @jax about farcical BL comparisons and gave this one as of the examples. People here are way too casual about thoughtlessly putting everything under shallow labels, no matter what the nuances.
could you tell me Jaekyung's nuances?pls
Are there many? His character is pretty tropey, typical big bodied and big dick arrogant seme who manipulates the uke for his objectives. The uke is a hollow husk of a person whose character revolves around the seme. Jinx has a pretty shallow character study. I don't think the writer wrote the story to actually have impactful characters. The major plot points and narrative progression are mostly the same as her earlier work and many other typical BL manhwas, very predictable. It was written to bank on popular tropes and smut. Its not much deeper than that.
Jinx ML is a red flag he’s a dick, but The ML in killing stalking is literally a serial killer so that’s why he’s so much worse.
Koogi didn't write Sangwoo's character for readers to attach value judgment to him. It's pretty obvious his character is not supposed to be romanticised or inspirational or even relatable at a general level. The point of his character was to portray and examine a tortured character who was a product of an extremely violent and traumatizing past, he was written to explore the various faces of human darkness, a twisted subversion of emotions such as love and sympathy, depression, numbness, violence, a tortured psyche. Same goes for Bum. There is no comparison with Jinx's ML unless one prefers a surface level understanding.
i know there’s no comparison, I was replying to OP who was wondering why people like one more than the other.
Writers write to entice emotions and that emotion could be positive or negative, attaching value/judgment to character’s is part of the reading experience that character can be good, bad or ambiguous etc...
I said he’s a serial killer and that’s what he is and I will continue to judge him so hard because no amount of trauma justifies murder + he’s just a character lmao.
To those familiar with Killing Stalking... Both ML of KS and Jinx are red flag no question. Why do I feel at times we like this character is more loved than the other and vice versa?
Just an honest question/curiousity of what others think.