Beautiful post! Totally agree! I think I understand BJ Alex more than Jaekyung on this. The backstory isn’t that horrible to excuse his behavior.
I'm not making excuses for him, but its not fair to say its "pathetic" that he can't see something that's there. Psychological damage is not so easy to undo without proper professional help and going through all the stages of grieve to actually heal and move forward. Again, absolutely no excuse for his behavior, but at least the backstory provided good context and explained why which is something I was dying to know.
And you know what that's fair, but I was expecting a childhood completely devoid of any type of care or affection, but that's was my fault for having those expectations I guess.
Yeah he had a shitty dad and an absent mother, but he had coaches that seemed to love and support him, his teachers seemed to try and steer him in the right path and teammates that admired him. He was never genuinely lonely and people always saw potential in him. It's kind of pathetic he can't see that.