Anyway, very familiar with tropes so this is what I think is happening/ will happen, even though it is purely conjecture. I am not making excuses for woosang, I’m just listing out what I think will/is happening:
1. Like Soohan who is lying about being someone who has had sponsors, woosang is also lying by pretending he is straight and that soohan is just a random indulgence, and that he eventually wants a ‘stable family’. He’s definitely not straight and has been into soohan since he was in school. Reason: their classmate mentions in chapter 9 that woosang looks at Soohan the same way he used to in school.. likely with longing. (Soohan cuts his classmate off before he can finish his sentence). Also it’s much easier to pretend to be nonchalant about finally hooking up with your HS crush than dump the heaviness of guilt and longing you’ve felt towards them all at once, coming clean to try and have an honest chance with them. Even though woosang is sponsoring soohan, he mistakenly calls it dating.
2. The rumours didn’t begin of woosang’s own volition. Things escalated either because it was a misunderstanding or someone pinned the blame of outing soohan on him. Reason: classmate states that it was unlike woosang to spread rumours.
3. He most likely knew what soohan actually said at the reunion, but used similar sounding phrases to get in contact with soohan again. He definitely knows that they can’t get close normally bc they had bad shared history, so he used an outlandish excuse. (This one is a little unlikely).
Overall, other reasons I think this is: woosang is not the dominant/ abusive top with how he’s written: sure he’s jealous, but he consistently goes along with how soohan treats him, gives into his demands, apologises when he wrongs soohan, wants to take care of him and (most obviously) he’s not homophobic bc he’s a little too excited to be on, in or with soohan anyway possible. This means it’s probably a long time desire being realised by him. The way he’s written is obviously a ‘romantic’ archetype as opposed to a ‘asshole turned remorseful’ archetype.
Anyway, very familiar with tropes so this is what I think is happening/ will happen, even though it is purely conjecture. I am not making excuses for woosang, I’m just listing out what I think will/is happening:
1. Like Soohan who is lying about being someone who has had sponsors, woosang is also lying by pretending he is straight and that soohan is just a random indulgence, and that he eventually wants a ‘stable family’. He’s definitely not straight and has been into soohan since he was in school. Reason: their classmate mentions in chapter 9 that woosang looks at Soohan the same way he used to in school.. likely with longing. (Soohan cuts his classmate off before he can finish his sentence). Also it’s much easier to pretend to be nonchalant about finally hooking up with your HS crush than dump the heaviness of guilt and longing you’ve felt towards them all at once, coming clean to try and have an honest chance with them. Even though woosang is sponsoring soohan, he mistakenly calls it dating.
2. The rumours didn’t begin of woosang’s own volition. Things escalated either because it was a misunderstanding or someone pinned the blame of outing soohan on him. Reason: classmate states that it was unlike woosang to spread rumours.
3. He most likely knew what soohan actually said at the reunion, but used similar sounding phrases to get in contact with soohan again. He definitely knows that they can’t get close normally bc they had bad shared history, so he used an outlandish excuse. (This one is a little unlikely).
Overall, other reasons I think this is: woosang is not the dominant/ abusive top with how he’s written: sure he’s jealous, but he consistently goes along with how soohan treats him, gives into his demands, apologises when he wrongs soohan, wants to take care of him and (most obviously) he’s not homophobic bc he’s a little too excited to be on, in or with soohan anyway possible. This means it’s probably a long time desire being realised by him. The way he’s written is obviously a ‘romantic’ archetype as opposed to a ‘asshole turned remorseful’ archetype.