Ok so I get that Taegun has trauma from that other fucker but why can't he like Eunseong? His fuckass ex tricked, deceived and used him, so the trauma should be about getting tricked and used again. But Taegun is not scared of that. Instead, the gravity analogy indicates that he's scared of Eunseong getting tired of loving Taegun because Taegun won't love him back.
But why won't Taegun love him back? Why would he reject Eunseong if he asked to date? Taegun already talks like Eunseong is so important to him, he couldn't live without him but for some reason, he doesn't love him?
This writing just makes Taegun sound like an ass, expecting Eunseong to love him forever without ever being loved back.
Maybe Taegun does not know if he can fall in love again after that asshole of an ex but then his thoughts should be more along the lines of "Can Eunseong keep loving me even if I cannot give him normal love back?"
I hate when authors just slap the trauma label on characters and use that to avoid explaining their character's behavior. Our actions have reasons, even trauma responses do! It would make so much more sense if Taegun was paranoid about Eunseong only trying to get into his pants, about Eunseong switching up the second they're in an official relationship, paranoid about having missed little red flags, anything. But no, we get nothing. Just "I won't date him" for no reason.
Ok so I get that Taegun has trauma from that other fucker but why can't he like Eunseong?
His fuckass ex tricked, deceived and used him, so the trauma should be about getting tricked and used again. But Taegun is not scared of that. Instead, the gravity analogy indicates that he's scared of Eunseong getting tired of loving Taegun because Taegun won't love him back.
But why won't Taegun love him back? Why would he reject Eunseong if he asked to date?
Taegun already talks like Eunseong is so important to him, he couldn't live without him but for some reason, he doesn't love him?
This writing just makes Taegun sound like an ass, expecting Eunseong to love him forever without ever being loved back.
Maybe Taegun does not know if he can fall in love again after that asshole of an ex but then his thoughts should be more along the lines of "Can Eunseong keep loving me even if I cannot give him normal love back?"
I hate when authors just slap the trauma label on characters and use that to avoid explaining their character's behavior. Our actions have reasons, even trauma responses do!
It would make so much more sense if Taegun was paranoid about Eunseong only trying to get into his pants, about Eunseong switching up the second they're in an official relationship, paranoid about having missed little red flags, anything. But no, we get nothing. Just "I won't date him" for no reason.
TLDR: Taegun's trauma is not well-written.