Again, you're interchanging "submissive and dominant characteristics" with "topping or bottoming". He comes across submissive because he is dependent and that gives the feeling that he'd bottom. Again, sure, he COULD top, i just don't see that as realistic. If they had portrayed him in a more masculine light rather than as a frail, pale beauty THEN maybe it'd be different.
Let me be more specific, in THIS CASE SPECIFICALLY, because of the way they portrayed him, i can only see him being on bottom because the manga plays off of his legs to make him more feminine. He looks pretty masculine in the face and he used to be an athlete, so i could see him topping, but as long as his leggs are being used to make him feminine i cant see him topping.
Arghhh, No, you're the one who doesn't see my point: the act of penetration in a gay couple DOESN'T have anything to do with which one of them is more "traditionally femenine" out of the two of them (wtf is traditionally feminine anyway? The shortest one? Weakest one? Bigger eyes? Lololol). Since this manga is actually taking a more progressive view than others, I prefer imagining them as being ~gay~ instead of ~uke and seme~.
You're the one mixing up dominant and top, btw. They're completely different concepts!
The fact that someone's dick goes on someone's ass doesn't have anything to do with their personalities, just their personal tastes. Of course in yaoi there's the magical barrier that protects the "semester"'s ass, but that's because usually they depict a heterosexual relationship where the girl has been substituted by a random dude.
This is my last comment here btw. If you want me to answer further on this I'll do so by pm.
"No, the act of penetration in a gay couple DOESN'T have anything to do with which one of them is more 'traditionally feminine'", yeah, i literally never said that, but whatever is easier to argue. What i HAD said, in great detail so you'd understand, was that sex is very fluid and that what position you take during any particular bout of sex is tied to your mental state at the time. If you're feeling SUBMISSIVE(NOT FEMININE, SUBMISSIVE) then you'll bottom, this is what a SUBMISSIVE person would do. "i want to be fucked"-every submissive person ever. I further went on to say that you can switch from SUBMISSIVE(the words actually matter) to DOMINANT at any time with the right trigger, this is why sex is so fluid. You can go in submissive, but then get turned on and then the moment you go from "i want to be fucked" to "i want to fuck" you're no longer submissive, you'll be playing an active roll in the sex, more hands on and rough. This can lead to you topping, but only if your partner isn't expressly a top, in which case you need to talk or find someone sexually compatible. No, "feminine" and "masculine" are a combination of many things, the way you act/personality, tastes, looks, etc. In general, the one that comes off more "feminine" is going to be submissive and will bottom BECAUSE they're submissive. Do you get it yet?
In addition to my last reply, Dominant and "top" are different, so not interchangeable, but are closely connected. If you're wanting to "dominate" someone in bed, then you're going to be "on top" or "in a position of power" depending on your physical capabilities. If you're a guy fucking a guy you'll be on top or riding him, a girl fucking a guy would be on bottom but riding/pulling hair/scratching back/etc, girl on girl could be either way as they both have equal amounts to penetrate with. If you're submissive you'll want him to fuck you, so bottom position.

It'd be really interesting if Sohyoon ended up being the top after the surgery, if you think about it they're both depicted as both masculine enough to top and feminine enough to bottom.