Ed and Chang grew up together. We saw Ed's take on their interactions ages ago but now we see Chang's. As for McQ, you have to infer some of his backstory, it but it isn't hard with all the clues.....
He was raised in a strict Christian household and was tormented by his sexuality since he was 11 years old....Ed lampshades this in his review of Cleed's movie. You can prob infer his family disowned him..so he built his porn empire on his own and he bought a mansion in new york to boot. Impressive entrepreneurship.
When McQ freed himself and embraced being gay he led a life of debauchery and never really had a relationship until Ed. (It is interesting that most of their dates have been romantic...biking or walking in the park; beach house quality time. Also he has cooked a meal for Ed more than once.)
He's known for bringing out the sensuality in men, as a movie director.
He likes to organize things...he worked at a library in middle school. He was prob some studious kid trying to please everyone back then.
His hobbies include dvd and video collections of a variety of film genres
He's a brilliant, talented screenplay writer and he turned down two major awards for the WoW movie
I think we get to know Glenn by his current actions as opposed to his backstory. Whatever event was the impetus for embracing his sexuality is in the past. If he was disowned, he is over it.
What we know for sure is that Ed 's love had a huge impact on him (see chapt 33 end) and he is still realizing it.
Thank you! You give me hope. Too many people were sympathizing with Chang for the dumbest reasons. The author nailed the characters personalities and their actions followed. Chang was deceitful, conniving, and full of malice from the start. Now he wants to be understood after fully exciting and succeeding in his plan to rid himself of Ex's attention. His little back story did nothing but confirm why he was tormenting Ed.
first things first, its cool that you responded in a civile manner, people tend to be so passive-aggresive around here
that said, Id rather take explicit stuff as facts, this story isnt particularly well explained, a lot of details have been discarded from the novel and with those precedents, using enough mental gimnastics you can infer anything from anywhere, iirc I saw someone here say ryan was trans and I was like ???? so yeah, Id rather take explicit stuff
tbh stuff like interests and skills are not really part of someones personality, me saying that he was inexperienced in relationships was a big stretch but I just didnt have much to work with, I know hes determined and ambitious but what else?
I know Im giving personality a lot of importance but thats bc this is a romance story, its important, we mostly see the story through ed's pov and if glenn is hard to read through his eyes then that means ed doesnt know him all that well
Ill give you the bike date, that was nice, but what absolutely cemented for me the fact something was wrong with ed and glenn is the fact that ed never told him about the debt, Im sorry but not trusting your partner enough to tell them about the massive problem that is tying you down (debt is pretty much the centerpoint for everything in walk on water) is a massive red flag to me
at that point I was left thinking, I know ed feels attraction for mcqueen after all, ed fell in love with mcqueen after they filmed porn but is it actual love? Im not convinced at all, I legit feel a bit bad for glenn
thanks for that..i am usually respectful in my comments but i run into immature trolls on here, they think they can say whatever behind their anon internet presence too. I actually enjoy healthy, logical debate.
But back to the topic...A lot of folks define themselves by what they do so I threw in the facts about hobbies etc. from the earlier chapters. Most of what I listed up there are facts we know about McQ that we have to piece together into his backstory as readers. I would assume the novel really pulls it out. I wonder how they edited the novel into webtoon-sized pieces myself.I don't think the author screwed anything up, in terms of flatly revealing character backstories for Ed or Chang, things just got cut out for the webtoon.
imo the biggest thing left in the novel was mcqueen filming porn with others while dating ed
that was just so messed up to me, like he has a mansion and is the boss of the company, he had no reason to do that and ed just accepted it, wew
Having done porn himself, ed knows emotions aren't involved so he prob didn't have a huge issue with McQ continuing to film and direct porn. But though we don't see McQ shooting porn here, he did tell Ed he wouldn't stop even though they're dating. Mcq is a star in the industry and he is at his prime...so...
Also Glenn did tell Ed working as an escort wasn't something he'd hold against him so it works both ways.
iirc ed said something like "you can hurt me I'll heal" which is ok, I guess, still doesnt feel right to me tho
I don't quite get the author
-apparently, we're supposed to like glenn but besides that tiny "I lived in a christian household" we get no backstory for him, he hardly shares romantic moments with ed (other than sex) and for 61 chapters the only hints about his personality is "he gets jealous, is confident and doesn't have much experience with relationships" which idk about you but it's way too little for me to care
-chang is supposed to be the obstacle for ed and glenn's relationship, the villain, but we get his backstory, we see how he cared for ed in the past and how the possibility of losing ed changed him so much, after everything went bad he also tries to approach ed and they even go to the theather together, theres a strong sense of familiarity between those 2 since both grew up in chinatown and have similar acquaintances, he gets so much more meaningful screentime than mcqueen, hell, the most recent chapter is aaaaall chang
-and the rape scene is the moment we're supposed to hate chang and discard him as a possible love interest but then the author tries SO HARD to make it as nonsensical as possible, it legit felt like a joke, was I supposed to take that clownery seriously? if you wanted to take chang out of the love equation then have him die or something
my overall theory is that author didnt realize she was building ed and chang's relationship while neglecting glenn and suddenly she was "oh shit, how do I fix this?" and then threw a random rape scene for the memes