
this is just the situation with noona all over again where people act like the fault lies solely with jinhyeong for some reason. i said from the beginning that jinhyeong had been failed by every single person in his life up until he met uyun and that songrik was invalidating jinhyeong's abuse, and i kept seeing people say that it wasn't like that which was already crazy. and to be clear, it's not like i think songrik is an evil person either; i think his behavior is a result of his abuse. jinhyeong is the only friend he's been able to make and trust, something like a lifeline, and for a child in an abusive home, that's a godsend. that's why they clung to each other and made such promises to run away together.
but people pretending that songrik did nothing wrong here is so bizarre?! yes, they are children, but this is an insane overreaction from songrik that is not justifiable in any way because jinhyeong never said he would abandon him and literally told him he would still move in together with him. songrik was trying to pressure him into doing what he wanted right then, and no matter the reason, that was unfair of him to demand of him. the reality is that if this is how he reacted to jinhyeong hurting his feelings, then he would have always done the same under different circumstances had they started living together when they planned to. their codependence would have turned toxic the moment they had no one but one another to rely on because they were both mentally weak due to the abuse they suffered. jinhyeong even tried to make it right after he said what he said (and he wasn't even wrong to be upset with him having shown up because he told songrik repeatedly about the kind of man his father was and how precarious his situation was at home, though i do think he went too far in saying "real family").
this isn't me saying jinhyeong did absolutely nothing wrong, but their mistakes absolutely do not weigh the same and it's kind of appalling to see people treat them like they do, or to even see people act like jinhyeong did something worse than songrik here. songrik participated and orchestrated bullying efforts against jinhyeong and exposed all of his insecurities to make him miserable because he said one thing that hurt him (and even with him doing this, jinhyeong continued to try to protect him by not taking action to get him expelled when he would have been within reason to do so, because he knew that he would make his domestic life worse if he did). no matter how you look at it, that is wrong. in the end, this is what jinhyeong meant when he said that he'll hurt someone twice as badly for hurting him--songrik was the same. they both needed help here desperately, but they were wrong (and naive) to seek that help from one another if the foundation was so unstable that jinhyeong wording one thing wrong would make songrik think the best response to that would be to start fucking bullying him lmao. idk i think people are really nasty to jinhyeong every time something like this happens which is kind of ironic in it's own way.