
And that's why I have a soft spot for him. If he grew up in ideal circumstances, he wouldn't be half as bad...I hope. This is not to say that broken people deserve to hurt other people, and that other people deserve to suffer their brokenness.
I just hope that this story doesn't translate to its readers (including me ) as a green light and recognize it for what it is: a tragic story that just happened to be pretty.

youre completely right, i tots agree w u on the whole "if he had better circumstances he wouldve been a good person", its p much identical to sangwoo in ks (b4 he got f*cked up he was clearly a v kind child)... however, that still doesnt excuse their behavior (obviously- like u said) bcuz now they ARE rlly rlly bad people, and should be thought of as such. Even tho it can be w a twinge of pity or sadness... u kno wat i mean?
srry that was so long haha
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Yeah I know what you mean. I know they're bad meaning bad, not bad meaning good, yknow? Still, a part of me wants to coddle the child that seungho once was, just like I would for others around me, even myself. It's always just sad when you know people could've turned out differently had they grown up with love.
It's already hard to keep my judgment intact as a reader so I'm holding my prayer beads for nakyum as the one experiencing it firsthand. Like I'm watching him spiral down into Seungho and I can't do anything about it

I just didn't feel strongly enough for him to form an opinion on him, but when that line came up–yes, that one–it just became the single thing that pushed me closer to joowon. It was this confirmation that I was rooting for the right person all along. But it's still understandable; Joowon and Taku are at different points on their character redemption arc.
Some of us are like Joowon, we learn the lesson and still end up with the person we learned the lesson from, but the rest are like Taku–we learn the lesson so we could be better prepared for the next person to come.

And then when we reach a point where the whole thing begins to be all about the smut, I lose interest. This is that point ig. Bye, on or off ♀

Ah, I see where you're coming from. Ig for me once I quit a webtoon, it's bc my initial curiosity has been satisfied (with regards to the synopsis, which is essentially what caught my interest + the art) so I have no regrets.
Did you finish killing stalking tho considering it was rapey bc I did. But it's also not like the smut in ks was there to be consumed as smut material.

It's good for you then.
I wanted to drop killing stalking so bad, bcs i really hated the smut scenes and its fandom literally was about to make me hate the webtoon, but overall the plot and symbolism was amazing. I also love psychological pieces and ks was one of the best examples of psychological webtoons, so i kept reading avoiding sex scenes as much as i can. I also liked the end so much so I'm not actually regretful. But again, i was disgusted and disturbed by the smut scenes so much. I usually beat it to good scenes like the last one in on&off or master on master, but reading ks's sex scenes i was like
that MC won't tell ahjusshi he's moved on (づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ