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this is going to sound crazy but this manhwa has grip on me more than 5 years later after i finsihed. i remember i started doing muay thai / boxing because i think taemin is so cool and honestly i like his original design much better?

also secretly i never really like woojin that much - i think taemin’s boldness and kindness would be such a good match to the original siwon, who i felt like never get the proper closure or ending he deserved

i think about what makes this series so special and beyond the unique premise, on point humor, and nice expressive art, i think it boils down to me liking the trope of abel who has so much love to give and the lonely dragon prince who all his life just wants to be held (and loved) </3

this story has so many layers of intrigue to me

at first i was interested by the premise of a female lead who’s smart and cunning enough to escape prison twice, and yet despite the notroiety you can see how much she cares for other people / how compassionate she is

and then i was intrigued that the man who was ordered to watch her prison transfer turns out to be the man she idolized (a war hero!) during the war and clung to during those darkest times

AND THEN when the twist came and turns out SHE was the person he clung to as a sole surivivor of the hometown he abandoned … by that time my jaw was on the floor

they were so meant to be … i swear they dont make romances like this anymore sjdhdhdhdh the sheer big brain energy of having the hero / villain secretly idolizing each other

the angst of having to lie to the person you love the most …

the longing of wanting to just be held just once

AHHHHHHHH (๑•ㅂ•)و✧

tsunade did something in my teenage brain that changed the course of my life (i’m a girl)

read this inbetween naps on a lazy sunday noon so the whole thing does seem like a fever dream to me

the art style reminds me of dear door and story wise i like how you’d never really expect the twists that come. the characters are so blunt and very magnetic in that way

and i grow to love the mc so much through the duration of the story as we peel off the layers of his past

only wishing for the best for rin though - he’s such a major bitch but having unwanted pregnancy from a hatefuck is not it

what ultimately bothers me about the twinkification is how now both male leads just conform to the standard of beauty of every bl ever with very masculine and very feminine pairing in a way that looks rather heteronormative to me. abel before was interesting to me when he was so buff and thug looking and yet with the gentlest of heart, i’m gonna miss his old self for sure but after the most recent chapter at least we got a reason why being in a different form works for him now due to so many people having tried impersonating the old abel

jooin’s character arc is even better than i expected

jooin has always had this immaturity about him and yegyum this intense insecurity, but in just one chapter we have seen glimpses of how they have matured as a person and basically getting their shit together. man! i cant wait until they reunite and runoff to another tropical beach but in the mean time im going to try to enjoy the ride!

i remember hating it on first read because of how torn and fickle the mc seems to be. but on the second read i know for sure that the ML / joowoon has always loved him from the start, and this sheds light on how the main character is intentionally fickle - he is an UNRELIABLE narrator (damn i’m really employing critical reading skills here). and when i read it in this way (that they have alway loved each other from the start) the story becomes more haunting, especially at halfway mark (around chapter 50) where joowon is no longer in heesoo’s life, wow … you can see how joowon haunted the narrative and have every little things remind heesoo of him. i cant believe an overused premise such as “step brothers” can torn me this much, it was so well written the longing bleeds all over the place.

sure i feel bad for taku! but he - like the camera - has always been a spectator, i do feel like heinserts himself into heesoo’s life because the story of the stepbrothers falling in love is intriguing to him and he wants to know more and of course all that until he doesn’t want to become the man behind the lens anymore and become an active participant, and by that time it was too late because it has alwys been a story between heesoo and jowoon

anyways for such a cliche premise (“b grade romance book” as heesoo said) this is so well written and well drawn … love or hate, you’ll always be famous …

i have read ouroboros before and i remember really liking how the author approach difficult topics with such tenderness. this one though … hnggg even better neither yugyeom or jooin are the kind of characters i expect them to be. yugyeom is desperate for affection but it’s not because he’s not good enough but rather because he has so much love to give. sure jooin is rich as hell, but he’s so lazy and demotivated and in a way, a pushback of the way he was raised growing up. they were both messed up and jagged, but complement each other so well. i’m currently pausing on the episode at the new year’s eve and read a little bit after that i think things seem to be getting sad so i’ll wait until the story is finished and hopefully they’re going to fall back into each other.

the build up and the tension leading to the first “i like you” and the kiss is so crazy though i should study that as an aspiring writer