beta
people call iseon selfish for staying with her for six years, knowing he couldn’t give her what she wanted, and yeah, he was. but he wasn’t malicious—he truly loved her in the only way he knew how. he chose to love her, to care for her, to be with her—not because of some uncontrollable feeling, but because he wanted to. that was what made it meaningful for him.
was it naive? yeah. was it unfair to her? also yeah. but he wasn’t pretending or playing a role—he just didn’t realize how much it impacted her until it was too late. that’s tragic, not evil.
people can prefer hyeondo all they want (as do i, obviously), but that doesn’t mean they get to be weird about iseon. not liking a character is one thing, but telling him to kill himself or mocking his identity is just straight-up disgusting behavior. and honestly, it’s so weird how anything outside of people’s narrow idea of romance just gets dismissed as “gay” or invalid. not everything needs to fit into your idea of what love should look like.