
Sigh. This truly makes you frustrated at how humans and thought process work sometimes. Yoseob grew up around violence. ruthless and heartlessness surrounded him every waking moment. He didnāt know it was wrong, he didnāt know it was right. All he knew was what was in front of him. His mother wanting him to die but then apologizing and repeating, his father wanting him to die but only leaving him on the brink of death every night and day. He would go and wash himself off in the washroom and think, in his premature brain, of why he experienced every day, and not knowing how to express any emotions because of how trapped he was in the abusive environment. When his mom died, he experienced confusion, surprise that people die when you take out the object that theyāve been stabbed with. It happened just like that. How was this little kid supposed to deal with it? He couldnāt, all emotions blocked off since birth. Then he met jaeha. This little kid already suffering, alone and scared of being left and hated. A kid who knew nothing more than the next student, and he decided to keep yoseob to himself, he needed the comfort of being leaned on and trusted and believed in by someone he knew wouldnāt leave him because he couldnāt. For me, a part that hit so hard was in yoseobās POV, when he killed the fish because jaeha payed more attention to it, he thought that jaeha would leave him, would hurt him, if he wasnāt his number one priority. Yoseob did not know how to deal with the only person he trusted and cared about, not givin all his attention and love to him, as jaeha had told him. When he killed that fish, he needed to know what jaehaās reaction would be, he trusted jaeha to know right and wrong, to help him and understand him. A little kid. Such a crucial moment in both their lives, when yoseob believed that what he did was right because he got reassured from someone he trusted and thought knew everything. He took to then on believing that if he hurt/killed anyone or anything that made him get less attention from jaeha, that was the proper, humane way to deal with what he was feeling. Some semblance of emotion that he thought was alright to feel and thought was understood perfectly. When he hurt people, they were too scared to speak up about what had been done to him so they stayed silent. That further led him to believe that this was the correct path. When he became increasingly paranoid because he thought he would be left alone with his thoughts by the only person he loved and cared about, he couldnāt handle it. When he went out to that street with that knife, his thoughts must have been running 100 miles per minute. What was jaeha doing with that person, are they taking jaeha away from him, he was probably in fight or flight, āah, if jaeha doesnāt give me all of his attention, Iāll be left alone to rot, Iāll die, Iāll go back to being treated with hate and heartlessness like mom didā this persons thought to keep that from happening, to know that he would be alright, was to hurt himself, so that jaeha would pay attention to him just like when he killed the fish. He hurt himself to make sure that jaeha still loved him. He hated everything. He pushed his one care and he died pretty much in front of him. He went on a rampage. He did what he was raised by. He did what was done to him when nothing else made sense, when he couldnāt grip or control anything at that moment. He killed those people, took their lives and didnāt see it as such an issue because thatās what his mom did, thatās what his dad did, thatās what his brother deemed alright to do, thatās what shut up those people he threatened before right? He did what was done to him and saw no issue. Felt nothing, saw nothing, heard nothing. He probably realized jaeha passed away when taken to questioning. He didnāt speak. He opened up to the person that looked like his brother, told him everything. Those people would probably never understand what truly caused this to happen, as yoseob didnāt know exacty himself. No one ever told him right from wrong on the most important issues of his life at such a young and impressionable age. The one thing he cared about in his life was his brother and he died. Yoseob was left with himself in presumably a mental hospital with therapy every day. Probably wouldnāt help anyways. All he wanted was to be happy, to be cared for and not hurt. What makes me so damn upset over anything else, is that the signs, everything, it was all there. If he got help sooner, none of this would have happened. Out of everything, I donāt blame any of the children, I simply blame the parents. All of them, even though I know, they were never equipped with how to deal with any of this. Not the new parents, especially not the only parents. But Iām mainly talking about how everyone let this happen when he could have gotten help. This happens in real life man. I canāt wrap my head around it. Parents like this exist. They really do. Children like this exist, situations like this exist. Itās scary. Freaking terrifying. It hurts so much. The title doesnāt even begin to describe how heart wenching this was. I will say however, that if you had to combine this story into 3 words, it would nah ego he an uncomfortable truth, because thatās exactly what it is. Looking back at the title, itās truly simple yet so much is ingrained in it. It is truly, an uncomfortable truth.

FOR REALWKJEGDJSG PERIODT QUEEN it scares me so much that this can be real and i haven't read this in awhile but i remember after i finished the last chapter i sat back and just. stared. and reveled/ was in awe for so long at the story... it's just. amazing. it's incredible AND LITERALLY such an uncomfortable truth-- i sat there for minutes just staring at my screen. It made me so sad and angry and uncomfortable and devastated and i felt pity and horror and shock and just woegjiweg :(( it's a masterpiece and really shows how some people are in such unfortunate situations... it's so hard to help those kinds of people... what can we do... Humans are so complicated
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