the guy is so weird because dyt if you beat jiwoo, jiyoung will look at you? jiyoung has seen jiwoo at his ugliest. has beaten jiwoo over & over again. she's the one who knows best where jiwoo lacks, aside from his 3 teachers. even if jiwoo were to be beaten by anyone stronger than him, jiyoung would be the least surprised & fazed
also, duke has had no character development AT ALL, but considering his environment, it's obvious why. royst is such an instigator but that's also j the world he has been raised in. meanwhile, despite duke having betrayed his own family for "more power", his crazy greed & envy are constantly in his way of improving. seo jiwoo isn't the wall he can't overcome - it's himself & his wrong perception of growth & power. ntm the way he's so angry at seo jiwoo indicates he feels wronged & doesn't think jiwoo is really allat, which obviously he won't be able to beat him if he isn't seeing jiwoo completely for who he is. i don't know how powerful he'd be with new power given to him by a stranger, but i know jiwoo has many people beside him who would make sure jiwoo won't die. heck, even if jiwoo doesn't die & is j severely injured, duke would still be the target of all of these people
i love your take, it's intellectual abd has good points to make
OH MY GOOOD, THIS IS SO HEARTWARMING... & so devastating, i love tora & wu's story sooo much
his reaction reminds me of when parents go absolutely insane thinking their child was missing & are insanely overstimulated, exhausted & irritated & when they find their kid was j being a dumb dumb, some may react in anger & frustration because of how worried & exhausted they are. so i Kind Of understand where he's coming from this time (because of all the running around & anxiety... ngl, i would've been SOOO overstimulated & pissed off too) but MY GUY, BREATHE. SIT DOWN, CALM DOWN
THE ASSOCIATION IS SPOT ON.
Spot on, only in his case, his worry was completely selfish. He was worrying about himself, about losing him because he wants to 'own' Inseob.
yes!! like his reasoning is def wack af, he never disappoints in being a flashing neon red flag, but i definitely can understand how everything combined could make him react in such a way
Yup! His reaction was pretty realistic, he truly doesn't feel like an one dimensional character. I even know trash like him irl
yes!! i agree!! it's crazy how he is such an easily hateable character since he's so self-serving & selfish, but this manhwa explores the characters so well - not only their back stories, but also the absolute insanity of emotions they go through. i think each chapter is so emotionally heavy & messy, similar to lucky paradise, lol
Agreed!
how many times has he tried to flag transfer & nth works because hatano truly cares about no one else but him
i fucking hate that loser ass bitch of a family. 1 deranged, control freak son wasn't good enough, you've got another fucking crazed, sadistic bastard in that nutjob family?
she ain't never seen you like that before, i think she's even rejected you like thrice, even before jiwoo & her relationship was 100% moving towards romantic
is it j me or have the chapters been shorter recently?
it is not just you. i recall coolmic is making 3 chapter out of 1 whole chapter so that maybe is why.
i mean, hangyeol is deeefinitely weird & manipulative. the way he talks is definitely in a way to take advantage of woojoo (ig his parents taught him well)
edit: i think due to an added emoji in my original comment, the rest of my comment was deleted, so i'll j do a tl;dr here (which is still going to be quite long)
1. while i believe hangyeol is wack, i don't like woojoo either. i hate how woojoo never clarified he was doing all this, including enjoying sex & being shy with hangyeol, all for the sake of suho
2. there is such an imbalance of reality & fiction considerations. this manhwa provides woojoo with SO MANY "technical" leeways. technically, woojoo was never dating suho, so who cares about who he's fucking right now? technically, they were dating only for 2 weeks & it was for the purpose of getting rid of woojoo's "trauma", so why should woojoo know hangyeol was serious about acting as though they're dating? technically, hangyeol is a weirdo & he never clarified with woojoo either, so why should woojoo? all of these are "technically", if you REALLY want to stand by your best friend who's clearly doing something bonkers & you shouldn't reallt support, on woojoo's side. but there is such an imbalance of fiction & reality. there's a "realistic" sense to it - of trauma, of technicalities. but be fr rn, it is so FICTIONAL to be THAT dense & naive (ntm lowkey, the trauma in this manhwa is p shaky & odd, so again, fictional). ntm there is NO sign of any neurodivergence by woojoo - it's j how the author has designed his character to be in such a 2d way & due to this, i j fucking hate his character & cannot stomach his behaviours. there's no REAL strong reason to stand by woojoo
3. i really like suho's character & i want him to be happy. i don't want him to go through confusion, disappointment, hurt, anger & sadness because the person he liked couldn't open up to him. i don't want him to become the target of hangyeol's hostility because woojoo couldn't fucking talk to hangyeol to respect suho. i want suho to be with someone who's not only clear about his feelings, but is in a position to protect suho, prove it to suho directly, & make suho feel loved
4. if any of y'all are gonna come up to say "oh! woojoo is doing all this for suho, so he loves him so much!" ... okay, &? does suho know? is this good for suho? does suho FEEL loved? none of you should be romanticising hurting your partners j because you think this is how you prove your love. the only person you're "proving" that you have feelings for is yourself. this is SUCH an insanely selfish take. you are protecting YOURSELF. while i agree you should always prioritise yourself, it should NEVER be at the expense of another person, especially someone who has loved & treated you kindly. if your partner doesn't know you love them, & is only hurt by your actions, is this REALLY for them?
i may have forgotten a lot of points because i haven't read this in a while, but does yeowoon's friend notice smth about his behaviour that indicates he's got some feelings for jigu that he hasn't unpacked yet? so far, i personally believe yeowoon's behaviour is j normal, but the way his friend is reacting & his last sentence makes me feel like there's sumn about yeowoon's feelings towards jigu too, & not solely j jigu's towards yeowoon
How I understand it is that the friend remembers MC had a lot of guys confess to him in the past (i.e. he "confuses" them lol), then puts 2 and 2 together that him and Jigu were acting close, and Jigu had a strong emotional reaction to something MC did.
Usually strong reactions like the one from Jigu are because a person really cares about you and the way you act toward them. So I think the friend is just kind of concluding on his own because of the two experiences.
yes, i understood the same! i was j wondering if at the end, his reaction of "this crazy bastard (i assume is about yeowoon/mc since yeowoon started going off on jigu). looking at them, it's only a matter of time." implicates yeowoon may have some sort of feelings towards jigu as well, & not only jigu towards yeowoon
i hate what they did to li you omg, how dare they?