
it doesn't seem off tangent since he already played the tyrannical twin emperor and the priest. but still, imagine one of the top celebrity hearthrobs in the country who became famous as an iconic cutie suddenly busts out the armanis and archetypal black flag mafioso mannerisms... dear god, the sheer number of fanfics and fanart that would come into being...

on one hand, love the angst, love the complexities of human imperfections & emotion. absolutely adore the moral ambiguity of their past and present and how it's set in the backdrop of an ongoing war.
i love how you'd be an idiot to rule out either the ML as a one-sided evil incarnate with puritanism brainrot or the FL as some girlbossing survivor; they're so much more than that. it would be such a disservice to the story. i adore that they superimpose both main leads' character arcs against the lives of the bourgeoisie, the commoners, the poor, the soldiers... truly, even the extras are nuanced. like yes yessss give me the tearjerkers, give me love lost and unforgivable transgressions and the complex growth they'd have to go through before clawing their way back to each other. i LIVE for the drama
on the other i had to bust out laughing when he was like, "ok name 2 things u want" and she literally went, "1. a letter to not-you, and 2. a restraining order."
fatality
we got the resignation and the author made such a big show of promising some rolling next season... and then we get... this Dan.
like. is the breaking point when his gramma dies? because right now if jaekyung popped up into his life he's STILL gonna be a doormat for him. or, as of the current chapter, is it when these guys tell him it wasn't actually his fault and jaekyung was being a spiteful lil bitch? will that get him out of his 'woe is me everything is my fault with jaekyung' mindset?
i want him to unapologetically start resenting jaekyung BEFORE jaekyung arrives to find him because rn ya boi is gonna soften like jello the minute jaekyung starts pursuing him again and that's gonna be so unsatisfying in terms of groveling arcs.
i pray if grandma ever meets jaekyung she hates him on sight. none of that, 'please take care of my Dan' bs that old ladies in BL often do without knowing the full emotional and physical torment they put the MC through. or that one where they go all-knowing and she pushes him to go to Seoul with jaekyung instead of staying with her because that's 'what he truly wants' or some crap.
idk. i'm just listing out all the usual tropes that would make my blood boil if it ever happens in canon because jaekyung deserves to be rejected for an entire season with a fully onboard angry Dan ffs. give us that at least!!!
this!!!!!! like where are we going with this? I feel like if potato/yoon-gu says that jaekyung isn't doing well, is dan gonna spend chapters thinking about him and how it's his fault for everything