mixed feelings about taehwan

there's just something that really irritates me about taehwan's character (which i assume is intentional on the author's part, so kudos tbh). i suppose its in his little spiel about how he assumed dojin was some pure, innocent, always honest guy and that's the reason they became friends, but its like....my dude no one on earth is an angel, and its insane to put your "friends" on pedestals like that. it's also kinda annoyingly hypocritical how his concern in this time is framed as "what else could dojin be hiding from me???" when we know taehwan is absolutely hiding things from dojin (aka his entire backstory that we aren't privy to that probably explains his reluctance to be associated with anything ""gay", and thus the reason why dojin misunderstands his reason for being angry). like, sure he has the right to be mad that he feels lied to, but the entire overarching explanation was kinda whack lmao, and all i can do is hope this holier than thou schtick of his changes with character development.

also not a big fan of how the comment section is struggling to understand his maybe, maybe-not internalized homophobia. it's hard to gage on what level our sympathies can match up with him without an adequate backstory, but it is possible to feel bad for taehwan for obviously experiencing some kind of emotional turmoil that comes with this, and it's also possible to be critical of him for holding, at least on some subconscious level, an attitude of aversion to the gay ""label" that implies gayness is somehow not okay in the way heterosexuality is.