I liked woon myung. He’s kind of irrelevant to the plot but he’s a good friend
I agree with everything said here, really well written and analyzed
but I have to ask, didnt it get cleared up how woon myung knew seungtae? It was in the late chapters when jaehyun was overthinking that woon myung might be seungtae's first love, then seungtae told him that wasnt the case, and they met at a gay bar (if i recall correctly) where seungtae was ranting to him abt his situation with mc.
yeah i do remember it was clarified that he wasnt seungtaes first love
Yeah I agree not plot relevant by any means and didn't make any sense at all to include, but he's pretty and fun so I'm hoping he gets his own spinoff or something. It's nice when characters introduced as ""rivals"" end up being friends instead
I guess if you squint it's like a jaehyun harem
agree
Jaehyun - pink haired, main character who has a crush on Woojin
Woojin - orange haired, charismatic oblivious dingus
Seungha - black haired, Woojin's roommate who Woojin is sleeping with
Seungtae - black haired, the guy that's been msging with Jaehyun for 7 years and who is in Woojin's class that Woojin keeps trying to hookup with and failing
Woon-myung - white haired, waste of space later in the comic
At no point does Woojin hookup with either Jaehyun or Seungtae. During the story he's hooking up with Seungha (his roommate) and trying to hookup with Seungtae, but failing. Woojin even tells Jaehyun a hilariously misinterpreted story about the two of them (Woojin and Seungtae) ending up in a hotel room together.
This story is pretty average. It does some things well, and some things badly. Overall it's an okay way to spend your time for a middling amount of chapters. The main place it does well with is the pacing; I never found the story to drag or be so boring I was constantly looking at the clock wishing I was doing something else. But not everything in the story makes sense, and some of the character motivations are convoluted or unexplained, which really detracts from the plot/story.
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Woojin is really the confluence of all issues in this comic. His relationship with Jaehyun is written to be unique among the male people Woojin knows, and this implies it should've been a story about how Woojin realized he was in love with Jaehyun, and them getting together eventually, but it wasn't written this way. Woojin ended up deciding he liked Jaehyun way too late in the story, after Jaehyun had already hooked up with Seungtae, which didn't even move the needle. This makes Woojin liking Jaehyun pointless since it can't affect the story, and only serves to apply stress to Woojin's relationship with Seungha, placing that relationship in limbo, and now you're not sure if Woojin likes Jaehyun or Seungha or Seungtae, or what exactly.
Woojin also doesn't really grow out of his childish lifestyle within the story (yet), and so it feels like his character arc is incomplete.
Jaehyun and Woojin also never really have a frank conversation where Jaehyun tells Woojin that he (Jaehyun)'s gay, and that Jaehyun's known he himself was gay since HS, and has had a crush on Woojin since HS. These two are basically best friends and Woojin is literally the last one to know that Jaehyun is also gay.
Also, I'm not even entirely sure that Woojin like-likes Jaehyun. It's implied in a few places at the end of the story, but we never get anything from Woojin's perspective to clear any of this confusion up. He may've just had an intense bout of jealousy come over him since Jaehyun's never dated anyone before and has always been emotionally available to Woojin up to this point, but now, maybe no longer. We really did need 2+ chapters of perspective from Woojin to understand him better considering how critical he is to the plot.
Not really related to Woojin, but.... Woon-myung, the white-haired guy, was introduced way too late in the story and was just a total waste of space. Jaehyun/Seungtae already had their adhesion before WM could even make a case for himself to Jaehyun. He then ends up pinging around with the other main cast throughout the rest of the story but contributes nothing to the plot. He doesn't even get a love interest of his own. He's just some albatross the author now has to deal with because they put him in the story and now have nothing for him to do, no role to fulfill. The author could've placed him as Seungha's new bf, to cause a little more drama in Woojin and Seungha getting back together, but nope. Nope nope nope. It's also never really clarified how Seungtae and Woon-myung seem to know each other... the author makes it a big deal that they've re-met at the end of one chapter and then the next chapter is a different scene, and it's never really clarified. The author just had no idea what to do with this guy.
As for Jaehyun's sins, why did he delay hooking up with Seungtae for so long when it had been implied for quite a while before Seungtae confessed that Jaehyun had developed feelings for Seungtae? It just feels like more time-wasting. This is really the biggest Jaehyun-related issue (aside from him never having 'a talk' with Woojin).
Honestly, this isn't the best story, but it's nowhere near the worst. I think it's a pretty ok way to spend the time needed to read it. Ymmv ofc.