but like the parents don't seem to have genuinely reflected on their mistakes and apologised (PROPERLY without excuses and deflecting blame on him). imo it felt super cathartic when he said his mom did smth to deserve that treatment because that's EXACTLY what they said to him. i think you're a sweetheart for sympathizing with the mom but i personally wouldn't do as eunyung did but i would feel absolutely no sympathy for her in eunyung's position.
I agree with this I think this chapter was purely to show how much of a hypocrite the parents are, the dad says he will stop drinking yet for “celebration” tries to sit anyway as if if he does it while happy it will change how eunyung sees his drinking habits, moreover the moms absurd too. I understand children can be crazy sometimes esp someone like eunyung that was a strong mindset, however she has continually told eunyung that she’s sorry but he should understand cus he was “too much” as if abuse at a young age isn’t “too much” for a child either. Her entire speech I honestly just wanted to laugh cus she cried on about how she forgave them for mistreatment and how she wishes she could have had revenge, but blames eunyung for being too hard and crazy when he does exactly what she claims she wanted to do to her parents. Just because eunyung smiles or goes out or does things, people assume he is fine but we have seen in more cases than one how genuinely resentful and hateful and unhappy eunyung is. They are asking forgiveness from a stranger. If I were eunyung I would hate that too. :(
wait nah guys i completely agree w u, i said this in my last para but maybe not explicit enough
im j also saying eunyung is just lowkey a bit crazy, his parent's excuses and lies are pathetic like it's actually absurd how casual they are about it too like them trying to say u deserved all those beatings bc u were naughty like?!?! hell nah, but i'm also just saying that eunyung has a crazy mindset, probably developed due to the abuse, but im j trying to say a majority of other kids in the same situation probably wouldnt have flipped out in the way he did. like how many kids do u see who have gone thru abuse try to actually flip it back on their parents (I personally haven't anyways apart from in movies or tv shows)
the gaslighting from the parents is still crazy tho esp all this effort after their son started sending money back ugh i wish he rly didn't and just sent them pics of him looking smug in expensive clothing or sth instead to piss them off
i completely agree that the mum is being so hypocritical and putting double standards on her son, im j saying tho that when people vent in general they also do that its not weird that she is, just super fucking annoying that she's doing this to her own son
(in regards to the sympathy part i think im j too big of a softie so personally i would feel sympathy for the mum to an extent still but im the type of person to feel sympathy but not act upon that if ygwim )
Haha dw I wasn’t trying to imply anything about you I was just wording my thoughts cus I nested to talk about this ordeal, it’s quite sad but I also don’t think eunyung is sending money back from uhh like the softness of his heart? I can’t find the words but , someone said that they are basically conditioning eunyung to “buy his freedom” and that’s why he sends money and I think the past instances of him giving money to his parents was so that he doesn’t have to “owe” them anything which is ridiculous, but also goes to show he will borrow money from horrible people and be in debt rather than be in debt to his parents cus he doesn’t want them to use that as an upper hand against him later on. I only think this is because I lived thru something similar and that’s what this feels like. Idk what eunyung is planning p, I know for sure he isn’t being kind to them cus he wants their approval like haejoon said, this kid is crazy but I guess that’s what happens when you raise a kid worse than an animal, it’s so sad. :(
guys ik the mum shouldn't have had a child if she can't handle it, same w any other parents out there but jeez id be baking tf up if my kid talked to me like that, like cmon u guys have got to admit here that Eunyung has a crazy personality I feel like personally if i was in his position and my mum told me all that shit I'd feel awful asf regardless of how much abuse i get, being told sad stuff like that gets to me regardless of who is telling me that.
If i encountered Eunyung irl, or sm w his mindset, id be piss scared of him bc of how strong his mindset is and how independent he is, most kids, esp victims like he is, would not be so resilient
tbh his mum expecting that to make him forgive her is a bit.. ah just a bit pathetic like id be on the floor on my knees and shit begging for my son's forgiveness, imagine being so horrible of a parent that ur child speaks to u like that, for a kid to have a complete absense of empathy for their parents that takes some insane abuse
(my personal take correct me if im heavily misinformed in some areas tho lol)