Sooo true and perfectly said
He was never meant to be a threat, he made that clear from the start. I think his purpose was more to give MC perspective since he was openly gay and caused a change in his normal friendship dynamics and MC was unaware of his own homosexuality
No but he was tho? His big introduction and his smirking and enjoying getting in between them. He was clearly provoking Dohyeon.
He made it clear to MC that he wasn't interested in him at all, he just toyed with Dohyeon a bit because Dohyeon was an asshole and he wanted him to suffer a little and maybe finally do something about his feelings, but he tried to stay out of it as much as possible because he didn't have any feelings for MC and DH was a bit of a pain, he wasn't there to make a love triangle or be a real threat
He was a threat TO Dohyeon, is the point. TO Dohyeon. Dohyeon VIEWED him as a threat. And yet just as quickly as Dh was threatened by his presence, even before Eunho was aware of his feelings to assure him to not be jealous, gay student just disappears because he no longer served the purpose to cause any conflict. He simply appears here and there as some npc to talk to Eunho. The direction and pacing in which he disappears from Dh's line of sight, when they made a big ass deal about it with all the black aura and murder intent, was just sudden. To my point about this being BIPOLAR. Idc about gay student's actual intent or if he was interested in Eunho, it's HOW his presence was inserted in quickly with a big bang then poof he was gone. Shit just happens quickly so the mains can get together.
And before this turns into further character analysis, I'll stop you there. You're right about the gay student. But that was not my point with the original comment. I'm criticizing the sloppiness("bipolar") of the ENTIRE story in general, that was just an example I noticed after midway through gay transfer student was barely in any scenes.
I think this whole story is bipolar, not just Dohyeon. Everyone in this god damn story is weird. This is a story about stuff happening for the sake of happening. All the characters have no actual substance. They exist to pop in and out of a conflict then regress to a default state until another conflict appears. For example that gay transfer student. Thought mf was a threat to Dohyeon? Dude just disappears after the "possessive/jealous" conflict is over with.
Can't even do a simple childhood friend to lovers cliche right smh.