heavily agree on this one. he keeps trying but there is just nothing happening - though jihyuk also doesn’t want any help. he’s just someone to make everything a little bit worse for jihyuk honestly
OMG THANK YOU!!!! I'm sorry but I can't stand him. (I only read the korean raws months ago and I have no idea if this was already shown in the english translation, so beware of SPOILERS just in case) I know he also had a difficult life, being an omega and all trying to support his brother instead of his dead parents, but in the end he chose to selfishly abandon him to persue a better life (he claimed to do it for both his and Jihyuk's sake but it was obviously more for himself because Jihyuk clearly needed his brother above all else and HE KNEW IT but still chose to leave him). From what I remember, even in the present, we never actually saw him have a real conversation with Jihyuk about his problems or actively trying to help him with his obvious abandonment issues that HE HIMSELF caused, the only one we saw ACTUALLY CONCERNED for him and be willing to do something for his sake is the brother's boyfriend that isn't even Jihyuk's family. I mean, it might just be because the author still hasn't shown him apologize to Jihyuk and we never even saw HOW they got back to living together but for now I really don't like him as a character. I might be overanalyzing but I feel like he's convincing himself that he's doing his part as an older brother, without really putting in any effort, while conveniently choosing to avoid thinking about his brother's state of mind and toxic lifestyle and is more concerned about his OWN newfound happiness with his boyfriend (which would be absolutely fair, he also suffered and deserves happiness, but MY GOD think about the little brother you LITERALLY TRAUMATIZED first)
Again, as I read this a while ago I might have forgotten some parts that portray him in a good light.
Pheeeew this was great, I've been needing to vent about his brother for a good while but never had the chance as I thought I was the only one being petty lmao
Yes kinda agree too
I don't wanna be that person, but for some reason I don't really like the brother. Like don't come for me for saying this, like I have a sibling irl and I care for them a great deal, so family relationships in manhwas are special to me in its own way. Like, in this chapter 84, while the mc is in his own turmoil, the brother is having his happy moment. Like I get it the brother sacrificed a lot, probably, and now he's having his happy moments. But we dont know any of his own sacrifices (we were never shown in detail). And in this entire manhwa, I feel like the brother, before being the "mc's brother", he's more of "the supporting character's (bar boss) boyfriend", he's done probably nothing for the mc's current turmoil in his relationship, no advice, no spending time to talk it out nothing. In fact I think the bar boyfriend is probably more involved in the mc's life.
I don't really think the brother is anything relevant to the story now, and showing him in joy when I'm feeling for the mc's struggle just makes me...yknow, sorta unhappy I guess. And I know what its like to be separated from your sibling for years, so like "they've been separated so they become distant" nah. Separation of family pulls them back tighter than ever.
Whatever, I'm just yapping my head off.
- NekoTachi, PhD in Yappology