I haven't read the novel so I also don't have all the information but from my understanding
Yoojin reversed time because he wanted his brother to live but then he found out that the item doesn't reverse time but rewrite it instead meaning his brother from the previous timeline is still dead. His corpse is also taken for some reason so he wants to give he past brother a proper afterlife and the other worldly things can also be doing malicious things with his brother's body so that's why he want to back ig
This!! I always think that the main reason he's looking for the body is to give him a proper funeral and not let it be a pawn for the higher beings to use again
The comment by Neff is correct. It's bc yoojin loves his brother so much. He can't stand the thought of his brother's body out there somewhere in the cold. The brother who died for him, the reason why he could reverse time in the first place, alone and out of his reach.
Yoojin is grieving.
ah yeah i understood the rewriting part, but i just am not convinced of his reasoning for wanting the body back when the system explained that the origins which currently has his body is basically god. in that sense, isn't his body already in an afterlife? so what exactly is the point of getting it back when canonically, there wasn't much of a suggestion that there's a peaceful afterlife alternative.
not wanting to have his brother used is a good reason but if so, i don't think the series did a very good job in expressing that... before yoojin even found out that his brother was taken away by the bird, he was already upset that there's a version of his dead brother still existing. at that point, he had no real reason to suspect that some higher being would want to use his brother's corpse yet he already wanted to find a way to bring him back so i don't think that's the reason either.
i last read the novel 4 years ago so i have no idea if the more recent chapters tackled this already either haha hopefully it did cause otherwise, i'm pretty disappointed by yoojin's goals being so flimsy
Yeah the series doesn't rly dwell too much on yoojin's emotions. The plot has to keep moving after all. But there are poignant moments to remind us from time to time. Like when he talked to shj in a dream. Or how he felt bad when he used one of yh's skills. Despite everything that happened so far, yoojin's focus on his goal of bringing his brother back shows us that he hasn't moved on.
If you think he isn't being rational, you're right. Grief tends to do that to people.
i deadass do not understand yoojin's goal. so his brother (yh) dies, he goes back in time to before his brother dies. yay, he's now with his alive brother again!
but then now he wants to save his dead brother too?? what?? why?? what's the purpose of doing that?? what is he even gonna do with the body?? he was basically told that this is the afterlife so what's he gonna do?? store the body in his room while his still alive brother is with him??
did i miss anything? because that's literally how i interpreted his goals and it just doesn't make sense to me