K, so I’m going to guess that they both regressed but Iheon is the only one who was supposed to have his memories in tact but lost them until the bathroom/tub drowning scene, when he regained them. Huimon remembers, but he remembers from a made up 3rd party’s point of view (reader) to protect his psyche. I am wondering if Junyeong also regained his memory since Iheon seems very adamant about him not having ANY sort of contact with Huimon, outside of jealousy. Like he’s afraid whatever information Junyeong had may hurt Huimon in some way. On the other hand if it isn’t regression and everything turns out to be their past, then I would assume they both had an accident/“death” incident forcing Iheon to forget and Huimon to develop a second personality to cope. The “future” knowledge from the novel may just be information that Huimon had access to pre-dissociation, and the auction scene at the beginning could actually be what happened after the accident/“death” incident after they lost their memories, where the stepfather took Huimon and sold him off after he no longer had Iheon’s “protection”. The future rape/abuse could all just be memories from Huimon’s past at Iheon’s hands and he simply thought he should try to avoid that “future” from ever happening.
K, so I’m going to guess that they both regressed but Iheon is the only one who was supposed to have his memories in tact but lost them until the bathroom/tub drowning scene, when he regained them. Huimon remembers, but he remembers from a made up 3rd party’s point of view (reader) to protect his psyche.
I am wondering if Junyeong also regained his memory since Iheon seems very adamant about him not having ANY sort of contact with Huimon, outside of jealousy. Like he’s afraid whatever information Junyeong had may hurt Huimon in some way.
On the other hand if it isn’t regression and everything turns out to be their past, then I would assume they both had an accident/“death” incident forcing Iheon to forget and Huimon to develop a second personality to cope. The “future” knowledge from the novel may just be information that Huimon had access to pre-dissociation, and the auction scene at the beginning could actually be what happened after the accident/“death” incident after they lost their memories, where the stepfather took Huimon and sold him off after he no longer had Iheon’s “protection”. The future rape/abuse could all just be memories from Huimon’s past at Iheon’s hands and he simply thought he should try to avoid that “future” from ever happening.
I should just read the novel..