but i also kind of feel like you can’t really compare jaekyung to jiwon. yes, jiwon was an absolute asshat but jaekyung is just straight up psychotic i also think that compared to bj alex, although jiwon was rude, he still had a certain amount of respect towards DG (it’s been awhile since i read it, so i could be wrong), while jaekyung straight up sees dan as some kind of sex slave. i feel like jaekyungs birthday was the prime example of that. if we were to compare that to early-chapters-jiwon, i feel like he maybe would’ve been a bit riled up, saying something like „why the hell would you do that?“ but ultimately after seeing DG‘s put-in effort, he’d reluctantly accept his gift. compared to jaekyung..well..we all saw what happened. also this isn’t me disagreeing with you, i also genuinely don’t believe in jaekyungs redemption. no amount of trauma justifies whatever the fuck he’s doing. especially not after exposing dan like that to heesung, that really put the nail in the coffin for me.
anyways, sorry for the ramble!
no you're so right it's okay
If someone like Seungho from painter of the night and Taeju from LTIT can be redeemed and worshipped by the people so can Jaekyung lmfao. He hasn't even done half of what they did to their MCs.
very true honestly. because of the authors many hiatuses, with time i slowly started forgetting how seungho actually treated nakyum throughout the story. thinking back, he definitely also was a psycho lmao. i refuse to read LTIT for the very reason of what the plot is and what other readers have told me, so i can’t really give my 2 cents there. i guess we’ll just have to wait and see. i‘m very interested in how the author is going to go about this
Don't even need a redemption arc, actually, we don't need to fix him he's fine as he is, god tier alpha seme :)
Yup and that's how it is for these 99% of BL tops lol even that actual psychopath Caesar from Roses and Champagne who literally shot the bottom and relentlessly raped for 10 days straight is very much loved today.... so redeeming Jaekyung is a very easy task for Mingwa tbh. As you said gotta wait and see how effectively she gonna excecute it.
At first I as don't want t red LTIT but after I've read it, I think it just became one of my most favorite manhwa BL, the redemption arc was soooo freaking worth it, promise
I still remember when the readers got so desperate they started shipping Dan with that guy Junmin There was even a short smut fanfic on AO3, and tbh I kind of liked it
theres genuinely no way to redeem jaekyung, hes very toxic like the rape is not ok, but i did say that about jiwon from bj alex....
I remember comparing the last final chapters jiwon to first few chapter jiwon and omg i was like "WHY ARE YOU NICE NOW?"