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I agree with a lot of what you said, but what’s bothering me a bit is that it isn’t their MOM doing it, it’s their caretaker (lady). She was even shown in Haesol’s memory even hitting her for asking for water. It’s the fact they just let it slide of this random caretaker lady being abusive
Haesoo right now is portrayed a TOTAL jerk but I think most people missed some VERY important things that lead up to this point.
First of all put yourself in Haesoo shoes. He’s been looking for his sister what sounds like a LONG time. When he finally finds her, she doesn’t remember him. He’s asks to speak to Haesol ALONE but HAESOLs friends didn’t want that. I don’t think he wanted to embarrass her in front of her friends- it just ended up that way.
Since Haesol didn’t remember him, he obviously he wanted to bring up memories that THEY share to help her recall. He starts out with memories that seem normal such as reading to Haesol and hide and seek but then HAESOL brings up the trauma FIRST when she talks about the bitter diet. He gets excited that Haesol is finally remembering and jumps on it by bringing up the water diet, their mom taking swings at THEIR heads etc. He’s obviously lost in his own thoughts and not paying attention to how Haesol is actually reacting.
Also, everyone saying that Haesol was the victim and Haesoo was just a bystander… please read more carefully and take better care to have a good reading comprehension. Haesol CLEARLY MENTIONS their water diet and the mom taking swings at THEIR heads. The whole reason Haesol was treated so poorly by their mom was because Haesol looked like their dad who SA-ed the mom. Now take a moment to think about how HAESOO who looks like an exact REPLICA of their father was treated?
This last part is pushing it a bit but I think the “hide and seek” Haesol mentioned is also related to trauma- Hiding from the mom.