At least he's slowly changing idk

girl where HAHAHAHA

Just a little bit? Like bro's picking up on small feelings and is realising just how much dan's wellbeing is on his mind (like 0.05% more than before) so hopefully, HOPEFULLY, we'll get some more development lol at least bro wasn't like a gacha character and do a personality 180 straight away

we have too much faith

the feelings he's been picking up on are portrayed more like narcissistic psychopath versions of feelings lmao. the dude literally only cares because he hates the way he feels when he doesn't have kin dan around and all the things he does for him. idk if i could really ever picture him turning that into actual love and not just the need to possess

Yeah exactly he's a narcissist and a sadist who's selfish to no extent but eh a girl can dream

I think we do tbh

tbh i kinda disagree, i think mingwa is def going for a more realistic approach in development here. in real life people like jaekyung dont just change all of a sudden. (lets be real we have like no concrete background on his upbringing and past to be calling him narcissist or psychopath) in real life people take a long time with a lot of very minor changes before any real difference can be seen. i’ve reread jinx a few times now and the way he thinks, the language he uses, and how he interacts with dan is definitely different and is showing more progress than we should ever expect anyone to actually make. he still has a long way to go but i do think part of it is because he’s dense and he’s very stuck in his ways because as far as we know he’s never grown attached to any of his fuck buddies before so it’s a completely new feeling that he doesn’t understand. i get the hate on him but i do think a lot of people jump to calling him a narcissist or psychopath when we have no real info on jaekyung

tbh i kinda disagree, i think mingwa is def going for a more realistic approach in development here. in real life people like jaekyung dont just change all of a sudden. (lets be real we have like no concrete background on his upbringing and past to be calling him narcissist or psychopath) in real life people take a long time with a lot of very minor changes before any real difference can be seen. i’ve reread jinx a few times now and the way he thinks, the language he uses, and how he interacts with dan is definitely different and is showing more progress than we should ever expect anyone to actually make. he still has a long way to go but i do think part of it is because he’s dense and he’s very stuck in his ways because as far as we know he’s never grown attached to any of his fuck buddies before so it’s a completely new feeling that he doesn’t understand.

i do get where you're coming from here but i strongly disagree and read this more like making excuses for inexcusable behaviour. His past is irrelevant to me, he's a grown ass man capable of learning and clearly has been surrounded by intimidated yes men for a long time. in real life people like him are still most likely narcissistic and/or psychopathic. nothing about him says "mentally healthy" and he quite literally displays textbook behaviours. i'm not making some random, uneducated internet guess here. whether it was the intention of the artist or not; they made a narcissistic psychopath and "slow" development is no development if you really look at what is meant to be considered development. honestly if you just call that "different" it makes me a little concerned...

also whatever way he "cares" about kim dan being new is also strongly still in favour of him being a psychopath because detachment from what we call normal human emotion is one of the main identifiers. his way of responding to his feelings backs it up further.

omg yess

he’s 100% not mentally healthy but i still wouldn’t go as far as psychopath. if he was truly a psychopath we would have 0 episodes of JK giving any kind of shit about Dan especially after Dan leaves the first time around. like the series would’ve quite literally ended there and JK would’ve just moved on to another fuck buddy since his ultimate goal would be satisfying his jinx. in no possible way is a psychopath doing so much work to keep a fuck buddy around to satisfy a jinx that is literally just fucking a man before a match imo. narcissistic tendencies yes. psychopath no. asshole yes. it’s not really excuses for his behavior so much as mingwa literally said she intends this to be a very “slow burn” to make jaekyungs “redemption” worth it. which is why i think his past matters. we agree jaekyung is mentally ill but his past could explain why he’s such a massive dick. it wouldn’t excuse it but it would at least make more sense. i just think people are more complex than that (although this is a fictional character, a real person is writing the story) like jaekyung prob cares about kim dan and doesn’t realize it or want to admit it so he continues to be an asshole. both can exist at the same time.

again, i get where you're coming from, but also it seems like you have a pretty surface level understanding of what being a legitimate psychopath means and, like all mental illnesses, it presents a bit differently for different people. he very clearly displays the behaviours of someone with an extreme disconnect with his emotions and ability to empathize or see other peoples perspectives in things. also his past could easily play a part in him developing psychopathic tendencies as well. you are right in saying people are complex, and this is a good example of that complexity. it's also a great example of a psychopath learning how to process emotions. it doesn't make him any less of a psychopath though.

i think you are thinking of a sociopath then because psychopathy is not what you have been explaining. yes psychopaths can feel the unlearned emotions like anger happy sad but even those are muted. learned emotions like empathy they do not feel and understand they can mimic it though. sociopaths on the other hand can feel those kinds of learned emotions.

"sociopathy is often seen as a product of environment and experiences, while psychopathy is thought to be more innate, with a greater focus on a lack of empathy and remorse." your theory of it being some background issue would make it sociopath, but either way he shows an innate lack of remorse or empathy which still makes him more psychopath. they aren't really two different things, it's just APD with an emphasis on whether it's born or developed. either way i think we can both agree the man is fucked in the head, but i still strongly stand on my idea that he doesn't actually care about kim dan and only cares about what he does for him because he struggles to function on his own. there could be a chance of him maybe figuring out how much he's hurt dan but so far the only time he's really been like "wow he looks pretty rough" he immediately follows it up with something about how he's a burden to take care of and he's only doing it for the sake of his own career. he's already abused dan so much that by the time he could ever figure out that he "feels something" it would be beyond too late. HELL it's already beyond too late.