Wow. Honestly, yeah, Sangwoo’s been portrayed as a complete monster for a lot of this, but look at his childhood. His mom was supposed to be someone he could count on with his father, but she was fucking twisted. He’s bleeding from the head in that flashback panel, so she probably beat him over the head, restrained him, and raped her own son after everything that happened with his dad. I don’t think anyone could come out of that without being some kind of majorly fucked up. And then her talking about “killing without actually killing”? She was putting the same pills in Sangwoo’s food to hurt him, and he had to find that out himself. He already had a twisted relationship with his mom, and then he finds that out? His mom really did end up killing him without actually killing him. She raped her own son and destroyed all that was left of anything “normal” in his life. His father is dead and he’s already traumatized over that, then his mom is poisoning him and he figures it out on his own, and then she abuses him like that. He’s taken the place of his father in a really twisted way, and it’s done an insane amount of psychological damage. She managed to fuck him up for life. Being raped at all is horrible, but by a parent especially, is sick. Sangwoo’s learned from his mom, and he’s basically doing a lot of the same twisted things to Bum, because he doesn’t know how things are supposed to be anymore. You can really tell why he does a lot of what he does now. He’s been through so much at the hands of his own mother with no help from anyone, and he was just left to grow up with all that trauma festering in his brain, and because of his relationship with his mom, he doesn’t even have a grasp of what’s “normal” anymore, despite how much he tries. ╥﹏╥
Wow. Honestly, yeah, Sangwoo’s been portrayed as a complete monster for a lot of this, but look at his childhood. His mom was supposed to be someone he could count on with his father, but she was fucking twisted. He’s bleeding from the head in that flashback panel, so she probably beat him over the head, restrained him, and raped her own son after everything that happened with his dad. I don’t think anyone could come out of that without being some kind of majorly fucked up. And then her talking about “killing without actually killing”? She was putting the same pills in Sangwoo’s food to hurt him, and he had to find that out himself. He already had a twisted relationship with his mom, and then he finds that out? His mom really did end up killing him without actually killing him. She raped her own son and destroyed all that was left of anything “normal” in his life. His father is dead and he’s already traumatized over that, then his mom is poisoning him and he figures it out on his own, and then she abuses him like that. He’s taken the place of his father in a really twisted way, and it’s done an insane amount of psychological damage. She managed to fuck him up for life. Being raped at all is horrible, but by a parent especially, is sick. Sangwoo’s learned from his mom, and he’s basically doing a lot of the same twisted things to Bum, because he doesn’t know how things are supposed to be anymore. You can really tell why he does a lot of what he does now. He’s been through so much at the hands of his own mother with no help from anyone, and he was just left to grow up with all that trauma festering in his brain, and because of his relationship with his mom, he doesn’t even have a grasp of what’s “normal” anymore, despite how much he tries. ╥﹏╥