tbh the title of the story reveals the endgame pairing
I tried to think from a Taku stan perspective and if Taehae was endgame, why the story would be called Love or Hate. And I thought: "the love stands for taku... and the hate stands for joowon" ??? and then I just shook my head because it simply doesn't work. Even if you were a Taku stan, you know that would be delusional. Haesoo will never truly hate Joowon. He loves him so much that it rips him apart, and thats why he's so emotionally hurt, and thinks he could "hate" Joowon. Meanwhile what if both "Love" + "Hate" were about the SAME pairing? Joohae's relationship from the start was described as kind of a war of feelings: the push and pull, the hot and cold between them. Nothing of that sort existed with Taku. Everything was just... lukewarm with him. And I'm not saying that its wrong, or insulting the ship. But simply put: Taehae doesn't align with the title, and you can feel throughout the story that it's not the focus despite spending the most time together. This was Joohae's story from the start.
Ofc no hate to taehae shippers~ stay strong, you were loyal and went down fighting (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
tbh the title of the story reveals the endgame pairing
I tried to think from a Taku stan perspective and if Taehae was endgame, why the story would be called Love or Hate. And I thought: "the love stands for taku... and the hate stands for joowon" ??? and then I just shook my head because it simply doesn't work. Even if you were a Taku stan, you know that would be delusional. Haesoo will never truly hate Joowon. He loves him so much that it rips him apart, and thats why he's so emotionally hurt, and thinks he could "hate" Joowon. Meanwhile what if both "Love" + "Hate" were about the SAME pairing? Joohae's relationship from the start was described as kind of a war of feelings: the push and pull, the hot and cold between them. Nothing of that sort existed with Taku. Everything was just... lukewarm with him. And I'm not saying that its wrong, or insulting the ship. But simply put: Taehae doesn't align with the title, and you can feel throughout the story that it's not the focus despite spending the most time together. This was Joohae's story from the start.
Ofc no hate to taehae shippers~ stay strong, you were loyal and went down fighting
(๑•ㅂ•)و✧