
When he first appeared, I had a feeling he might have feelings for Eunsan, but then he seems to know about Ian’s feelings and seems cool with it, so I thought ok, maybe I was wrong, but then this chapter happens. He seemed to be a bit bummed out when Eunsan said it had been just teenage curiosity, but then he’s was like like “you go kid”. So I’m confused about his role in the story. I hope he’s not going to be the friend with unrequited love, it’s so cliche. But then again I also think that he might have liked Eunsan in HS, but has gotten over him as adults.

You’re gonna hate season 2.
I know it’s an apocalypse story, but goddamn…
At this point it’s just torture porn.
I seriously thought that season 2 would start plotting, but no, it just doubled down

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I haven’t even bothered translating, so this is just from what I could gather from the images.
So all through season 1, Seonho keeps getting in trouble, but nobody ever really goes all the way, but in season 2, villain finally does and there’s blood. All the while Won is tried up and watching unable to do anything.
I haven’t checked last weeks chapter, but yeah, I was hoping the plot would pick up, and if she already went there, it better serve a bigger purpose rot he plot then.

As much as I like this couple, they still have a ways to go before they get their happy ending.
It amuses me how people are so happy over these chapters and how pissed they’re gonna be about this character development going down the drain for a bit.

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OK, so after this romantic moment, Tae will be kidnapped and reunited with his brother. Long story short, Ilay blows up the place Tae is being held in, but Shinru has also been looking for him and gets to him a bit before Ilay and kidnaps Jae to force Tae to go with him so as Ilay is closing in on them with a huge smile on his face, he sees Tae jump into a car with Shinru so he misunderstands and is pissed. The next day after confirming there’s no threat to his brother he leaves Shinru and is trying to get back to Ilay when he’s found by him and before he could explain, Ilay gags him and rapes him. It was a very uncomfortable read until he finally lets Tae explain himself. It is after this that they finally talk and get on the same page.

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Jae is ok because the only reason Shinru kidnapped him was to get Tae to go with him and piss Ilay off.
As for regrets, not in any true sense. At least not in this part of the story. I’m not sure how familiar you’re with the series, but there are 2 other sequel series and side stories. What he did in this first series is never truly acknowledged, but he does apologize and regret some things he does in the sequels.
Tae is crying bitter tears. He’s mad that he’s being victimized without being allowed to explain himself, Ilay finally calms down enough to remove the gag and demands he tells him that he belongs to him, but Tae is too tired to do much of anything and glares at him, which Ilay takes as a rejection. Eventually Yae manages to spit out the words Ilay wants and is flipped over but he freaks out thinking he’ll die if they have sex again at that moment.
Later when they’re talking Ilay laughs carefreely and it reminds Tae of the smiled he’d seen when he went to rescue him and thinks that if its for that smile, he’s willing to deal with him.
Ilay warns him not to try and run away from him again.
“There won’t be a third time.” He continued talking. Jeong Tae-eui just sat there in silence.
Without expression, Ilay looked at Jeong Tae-eui for a moment. He scrutinized every inch of him as if trying to find something, then he opened his mouth again.
“This time, I really wanted to kill you. I gave it serious thought through half my trip so that I could make sure you’d never run from me again, even if I had to kill you and eat you. So there won’t be a third time. The third time this happens I will really kill you, so don’t do it…please.”
Where to start?
A while back I commented that Guwon could end up being a red flag not because he’s a bad guy, per se, but because he’s so child-like. Kids can be unbelievably cruel because they lack self control and Guwon is practically a kid in a grown person’s body.
Another thing, I’ve always gotten Frankenstein vibes from this story. I think Guwon is a sentient science experiment.
And why did he kill some kids but not others?
Maybe these kids are gifted, or he saw something in them that could potentially make them “useful”. We don’t really know what his criteria for “usefulness “ is. Maybe these kids weren’t annoying and getting in the way so he deemed them “useful”, as in “they make things lighthearted but keep in their lane”.
So many questions, too many possibilities.
This! Also maybe kids were completely unnecessary back when Stillwater was being established... But now that everything is pretty much set up, raising a few and teaching them how to be useful to the town seems like a good strategy for the future cuz (I assume) there's no other place for them to learn the skills and the inhabitants will eventually get older and weaker... that being said I wonder what happens to the elderly