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yeah no, taehyun’s a bit unbearable at the start, but ive since learnt to empathize with him as the story goes on. taehyun, since childhood, experienced a great deal of neglect, to internalizing mostly if not just the blame and burdens of other people. those r the most genuine and most familiar emotions he understands, which is why i imagine he breaks down when trying to articulate things like empathy and love.
it’s because of this that i appreciate how the author expresses taehyun’s kind of slow emotional uptake on everything. so including how long it took for him to verbalize that he wanted to pursue a relationship with the MC to (in the side stories) just expressing what he wants. clearly this doesn’t excuse the stuff he did, but it’s interesting to see that, even at the end, taehyun’s still working through his emotional setbacks that would ultimately influence his experiences of love. just a lil something unique that i don’t normally see in these kinda of stories