Raymond is being very selfish, he wants it all, he's not willing to sacrifice anything. I can't blame Ian, he never had anything in his life and he feels like he's being greedy. That's why he's willing to sacrifice his painting career to stay with Raymond.
But Raymond is his source of happiness and pain.
I want them to leave everything behind and run away together! Both deserve happiness and a peaceful life.
I'm disappointed in Nicholas, he doesn't have the right to slap Ian and say those harsh words. Ian is not a good painter because of his traumatic past. He was talented to begin with.
I think it depends on the situation. Ian was being extremely self pitiable and proved how low he thought of himself. Nicholas' slap worked as a "slap of reality" that made him realise that what he was saying was not right at all to his friend, the person who knew he was talented and who knew his character. His comment WAS out of jealousy but his intentions were obviously pure, since he was only trying to make his friend chase his career. If he was sooo bad he wouldn't prompt Ian to live up to his potential. And leaving in dissapointment, that might change Ian's mind. He knows that, so yeah, seems like a really good honest friend to me.
I understand what you’re saying, I do believe he was the little push Ian needed (he had doubts before Nicholas and he will continue to have doubts even when Nicholas leaves) but as his friend he shouldn’t be close minded and should try to put himself in Ian’s shoes. That comment and that slap really showed me that he is a jealous person and really wants Ian’s talents. The reason why Nicholas slapped Ian isn’t because he wants him to realize Raymond isnt good for him, it’s because Ian said he’d choose Raymond over painting and Nicholas got mad cause he thought that was “demeaning” Nicholas dream for painting. that slap wasn’t a “wake of reality” for me, it was a “how dare you insult my love for painting like that” And then said that unnecessary comment where he’d want Ian’s HORRIFIC past, and then to top it all off, left Ian when Ian needed him most. Again I get what you’re saying, and the stuff he said in the beginning to Ian made me really happy because Ian may finally understand his worth...then he slapped him and demeaned his trauma . I’m pretty sure we are just gonna have to agree to disagree on his character.
I don't have a problem with the story containing rape. I knew from the beginning that this was a fucked up story. I just don't think it's necessary a rape scene lasting two full chapters seeing Seungho raping Nakyum in every position possible.
I've never read Killing Stalking, but I read Sakura Gari which is a lot more fucked up than Painter of the Night and it's one muy favorites. It's a really twisted and tragic story, but very beautiful and poetic.
One of the problems with Painter of the Night is that you feel like you're reading the same thing over and over again. We already know that Seungho is fucked up, let's move on to other things, his father, Lord Song, Inhun, Nameless, Jihwa, whatever, but I don't wanna see rape again.
I recommend it to you then, it's a masterpiece! And yes I agree, it's very repetitive. If you think there are a lot of antagonists (you even forgot Min, who wants to rape NK too), this means we will see Nk suffering again and again. Boring
luckily, i don't care at all about Potn, i think it's severely overrated and a stale pile of boring uninteresting clichés, besides the blatant rape porn.
They are both on edge at the moment. I would hate to see them have angry sex, if they do that they will hurt each other even more. I think Yashiro will get angry and say no.