Pawn's Topics (23)

The long hair on Woojin is so cute!!!!

I guess its time for him to practice the self-awareness, self-regulation, and boundaries he's (hopefully) been learning off screen!

But since its Jaekyung, have we considered that he might just kidnap him?

Seeing Jaekyung carrying Kim Dan with one arm made me realize he could just steal him. And since the manwha is already problematic, might as well have some fun!

YES dude! Even if your partner isn't suffering from severe mental illness, don't let them crowd out your friends and interests! You need to have a life outside of them!

Hell this whole story in a nutshell is three people who had this impulse to shrink their life down to one person for various reasons (and from various traumas) and how that has consequences. That shit is only cute in fiction where we can ignore the repercussions!

Honestly it is one of the reasons I fell in love with this story in the first place!

Uh oh Minho you're losing control, time to act unhinged like you always do.

This is why IRL people are advised to just leave abusive situations. Preferably when their abuser is away and with a safe persons support, no confrontation, closure is for therapy.

But that would be waaaay too safe & sane for this Manwha and I'm here for the drama.

My guess...maybe confinement? We were like 60% there already ╥﹏╥

Continuing to love this because rather than a generic "Minho was abused and is now abusive" we're really getting into the nitty gritty of his flavor of toxicity now.

Minho with his skyscraper sized control issues feels like he can only safely show affection when he is somethings whole world (like a puppy, or traumatized kid with no boundaries and poor self-regulation). But when he gets reminded he doesn't have control (puppy dies, kid seeks comfort with someone else) he literally loses his sense of self and spirals.

To reclaim control he thinks he needs to prove he doesn't care, but what he's actually doing is trying to prove that he IS the center of Woojin's world. He enjoys watching him get upset/devastated because it proves that Woojin only has him which helps feel safe keeping Woojin around (because again he only feels safe giving affection to something he feels he can control). He also needs to degrade Woojin because him having self-worth would mean he'd have something outside of Minho. Can't have that.

When so many problematic BL characters feel like such caricatures "I'm evil/abusive cuz...I was lonely or something" this is refreshing

One thing I really appreciate about this story is that it shows a behavior that is sometimes depicted as very romantic (I don't want you to have anyone but me!) and displays it as the controlling ego-centered and abusive behavior it actually is in a lot of situations.

This top is just as mentally ill as Woojin, its just expressed differently. Woojin can't stand (his perception) of being alone, and this top can't stand (his perception) of being out of control/abandoned.

Both of them of them meeting and making each other worse is good character writing and a good understanding of the pitfalls of unresolved mental health issues. And I wasn't expecting that out of this story at first tbh!

Honestly all three of them tbh, maybe relationships in the future if they FIGURE THEIR SHIT OUT

Any recs for other tops that are down bad like Taeju? I feel like this has really unlocked something for me (￣∇￣")

I like that Je-Oh is finding out he can't close his eyes to stuff like the chick in season one. Very similar experiences, but look at the difference in outcomes. This story's characters and characterization were always the selling point for me, interested to see where it goes!