that epilogue absolutely wrecked me. it was such a heartbreaking but beautiful tribute to tracy. even after everything she went through, her presence still meant so much, and the way her memory was honored felt incredibly real and raw. it was honestly the most beautiful epilogue i’ve ever read.
i’m a SUCKER for those ‘trapped in a dream and someone helps pull them out’ plots. i eat it up every SINGLE time
he’s probably a science experience gone wrong and never experienced kissing or something, he’s bound to hate exchanging saliva with someone else LMAO
yeah pls never end up as a couple, where’s my white haired bro
He’s getting plowed by the black haired dude because he’s a switch and everybody knows childhood friends are always better
You spoke some heavy bars
PLS I DIDNT WANT TO FACE THIS
angry hulk man assaults his bum bf everyday! dare I say couple of the YEAR?!
people call iseon selfish for staying with her for six years, knowing he couldn’t give her what she wanted, and yeah, he was. but he wasn’t malicious—he truly loved her in the only way he knew how. he chose to love her, to care for her, to be with her—not because of some uncontrollable feeling, but because he wanted to. that was what made it meaningful for him.
was it naive? yeah. was it unfair to her? also yeah. but he wasn’t pretending or playing a role—he just didn’t realize how much it impacted her until it was too late. that’s tragic, not evil.
people can prefer hyeondo all they want (as do i, obviously), but that doesn’t mean they get to be weird about iseon. not liking a character is one thing, but telling him to kill himself or mocking his identity is just straight-up disgusting behavior. and honestly, it’s so weird how anything outside of people’s narrow idea of romance just gets dismissed as “gay” or invalid. not everything needs to fit into your idea of what love should look like.
I KNOW I JUST WROTE ALL THAT DEFENDING ISEON AND TALKING ABOUT HOW LOVE IS COMPLICATED AND TRAGIC OR WHATEVER, BUT CAN YUMIN AND HYEONDO HURRY TF UP ALREADY??? LIKE HELLO??? WE GET IT, EMOTIONS ARE HARD, RELATIONSHIPS ARE COMPLEX, BUT I AM TIRED. I HAVE SUFFERED ENOUGH. I NEED YUMIN AND HYEONDO TO STOP DANCING AROUND EACH OTHER AND JUST GET TOGETHER ALREADY. I’M SICK OF WAITING. LET’S WRAP THIS ARC UP AND MOVE ON TO THE REAL ROMANCE, PLEASE.
It was not just a little selfish, it was really very 6 years worth of selfish. A selfish aromance if you will. (Heh heh) He knew how he was wired before he asked her out. That’s the thing. He knew that he would never change and he did anyway because he wanted to. It was 6 years of that. Obviously it doesn’t warrant denying his romantic orientation or telling him to kill himself but don’t trivialise it either. Aromantic people do feel really shit after a break up because you are losing a precious friend. They do try to talk it out and understand what’s happening and they do make an effort to work it out. He didn’t do that. In fact, throughout the story his friends were so sure she was in love with him and would always be and he seemed to think that too. Look at him waltz in now that he can see she’s about to move on to try to be with her like it’s a given.
Totallyyyy agree with you, obviously since that’s the title we knew it wa gonna be the theme. Both the ex’s are definitely selfish in their own way, I just can’t agree with how iseon handled it and obviously yumin wasn’t aware since her reaction was to break up with him, they’re better off apart
i get where you’re coming from, but it’s not really fair to say, “look at him waltz in now that she’s about to move on to try to be with her like it’s a given.” yumin was also trying to get his attention back, so it’s not like iseon was just sitting there doing nothing. and honestly, if we look back, yumin never really explained what bothered her enough to break up with him in the first place, so he was kind of left in the dark. he didn’t think it was “a given” that they’d end up together—he just didn’t understand the full extent of how serious things were until now.
just to clear things up, i’m not trivializing anything here. i get that what he did was selfish—he made mistakes, and his lack of awareness definitely hurt her. i’m not trying to use his aromantic identity as an excuse, but let’s be real: aromantic people make up like 1% of the population. how could he possibly know how to act or what to expect when his experience of love isn’t the same as everyone else’s? he wasn’t intentionally trying to hurt her, he just didn’t fully grasp the emotional weight of the situation until it was almost too late.
i can agree his actions were selfish, but reducing him to just that really limits his character and there’s more to him than that.
Aromantic ppl experience deep disappointment and sadness. They do fight for relationships, especially if someone randomly acts out of character and tries to break up with them, especially with people they thought they would spend the rest of their lives with. They don’t fight out of knowing they’re aromantic and so now they know their next set of behaviours to a relationship ending is to fight and talk it out, they do it because they want to figure it out together. And he didn’t want to. He literally didn’t do anything about it. You can’t excuse that on not knowing a label, he knew he isn’t able to experience romantic attraction but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t experience betrayal, sadness, fear, expectation, curiosity for knowing what your close friend/partner is thinking during this breakup, etc. He just didn’t care.
It wasn’t selfish because he didn’t know how to act or what to expect because his experience of love is different, it was selfish because he knew it was different and didn’t tell her and went through with it anyway hoping things were ok.
It’s completely true that they never talked about what Yumin was thinking and feeling though, she broke up out of nowhere to him, but he still didn’t really care. Either he knew she would always love him and took that for granted (like his friends thought and talked about again and again and I’m pretty sure it seems he kinda thought so too) or he didn’t care, those are the only two explanations for his behaviour post break up.
Talking about him being an asshole doesn’t reduce his character, sometimes ppl are assholes. Once again, he is an asshole because he was selfish not because he is aromantic.
They definitely are and if she tries again with him Hyeondo will feel second choice, idk how you can get over that
the ex coming back as a CHILD is so strange ??????????? and even if she isn’t a minor but just looks uwu small petite WTH WTH WTH WTH???
And what's with the outfit too the side waist open?? Hello??