Cof

The hairy bushes and mussed twirls of a true cowboyed bear, We've been perennially robbed </3 Beautiful shit <3

Taesoo and woojin are such an unexplored goldmine, both as individual characters and as potential lovers. The way Chunwoo was never set on enforcing boundaries and pushing for the validation he deserves while equally tapping into taesoo's insecurities and unscrewing them out of their tightly clammed up knot, I feel someone as forceful (but healthily so) as woojin would've managed to do just that.

The brother's character was also great.

The main couple.. Man, oh man. It's a clusterfuck. It's really a triangular piece blending together. The boundaries are nonexistent between the three of them. Even at the end, the mimed symbol of ownership is slapped onto the relationship as if a simple scratch in need of a bandage when it's a ghastly vacuum of a wound threatening of inflammation*. Changing the piercing doesn't transport ownership, it's not a possessive claim. It's a festering insecurity. You can't erase his memories of his past relationship, you should simply be aiming to create new ones. The piercing should bother you, but it's not subvertible nor is it your way into his heart. (And this is not simply about that, this is the running theme, so much of it coalesced in there but not all. Such as the last sexual (straight up) assault on taesoo. Taesoo's ever unadressed trauma and insecurities on the part of Chunwoo. And I get it, Chunwoo has been completely worn down by Taesoo and he deserved better, but dear god, it was a bargain he understood and acquiesced to practically every time.

The main couple are not terrible together, they equally require so much careful work. Ultimately, everything feels like it's been addressed on a surface level so that the mindless consumer is appeased with something more digestible. And perhaps, if there is any consolation, truly addressing these dynamics would've ultimately unequivocally seriously been a mentally draining read. It would've also been the brave thing to do, however.