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Jaehyun - pink haired, main character who has a crush on Woojin
Woojin - orange haired, charismatic oblivious dingus
Seungha - black haired, Woojin's roommate who Woojin is sleeping with
Seungtae - black haired, the guy that's been msging with Jaehyun for 7 years and who is in Woojin's class that Woojin keeps trying to hookup with and failing
Woon-myung - white haired, waste of space later in the comic

At no point does Woojin hookup with either Jaehyun or Seungtae. During the story he's hooking up with Seungha (his roommate) and trying to hookup with Seungtae, but failing. Woojin even tells Jaehyun a hilariously misinterpreted story about the two of them (Woojin and Seungtae) ending up in a hotel room together.

This story is pretty average. It does some things well, and some things badly. Overall it's an okay way to spend your time for a middling amount of chapters. The main place it does well with is the pacing; I never found the story to drag or be so boring I was constantly looking at the clock wishing I was doing something else. But not everything in the story makes sense, and some of the character motivations are convoluted or unexplained, which really detracts from the plot/story.

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Woojin is really the confluence of all issues in this comic. His relationship with Jaehyun is written to be unique among the male people Woojin knows, and this implies it should've been a story about how Woojin realized he was in love with Jaehyun, and them getting together eventually, but it wasn't written this way. Woojin ended up deciding he liked Jaehyun way too late in the story, after Jaehyun had already hooked up with Seungtae, which didn't even move the needle. This makes Woojin liking Jaehyun pointless since it can't affect the story, and only serves to apply stress to Woojin's relationship with Seungha, placing that relationship in limbo, and now you're not sure if Woojin likes Jaehyun or Seungha or Seungtae, or what exactly.

Woojin also doesn't really grow out of his childish lifestyle within the story (yet), and so it feels like his character arc is incomplete.

Jaehyun and Woojin also never really have a frank conversation where Jaehyun tells Woojin that he (Jaehyun)'s gay, and that Jaehyun's known he himself was gay since HS, and has had a crush on Woojin since HS. These two are basically best friends and Woojin is literally the last one to know that Jaehyun is also gay.

Also, I'm not even entirely sure that Woojin like-likes Jaehyun. It's implied in a few places at the end of the story, but we never get anything from Woojin's perspective to clear any of this confusion up. He may've just had an intense bout of jealousy come over him since Jaehyun's never dated anyone before and has always been emotionally available to Woojin up to this point, but now, maybe no longer. We really did need 2+ chapters of perspective from Woojin to understand him better considering how critical he is to the plot.

Not really related to Woojin, but.... Woon-myung, the white-haired guy, was introduced way too late in the story and was just a total waste of space. Jaehyun/Seungtae already had their adhesion before WM could even make a case for himself to Jaehyun. He then ends up pinging around with the other main cast throughout the rest of the story but contributes nothing to the plot. He doesn't even get a love interest of his own. He's just some albatross the author now has to deal with because they put him in the story and now have nothing for him to do, no role to fulfill. The author could've placed him as Seungha's new bf, to cause a little more drama in Woojin and Seungha getting back together, but nope. Nope nope nope. It's also never really clarified how Seungtae and Woon-myung seem to know each other... the author makes it a big deal that they've re-met at the end of one chapter and then the next chapter is a different scene, and it's never really clarified. The author just had no idea what to do with this guy.

As for Jaehyun's sins, why did he delay hooking up with Seungtae for so long when it had been implied for quite a while before Seungtae confessed that Jaehyun had developed feelings for Seungtae? It just feels like more time-wasting. This is really the biggest Jaehyun-related issue (aside from him never having 'a talk' with Woojin).

Honestly, this isn't the best story, but it's nowhere near the worst. I think it's a pretty ok way to spend the time needed to read it. Ymmv ofc.

This story is a good example of why you should ignore the rating and just give a story a chance to prove itself. This is probably this author's best work to date, of the stuff on mggo at least. The writing in it is top-notch. And yes, there's a death in the story, but it occurred before any of the events in present-day so it's not like you don't see it coming. I find this a silly reason to give a comic a low rating, especially given how much it adds to this story. Anyway, the point of this story is to explore closure and how to move on from events in your life that shatter you. It does a great job at accomplishing this. Ignore the rating and give it a chance.

chapter 2 -> 02.12 - 02.28...

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Suk/Kiwoon are 3/5 for me - problematic, lack of grounding in reality, and no reasonable engagement with their sexualities.

Suk being interested in Kiwoon immediately feels like it came out of nowhere and he had no thoughts about being gay or not, just rolled with it, which I never find very realistic in any comic. Kiwoon, you think is straight at first because he seems to hate the attention he's getting from Suk, then when Jaeha appears, you think ok, maybe he did have gay leanings after all with Jaeha, but then later Kiwoon flat-out says he was not interested in Jaeha like that at all, so then you're left wondering if he really can ever be interested in Suk -- is he gay/bi/etc or not?

Meanwhile Suk goes after Kiwoon hardcore and Kiwoon legit seems to hate it for the first half to 2/3 of their story (season 1, ch1-38), and at some point you have to wonder, when should Suk have to accept that Kiwoon is not gay and not interested? At some point, right? Otherwise he's just a creepy stalker who needs a restraining order. But then Suk successfully badgers Kiwoon into a relationship which doesn't feel very good at all. It didn't feel like Kiwoon really chose it, more like he just gave up trying to get away from Suk.

I also really don't like Kiwoon's treatment of Jaeha. Yeah, I realize they got into a fight and Kiwoon was hospitalized. But the actual fight, how it started, escalated, and came to blows was never really shown in the comic, so we're left guessing about the specifics of it. It felt like Kiwoon probably started the fight with his misinterpretation of the situation, thinking Jaeha killed one of the cats. Jaeha was not there to get into a fight at all, but to get help for the cat. So if Kiwoon started the fight and or escalated it into a physical situation, then really, Jaeha was just defending himself? Because of the lack of clarity in this situation all the way to the end of the story, I can only help but think that Kiwoon started a fight he couldn't finish and then cut Jaeha off later in the story while never owning up to the fact that he, Kiwoon, started/escalated the situation due to a misinterpretation. Feels kinda crappy.

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Hyun/Jaeha are 5/5 for me - working through trauma and past failures to engage in order to slowly resolve their issues and come to a place where they can meet in the middle and grow a bit.

Their part of the story is chapters 39-96 which is way longer, but it's much easier to read than the first part because you can tell from the beginning that the two really do want to be accepted by each other but that certain things keep getting in the way. These two go through proper character arcs, unlike Suk and Kiwoon, which is largely why this section of the story works so much better. Hyun needs to learn to express himself more clearly and frequently and honestly, and Jaeha needs to stop letting his pride get in the way of trying to connect with Hyun and accept the help that he so desperately needs. And to be fair, the help that Hyun is providing to Jaeha isn't even really Hyun's -- it's his parents' money, apartment, etc. He's just sharing what help he's been given by someone else with Jaeha.

I don't have a lot to say about these two because I think the author wrote this relationship much much much better than the first couple. On the one hand, it does feel like maybe their part of the story is too long; on the other hand, it does take a while to work through the kind of trauma Jaeha has had in his life, so it feels more realistic that it takes so long for them to finally meet in the middle. I'm fine with it, and I hope the author is able to finish the story someday ("to be continued" at the end of ch96).

After reading today's chapter (86), I have to seriously wonder about the idea of....
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pairing Cirrus up with Skylar. Like, Cirrus is legit crazy. I'm not sure Skylar really deserves the duty of having to put up with this unstable person or to bring Cirrus back from the brink, or back to reality, or to help him learn to behave like a normal human. A bit much to ask of a teenager. I want to see Skylar happy, not saddled with the duty of having to recover someone he isn't even interested in at this point.

I don't even know what Cirrus needs. Maybe a dad who gives a crap and actually tries, and/or a psych. I am not sure if finding someone who genuinely loves him will be enough. *scratches head*

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