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I was about to say this is toxic but I think dysfunctional af is better fitting. Yuri is so codependent on seonwoo, it's fucking crazy. I feel so pitiful whenever I see him begging him to not go yet at the same time he's such a controlling bastard that it's as if he jumped straight out of an abuse commerical.
This turned out to be so absurd ngl. It had real potential, the backstories were great and nuanced, the side characters were great, the situations were realistic. Yet, instead of Yuri resolving his codependent attachment with his sister and mending his relationship with his other sister and seeking out seonwoo in a healthy way as opposed to what he has been used to so far (which is how I expected it to go) this manhwa doubled down on his codependency.
The epilogue chapters are not a happy end but rather seem to be straight out of an example present in a really basic abusive relationship guidebook. All I get is that the author has a thing for obsessive relationships because I can't for one second believe that someone who's actually capable of all the nuanced dialogues given here would fr think what we're being shown is a healthy relationship.
Yuri pisses me off cuz he's triggering with his controlling behaviour but like he needs help. He's literally self destructing being with someone he's so emotionally dependent on. He literally went and got hit to be manipulative like that's crazy damaging to seonwoo yes, but also to himself!!! He goes on and on about how others shouldn't neglect themselves for him but this bitch is literally doing that himself.
Meanwhile seonwoo got out of a depressive period just to enter a stifling, restrictive and manipulative relationship. Truly taking Ls after Ls. If this was real life, I don't think he'd be weirdly happy like in the manhwa, and even if he was, it'd be a manic, he's not okay type of happy not the peaceful kind of happy.
They could've fleshed out yohan and yuris friendship by them somehow being vulnerable with each other and acknowledging how much they care about each other, instead dit all just stayed very surface level, that's a plotline missed. The angry sister could've been used way better too, she was completely sidelined at the end. God, so much wasted potential even when the author is clearly capable of such nuanced and non surface level plot development and dialogues.