in the most manic state i feel kind of crazy right now...just amazing omg
also both mother and daughter have such an assortment of puppy-like guys around them...i'm really scared for geon-ha like i know he's definitely going to get hurt but all i can hope for is that he doesn't die/isn't permanently damaged or traumatized (yes that's the best one can hope for with this manhwa..)
manipulative (but sweet), too clever for his own good (but also kind of dumb), complicated (but pure), dominating (but also so self-sacrificing), etc etc...i adore prideful characters who would rather d/e than show any vulnerability and who smile through life while being a hot mess inside. any chance someone has caught up with the raws bc i feel like i'm always screaming into the void re. him and minwoo...it can't just be me and k-twt talking about how we need to see cheoljin cry (narratively and hornily)
utterly unhinged i love jin and kimoto's dynamic (sorry kimoto)
Yeah, dont remember the names but I wanna see Jin getting it on
brett's gift (aka the dead bird/this whole revenge scheme) being misaligned with what the person actually wants (his brother's fear/hayden's shock) - his capacity for self-sacrifice in a way that is utterly detached towards his mental/physical wellbeing while ALSO not being able to comprehend what it means to treat hayden as an equal in this relationship. so like deep devotion but also hyper-rationality at the expense of empathy. meanwhile hayden DOES live in fantasy; brett is right that hayden didn't grasp what it meant to truly SEE him and accept him as a whole, and hayden is learning that the hard way. of course, hayden is also right to be confused and hurt - like huh? i didn't ask for any of this??
brett getting nauseas and dizzy when hayden hugs him after learning of his SA - hello repressed trauma, hello intense fear of vulnerability....
anyways, i actually think that hayden will need to be the one to aggressively pursue brett next season. (first season, it felt like brett being the more active party; second season it felt like they were more equal but operating with fundamental misunderstanding (they were going on fun, hayden-worldview dates + but brett was doing his own thing secretly) third season i think hayden will need to figure out what it means to accept brett as a whole and what it means to be brett's equal. i think atp brett feels "seen" and "rejected" by hayden; he's hurt by hayden being scared/upset by his "true" self so i don't see him actively going back to hayden anytime soon.
IMO hayden will tap into his more aggressive side. he might even resort to force. because i think fundamentally brett needs violence/force as well; gentleness isn't enough for him. we've deviated from some darkness so i would like to tap back into that darkness ;) i think the ending where hayden slams his against the wall is pretty indicative. also i think professionally, hayden will level up (become an actor) and become more of an "equal" to brett.
Well written and I agree with this
I want to frame this comment on my wall
the style is chaotic but it feel like the messiness adds to the feeling of chaotically being super into each other in utterly messy ways hehe i wish there were 1000000 chapters of this
everyones' going to be hating on him which is valid bc he just seems like a stereotypical toxic seme right now but as someone caught up he's actually such a well fleshed out complicated misunderstood and super interesting character i'm actually so obsessed with him, it's like they plopped Yoo Jung from Cheese in the Trap into a BL except even more manipulative, unreadable and tragic. (also him bottoming...mwah)
like a pretty top who has a pretty manly personality and a more handsome (beefier) bottom...the closest i've seen is minwoo/cheoljin from topsy turvy and their parts are barely translated
they've been living in some suspended fantasy so it was always the quiet before the storm...ultimately brett still can't be vulnerable/honest and hayden still can't fully understand what it means to accept brett as he is (including all of his manipulations/his way of thinking)
having read the raws they will stay that way they're both flawed characters (younger guy being a bit pathetic and too lovelorn so he's passive and tortured/on the brink of tears all the time; older guy being stubbornly blind and maybe even cold with people's feelings - even as he indulges them) i do think the author captures the angst of forbidden longing pretty well
but OMG is the older brother hot as hell if there are any other series where characters like him bottom (confident, competant, handsome, naturally dominant easygoing types) let me know~
heavy psychological manga/manhwas...bonus if the mc is a girl
try hand jumper!