personally for such intricate plots like this, i'd much rather be handed out how everything unfolds through the storytelling itself but i also can't help but appreciate theorizers/analysts bc they rarely miss the details. your perspective on this is really interesting
Damn nice parallels between chaerin n tehir controlling the demon siblings
I like how you think lol
I love that u put the exact phrase Jin said bc it made me go "WOAHH, 'no one to decide what you should do'? LIKE AN BRAIN WHO CAN CONTROL U?" LMAO
I agree with everything you said, but for their relationship I mostly chalked it up as mere circumstances I mean who would've thought Jin would end up and meet Tahir's brother or any person that displays inferiority complexes. Tahir and Kimoto though is more unique and quite deals with what you've said. Anyways, I think it would be interesting of old Jin comes back, I wonder what he'll do. Would he "save" kimoto from Tahir? Go back and confront Tahir? Or incorporate itself with the new Jin?
So many possibilities, with equally compelling stories. although there is one thing I disagree and believe in the most. 1. Disagree with Kimoto that Jin won't change and that the doormat demon that's made with his foundation will resurface once he gets his memories back, and 2. Regarding my questions earlier, I believe that even if he gets his memories back, I don't think Jin would easily go back to his old sociopathic self, instead like us, molded with his life with the black dogs/wolves(?), change being something better than Kindergarten Jin and Thug Jin. A better change perhaps, as he experienced something not even his classmates have. Content of a simple life with friends.
Or idk, I just sound cheesy. Honestly Screen is pretty fucked up.
theory, or not really i guess since i'm just piecing everything that was already said.
according to c45, jin saw kimoto's potential being wasted because he followed, and thus limited himself for, tehir. this is really interesting because we see jin fall into the same situation after getting expelled from the daycare: following and convincing himself to idiocy for charin. the two links i can think of for these mirrored circumstances are that tehir and charin's biologies themselves hold some sort of fatal attraction to the primordial demon, or if after seeing the brain/kimoto's behavior to get accepted by society/the daycare, the heart/jin decided to copy it to get accepted from society OR even to seek approval from the brain (<-- this is more of a stretch, as the manga explicitly mentioned the caretaker's last words as the only thing jin remembered, but still a fun theory nonetheless!).
one more really interesting thing that i've been trying to keep track of are the heavy role that genetics play in this story. again with the parallel relationships, we can see tehir and charin both struggling a lot with insecurities and forming an obsessive dependence on kimoto and jin respectively (or in tehir's case, both) to boost their self-esteem and not get swallowed by their unique mental and physical constitutions. (tehir and charin both struggle with the exact same feelings of worthlessness actually, feeling like the true person that jin discovers is pathetic, or "nobody".)
it's still so hard for me to figure out whether it's the genetics or the determination to follow and place themselves under tehir/charin that limit kimoto/jin, but i'm leaning towards genetics because of the specific way hyehan phrased it in their fight, saying: "the way he moves...it's nothing like before. but nothing changed...except for the fact that he's been away from charin for a while...to put it in a conditional statement...if charin is near...then he becomes weaker. ergo...charin makes him weak? but why?" to which jin answers: "without capo...there ain't nobody who can decide what i've gotta do." part of it could just be the way hyehan speaks and views the world, but it sounds like when he refers to charin its not charin as he is as a person, but charin as he is as a genetic signal to the primordial demon to submit to the king (charin's demon alter ego, another theory? maybe another time).
if yall got anything that i missed pleaseeee lmk i seriously am starving for this manga i eat will eat any theories about sunnyside daycare