Responses
I seen this TikTok with a literal FAWN to Ethel Cain and I’ve been a sobbing mess made me think of Yuwon:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSNXG3tr/
Additional information on Fawning:
https://www.reachlink.com/advice/childhood-trauma/fawning-response-in-adults/
https://cptsdfoundation.org/2025/06/05/fawn-response-the-trauma-survival-pattern-thats-mistaken-for-kindness/
Everybody has trauma responses they are automated survival reactions. While most are familiar with the two trauma responses: fight or flight Yuwon shows a lot of signs of fawning especially in chapters 73. Coincidentally, Dohun identifies with the deer in his story book that’s saved by the tree (Yuwon). I keep referencing the last scene between Yuwon and Seungmin but the yellow lights behind him resembled the spiked chestnuts the tree drops to save the deer… If the present is shown to parallel the past then who is the tree in Yuwon’s pov and how does he know about that story?