Majority of her problems are her fault, but I don't really blame her. She was groomed by her art teacher, made to believe she was special, only to realize that he was just saying that to get her attached. Being 'special' and 'unqiue' is likely her only defense from realizing that she was targeted simply because she was seemingly naive. For me, now it's more pity that I feel for her. (;－.－)
Lwk idk if it's me but it seems easier to sympathize with Subin (eyepatch girl) than Jaemin (orange kid) because we get a lot of context for her character. She kind of reminds you of a cringey kid who wants people to see her in a certain way even if it's in a connotation where she's perceived as weird or unique because she seems to be chasing a feeling of validation from other people. Especially during high school years where everyone's still learning about themselves, and most likely done embarrassing things where they needed to grow from, Subin and the other ppl in her gang are the same way. In my opinion I think Jaemin mad weird. Someone you know is clearly upset and losing her spark. She's getting bullied and feeling alone. She might be a bad day away from becoming suicidal from all that outside stress pressuring her. Jaemin, wanting to impress his crush, like you said, did this whole scheme where he pretends to fw with her and basically uses her by pushing her to do something clearly not healthy for her, just to seem impressive and help his crush. That brownie point got him stuck in a fridge for a minute. Look who's the dumbass now. He so pmo.
yeah i feel real bad for the eyepatch girl i mean yeah she's a huge piece of shit the first few chapters but like she's been down for the majority of the series that it doesn't even feel nice that she's getting put down and stuff and the orange kid is only pretending to fw her when really he js wants to get with the crazy mc