To be honest I don’t even think Gogyeom loves Baekhee…at least in the traditional sense. Gogyeom is manipulative and selfish. He loves the fact that Baekhee needs him. He loves that Baekhee is traumatised and lonely and he can occupy a saviour position in his life. Baekhee is ostracised and vilified for having a father who is murder but he maintains a semblance of normalcy within the “friend” group because of Gogyeom (who is the leader of the group). Gogyeom uses that superiority and “protection” to control and coerce Baekhee into relying only on him and having sex with him. You can see how fixated he is on taking Baekhee to Seoul. Because once they’re in Seoul together, Baekhee will be safe from his dad yes but practically isolated from everyone. He will only have Gogyeom to rely on entirely. And Gogyeom can do whatever he wants, whether it be the threatening to rat him out to his dad if he thinks of “escaping” or basically abusing him if he wants. He has basically been hammering into Baekhee’s head that he can do NOTHING without him. He is obsessive over being the only person that Baekhee can count on. He is leveraging Baekhee’s gayness and attraction to him to create a relationship that warrants a “deeper” connection so that Baekhee genuinely feels closer to him (being a “boyfriend” vs “friend”). If Baekhee wasn’t so traumatised, lonely and perpetually scared, (and gay) Gogyeom’s interest in him would probably have never gone past wanting to just hang out with like a friend.
Bro your brain is just you worded it perfectly
The silver head guy is like the one who loves the person of same sex yet is homophobic himself with lingered with very narrow minded mindset yet he loves that person, he is all about control and manipulation, for some reason I guess tormenting and being with baekhee makes him sort of relief like he is an sadistic bitch he is, he may have past for sure he behaves this way, which doesn't at all forgives his actions at all, he could be great lover or boyfriend to baekhee only if he is sweet and caring or just understanding person for at least it's not just try to help him or just listen to him, but it won't happen at all this guy won't listen to anything, only hoping Yang and baekhee being together end up as happy and healthy as they are match for each other in everyways.