MAN REREAD FROM START TO FINISH, AND HE HAS SOMETHING FUN!!!

So, I reread, skimmed through the dialog, cause at first I was just refreshing my memories on Guwon. I had misremebered some things, so on my reread while paying an intense amount of attention to the backgrounds, I noticed something, AND IT BREAKS THE IDEA OF A NORMAL TIME LOOP TO SMITHEREENS!!!!

IT'S AUGUST 23RD!

IT'S ALWAYS AUGUST 23RD!!

EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!

FROM THE BEGINNING!!!!

AND PROMINENT EVENTS HAPPEN AT 10:10!!!!!

Grab your speedos, cause we're jumping in!

Chapter 0, it is 10:10am August 23rd for Jinwoo. He just turned off the TV, which had been announcing the very first maggot incident. It is implied that anywhere from months to year pass, and the world starts experiencing an insane amount of natural disasters, specifically earthquakes where Jinwoo lives.

It is August 23rd, at 10:10am, and Jinwoo is laying on the ground with a head injury and a sprain in his left ankle. He comes to and witnesses his fathers murder. How do I know that? I'm glad you asked! I know that because of 2 panels in ch.45 and two more panels in the chapter where Guwon "surprises" Jinwoo.

Flashback in ch.8, Jinwoo is a kid watching macho movies. It's August 23rd, at 10:10am. The 23rd is inferred, as the calendars specific date is omitted.

Every single instance in Dr. Lims office, it is usually night, and his calendar is on August 23rd.

Chapter 44, while Guwon is holding the hostage, top down panel shows a calendar. This is the only calendar we've ever seen in Guwons home. It's August 23rd.

Same night, Guwons last wish to go up the mountain one last time. He and Jinwoo leave the room at 8:27, and they arrive at the top. Guwon jumps with Jinwoo at 10:10pm.

August 23rd, first and only time we see a clockin Guwons home, it's 10:10pm, and Guwon offers Jinwoo to feel up his muscles.

9:40am August 23rd, Jinwoo is giving the school children and Guwon a simple 20 minute test. If we add an extra 10 for Jinwoo to collect and score those tests, it is 10:10am when Jinwoo realized Guwons lack of basic education.

Only once was a clocknot close to this time, which was at 4:06pm on the pink clockfor the children's school day ending. Jinwoo arrived at Guwons at 10:10pm later that night. Same night of the "touch my rippling abs, I know you want to".

OH, BUT WAIT, CAUSE DADDY FOUND MORE!!!

Guwon isn't fucking human, but I still don't know what exactly he is.

Chapter 2 or 3, Jinwoo goes to stab Guwon. Guwon catches this knife, with the blade slicing into his palm. I have firsthand (pun fully intended) knowledge of this specific injury. I had all four fingers on one of my hands sliced into when I was 2 years old. I was in the, fuck you I picked it up and it's mine now phase. My mother made the unfortunate mistake of grabbing the handle of the knife and trying to get me to release the blade. My response was tendons be damned, the blade side on this belongs to me, and YOU CAN HAVE IT WHEN YOU C... oh, would you look at that, I guess it's yours now. I required 2 stitches per finger, and stitches can take 2-3 weeks to heal.

So, tell me how a person with intent to harm, slices into another person's hand, and that person's hand doesn't have even a blemish the very next day.

The second time, was Jinwoo attempting to sever his own hand. The edge of the knife causes a deep laceration in Guwons forearm. You can teel how deep the cut is, due to the skin under the tattoos being paler. Not only would this have cut the skin, but it would have damaged tendons as well. This would not have been a simple 2-3 week heal session. And yet, the injury is nowhere to be found a few days later. Why do I think it was only days and not the weeks Jinwoo claims? It's due to the slight abrasion on Jinwoos cheek. It's still there weeks later, with the same hue and scratch pattern. And it was intentionally applied to every panel from that point onward.

Guwon nails himself in the head with his baseball bat (pun still intended), before executing the man trying to get meds for his sick child. He is given stitches and makes a comment about how he hopes Jinwoo won't hate the patch. The skin beneath the stitches looks healed. No redness or swelling. This was about a day later.

Guwon was hurt by the first gunshot, but after his initial response, he seems to brush off the wound. No one is really trying to rush him to the hospital for surgery, Guwon is still completely upright. No one acts like the shot to his left shoulder is life threatening when it absolutely would be, including Guwon. His life being at risk is only accepted when he is shot again in the same place from behind.

And lastly, and most damning of all, are the first panels we see of Guwon. Guwon is fully buried beneath the rubble of a fallen building, save one hand, and people were literally running around on top of that rubble. This would have killed anyone else, so tell me how Guwon surfaces from beneath that, WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A SINGLE SCRAPE!? Out of everything here, this is the one that is the most impossible, due to him being close to the surface with hundreds of pounds of both concrete and hundreds more of trampling weight from the people running over the area. GUWON SHOULD BE DEAD!!! Instead he immediately starts an almost 2 day journey by foot, straight to the Stillwater town.

And this is where the theories are starting from. Also, Guwon starts wearing the exact same ring as Jinwoo on his ring finger. So Guwon isn't human, but he is mortal, so some extent. The reason August 23rd matters, is that a calendar is an extremely important tool in the event of an apocalypse. Keeping track of seasons, means knowing how long someone has been sick, when to plant crops, what weather could be expected, animal migrations, travel times, etc. Why would every single calendar be the same day across 4 entirely separate calendars? Why waste such an insanely important tool?

Because none of them have noticed that the 23rd never seems to end, possibly because none of what they are experiencing is real. We know each person is an independent, as we get thoughts from their unique perspectives. We don't yet know how they all got stuck here together, or why Jinwoos beginning keeps restarting the illusion of the time loop. The date and time are so important that they keep repeating, even in Jinwoos childhood memories, so the day either paints itself over all others, like a weird time illusion, or the date being significant to either Jinwoo or Guwon changes the day by force, with the illusion there being time seeming to pass, when it is actually stood still at 10:10 on August 23rd.

My brain cells are fried, crispy BBQ style, so I really hope some of ya'll with fresh ones can utilize this info more!