though baek han's color is a mix of green and blue... no 'cloud' colors
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Its more of a blue than a green tbh and its not just his clothes its also his hair being the only person with blond hair and not just any blond but a very light blond so much so that it had blue shadows ..... but ╮(￣▽￣)╭ idk what you're trying to say cus everything else still works even if Baekhan has to cloud colours than that just means he's just a false romantic lead which is cool too i was just trying to make an argument for him and not just make it one sided ...
I though dowun being the cloud was fairly obvious? even without the fine combed analysis. it refers to a fairly good natured youth (flower) who goes through a serious of changes psychologically and physically because of someone, and the character we know had the biggest influence in her character development throughout the story has been dowun since the beginning. we are really only just now getting some development with Baek Han
I took it to mean a metemorphisis of some kind rather then her simply becoming a dowun 2.0 (his cold rationality and pragmatism) perhaps adopting *some* of those useful lessons to her own without losing her sense of who she is and what makes her different from him.
like the dynamic between littlefinger and sansa, she takes what she learns from her experiences with him and overthrows him in the end.
I just really liked the way the author uses other literary devices in this. I dont see a lot of webtoons with this level of thought put into it so for the ppl who didnt notice it I wanted to point it out. (the imagery and use of colour are things to be admired in this webtoon but that may just be a me thing)
I dont think dowun is anything like littlefinger, littlefinger was obsessed with sansa in a weird way because of his obsession with her mother. And they dont have a dynamic like that since this isnt a political drama but a romance drama.
Its pretty obvious dowun, hong lyon and baek han are meant to be in a love triangle of sorts. I dont think she will be able to overthrow him or that she should Dowun is her only ally I think she should try to change the relationship between them like even if they dont become lovers they could work better as a team.
It would be nice to see honglyon take some power but she doesnt do anything to help herself since she prefers to run around with baekhan so much.
I've said this many times already but Dowun is not the antagonist in this webtoon and he isnt out of place for the timeline the story takes place in, In fact id argue honylyon is the strange one so very focused on love.
There's a really interesting thing happening in the story that coincides with the title. The flower that was bloomed by a Cloud. If we consider the flower Honglyon then the cloud would have to either something that greatly influences her. At first I thought the cloud would be the political situation in the palace as I expected Honglyon's fight to become empress the main plot of the story. But that didnt really play out( it ended too fast), so that could only mean that the cloud would have to be either Dowun or Baek han.
So lets first look at what Bloom means here its a little obvious but it refers to change/growth/ a progressive change of a person in the context of the story. So the cloud has to be someone who changes Honglyon.
I think that we also have to figure out what kind of bloom needs to happen, like a flower Honglyon can only bloom once so we have to figure out where in the story is she just a bud. Honglyon changes twice in the story, in the beginning she changed because of Dowun and then she changes because of Baek Han but she can only Bloom once so which was her bloom?
If we consider imagery Baek Han looks more like a cloud, he even wears blue a lot with reminds us of a cloud and the sky. He also has a heavy influence on Honglyon. We see her changes in the recent chapters she's less harsh. But is it a bloom? well..
Dowun has a stronger claim on the cloud title when he proposes to Honglyon in chp 5 he promises her to perfectly bloom her which is strange wording and probably just used as an indicator. He also has lots of cloud imagery surrounding him whenever we see him. But he doesnt have cloud colours, his colours are black and yellow so if he is the cloud why not give him cloud colours? Well remember the play at the beginning? Dowun has the same colours as the guy in the play and every other time the play comes up the doll used for the guy is wearing black and yellow.( We see that only certain character get colours in the story. Even Dowun and Dogyeol dont wear their colours the same way even though both of them wear black and yellow.)
I think Dowun is not only the Cloud but also the guy that Peony falls in love with. Many considered him BaekHan and if this was a typical story I think it would be Baek Han but If we consider everything we know and where Peony's story starts and where Honglyon's story starts... then its not possible for Baek han to be the guy. If Baek Han was the guy from the story then why make the title about Dowun? Also why have the colour of the guy correspond to Dowuns colours?
Also Dowun refer's the honglyon's recent change and her "reverting" to her old self, so we have what could be considered a "bloom" being immediately denied as a bloom. More like she's turning back into a bud.
I like that the author put in so much careful consideration when writing this story. Its not often we're lucky to get something so intricate and presented in such an amazing way. I hope you guys can be open to the themes presented here. I could be wrong about all of this but im ok with that lol
Some other things I noticed :
Lots of flower cloud imagery( i think it shows the title is also pretty important)
Loads of imagery with dowun and clouds in the cover with both of them the backdrop has lots of clouds as well.
Honglyon still uses the same ink tray(from the writing set) that Dowun got her in the beginning. I thought maybe all of them looked the same but the one of Dowun desk doesnt have a design and there arent many others shown so its just my assumption its the same one.