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THE WAY I SIGH A BREATH OF RELIEF

Indeed. Some have read waaay to much bl for them to jump straight into rape with the amount of comments mentioning and swearing by it in the last chuck of chapters

Oh... I thought it was sodomy with an object. But I guess the trauma rings the same after severe injuries from the bullying. This is by no means comparing to say its a lesser evil, I just still thought it was Sodom from the earlier chapters

I agree, the trauma it gives is still the same as doing the worst. But still its a relief to know, the pain in my chest is lessened, truly.
Especially when Junhyuk beats that crap bas*a*d out. He deserves it.

Yeah, I do agree with you there. At first I was skeptical as for sure, he went through hell and back and I thought it went to the extent of r@ped. But then these chapters kinda lean to the aspect that he wasn’t raped but more so stripped and humiliated. I even saw a comment somewhere here, explaining that it’s a common extreme tactic used by bullies in east Asia to strip them and take photos, which is a mind-fucked. I even saw a kdrama recently and they did a very similar scene too and what was worse, it was in a public classroom… I also think we might get the nitty-gritty details when Yeonwoo talks about it to Haesol, or we might see a time-jump of it.

I believe he actually was, and it was shown and explained vaguely that he was

Where tho? Cuz I read that those chapters a couple of times due to lack of update and nothing like that appears. Granted, every rape victim reacts differently but for males to physically walk away after getting raped and have absolutely no one question the way they walk for days is not likely. Especially if his parents "saw" him leave to school the next days.

It was quite obvious that he was tho

I think he was molested not raped

Definitely, for sure. But people keep saying raped.

I'm on the camp of not raped. There is no physical indication of it being that.

Well he was definitely sexually assaulted and regardless that's still bad, I'm not sure if they went as far as penetration but it hardly matters. They violated him and his body.

Well no one paid any attention to him and his parents didn't notice the self harm or how unstable he was so I don't think that matters, also who'd talk about the way he walked when he had no friends and the only ppl around him were the ones who assaulted him

Self-harm is super easy to hide. Anatomical reaction to rape, not so much. Kid is short and in the smaller side, long sleeves easily hide wrists, don't cut on arm, legs do the same. Anything on the thigh is easily hidden, stomach? Easily hidden.

I'm just saying that regardless people who weren't bullying him didn't notice much of what was going on. Parents included. I just think it's not important whether it was SA or Rape because they're both disgusting

Exactly, he definitely was r*aped bro it is so obvious from his reaction and the bathroom slide with the bullies and also because of the conversation the bullies had in the bathroom and on the stair case

Its obivous he got graped tho... one of the hand of bull1es was on his yk part.. and the way it was implied and all? Definitely!

That doesn't count as rape though. Grabbing and touching could aa assault and battery, penetration of any kind is what counts as rape. . . It's implied he got sexualy harassed, not raped

I think he wasn’t raped because in most media when severe bullying happens it’s usually some form of stripping and humiliating, not rape. Even though rape is about power and not being gay it’s just hardly ever man on man rape outside of BL or Prison context. Eg in the book geography class the bullies strip and dress a loner guy in women’s underwear and put makeup him before making him walk in front of everyone. Or in criminal minds the two times bullying was mentioned involved stripping, for one guy they stripped him and told him to masturbate while secretly filming him. They then uploaded and spread the video around. Then another guy is stripped and tied to a goal post and they call his crush over to laugh at him. I think there’s something similar to this in animal farm and other media too but I can’t name the specific titles. The only time I see male on male rape is in prison stories and in BL. I’m not saying what is or isn’t SA. But it’s important to distinguish from SA and rape because the affects of those are very different.

The effects of them are not very different, they're very similar considering what happened to Yeonwoo even if it wasn't penetrative rape. And rape with male perpetrators and victims happens a lot outside of bl(fiction) and prison, although i do see why you categorised them like that. Rape is about power, not necessarily sexual attraction, so it would happen a lot more as a way of bullying someone than you'd think, there's also cases of rape in a relationship, just deranged randos, family members, paedophilia etc.

You can't compare this to other stories because it's already quite different from the premise, which is why I like it. You also don't know if the author was influenced by these media sources you're talking about. And again, regardless of whether he was penetrated or not, what they did do to him was horrific and was definitely Sexual Assault, they violated him, demeaned him and it's disgusting.

I think reread Chapter 129 and decide for yourself what you think it is. Whatever it was it caused almost irreparable damage to him, his friendship, his ability to get in new relationships and everything so yh

It's highly possible he was raped. They were talking about whether two guys could "do it" right before that.

Well, it just got proven to not be rape with the latest update

How? Just because Junhyuk didn't take it that far, it doesn't mean the others held back.