Confusing. MC was looping 2nd June, beginning of summer semester (?), some loops MC is wearing short sleeves, cause duh summer is hot, but some loops he is wearing full on jacket (?), then time stop looping? When? And it’s now apparent cold in June and MC need to wear warmer (?).
From checking on the author’s works on Novelupdates, even highest rating novel series Untouchable Lady was not as popular as this series in webtoon/manhwa terms. And I think it can be tribute towards the artist that adapted it, Baek Ji Young.
A wonderful story can be lost through adaptation process or in translation, but good visual narration skills with amazing art can bring a mediocre piece to live, especially when creative re-arranging are allowed.
We can’t judge this series as a whole due to its similarity state of the miscarriage child of the artist. But the charm of what we had now is undeniable. And I guess, all we can do now, is mourn the grief with the artist, a piece of work, a mental child that never got the chance to fully developed and came to be.
Justice for the artist!
The novel of this is really good, especially the yearning and suffering to be together is so good. The writing fluctuates, was pretty bad in the first 2-3 maps, even the author admits that her writing is not great to begin with, but had an idea that she just want to make it into reality and was surprised how much praise she got. But the writing got better later on and stabilized near end.
The novel peaked in the middle going to the end, with a pretty soft blow ending. Glad they are getting a manhua adaptation, but man does it did not do the novel justice. The art is pretty, the visual narrative skill is lacking, it definitely lacks the great horror visualization. It’s at times like this I wish this novel got the same adaptation art narrative advantage as GSGW.
M saying all this cause this used to be one of my most fav novel years ago, and wish it manhua could also peak and moved the heart of the audience like the novel did.
Agree with this!
Like title, hostage situation, amnesia, personality disorder, jumping between shades of red flags.
Seme said first time kissing uke make he puke, like kissing a dog…. :) good for you buddy, not everyone in this world allow their dog to kiss them.
Is it just me who think mc personality doesn’t match his background???
Another poor uke x higher ranking seme, but worse since seme can’t even protect him.
How can someone with absolutely no spine survived in a rough area (13 area), and is quick to bow on pressure??? I have absolutely no problem with mc personality btw, but at this point it just seems like author is projecting. You are telling me someone who came from a rough background, was able to survive through adulthood through being submissive to authority, as docile as a lamb, but still have their morality in tack? You must be joking, have a spine please.
The art is pretty, character personality is not bad, world building is not bad,…etc. But candy taste sweet doesn’t mean you should put it in your soup or your bowl of rice. Individual details are fine, but in reality it’s not fine dining like expectations, rather just a hotpot where someone put chocolate and all type of chillis and peppers together.
That's called having a brain.
When surrounded by hostile people in an environment you can't afford to leave you bow down when you can because everyone is just waiting for you to be defiant to have a reason to hurt you or get you kicked out. You can only stand your ground once your position is safe and when you have allies to back you up.
That's why MC let the other guy beat him up before retaliating. Because that way he can't be held accountable.
Being aggressive when you are in a position of weakness is just asking for a beating. He is in a totally unfamiliar environment were he doesn't know the social rules, everyone look weak and stupid in situation like this, like a fish out of water.
Ues exactly this
Blunt retaliation in that type of environment is just asking to be painted and framed as trash ಥ_ಥ
You guys seem to misunderstand between bending under pressure and submission. A spine can bend and straighten when it needs to.
I have been there, done that, survived that, and can say, there’s nothing wrong with mc personally per se, especially within current Korean society through a fictional lenses. But from narrative and story telling perspective, it’s out of characters OOC.
Even when I need stay submissive just in order to sustained myself in a gaslighting harassing environment where I was framed as trash, scapegoat, plaything, etc. I never stop feeling and questioning why things are the way things are. (And we do live in a relatively peaceful time)
If the MC is 12 or 9 years old, yes, it makes sense, even 14 in a non physical survival background can be very believable. But you are telling me someone survived in an area where famous for human trash, thievery and robbery, scams, and more, with an above average appearance (mc) with good heights and proportions, visually not lacking (teeth, fingers, toes, limbs, disfigurement, etc.) and be able to survived until adult while docile as a lamb and submissive and somehow is not used or trafficked for p*do, prostitution, or organs. Survival requires a list of skills, especially the more that you have, the more people want to take it. Like when I got out of the terrible environment I was surviving in, I got praised for many of my skills and attributes, one of them is critical thinking skills, this is almost essential for all of prolonged unjust environment survivors.
I guess if you guys really don’t get it, then I should be happy for you, as it is a proof of your survivability (physically and mentally) are somewhat secure and above.
And how does mc doesn't do that ? He managed to beat a guy to a pulp without consequences when surrounded by people that actively want harm him and kick him out. What more do you want ?
Like I said, congrats for not getting it.
I personally have no problem with mc, I just have problem with the narrative, it feels very unnatural to me, the story, the characters, everything feels Frankenstein, fabricated tension with extreme contrast, purposely suppressing and pushing the edges.
You don’t have to agree with me, I’m just not it target audiences.
No we get what you mean, we just saying that it’s a pretty ignorant outlook. I don’t know what you been through but from a normal person perspective, I can say he made a decent ass choice
Not every person is the same in the ways they handle or cope with trauma. Survival comes in many different forms. Some not based on logic or critical thinking. Just the basic need to survive. It would be nice if it could be that way for all people forshure tho no less traumatizing but we are all built differently in this mad mad world.
I am very confuse rn, so who does the Alpha actually love? His beta friend? Or the omega? If it is the Omega, isn’t it a bit too fast??????
Alpha was in love with the beta freind but the beta friend is in love with the omega.
Ok, m hurt now. So basically nobody is happy. This is so wrong gosh.
Yeah..... I was expecting all 3 were gonna be together. Well only the omega has it good. He doesnt seem to really care and his life will be easier.
But beta and alpha...... I cant believe this is complete...
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I actually feel the most pity for the omega for some reason. His only fault was only being assigned as an Omega, an especially sensitive one, people rape him continuously, and he cannot even control his sex drive. If he was an Beta, he would be more happy, have more friends, characteristics would be more similar to the Beta.
The other 2 at least have some freedom, especially the Beta. But now the omega really have nothing.
No actually once an omega is bitten. Thier pheromones goes down. They become more like a beta. They still have estrus but now that he has an alpha it will be more satisfing than toys because an omega can calm down with an alpha pheromones.
Also im not sure if the omega was always raped when he got out. Seems like he was always saved but yes it can be traumatizing.he wont have that issue in the future.
I guess you can say the beta and alpha have more freedom, but both are so obsessed that i really dont think they can break out and let things go so easily.
I mean my sisters freind had a great bf. He was rich. He treated her well. He bought her what she wanted. He was hot, but she went back to her poor, controlling, ulgy, ex who beats her. Like wtf? She could of had freedom. She could have been happy, but sometimes ppl only focus on blind love and they rather be unhappy than to move on.
Ppl are weird
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Agree, ppl are weird ._.
Victor is shown to be a child who said to be a monster, probably due to his genius mind and capability that the average person can’t understood, can be seen through his experiments, bring back the dead to life, potions, creations.
Henry is supposed to be human, outstanding appearance, charming demeanour, composure in all cases/lack of obvious expression, good at socializing (business, lovers, …). We can dissect and understood him better through the reaction of his parts, “heart”, “head”, “dick”.
“Heart”, his heart is tied to Victor, even when the body is somewhere else, his heart urge and lead him back to Victor, established since the beginning and throughout the series. However, that heart is not strong enough to erase doubts of the mind, no matter whose mind it attached to, Adam or Henry. A devoted heart that makes him want to clean, cook, take care, and more for Victor, however prone to damage from loneliness.
“Head”, is the most complicated component of Henry, through dialogues exposed his high EQ, great analysis skills, very logical, almost abstained of emotions, from Victor words, as if V became a lab rat. A common trait of those minds, are doubts, doubts that usually manifest as cynical. Through the dialogues within this series, we can coined a few traits from Henry’s head.
- Thrills seeker, a dopamine junkie, he let things happens as long as he deemed it interesting, and dropped it the moment it’s not. Including chasing the main actress.
- He found Victor to be very interesting, he can’t stand the idea of not seeing Victor’s face/reaction, even during sex. He think lying V, pathetic V, crying V, … as cute, or interesting, this included when V feeling secure, loved, happy. He almost seems to yearned to consumes all of Victor like a ravenous beast.
- He seems to think his mind has complete immunity to emotions, especially love, deeming the love potion V made to be a sham potion. But as established before, V is a genius, if he believes that is a love potion, it should be. You can’t fill a water bottle more if it is already at max capacity, how can Henry fall in love with Victor, when he can’t love Victor anymore than he already has. This proves that he is blind towards his affection towards V.
- “head” mentioned “nothing can be changed, no matter Henry knows about V planning on killing his sex partners or not”, this means 2 things, he doesn’t care (enough) about his sex partners, whether they are alive or dead, to impact his actions, AND, it cannot change what leads to his death. If you consider the first thing he ask V when they first found him “do you still resent him”, we can assumed this is a question that bother the mind.
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- When “head” speak, he rarely ask questions, he just describes, from V’s word, like he is reading V’s mind. But he asked “Do you still resent him?” and “Do you want to know the answer now?”. I assumed these are the questions that consumed Henry before he died, making his dead inevitable. He wants to know if V resent him, and he was thinking about his answer to V. Personally, it sounds like “Did it make you stop loving me?”, “What can I do to appease you?”, “How can I make you stay?”, “I don’t want to lose you”, “I can’t lose you”.
- To add to it, after waking up, the “heart” returns to V side, “dick” is out and about, need to be succumbed to return. However “head” just ask that question and very easily came back with them, even with the event, he went with them a bit too easy. Then why did he ran away? Similar to why he was on that trip right after noticing V closing the door after seeing his escapade, only to die haunted by the question of whether V resented him? If he is as calm as he present himself, when “head” are awake without the influence of “heart” and “dick”, he could have waited for V to wake up and ask his question. But no, he RAN away. “Dick” wasn’t even the one who first to leave, it was “head”.
- “head” set up and forced V to accept his love for “dick”. This seems to be genuine. Henry’s mind appears to care for V, wanting him to have the love of 3 persons, even though they are all monsters V created. This was done without the influence of Henry’s “heart”. This proves to a certain extent, Henry, while alive, was selfish and jealous when it comes to V. We can even think that V loneliness and isolation also came from Henry, who might purposefully did it to keep V all to himself.
Last, “dick”, there’s nothing much to go about it, as it just now exists on somebody else body. But it obviously easily turn on by V, love being inside of V, have a hard time getting it up to other people, unless under influence, be it long term stimulation, or mental stimulation.
Generally, in a way, Victor and Henry was the yin and yang to each other, a very fucked up yin yang, but are, nonetheless. Victor is a genius with monstrous capabilities created by his talent and mind, while emotionally as human as it can be. Henry, while appears normal and charming on the outside, was a monster on the inside, who capable of playing with rules of the human society, while morally grey and cannot understand the normal healthy restraints of a human.
The demise caused is mostly based on Henry, and his selfishness. Henry was V only family left, but V was also Henry only family. They are both gifted in different ways, and are left without proper guidance.
This story is interestingly quite complex with a lot of potential. However was focus on the wrong aspect, and wrong story telling techniques. Diminishing it to nothing but a fucked up smut. What a shame.
Thanks for reading my, maybe more than 2 cents of characters analysis hehe
tysm for this omg.