as someone who's been in baekhee's place and had a similar relationship (friendship, rather) with someone similar to gyeom (though minus the sexual assault and rape, it was just as abusive despite us being in middle school)—this hits the right fucking spot and i don't think any other character will ever be able to encapsulate that feeling of helplessness knowing that there is this fixed hypothetical scenario playing loop in your head and despite that label of a 'what-if' over it, you can't deny that it'll eventually become reality, because once, it was real, and the first time it happens, it'll come back twice. baekhee isn't fighting mere thoughts and simple nightmares, he's actively clashing with what he knows is inevitable and can't be stopped—its sent proof that it continues to live—violent evidence of what again could become his everyday life. he's surviving in every way he can because jesus christ—
nobody wants to be held at knife point for everyday of their life, waiting for a god to come and serve them a silver platter of all their answered prayers. there wont be a god holding their cross up over a little girl or boy's body shielding them from a fist that'll have them tumbling over or a kick sending them knocking to some other side of the room. there wont be a god to palm that child's cheek—perhaps one that'll guide their hands to clasp in prayer—because what else can a human do but worship under false hopes?
and his relationship with gyeom just crashes so close to home holy shit. he can't not be with gyeom because gyeom has shown him over and over again that his salvation is already guaranteed by just letting himself suffer a little longer, much further, beneath his grasp. even monstrosity can be measured by weight. hes proven to baekhee even without having to fake it that his life is terrible, no sugarcoats, he's pathetic as one can be, having known only a world inside his room and that small city, and that he's out to get himself killed by choosing to try and separate himself away from him. not that baekhee is weak or anything, he's strong as fuck for everything he's gone through, he just doesn't have enough options and it's displayed time and time again just how limited it is. just saying what gyeom has basically said to him this entire time, but brotha wallahi like i said, he doesn't even need to prove anything because there's HEAAVYYY proof, evidence, everything, literally everywhere in all of baekhee's waking days.
mygodddaughh..... being isolated from everyone else and ostracized on purpose for a situation you could not control—being viewed as the odd one out in an “even” sea, the only person reaching out to you being the same one amplifying that intentional loneliness and keeping you at arm's reach, and them seeing you as an extension of themselves, an outlet that permits the harm that they've caused over themselves, becoming an object of codependency and projection. like shitttt bro let my boy survive without having to put himself at risk i can't read ts no more jus let them be happy ohmygoddd
overall great example of what it's like to be in a hobo assshit school that provides no future to it's all it's students! woohoo!
Seong-cheol lives a rough life, moving from one day-labor job to another while enduring violence fro...
- Author: HAHA
- Genres: Webtoons / Adult / Smut / Yaoi
It’s should mark as a horror than romance I still remember my first time reading this and feel something on my chest like crazy, the author show the perspective of the victim so well, the fear the disgust are all show off. The author did well with both perspectives of the mc and ml.
Now I get it why they put tha chasing arc in the first chapter coz I wouldn’t stand it if there no chasing arc



