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“Give back what you recieve, everything you receive return it the exact same way”

It honestly sounds like something a parent would say to their children that’s been bickering over their toys. Dohun’s main takeaway of that phrase is that it’s a lesson on getting even in other words ‘tit for tat’. I honestly wasnt that familiar with that expression before i thought it was the same as eye for an eye, they’re not. They both express an act for getting even using the same method a perpetrator used first but eye for an eye is more of a one and done deal, tit for tat suggests a continuous back and forth.

Chapter 68 ends off with Dohun fixating on the reason why Yuwon doesn’t want to be with him he comes to the conclusion he’ll keep him by his side even if he has to write his name to do it. Eerie how far back he’s had thoughts of marking Yuwon. The sequence continues into the next chapter opening up with a scene of him still bleeding from his nose something his brother says echos in his head, “do you think writing your name on something makes it yours?” The reason why he began to write his name on his belongings was so they couldn’t be taken away from him. I have to remind myself that name isn’t actually his but given to him by his father why not use your real name to label things as your own? I guess his brother was right about one thing nothing in the world (at least back then) belongs to him not even his name. It doesn’t answer the question who was he so worried will take Yuwon away that far back?

The phrase is later reiterated when he strikes a deal with his brother for his phone, with nothing to offer up in exchange he gets beat to a pulp. Hanseob blurts something prior to Dohun ‘sacrificing’ himself that I still find strange, “so father told you to give it back to me” what if there was something Dohun took away from him first aside from his phone. Now, what could that be? Their dad previously mentions he doesn’t need an idiot that only knows how to take a beating but seeing the bruises he basically says he used the phrase wrong. Will you play tit for tat the same way for the bullies? He brought up that hanseob still acts like a child around him. Again, like kids fighting over their toys One thing I’ve taken note of, Dohun never labeled that phone did he? What Yuwon says about his texts not being like him might not have even been from him.

Begging of you, please don’t take my man~

In chapters 76 Dohun says in his time away it was common to see people that banged their heads on the wall and spoke amongst themselves as if someone was there. He insists he never had to do drugs to hallucinate Yuwon there is one instance however where his face is warped. We then see a bruise on Dohun’s forehead this scene stuck out to me did he begin to bang his head in attempt to see Yuwon clearly? What does this mean to Yuwon who’d do the same even whilst Dohun lay next to him? What could he be trying to remember or who

Edit bc I began to overthink and can’t stop myself: I think the reason Yuwon bangs his might have to do with his belief of their being good ppl out there bc his parents. He doesn’t even bring it up in his memories yet he still projected himself unto a random girl passing by with her parents (Ch 55 vs 73) I felt that was a way of showing that the belief is buried deep down somewhere but his mind won’t allow him to fully remember. He mentions before that Seungmin satisfied his needs. It seems to me the little time they spent together served as a reminder to him that there is still good in the world. He’s rather naive isn’t he? To trust someone so deeply that you refuse to see the bad in them will only lead to disappointment. What if Seungmin is a reflection of someone from the past? We don’t know how many times this outlook has left Yuwon vulnerable to being taken advantage of.