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Part one:
https://www.mangago.me/home/mangatopic/22593942/
The hallway scene in chapter 74 is remembered differently in Yuwon’s pov Dohun was instead standing besides him not behind him and gets hit. This is a very clear look at how vividly Yuwon can write Dohun into his story, while Dohun’s POV would prove he didnt follow the script. When Yuwon helps him up his hands are conveniently covering “Dohun’s” name tag. They are later brought in for questioning for the death of the first bully and the night they were locked in the storage room was mentioned as apart of the investigation. As previously mentioned in part one memory and reality seem to bleed across both of their povs making it harder to grasp what’s actually happening in the moment.
In Yuwon’s pov apart from the obvious identity confusion or rather the assigned role disarray he projects, every core event did happen and technically everything spoken has been said but again memory and reality clash when events are told from his pov you can’t trust who says what or the actual timeline these were actually said. At the center of this distortion is his suppressed memories of him being the victim and the surrounding suspicion of Dohun’s involvement or lack thereof.
While Dohun does provide a more reliable narration for whatever reason he’s missing a massive portion of their shared past. There are gaps in his pov that are crucial moments in Yuwon’s and little details that are quietly forged to keep him in frame: neither recalls who actually spilled the soda on the bullies but a bruise magically appears on his face that Yuwon pointed out was already there before the bully threw the can, Dohun has no memory of them sitting together after the seating rearrangement, the scenes we don’t see Yuwon’s face from his memories strike me as odd too, he wasn’t brought in for questioning either despite supposedly being in the storage room with Yuwon. He wasn't even a suspect… Furthermore, the very pivotal scene where Yuwon tells him he wants the bullies dead wasn’t shown either but brought up three seperate times in Yuwon’s memories. This disconnect made me question whether a lot of their memories were actually shared with each other. All these absent details in Dohun’s recollection leave us with one missing variable: who was Yuwon really with?
The thin line between memory, reality, truth and lie can be drawn by the yellow tags. But it raises the question: what clues are we left with when those tags are completely absent? For instance, when they are in their gym uniforms, when they were shown in the basement studio, at their part time jobs or when Dohun was with his family? I theorize when the tags display their names it shows some truth but when they appear blank it signals both of their attempts at erasing certain key moments and an even more desperate attempt at erasing a certain person to fit a narrative they’ve created: that Yuwon still moves without thinking for Dohun. I also concluded that the blank tags shows when a character step into another’s role. Here are the roles I know are for certain: The Victim, The Hero and The Bystander. I wonder if the 4 tulips have anything to do with this of course none of those roles would exist without a fourth role, The Villian. They are also the shade of yellow the name tags were idk I believe Dohun followed what Yuwon says to him about minding his own business from the very beginning starting from the day he first transfers and a hidden character acts as his stand in for the role of hero while he played the role of bystander.
"who was yuwon really with?" oh fuckkk you really made me develop a new brain wrinkle holy shit.
I love this theory, btw I don't recall anything regarding that black haired girl that recognized yuwon when she first joined the company. it seems like dohun remembers her and that's why he spoke to her, idk maybe she's involved somehow but she hasn't been brought up again after that
Thank you! I do remember there is a seating chart shown in chapter 42. The classroom was made up of columns each one alternated between the boys and girls but bc there were more boys in the class two guys would always be paired together. Prior to soda can scene in chapter 68, Yuwon was watching two friends playing on a gaming console if you notice they are sitting in the intended column (vertical) for boys. We know before the seating rearrangement Yuwon sat closer to the front of the class. It’s highly likely that he sat in the same horizontal row as the boys playing on the console. There is a shot from Dohun’s pov after the soda can was thrown someone stands up. Upon first glance you would think the person standing is Yuwon and Dohun watches from seat next to him until you look at their desk. Whoever is standing was desk mates with Yuwon and he’s clutching his head. Dohun doesnt react to the guy standing until he looks off screen and the sfx *whoosh* pops up Dohun looks again and Yuwon is now standing. Dohun watched this all go down from a completely different column but the same row I hate how that was worded. I do want to point out that Yuwon told him not to sit with him and despite him getting hurt he doesn’t interfere further proving my point that he was an obedient bystander it feels fitting that he ends up being a cuck.
I think the console was intentionally mentioned both in the past and in the future for a reason. I have no doubts that he was sitting where that boy with the console sat at. With that being said going off of the seating chart and the fact that a pair a guys already sat in a pair then Dohun had to have been sitting by a girl. On Dohun’s first day Yuwon was initially sitting by a girl we can also make the guess that Dohun sat by a girl too since two of the bullies were seatmates in the beginning. The new hire could very well be any of those girls, who knows.
In chapter 71 it would seem like Dohun’s brother can recall phone calls with Yuwon meanwhile the contents of Dohun’s and Yuwon’s phone calls from his own pov were never brought to light. It makes me rethink what Yuwon says about the emoticons he uses “they don’t suit him”
I’m so sorry I never shut up lol it took me a while to get to the point with my last reply too oh god-
I remember ppl pointing out that the new hire lady resembled Dohun a lot. I also noticed she had a mole under her eye a while back I remember ppl were speculating that maybe Hanseob would have a mole too (assumptions made based off of the mc from authors other work, emotion)
What if he looks like the new hire? She does have darker hair and it wouldn’t really come as a surprise if he resembled Dohun they’re brothers after all. That would make what Dohun told her after her welcome dinner even stranger assuming Yuwon wasn’t hallucinating it
I revert back to the opening statement often and in a lot of ways it’s referred to differently depending on the character. Aya appearing from the past, Kota refusing to shed light on the past that Aya wasn’t apart of. For Erika, it feels like she tries to chase after both of their “starlight” wanting to replicate Aya’s to become a source of light for Kota and wanting Kota shine once again. The scene when Kota asks if they should date she stands under a street light it’s artificial. Now that I think about it both Aya and Erika have been shown under stage lights, hmm. Realizing she can’t catch up to Aya she writes on a tanzaku wishing for her to return, she could’ve wished for Kota to return her feelings but didn’t. I interpreted her doing so in a way she wishes for Kota to get her light back but she knows it’s stuck in the past with Aya.