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hi. made a comic for this polytrix fic (so we were liars) by @arendellesfirstwinter

To me bro is a representation of how regret alone doesn't make you a good person. And in fact, wallowing in misery and self pity is fundamentally selfish and self obsessed behavior.

Everything he does in the movie is either because he wants to free himself from Gwi-Ma, or because he is too weak to resist it. The fact that his final self sacrifice actually helps save the world feels almost like an accident, and works 90% due to Rumi's real determination to make the world better. Jinu just found a way to die.

It doesn't escape me how he always talks about how much guilt he feels over what he did to his family, but never once talks about doing right by their memory, or avenging them, "never again", or something. Just him. Neither he ever mentions all the people who straight up die due to Saja Boys tearing the veil.

Such an interesting take on a central villain for a movie about earnestness. KPDH's greatest strength is how naturalistic every single character is, from main characters to background crowds. And Jinu's genuine yet manipulative self hatred is the most interesting of it all.