dessicus’ basement

just finished binging the entire The Guy Upstairs webtoon. i genuinely think this is in my top 3 favorite webtoons ive ever read, right behind Purple Hyacinth and Schoolbus Graveyard.

one thing i feel like i care about in a story more than the average person is how well the author covers plot holes and keeps the story watertight, and i think this webtoon does that really well. throughout reading the story, whenever i start thinking about how a situation could have been prevented, i find myself realising that realistically, it kind of couldnt have? like there isnt a single character in the story who does anything really stupid or out of character to force the plot forwards in any way, and i really like that.

*SPOILER ALERT FOR EP 41 OF THE WEBTOON*

at this point in the story, hawa is pretty weirded out by how rozy really doesnt want her to be in a relationship with adam, and yet she STILL remembers and takes into account rozy’s advice telling her not to be alone with adam.

i love that.

in a lesser story, hawa at this point would already have forgotten rozy’s advice and be head over heels for adam to increase the drama in this story.

and yet, the author of this story knows theyre writing 3-dimensional characters and doesnt just make hawa throw aside a years long friendship for a month long relationship.

in the end the advice doesnt really end up mattering cus adam manages to convince hawa to stay anyways, but thats fine cus its also realistic that she’d fall for his pressuring and for me its the fact that hawa even thought of the advice that counts.

he knows exactly the way to his woman’s heart.

HOLY SHIT JINSHI IS GOING CRAZY TJIS EPOSIDE????

i genuinely didnt expect any real romantic progression until at least like season 2 but well i guess not, slow burn more like quick burn (what does that even mean) (my brain is short circuiting)

and the fact that maomao reacted positively too WHAAAT

hoenstly the only thing holding me back from fully engaging in this ship was the supposed 7 yr age gap that the wiki says they have, but this new information has snapped my chains and my delusion from this point forward will be boundless.