reading this webtoon feels like getting my head shoved underwater and then every time i try to resurface for air my head gets shoved back down underwater again
That's Sayeon Lee psychically waterboarding you. She's not doing it on purpose (mostly) her unconscious body is just really good at drowning people
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When I think about how Ryujin could use the essence, the creation of a sword made of blood always comes to my mind. These thoughts have been holding my attention for far too long. Perhaps I have been playing fantasy and Souls-like games so much...
I have not seen ppl talking abt this but I thought it was neat! wolhye says that spending too much time in the godling “dimension” will make her “unravel” - considering the previous mentions of people being threads that are woven together to create the fabric of life, the godlings existing in a space where everyone unravels, loses their social bonds and probably their very identity, selfhood, personality, history, is interesting… theres a lot that can be said abt godlings, human culture/community as “cloth”, this entire metaphor, but i want to focus on the visual aspects here w wolhye and sara
how its visualized - the art w strands coming off wolhye to visually express that she is unraveling, coming apart, unwoven in the godling space, is really beautiful and striking to me, and reminded me of someone else
namely, saras character design as well as framing constantly has her long hair blowing in the wind, strands flying all over the place. and while previously I interpreted this as the face obscuring tactic that it was, hiding her eyes and often her expression, making her mysterious and beautiful and terrifying and unknowable in wolhyes eyes, I see that the second purpose for it was to make her appear as if she too is unraveling
the effect is achieved by coloring wolhye as 1-2 solid colors and having strands of those color fly off of her, but this is just. how sara is drawn all the time!! a black silhouette with black strands floating around her, looking like something alien and unknowable. its a purposeful design to draw her like this, as if she is unmoored and disconnecting from the world around her. shes back on earth and shes unraveling in the same way a human unravels in the space of a godling ……
I largely think this is metaphorical - idt sara is a godling or that she is physically falling apart, but I think her contract w vorago, her boredom of this life where she can know so much and yet can only perceive other ppl, is mentally making her unravel lol. like is she suicidal? has she given up? does she interpret her impending death as a part of an intricate plan shes cooked up? has she “lost her humanity” as samin believed? is this simply the end result of being able to see the future or unwind timelines from months ago…? maybe she had postpartum depression after having sayeon and never rly got better idk
in any case, theres certainly other ways to interpret this artistic choice - the strands simply make sara look more mysterious and ethereal and scary etc - but i like to imbue more meaning into this. sara is unraveling in some way. we dont know why, we dont know how exactly (emotionally? morally??) but in my reading she is losing core aspects of herself the longer she goes like this, growing more and more apathetic snd anhedonic, and it culminates in her death at hongsan island… its a really wonderful visual framing echoing wolhye!!!
I totally understand why the fandom is mostly churning out content about Sayeon's psyche or about the Lee family or about the toxic yuri but there's something about Iseul's character that I've seen literally nobody talk about ever since the chapter where it happened and it drives me nuts because I think it's an important part of his characterisation.
Mind y'all that I'm not a fast passer so I'm only at chapter 128.
Before I get into it I want to do a more general analysis of my boy.
Ever since chapter 84 "King Piece" we've gotten a lot more focus on Iseul and how he influences the group dynamic and he's gotten a lot more development. He went from "I'm happy to be a pawn" (though I must admit we don't actually know if he said that or if our unreliable narrator Sayeon just drew that conclusion after he called her the king piece and said he trusts her) to wanting her trust and respect in return and not wanting them to be used like a tool. In the current arc with Zone C we've seen that he's a bit desperate to prove himself which makes sense since his stated goal during his introduction was becoming a level 10 officer.
Despite coming off as a happy go lucky kind of guy he is quite ambitious, very emotionally intelligent and over time he is learning to use his gift far more versatile thus becoming more powerful. That's probably one of the reasons why - despite his ambitions - he hasn't rushed things until now, he knows where he stands in regards of his powers, he knows he needs more experience and training so he's been taking his time. His problem is that Sayeon's actions gave him the impression that he needs to do something right now or nothing will change for the better, chapter 98 "Favourite Child" really was a turning point for him. He isn't an impulsive or rash person, he usually observes first and then acts tactfully but after that hasn't advanced him so far regarding his cell mates he's resorting to other measures like confrontation as we can see in chapter 106 "The Problem With People Is". Now even though he's rightfully suspicious about Sayeon saying exactly what he wants to hear, he can't prove through conversation that something is wrong or that they've got issues as long as she responds like that so he gets desperate and tries to prove it with actions as seen in chapter 117 "Three Fatal Weaknesses".
One of the first things we learn about him is that his father was part of the corps and died in action, yet despite this tragedy he idolises his father so much that he's excited about joining the corps in spite of the 80% mortality rate amongst trainees. Like, you'd think someone with family ties into a corrupt organisation would know better than most how fucked up things are but unlike Taeho Iseul doesn't seem to register this, despite his characterisation as quite intelligent and much less naive than he comes off. But when Wolhye uses her gift on him we actually get to learn that his father died when he was still young, that he died as canon fodder, that his non-abberant mother doesn't want Iseul to join the corps and thus end up like his father, all of this means he knows that the corps doesn't value it's members but he simply can't accept that because it would mean his dad didn't die a hero but a rather meaningless and avoidable death. Iseul probably doesn't want to live with the gerneral feeling of insecurity and with the rage towards the system that would come with the acceptance of what the corps actually is like (he doesn't want to be a criminal so he has no other option but the corps). It is very clear that he doesn't want to end up like his dad, that's actually his main motivation that gives him to power to fight the despair field. Like someone in the episode comments said Iseul really has some personality traits of a typical shōnen protagonist but that doesn't help him much in a world like this.
You can see how these chapters brought up discussions about his character but nobody ever mentions this bit of dialogue from chapter 49 "Cell 4's Day Off" anymore: "Well, my dad never had a problem getting a seat. Must be because he was a red tie... we're just trainees. They don't fear us yet."
Back then their only challenge they've overcome was the capture the flag, so we only knew a few things about Iseul, we knew about his emotional intelligence, his ambitions, his radiant personality, his mediator tendencies, his gift, his dead dad, his admiration for the corps and that he can lie quite well if he wants to as seen with Sayeon's plan in the first round against cell 3. Apart from that last bit he always felt like an open book to me, a very consistent character, a bit too simple in fact. Before the Min is the spy reveal I suspected Iseul as well because he seems just a bit too naive towards the corps to be genuine - which now we know stems from sort of supressing the criticism.
So when this guy who was a bit too friendly the whole time implied that he wants non-abberants to fear him I was taken aback. And then it hit me, unlike with other characters we've never really seen his views on society outside of the corps, like what does he think of normal people? What were his experiences as a registered abberant before he was old enough to join? How did people react when they saw his cuff? Does he resent humans for the discrimination towards his kind? Does he have an aversion towards abberants outside of the corps like Sayeon has? How much does he know about the society of illegal abberants? Does he truly want to force respect through fear? Is he an abberant supremacist? And so on.
We've basically only ever seen Iseul within the corps and it's restrictions, a set framework so to speak, so it beggs the question of how he was/would be outside of it. I think it's very important that we don't underestimate him just because he is empathetic, there is something bitter within him, he's actually much more like Sayeon regarding his morals than one might think (as seen in Sleepacross's Insta post with the trolley problem).
ryujin who refuses to cross certain lines despite what's happened to her or what she's lost because it's not right. sayeon who is fully willing to cross said lines to achieve a better outcome despite the possible consequences because it's for a greater good. and mind you ryujin was the one who grew up in the world of crime and sayeon was sheltered and protected by samin
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No offense Tabs, but you really shouldn't put so much faith in Han. All his actions pretty much point towards being a monster. Maybe for the greater good, but I question what his version of the greater good looks like. Hmmm, so many parallels to Sayeon...
Aera was referred to as an eyes always watching over the aberrants corps. I think some amount of Makima comparison is reasonable
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I saw someone on Twitter say that Sayeon Lee has BPD and I wanna put in my two cents that I believe she has NPD or at least narcissistic traits instead.
Not a very long analysis (if you could even call it that) but I did rant to my gf how I wholeheartedly believe Sayeon is narcissistic and/or has suspected NPD.
(I am open to discussion about this so feel free to reblog or comment with your thoughts if you agree or disagree.)
Adding onto this post— (this was originally in my reblogs but I decided to edit the og post I made.)
People with NPD care about their reputation and how other people view them. Sayeon wants to be viewed as trustworthy by her peers, she wants to be seen as a good leader, and someone who deserves to climb the ranks. Every time she would slip up or say or do something that goes against how she wants to be perceived, she would rewind and try again, choosing her choice words and reacting in a way she thinks a person “should” to remain this reliable leader she desperately clings to. That is important to her. Sometimes she acts arrogantly because she knows that she can rewind back and fix it, we can see her grow more and more cocky and arrogant the more she uses her gift and the more she gets the hang of it. She’s reliant on her gift and is very confident in her own abilities to the point it gets her into situations.
Another example of something else Sayeon and pwNPD share is their lack of empathy. PwNPD are shown to have little to no empathy for people and “sensitive” topics. In Sayeon’s case- she definitely lacks some empathy. There was a whole segment in season 2 where she has shown to have a dilemma within herself about empathy and sympathy. Her and Ryujin have a conversation after a mission where she couldn’t comprehend the fact her plan did not go exactly as she expected it to because the people acted differently to how she envisioned they would act; having and showing empathy and compassion. She makes a joke to Ryujin implying that she couldn’t believe that people would simply show kindness out of their own volition, and was fully confident they’d acted accordingly to how she thought. She has a hard time trying to get into other people’s point of views when it’s something she can’t understand nor comprehend properly, compared to someone like Ryujin, who deep down has a lot of compassion towards others— Sayeon does not have a good gripe on that matter.
Sayeon acts on her own accord very often because she believes she’s the only one who can do it right. In some cases that can just be her arrogance, but I believe for her, it’s deeper than that. PwNPD are deep down actually very insecure people, with very low self-esteem, Sayeon is no different. She acts on her own accord because she often wants to prove herself to be this good person. She went through childhood trauma and family issues. And as a result of that, she feels responsible for what her family has done and so desperately wants to prove herself to the others around her and to the world that she can “better” the world and in turn, better herself as a person, essentially “fix” herself. In actuality, she thinks very lowly of herself, which in turn makes her put up a facade of self confidence and a reliable teammate and leader as a coping and defence mechanism.
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really who would've guessed that the person who expects everybody to trust her but doesn't trust in anyone else and who only views people as pawns to be used is a bad influence
aw cute art though
sayeon is constantly playing 4D chess i love her so much
lowkey evil? jungwoo you mean HIGHKEY evil
something something you're only truly good if you're trying not to be
well i mean there's not much pretending to be done because you did attend school together
i'm sure that'll be very very easy for you jungwoo
WHO SPEAKS LIKE THIS SAYEON
ah jaeil's ghost continuing haunt the narrative and dance the macarena
she says with absolutely no light in her eyes
"There's a strange warmth to her" girl that's the lingering heat from the pit of hell she crawled out of. You need to start running
Not Sayeon using cult recruitment tactics to recruit a cult member
nothing behind sayeon's eyes, when you dig deeper into her there is nothing absolutely nothing at all
she truly is the king. btw i love it when women are referred to with typically male titles like yes give us more women kings and women emperors and shit like that
and i've reached my daily image upload limit so see you tomorrow !!
I don't think that's correct. She WANTS you to think there's nothing deeper to her. She wants you to think she just wants to make the world a better place because she's a good person. But if you look deeper, you find her guilt, her narcissism, her self hatred, her genuine need to rid the world of herself and of people like her.
If she was in Homestuck her aspect would be time. Which is ironic because it legitimately is the power she already has.
Noooo come backkkkkkkkk why you gotta run out of imagessssss
The beginning of page 1 is in the middle-left of the text 😭
This was a total spur-of-the-moment idea, and I started it completely by accident. That’s why page 1 is a bit chaotic, but I’ve numbered everything. Later on, I developed my train of thought on pages 2 and 3, showing another day in these girls' lives. I doubt I’ll develop this any further, as I have other ideas for now. I really like how it turned out, so I posted it as is!
I guess it's a school AU? Ryujin flushes and gets flustered around Sayeon all the time. She hasn't fully realized her feelings yet. Sayeon hides her feelings under various excuses, but her actions still cross the line of mere friendship. And she stays perfectly calm, as long as she’s the one in control. And I also thought that here, Ryujin could be popular among other girls (Jiwon and Yesol), which wasn't obvious to herself. Therefore, Sayeon walks everywhere after Ryujin, trying to quietly secure her place next to her.
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