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Hi! I post this based on Anon that requesting Painter Of The Night Q&A after chapter 30. Originally this was posted in Korean, but I don’t speak nor understand Korean, and luckily Lezhin Japan got this Q&A translated, I translated it from their Japan page. I hope I translated it in correctly!

Q. Please tell us about the character profile. Baek Nakyum Born: April 20 Height: 174cm

Yoon Seungho Born: January 15 Height: 188cm

Lee Jihwa Born: August 25 Height: 181cm

Jung Inhun Born: December 12 Height 185cm

Q. What made you decide to write this story at the first place? I started drawing it since my friend shown me “Shunga” (kind of erotic art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunga_(disambiguation)).

This is a comic with such a long preparation, so there’s a lot things that I want to say… in the afterword… (but the completion is still far far away)

[storyboard draft here]

Q. What’s the meaning of your pen name? It has something to do with my capricious personality, so I made it my pen name. I was asked if it was an abbreviation for “perverted nerd”, it is not (cries) Note: Byeonduck has meaning “capricious” in Korean

Q. What are you listening while drawing POTN? I’m listening to theme song of historical drama a lot. I’m trying to bring out the mood (?) of historical drama as much as possible.

Q. Do you have any plans to write the spin-off? If I have a chance, yes. Like reverse personality or modern alternate universe.

Q. What’s your favorite scene in this story, and what’s the most difficult scene to draw? I really like the 19th story, “Illusion, Kiss” to the title logo in the 20th story. It has perfect timing break, and a lot of people also like it, so I really like that one.

The difficult one was, scenes in the 20th story and 21st story that comes after the logo title. It was smooth until the logo title, but after that… I had a rough times because of the pressure. I revised the draft countless times.

Q. Do you have any plans to make it into a book? There is, but now it’s still on going.

Q. Are we never going to see Jihwa anymore? He’ll coming back soon.

Q. Between Seungho and Inhun, who do you think has the best personality? So far, I think it’s Seungho. We can find people like Inhun everywhere, but I think people like Seungho are usually put in prison.

Q. What’s the most fun character or scene to draw? It’s really fun when I draw scenes that burst emotions, because there’s gotta be a story going on so that you can draw such scene. Particularly, after I started this series, I made up my mind that ‘I have to draw this!’, and now every time I think about it, I get so excited. I really want to show to you soon.

Q. What is the most difficult character to draw? Inhun.  I knew that drawing eyeglass is really, really, really troublesome… Everyone got the same hairstyle so I had to draw it, but I have no regrets.

Q. Hobakjeon (Laughs) Note: pancake made from Korean pumpkin. It appears several times in the comic.

Q. I wonder what’s Nakyum’s pseudonym when he draws Shunga. Jung Nakyum. It seems that the surname belongs to the master whom he had a crush with. Note: the Japanese version and Korean version have names and pseudonym opposites.

[Nakyum was taught how to write by sister in Kisaeng house]

Q. Did Nakyum get spoiled by girls when he was a little? He was really loved by sisters in Kisaeng house.

Q. What is Nakyum’s favorite food? Hangwa.  When he was a little, sometimes the sisters shared it with him so thankfully he had an experience to eat it, the first time he ate it a lot was when Jihwa brought it to him.

[he eat it carefully bit by bit]

in front of crush | behind crush

Although tolerance is often a sign of progress in a culture, a quick reading of Greek mythology reveals the existence of greater acceptance of diversity in ancient Greece than today. Greek gods and demigods prove that LGBT+ culture is timeless.

1) Achilles

Jean-Baptiste Regnault, The Education of Achilles (1780-1790)

Although the ancient Greek hero Achilles, was totally immune (with the exception of his famous heel), a man managed to penetrate the erotic defenses of the warrior.

Although Homer does not explicitly mention the existence of a homosexual relationship between Achilles and Patroclus, many historians believe that there was a romantic relationship between them, as Patroclus was the only one who managed to reveal Achilles’s compassionate side, even though he was known for his arrogant personality. The death of Patroclus in the hands of the Prince Hector led Achilles into a savage attack in which he killed Hector and dragged his body around Troy.

Other myths also reveal that Achilles was dazzled by the beauty of Troy, a prince of Troy.

2) Zeus

Zeus and Ganymedes

Although famous for his affairs with mortal women, Zeus was also known for the famous choice of the young mortal Ganymede as cupbearer in Mount Olympus. This relationship helped to spread the practice of men to maintain parallel love relationships with boys.

Above: Zeus and Ganymede, artist and date unknown

3) Apollo

Alexander Kiselev, Apollo and Hyacinth (1884)

Despite flirting with various of nymphs, Apollo was also the lover of a Spartan prince, Hyacinthus, who died because of a discus, and then transformed from man to the hyacinth flower. Pseudo-Apollodorus also stated  that Apollo and Thamuri (Thracian singer) were  the first male homosexual couple in history.

And for those who believe that same-sex marriage is an invention of the 21st century, Apollo was found in a relationship with Hymen, the god of marriage.

Above: Alexander Kiselev, Apollo and Hyacinthus (1884).

4) Hermes

Hermes Orator

The god with the winged sandals is reported to have male lovers in many myths. In a variation of the Hyacinth myth, he was Hermes’s lover, Crocus killed by a disc dropped by a god before turning later into a flower.

Some myths indicate a romantic relationship between Hermes and the Persian hero.

Zeus : This is my boyfriend Ganymede

Ganymede : Hi