So I might actually write that essay, I was thinking about essay topics, or meta to talk about and got hit in the face by some parallels and mirroring.

SHJ and HYJ’s relationship is a journey into personhood. Both of them dehumanize each other at the beginning, not recognizing the other as an actual human being.  Merely something to use. They also think the same of themselves. HYJ even accepts the “item” label, and thinks he would be much more useful as an item, a tool without an ego, simply something to use. (mild spoilers for SHJ's backstory here) We don’t get much insight into SHJ’s mindset and opinion of himself, but I think even without his memories, he’s aware that his existence is merely the means to an end for someone else. That he isn’t a “person” in the same sense as everyone else. SHJ most likely experiences the disconnect that all the other S-ranks do, but on a much higher level due to his sheer experience. 

His emotions have become flat and stunted. He’s functional, and great at what he does, but he no longer is able to experience great bouts of emotions in the way that regular people do. This leads him to dehumanize himself, as humans and animals can be cute, they can be hurt and die. Yet he won’t, and no one cares for him, as he is not someone worthy of being cared for in his own opinion.

Anyway, I might take this idea, find some supporting quotes, and write an actual essay lol. Already have over 500 words written. (I might be more successful at this essay than *checks notes* the 8 unwritten sctir fanfic ideas in my brain)

anon can we skip the small talk i want your hand in marriage

YESSS sctir explores personhood a lot i think. especially self worth and how charas perceive both themselves and others in relation to the people they love— yoohyun only caring about people when they've to do with yoojin, for example, and even himself to some extent especially in regards to his emotions (422). like yoojin's whole thing is that he values all his kid's lives over his own even though he seems to have convinced himself that he doesn't?????? yoojin. man. being unable to let go of the past is a huge thing for him and considering everything he's lost— not only all the people under his care from the keyword pre-reg, but also yh seemingly tossing him aside and severing their relationship when it was something that yj dedicated his own life to, and then fucking dying— it becomes a fuckin vital part of his character.

as for shj— i haven't reached that far into his backstory yet, but @dbgdbw 's translation notes (especially at the end of ch 209— super informative read for both hyj and shj's speech patterns) are iiincredibly thorough and really helped me grasp what sort of relationship hj and yj have, and how it evolves, just from speech patterns alone. i only have a vagueish knowledge of what happened over there (meaning his backstory) so at risk of becoming the very thing i despise and mischaracterizing my favourite annoying bastard (loving), i won't speak on him any more. but i do think you're right about their journey into personhood— their compromise, agreement, concession, whatever you want to call it in 187 (end of shj's birthday party arc) was both of them starting to recognise the other as a person. "...It felt like the first time I saw Sung Hyunjae as a person... right now, he felt just a tiny bit different." (187).

anyways, i await that essay eagerly, and if you haven't already, check out dbgdbw's translations!! they're very informative!

best,

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Link to previous propanda post (there are a lot of great additions in the tags too!)

Anyway, here are our contestants - at the respective moments when they first fell in possessive want with each other. Lookit them.

Han Yoojin thoughts in his instance: "ME WANT" (that's verbatim btw) Greedy, possessive, Caveman.

Sung Hyunje thoughts in his instance: "Can I ever go back to the time before I experienced such sheer ecstasy" So much very omega thoughts. He just had his world rocked. (shhh! forget what happens next, let's live in the moment. yandere girlfriends also exist)

Btw, these were two separate instances. Note both of them going BADUM BADUM heart beating like crazy in both their respective instances. (Note: No, this is still not a BL)

Btw, since we are leaning fully into the stereotypes: the confirmed virgin between the two is Sung Hyunje. Han Yoojin has no experience with romantic relationships, but some (ambiguous) experience with 'skinship' in the past.

Anyway, now for something different: some delightful fic recommendations where Yoojin gets to get his sadistic streak on with Hyunje and/or Hyunje gets to indulge his princess side. (err. These are all E-rated, many are pwps, readers beware etc)

(Btw, both Yoojin and Hyunje do have a couple other alpha candidates too. In Hyunje's case, that's Chief Song Taewon aka the Lunar Eclipse to Sung Hyunje's Little Moon, who is the Only One who Can [Spoiler] Him. There are some STW/SHJ fics in the list as well)

Omegaverse with Omega!SHJ

Flavor: Everyone thinks SHJ is an alpha, including alpha HYJ with whom he's been having Some Supposedly α^2 Flirtations but surprise! SHJ is actually an omega and willing to reveal this to HYJ > of expectations by klytia (heliotrope) > All I Could Ever Give You by RavingBlack

Flavor: Why is the world's hottest and strongest S-rank omega (SHJ) trying to get with a boring normal barely an alpha F-rank guy like me (HYJ)? > You Already Know by Anonymous > Mine Of Gold by Lazlo (Lhotseley) > OMEGA SHJ BREEDING PROGRAM by @frillbrillator, Lazlo, morningstar, TenderSun_and_Moon

Flavor: Bratty Omega!SHJ gets fucked into speechlessness by Alpha!Song Taewon > gold mine by rinovellas  > compliance never killed the cat by rinovellas  > the insatiable me's curiosity by clqveris (this is not omegaverse, but in a similar vein without omegaverse)

A few of the more recent-ish canonverse fics that nonetheless play with subby or bottom Hyunje in some way.

fire in my skin by klytia (heliotrope) - Fresh! New! takes place around novel ch 450s. Yoojin wants to make Hyunje cry. And tie him up. And leave some marks. man on a missionary by rinovellas - Switch4Switch Yoojin is determined to convert Hyunje to the joys of getting fucked. make perserverance your bosom friend by howlingmoonrise (TheDarkStoryteller) - Yoojin gets invited to judge the quality of Hyunjae's "merchandise" (aka boobs) after he oggles Song Taewon's boobs a bit too much in Ch 409. (Our Yoojin is a bara boobs man, this is canon. No, he's not into lady boobs. No, still not BL) the ties that bind you by howlingmoonrise (TheDarkStoryteller) - Tied-up and ranked-down Hyunjae during Ch 507 gets tied up a bit more by Yoojin and taken care of and discovers new things about himself. milk instead of honey by howlingmoonrise (TheDarkStoryteller) - Hyunje gets blessed with a lactation skill during a dungeon raid. Yoojin is a very helpful partner who helps out very helpfully. get your hand in the game by howlingmoonrise (TheDarkStoryteller) - Sung Hyunjae gets fisted by Yoojin. That's it, that's the fic.

(these stalwarts have been doing so much for the vulnerable!SHJ and sadistic!HYJ economy in this fandom)

Finally I end with Child_C_Moon's adorable bunny SHJ. Please lookit housewife Hyunje Bunny ready to welcome Yoojin-gun home. There are a lot more which will all give you cuteness aggression against this blond ahjussi. Let us wallow in the feeling together.

Han Yoojin from The S-Classes That I Raised

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The same sin binds us.

Thinking of Han Yoojin's Baby Count For Reasons of omegaverse poll and also the reveal of the above image as part of the merch with the upcoming Taiwan physical set

Spoilers, since we are talking all the kids till end of novel and beyond.

By my count, we are looking at 10 at the absolute minimum to like anywhere like 20+ or more.

Anyway, no wonder we don't have any art with the entire baby parade in one image!

Humanoid-form or speech having kids (5 to 9)

3 babies he grew in his body and gave birth to (GBS trio) 1 child that he adopted (Yerim) 2 kids that he is raising that he didn't give birth to but is related to / somehow kinda responsible for creating at the same time (Yoohyun + SPOILER) 1 child by marriage to parenting partner who is also sibling to one his kids and also kinda related to him sorta (SPOILER) 1 foster child - IDK if Noah really fits here, but maaaybe? Foster kid who stayed with Yoojin for a little while before gaining the strength to stand on his own feet and moved out while staying in touch, building his own separate group of friends and family. Riette certainly canonically counts both Noah and Bellare as their joint kids, lmao. Though I feel she's lost custody of Bellare completely by now. She dropped B off at Yoojin's almost as soon as B was born, I don't think B has any connection to Riette anymore at all) 2 eggs incubated (Irin, Sanho) - Again, they could be said to have been raised more by Yoohyun and Yerim. But at the same time, I would consider them both more like their familiars instead, they seem to have been born at the level of maturity of their contractors. So they don't really feel like Yoojin's kids entirely. Irin and Sanho are the same sort of being - but one of them looks like a lizard and one of them looks like a tiny mermaid, but I put them under this category because both of them can talk like humans fluently.

The kids with only no humanoid forms or linguistic ability as of now* (4 to 8)

*as of now because as per canon at least 4 of these kids have strong potential to eventually grow up to either gain humanoid forms and/or linguistic ability 3 monster babies who are full-time living at home with dad (Peace, Chirpie, Bellare) 1 monster baby who has grown up and has now become independent and flown the nest unlike the rest of the house-bound appa's kids (Blue) -> Yoo Grace/Eunhye. Yoojin and Myeongwoo's child option seems to be winning in my Eunhye poll. She clearly is sentient/sapient, but she lives inside an item 99% of the time, and also is actually responsible for taking care of Yoojin instead of the other way round entirely, so unf she often doesn't entirely feel Yoojin's-kid-like in the context of the work to me. @Port4shippers mentioned her feeling like YMW and Shalos' kid and I kinda like that idea. She's a child in the Han home, but as a working apprentice/intern sent there with an important job to do by her dad. -> Horang-ie and Mareu both feel a bit more pet/mount like than kid-like. They largely stay at home with them most of the time but still don't feel as integrated into the larger family and as close to Yoojin as any of the others, instead they have a different Yoojin-kid they are more attached to. I think Mareu, being a water dragon has limitations in her being able to be around with the family all the time. Also Horang-ie definitely feels like they have a crush on Peace, so like... neighborhood orphan child Yoojin took in, and is fostering, who clearly has has a giant crush on handsome oppa (gn) Peace. Sidenote: Lehanahi's egg is like… grandbaby. So Yoojin does already have One (1) Grand-eggbaby. Or maybe a baby who ended up having to be brought up by older sibling because of absent parent. Yoojin truly dropped the ball on this one, Bellare had to do the hard work of incubating this egg and ended up growing up too soon, ending their carefree days of playing around with Chirpie. I really need Yoojin to take more responsibility for this little guy. Please, a tiny itsy bitsy cutie naga baby would be so adorable.)

Joint Custody and Foster Kids (3 to innumerable)

1 monster baby with legal joint custody (Song-ie) 2 monster babies raised but now fostered out (Sorok, Comet) -> I guess all the ones he is raising specifically for other guilds like Vare-nim the Pegasus, the Liefnil, the Buffalo monster and the two Unicorns, and the wolves, the monsters he is raising for BurnCave Guild etc etc are more like brief foster kids.

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SPOILERS

When Yoojin is trying to honeytrap a guy, the literal bait is 'I have the power to birth children of any species' and the guy being honeytrapped tries to bargain with him for that he'd be totally willing to give him unimaginable riches and perks etc. if only he'd have just 1 child every 5 years, that's enough.

Also Yoojin takes off his shirt for this conversation. And then Sung Hyunje is in the background trying to get him to put his shirt back on, because he'll catch a cold.

Thanks so much for bringing it to my attention! As far as I’m aware the polls have not been rigged but I will admit that the reblog graphs look odd for some of them. 

The Han Yoojin vs Leon Kennedy poll also has a weird number of votes compared to the others. I can’t make any decisions right now but I’ll keep an eye on the polls and if the numbers don’t add up I might consider disqualifying one of them.

The opinion that characters from A/B/O media shouldn’t compete is fair but I believe that they should still be included in the tournament. Also if all A/B/O characters were to be banned from competing, I feel like Dean should also be banned given his role in creating the omegaverse.

It is purely an action/fantasy novel. It just happens that the MC gains the ability to.. create children and his literal superpower is parenting 😭😭😭

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What trivia and hobbies do you remember that you've never done? When you see people on the street, do you remember knowing them in another life? At your comrades funerals, do you look at them and remember you have memories of raising them and being raised by them, do you remember standing across from them at the altar, the way they like their coffee or their smile when they're truly happy? Do you have memories of looking at them and thinking, my parents, my partner, my child?

Han Yoojin, how do you remember where you begin and others end?