Thank you so much for the kind words 🥹🫶

That one is pretty loaded… being a regressor is just a long extended metaphor for grief. YJH is a regressor in the literal sense, but also because he lives in a time that has already passed. [orv spoilers below]

Go back to look at what he says at the end to the Disaster of Floods, and also what KDJ says to him on the rooftop before the Nirvana fight! Because YJH’s life has a instant reset button, his life and his memories lose their weight and eventually lose meaning entirely. He judges people based on actions they haven’t done yet in this life, because for him, they have happened, and will definitely happen again.

He tries to go back and save certain people, but the people that he saves are not the people that he remembers. It’s similar to how Lee Jihye describes Na Bori in the 1865th round.

The quote “you are not a regressor because you regress” is said in the context of the museum fight between HSY and YJH.

In the 2 year time skip, YJH has very clearly not been coping well with KDJ’s death and general lack of purpose, but HSY seems to be doing just fine (pre museum fight). She has a job and is reintegrating into society and everything, just like everyone else.

Fighting YJH makes her angry because…he looks awful. He confronts her by trying to steal the model of the Ark that they both know is just a replica, to not give up on getting KDJ. The pitiful sight of him makes HSY furious, because she’s been trying so, so hard to move on, and seeing him still going is a really awful reflection of exactly what HSY has been suppressing. She and YJH here, in the dirt in front of the Scenario museum fighting over a toy, are the last two people who have not let go yet.

thinking about how ysa knew something was wrong with the kdj they rescued in 1865 because she had only seen yjh make that expression one other time…

This was the reason riceballs were the first things that were mentioned to have reminded him of Zhixi, upon first looking at him closely.

Just like all the other circumstances, it's so cute to see how subconsciously Rangyi cares. As if it's his nature. Barely met, hardly close, and he's already associated to a memory held so tight. I don't know, this type of character is just very endearing to see.