mei I chae?

okay so this ask sent me on my own odyssey catching up to yoonchae lore. and wow this is indeed crazy. lots going on for yoonchae this era

i think her thinking she’d be a good boyfriend isn’t shocking in the slightest. she’s always been self-aware and out of everyone i do agree that her and sophia would be good partners. the fact that she expected herself to be chosen over sophia by at least one other member is the interesting bit. of course there’s the obligatory megan 👀 delusions. this is giving yearnchae. i need her to watch the video and see megan go on about sophia being a good boyfriend, i think it’s a necessary character development for her to realise that she needs to up the ante with megan. if you asked this question a year ago i do think megan would have chosen yoonchae (and yoonchae probably would have chosen sophia, to which we get the inverse of this scenario and megan would be the one ‘jokingly’ pissed yoonchae didn’t choose her), so clearly things have shifted

There’s this weird tendency to flatten her into “the dumb one,” and it often seems to trace back to her dyslexia or the fact that she’ll occasionally misspell a word in a Weverse DM. That’s such a bizarre leap to make. Dyslexia affects reading and spelling; it isn’t a measure of intelligence. Someone misspelling a word in an informal message isn’t evidence that they’re incapable of complex thought

It feels especially annoying because people would probably recognise how offensive this is in most other contexts. Yet when it’s a young woman in fandom, suddenly it’s treated as a harmless character trait to exaggerate for laughs. She becomes ditzy, incapable of following conversations, or someone who needs everything explained to her

Maybe calling it misogynistic feels like a strong word to some people, but reducing a woman to an infantilised stereotype because of a disability reflects broader biases. Whether people intend it or not, it’s belittling

a few moments later:

so! lets dive in!

you’ve heard of moonchae and wavegan, but i personally think that moongan and wavechae could work too! let’s go.

yoonchae being pulled into megan’s orbit. there’s a pull to her, and yoonchae is just drawn in. something about her. almost magnetizing. she’s infectious, and people compare her to the sun. yoonchae can see this, too, can see why some might mistake her dazzling brightness for the brightest star the world has ever known.

megan changes around yoonchae. sure, she’s silly with her in public, and flirty, and all too unserious. but when she’s alone with yoonchae she confides in her, talks to her, lets yoonchae see the quiet side of herself, the self aware megan, the one who admits that she’s breaking down sometimes, the one who admits that she isn’t perfect. 

how could yoonchae not be drawn to this pull? this side of megan. she is beautiful loud, but she’s also beautiful quiet. too many people see her as the sun. not many consider her the moon. 

yoonchae sees megan. sees her when she’s quiet, sees her when she’s breaking, sees her when she slips on her bubbly outside persona. the pull is magnetic.