the media and society are disgusting for distorting the image of a mono so much it pushes a sweet, innocent boy to the point of self-hatred and attempt suicide
but this post isn't about the media and social hive-mind, this post is about Yoohan trying to help Yeonwoo and makes him understand that he's completely sane and normal
'everytime, i could see a longing in ur face'
'trying not to fall in love... and desperately trying to hide that thought from others'
'i bet that's what it says on my face right now'
he didn't start by telling Yeonwoo what he thinks is wrong, uprooting Yeonwoo's entire worldview, even if that worldview is extremely corrupted. he didn't force Yeonwoo into accepting the fact that society is in the wrong for thinking ill of him because Yeonwoo wouldn't believe him anyway. so, he starts small, with the minute details that only someone who's 'obsessed' with Yeonwoo would notice. how he smiles when he sees color, how his mouth opens slightly when Yoohan teaches him about colors. his mouth opening slightly. how his sighs because he can't do anything when Yoohan teases him. his sigh.
he's telling Yeonwoo that the longing, the want, isn't a monstrous thing, it's a human thing. and Yeonwoo isn't alone. other people feel it too. kpop trainees, people who are in love, Yoohan himself.
it's not Yeonwoo spiraling into the madness of obsession or possession, it's a completely normal thing that people do when they're in love. they want to understand each other, they notice things about each other, they want to be with each other, always, they want to keep each other, they're afraid of driving each other away.
and i noticed that Yoohan did this before too, when he asked Yeonwoo to teach him the grayscale right after Yeonwoo asking him to teach the spectrum of the brown color of Yoohan's eyes