#parallel stories

I love when the side plots mirror the big plots. Park Dang-gu is not halfway as intense as Jang Uk/Mu-deok about Jin Cho-yeon, but his big confession involves defending her with his own body against her mother. It looked extremely similar to Jang Uk protecting Mu-Deok.

" In effect, five sisterless friends became sisters of a different sort, their sisterhood constituting a melding of several hearts that was fixed and enduring."

This enormous, murky river with its deep current, this is the familiar river, but familiar from where.

Oh lord, Hazbin and Helluva S3 both got dysfunctional rich families backing up theit youngest kid in defeating a narcissistic abuser, pulling strings to back up their kid with a ' working class background love interest ' cuz they knew its gonna overthrow the abuser, launch comolex chess games against the abuser's circle ( the Goetias even more so ), Angel Dust and Stolas unlearning their ' entitled rich boy streak ' and also letting go of their self pitying and vengeance arc with help of their soulmates.