#sung-mo

I will just state as it is, from my perspective.

Sung-Mo knows Ahn’s psychometry gets “better” when he is feeling desperate, as if it was his last resort, so that’s what he did. He put Ahn in a desperate situation, that he knew Ahn would be able to get out of it on his own if his ability is well enough. Sung-Mo gave all the clues, all the hints, and training needed for this moment, where Ahn can use his psychometry to help him.

Sung-Mo is being cold towards Ahn’s abilities on purpose. the colder Sung-Mo treats Ahn right now, the better for Ahn’s abilities, that is the ONLY thing that can actually solve this, because it’s about Ahn seeing the ACTUAL facts. 

This is Sung-Mo’s way of helping everyone he can right now.

At the end, I believe he will accept go to jail, and even stop being a prosecutor, but do not mistake Sung-Mo as the bad guy. He’s smart, and everything has a purpose. He noticed that he could follow his ‘plan’ of finding his father when Ahn did his first Psychometry on him. 

Sung-Mo already know how to fix all the sides at once, while letting Ahn try to solve once per time. 

Anyways, I’m happy with all of this, Honestly, I’m smiling [thought the pain]  the one thing that is making me mad was the whole “He has alexithymia” when hE DIDN’T! 

I also appreciate the beautiful moment Sung-Mo and Jisoo shared, and I’m glad they cleared once again, that Sung-Mo loves her.

Anyways, send your thoughts my little ones! Let’s talk about this episode!!

PS: Am I the only one who can see hope? Am I being naïve? Because this episode, was painful, but also set a lot of things straight.

A/N: This is just my intepretation of what is happening, and there’s also a trigger warning about abuse and violence.

For the past episodes it has been a big deal the whole “Does Sung-Mo has romantic feelings towards Jae-In?” and that question has been driving a lot of the characters on the show to judge Sung-Mo’s actions. 

After today’s episode, I believe that no. He does not have romantic feelings for Jae-In. And why does that matter? The misconception of him having such feelings for her, ended up in a chain reaction of terrible things happening in the series. After hearing Jae-In’s explanation towards why she was targeted we have this perception that not only Sung-Mo is not used to displaying his feelings, he might have been characterizing them, or portraying them ‘wrongfully’. And the that leads characters like Ahn and Jisoo to have a misconception about what he actually feels. I will get back on that, in a second.

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed”

At the end of the 10th episode and through out the 11th episode, references for the book Little Prince appear. On the 11th episode Kang Geun-taek, Sung-Mo’s father, talks about the Mom as his flower [referencing the flower Little Prince grows on his star], and he believes he’s got Sung-Mo’s flower. Jae-In after hearing his speech realizes Geun-taek’s misconception about her relationship with Sung-Mo, as she states herself. We will go back to the flower reference later on.

Going back to Sung-Mo characterizing/portraying his emotions. When Ahn does the reading of the maps Sung-Mo left for him, he has this ‘strange’ feeling in his chest, that leads Ahn to believe that Sung-Mo has romantic feelings for Jae-In, when in reality it could be that Sung-Mo, not being used to such a diverse range of emotions, might have ‘named’ his feelings towards Jae-In wrongfuly. Jisoo’s misconception comes simply after the statement that people cherished by Sung-Mo will be hurt and she doesn’t see herself as someone in danger.

What he truly feels for Lee Ahn and Yoon Jae-In, is lead by his guilt. He feels responsable for them, and that has been clear since the beginning. What he feels for Jisoo is indeed some sort of romantic feelings that she can’t believe it’s real, after being rejected by him before. But that’s when Geun-taek’s own feelings come into play.

It was previously shown that Geun-taek’s first option of target to hurt Sung-Mo was Jisoo, because he was driven by his rage of having his “flower” taken from him. Sung-Mo’s father was obsessed with the mother, and thought that the way of even things out would be hurting a woman loved by Sung-Mo. And in his perception, given the fact Sung-Mo was trying to approach Jae-In after her request of meeting him, Jae-In was that woman.

Sung-Mo being more affectionate than usual with Jae-In caused characters to believe he has romantic feelings for her, when he does not have such feelings. 

Now, coming back to the flower reference. Geun-Taek uses the flower in Little Prince to refer to Sung-Mo’s mother. Later on the episode we discover that the mother and Sung-Mo were held captive for 9 years in a basement.

“The Little Prince grew a flower on his star”

 Without having the information if they were previously married or not, it came to me that it could be a possibility of the mother being kidnapped before she was pregnant, which leads me to believe that she might have been abused while being helpd captive. The one thing I can state is that Geun-taek wanted to keep them for himself, in his own ‘glass dome’. 

For final thoughts, the book ends with the Little Prince allowing the snake to bite his ankle, to get him back to his star. The Little Prince allows himself to get ‘killed’ as a way of freeing himself.

It might be me over analyzing but the fact that it ends with the Little Prince getting bitten on his ankle, and Sung-Mo having a scar on his ankle, I can only wonder if he will do the sacrifice of being taken back with his father, or killed in order to keep those around him safe. 

We see Jisoo, Jae-In and Ahn trying to get to the killer before Sung-Mo does, but I cannot speculate on what will happen. Deep in my heart, I wish for Sung-Mo to not die, nor those cherished by him, And hopefully Geun-Taek has an actual ending, where he won’t be able to hurt anyone else.

So, what are your thoughts? I hope this made sense to everyone. Sung-Mo is my favorite character and I’m on the SUNG-MO DESERVES BETTER squad.

I think at first he was just wanting to protect her for Ahn to do a reading so he could finally get the culprit for the fires, but now he is realizing the patterns of the Suitcase cases and how she fits in it, and is worried for that.

A/N: THIS IS FILLED WITH SPOILERS, TEARS, ANGST, RAGE, AND A LOT OF CONFUSION AND SPECULATION. AND NO. NOT A THEORY.

Okay first things first, Jisoo. To my beautiful and strong Jisoo I am SO sorry it took you too long to see the love in front of you. I’m sorry it took too long for Sung-Mo to act on it. I’m sorry it had to be this way. You will forever be the most badass character in this series. 

My baby Sung-Mo, who I believe was the one who started the fire [I don’t think Sung-Mo would kill at the age of 18], I understand why you did it, and I now see that you never wanted things to be this way, but at the time it seemed like it could be a solution.

There’s so many secrets we STILL don’t know, and constant lies around the main characters... It’s driving me insane.

My thoughts for this episode: I’m freaking DEVASTADED that Jisoo died, Ahn being fooled by Geun-taek is driving me insane, Sung-Mo getting revenge is making me feel too many emotions and him visiting Jisoo’s tomb WHAT WAS THE NEED OF THAT? LIKE WHY? WHY? I honestly think we will only get their back story on the last freaking episode and I’m sad, and honestly, I need sunshine boy Dae-Bong to come and just sit there and smile at the camera for 40 minutes.