#vanderbabble

✿ i don’t know how to feel about this. i mean. i’d do it. i’d do it for money. but who would pay me to draw myself getting vored by nero.

Of course I like Jumin! He’s hilarious, weirdly sweet for being kind of an idiot, and yeah he needs a bit of course correction vis a vis the “how he treats Jaehee... and you... and other people” department but if someone takes the time to explain it to him using a kind of logic he can understand he responds really well. It’s goofy and cute that he is so precise in his measurements and how things have to be but it also suggests to me that he’s a.) not neurotypical and b.) never really had anyone to seriously discuss these tendencies with so he’s just doing everything he can to cope, to succeed, to soar beyond what the world is demanding from him because its just what he thinks a responsible person does. My heart bleeds for him - he’s got all these pressures and all these people screaming at him and nobody really gets that he's not just a rich asshole, he’s a poor traumatized boy who basically lost both of his best friends recently and he has no idea how to talk about his emotions in a way that other people can understand.

Nor was he ever allowed to even try.

OH UH YEAH AND ONE??? MORE THING??? LIKE the whole SHIT with all the women who creeped on him as a literal child?? Jumin Han canonically went through sexual harassment because of how “”handsome”” he was, harassment his father remained completely oblivious too, and now he has the entire country screaming about how he’s such a handsome ~ wonderful ~ rich eligible bachelor. can you even imagine how lonely and awful and isolating that is?How gross Jumin Han has to feel from day to day, how he not only doesn’t have the space to discuss his feelings about it but he also has so many people CELEBRATING the aspects of himself that lead to his trauma?

and he’s just. he’s just gotta deal? so he drowns himself in work and because he’s always drowned himself in work he thinks that’s just how normal people are? and it makes people hate him because they see him as just being rich and privileged, not the extremely hard working person he is...?

✿ I know, right? It’s like - this isn’t a good thing guys like I totally validate and appreciate the desire for more canonical kinky content in otome games but that’s not meant to be Good BDSM Rep. Like. I’m not saying a kinky dom/sub relationship could never happen between Jumin and MC in a healthy way, but BE2 is... well, uh. Spring-boarding off of the screengrabs of Yoosung’s call that I used for the latest Lisbet Route post...

It’s a Jumin that feels as if he can’t have a sweet, pure, innocent and loving romance. It’s an ending where you taught him that it’s something he’ll never be able to have. Bad Ending 2 is a timeline where Jumin has finally given up on his desire for true love and understanding and has decided his route to happiness is playing along with all the shit he’d spent the rest of his life fighting against. This Jumin that thinks the people who wanted to possess him were right after all, and if he wants your happiness and safety and love then he needs to possess you.

And, uh, given one of his Day 2 calls...