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yoonbum after chapter 19:

to Murder It’s Complicated

Okay so what the fuck I dislike Jieun and was glad to see her go (something I am somewhat guilty about) but I resent that there are some people attributing dislike of Jieun to being solely “about the yaoi shipz”. I dislike Jieun, and it’s not about “the yaoi shipz”.

When Jieun was first introduced I really liked her. I liked her up until the very first panels of chapter 17 when she was… frankly a complete condescending asshole. My dislike grew when she literally told Bum “You have legs don’t you? Walk home by yourself!” (even tho he’s visibly on crutches), and was cemented when Sangwoo observed that she was the sort of person who’s probably had everything because she’s pretty. When he said that, I realized how right that sounded. She seems exactly like the sort of person who’s never been stepped on precisely because she’s so pretty, and that’s turned around and made her consciously unpleasant to others because of a sense of superiority. She’s the East Asian version of Regina George. And I really disliked her for that. 

A part of me was crowing in joy when Bum stabbed her 12 fucking times. I’m not proud of that, but I would like to get it straight that it’s not because of the shipz? People who aren’t neurotypical OR conventionally attractive, like Bum, and like me, have gone through hell in school because of people like Jieun People like Jieun make fun of “that weird depressed (or insert other descriptor of mental illness here) boy/girl who’s always in awful baggy sweaters”. So yes, I disliked Jieun because it hit a little close to home. So yes, seeing the person she dissed snap and kill her was cathartic as fuck. Sue me.

I automatically like any female character that enters a story that’s been male-dominated up till then (again, fucking sue me), so it’s definitely disappointing that she’s the first real female character we’re introduced to and she’s so awful? Up till chapter 17 I was like YAS QUEEN and then she turned out to be a Korean Regina George.

Someone asked me Why Sangwoo had this Face? Wanna know why?

This whole post is going to be a mess but I have to get this out soon before my thoughts leave me. So I can’t read Korean at all but it’s pretty obvious from the visuals in the story that Bum was projecting the image of the girl from his past onto Jieun. The last few chapters have been so centered around Jieun, Sangwoo, and his diabolical plan that getting this huge dump of Bum’s flashbacks and development was a bit of a surprise. 

My initial reaction to the end of this chapter is that Bum has way more pent up pain and suffering than I initially thought. And that Sangwoo unintentionally just introduced the unhealthiest coping mechanism ever for it. We’ve seen this girl before, too

This was all the way back in chapter 9 when Bum had the life or death card game showdown with the old man. We didn’t know what any of this meant, but once again whatever it was, it really impacted Bum.

There he is stabbing Jieun but what is he visualizing?