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veronicaSergeant·1 month ago(edited)
@oquax Yes!! I really despise this cliché "just wanting love". I see it almost every manhwa.
It's also personal because I have absent affective empathy 😬. I literally do not find anyone important and truthfully, I only have utilitarian relationships all the time. So, to some extent, I could resonate with Inseop's inner-world. This.. was not a realistic portrayal of a man like this imo.
If it went another way (which is the realistic pathway, the one you mentioned too) I would have loved the path where he actually killed her. I find that people are obsessed with the good ending and cliché stereotypes where characters end up falling in love. I know these type are made for the majority of readers and all, so it is very predictable. It's supposed to sell as a good story for a fanbase that loves stories this genre. 
There's a minority in society who actually do not form attachment due to brain function/neurology and no one manages to make a good character like that.
Feeds into the cliché either evil/good. 🫩.
I want complex grey cases.. I get fed black and white all the time.
french 🇨🇦
i'm100% = analytical and factual. 
I analyze, I write A LOT [about behavior]. Straightforward.

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oquaxChat Legend·1 month ago
@veronica I agree I think that’s the thing nowadays good positive endings are the usual route although I like them, I feel like a tragic more traumatic end to some stories would be great too and optimally I’d find them much meaningful, at first I didn’t really see the last 10 or so chapters as him seeking love but more so absolute control of her life but I get where everyone’s coming from now when they say that it’s a bit odd he wanted to understand and reach kijeongs soul and devotion and it almost came off as seeking romantic attention which is completely preposterous for his character where he seemed to desperately seek a semblance of normalcy in his relationships it seemed very rushed and frantic too how fast the plot went by,I feel like most morally grey characters, authors don’t tend to make the main character because they want to focus on a more positive closure regardless since some people just want a good toxic romance at times which I find ridiculous that people tried to normalize and appropriate inseops behaviour as romantic and “understanding love”