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My two cents on Gun's true nature: His nurture self

Like I have mentioned before, Gun has a tough and complex life. His environment is fucked enough to dehumanize him to the core. The narrator did a good job in portraying him like a demon, monster or something inhuman. Yet, the narrator gave us some hints of his true self - the nurture self.

I always like this image, the way he's gently caring Yena does something to my brain. Since then I always have the impression he has a mother-side. I mean what kind of man can hold a baby like that? Look at his pinkie, so demure.

Lately, we have panels of him venting about finding a succession (the urge to raise some kiddos), he "babysitting" Crystal, he cooking for Goo, making sushi for Daniel (we can all agree his love language is feeding people), being called "Nurture Genius", and he instinctively trying to comfort Daniel (even though he doesn't need to do that at all)

Then, it's where something clicked in my brain. I realize that is his true self. I bet he was sweet and caring before his family and the destructive lifestyle destroyed him. He has to suppress this self of him since the misogynist world he lived in associated nurture with feminine. And feminine equals weak. To become strong is to embrace the feminine destruction.

Likewise, monsters are made, not born. The problems of Gun Park are: 1) dehumanization and humanization of self, 2) destruction and nurture. I can see his struggle to be a human and control/maintain the "shiro oni" alter ego. It's nice to see his confidants (Goo, Daniel, Crystal,...) can bring out the side he is trying to reject.

I think it's interesting to see it in a major antagonist of a webtoon. Hopefully, Ptj can continue this work, I sure will let him cook.

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The most hated man in Seoul just wanted to be loved.

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i’d like to think gun took comfort in the fact that goo was his “equal”. in goo, he hit two birds with one stone: he can fight him (and therefore be “loved”, presumably by the people he works for and with, like charles choi) while also having someone who was there for him, someone that would stick around for a while.

so when he managed to take goo down a few chapters ago, i imagine that sense of comfort shattered. and with charles choi jumping off the roof, everything just exploded in his face. with nothing else to really hang onto, he accepted the consequences with grace.

i’d also like to be delusional for a sec and think that maybe this is also the reason he pushes daniel away. he knows daniel is strong. he’s gun’s masterpiece, for god’s sake. but gun knows that right now, daniel’s not stronger than him. even if he does become his equal, gun is worried that his insatiable quest for strength will eventually win out and ruin daniel too. gun’s really good at ruining the things he loves, and the best thing he can really do at this moment is to leave.

i joke about gun being a hardcore masochist, but the only way for him to really feel safe in any relationship, is if they were stronger than him. maybe he’ll only ever feel at complete peace in the last few moments of his life, looking up at the person who managed to quell the raging beast in him, with death and complete utter defeat.

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Wait a min…his cousin has the same colours as the butterfly. Is this a metaphor that the cousin is the butterfly in a way?🦋

Ik I don’t make sense but I feel like I kinda do??? I also noticed that Gun didn’t hurt the butterfly even tho he clenched it in his fist.

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PTJ did not need to make him this pretty

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My man💞

for the gitae fans <3

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HELLOOO??? MOTHER???

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Daniel dumb af cause if gun looked at me like that i would've shown him why I should be called the 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 oni

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I NEED to be choked by those honkers 🙏