#Beyond evil

[patternoticer]

FRIEND: You smile. You smile and I cannot recognise the monster which hides behind your teeth. You have altered beyond belief.

Steven Berkoff, The Fall of the House of Usher

[cumberbatchedandproud]

@majestictortoise #talking about how they can’t trust anybody #while throwing away their lives together #or trying to #those fools #I love them

[fridayvelvet]

pov ur enemy asks you if you’re gay for your coworker

[fixaidea]

The first time Joowon and Dongsik share a bed almost ends in disaster. See, Joowon never had another person in his bed before and he values his peace and Dongsik, if and when he even manages to fall asleep, is - to quote the relevant Tumblr post - kind of a rotisserie chicken sleeper. He tosses and turns and kick and mutters... he's hopeless.

Around one in the morning Joowon almost retreats to the sofa but that would be admitting defeat and he's not playing like that. So in a last ditch effort to get him to stay still he pulls Dongsik into his arms and just... pins him down. Half spooning, half laying on top of him, even flinging a leg over his for good measure.

Surprisingly, it works. There's a little more twitching and mumbling but eventually Dongsik stills and quiets down.

(It's the best night of sleep Dongsik has had in a long, long time. The wet patch at his nape - where Joowon's face was mushed - is really a small price to pay for it, all things considered.)

[jingooism]

every single day 😭

[woodohwanedandproud]

@bunnydongsik I've thought about this as well, and I actually lean towards Han Kihwan never having touched him ever, I hope you don't mind me adding my thoughts number one is that time spent between Joowon and his father is minimal - we even get that one line from Joowon about how their time spent together put together over the entire course of Joowon's life is less than a year. Joowon was raised by nannies, and then sent to England, so Han Kihwan has never provided care for Joowon at all. Second, I think it is very important to consider how Han Kihwan sees himself and Joowon. Han Kihwan very much sees himself as above the masses - notice how he treats the people he considers socially inferior, yelling at them, grabbing them, making them kneel etc. Joowon is his first born (only) son, and Han Kihwan does not fully see him as his own person, but rather as an extension of himself. Thus raising a hand to Joowon is on Han Kihwan's mind equivalent to raising a hand to himself. Notice how Han Kihwan strikes Kwon Hyuk for Joowon's failures? Kwon Hyuk is not the blood son and is therefore an "acceptable" target, as the simple son of a fruitseller, even though he has "performed" the role of son better than Joowon, in the end it comes down to blood for Han Kihwan. Even when Joowon reveals the recording and threatens blackmail, the worst Han Kihwan does is grab Joowon, to which Joowon's respons is "let go, you're getting blood on my clothes", completely and utterly calml and unafraid. So, even in these extreme circumstances, Han Kihwan never even considers hitting Joowon and Joowon doesn't look like he's expecting violence at all I do think that Joowon is a lot like his father, with some of it being nature and some of it being nurture. like I said before, the contact between the two has been minimal, so in that sense it is limited how much influence Han kihwan could really have had, but Joowon does have those angry, physical outbursts, and I think it's very interesting to consider post-canon how he deals with this. and to put those ideas together - it is my interpretation that when Joowon realises what his father has done and he flashes back to how his father treated his mother and also how he himself treated Dongsik, he is making a parallel. Specifically, the way his mother was seen as "crazy" when she was in fact just in agony, the way she smiles when saying that she didn't manage to kill herself, while Han Kihwan stands menacingly above her. And the way that Dongsik was also seen as "crazy" when he was really just in agony, and how Joowon made that pain worse by asking "did you really not kill your sister?" and the answering smile from Dongsik. It's also my interpretion that this is really the root issue of how much trouble Joowon has had with understanding Dongsik and his behaviour until now, he has purposefully blocked as much as he could regarding his mother, and therefore hasn't tried to analyse anything about it, and therefore can't recognise the same signs in Dongsik. I think this increases the guilt that Joowon feels in that moment, because he is simultaneously letting himself understand his mother's pain, his own pain in response to her's, Dongsik's pain, Joowon's role in his pain and Han Kihwan's role in everything while ALSO realising how similar he actually is to Han Kihwan in certain ways, despite spending so much time rebelling against being in his shadow and always being compared to him. And Joowon really needed this moment to see his own behaviour I think, and fully understand just how despicable he has acted towards Dongsik, and just how bad his personality really has been, which is why Joowon's behaviour change is so extreme over such a short period of time. I think there is a specific hurt caused by just not being touched at all, a kind of rootlesness to contrast Dongsik being utterly stuck in place

Watching Han Kihwan’s violent tendencies and outbursts makes me wonder if—in addition to everything that makes him a shitty father already—he ever raised a hand to Joowon.

Especially since he’s been the “single parent” for so long, and without any other sibling, Joowon would be the only one to conveniently be the outlet of Han Kihwan’s anger.

Then it makes you wonder if it may be partly the reason for Joowon’s aversion to touch: because he has never experienced the tenderness of it, only the violence.

It also makes you wonder if that’s why Joowon keeps a tight rein on his emotions: he sees what an outburst of emotion does to his father, and what his father does to the people surrounding him because of it, and maybe: Joowon doesn’t want that to happen to him.

To become like his father.

It’s interesting because the more I look at Han Kihwan, the more I realize Joowon has inherited that temperament: that tendency to have outbursts of emotion.

(Or maybe it’s simply because he had no proper role model to look up to.)

And then it makes you wonder if that’s also part of his aversion to touch: his fear that he will hurt other people too.

Because that’s the only kind of touch he’s ever known.

And maybe, just maybe, Joowon fears the violent tendencies he may have inherited from his father so much that it’s the reason why he chooses to be alone.

In this way, perhaps he had convinced himself—at least no one will get hurt because of him.

Because of his touch.

(So imagine—imagine—his surprise in discovering that not only does Dongsik not break from his touch, no matter how powerful his outburst of emotion is, but seems to match it, pushing back with the same intensity.

Imagine his surprise at finding someone who not only doesn’t fear his touch, not only doesn’t break from it, but more than anything—seeks it.)

[striving4mikey]

so I have some vignettes/scenes written out for a Beyond Evil abo modern fantasy Au with gumiho!Dongsik and Haechi!Juwon. Would anyone be interested in reading it if I posted it? It’s by no means finished but I’m pretty happy with the scenes I have. It’s basically the show but all the murdered girls are gumiho and Juwon has no idea he’s a haechi thanks to his asshole dad.

[citrinekay]

he's forty years old. he's babygirl. he's unhinged. he's creating problems for himself and everyone else. he's god's favorite punching bag. he's a whore. he's pathetic. he's my poor little meow meow

[northsonic]

If the ship doesn’t have high obsession & ‘ high codependency.. do I even want it?

[guemul]

#proud bi icon

[chersoyei]

BEYOND EVIL | EP8

[kseniacho]

the best kdrama i watched this year

(why is it square? I don't know, I cut off half of the picture just because)

[renshengs]

my ass will see a cunning older man with the kind of heartrending trauma that could burn down cities and a younger man who holds a devotion toward him that could tear apart whole landscapes and it's instantly over for me

[fridayvelvet]

Beyond Evil EP4

[woodohwanedandproud]

@gigerisluv Dongsik as a very lonely person knows that sharing food with others is probably one of the best ways to keep his loneliness at bay. I would guess he doesn’t spend a whole lot of time cooking for himself at home if he could help it @vindicated-truth Conversely for Joowon, cooking means survival too, if only because he's always been alone and if he doesn't do it, who will? Which is probably also why he doesn't find particular "joy" in eating because it's something that's always been a ordinary "necessity" to him, like taking a bath. He never really see it as a means for celebrating or socializing. Also, as another particularly sad thought: he never had anyone tell him his cooking is good, that his food is good. It makes me a little sad actually that Dongsik never got to try the meal Joowon prepared. The boy deserves someone to tell him he did a good job, sometimes, because he surely never got that from his own parents 🥺 It's fascinating, the thought that even in something as domestic as this makes them complementary as partners: Joowon finally has someone else to cook for, and Dongsik finally has a reason to keep eating healthily (Because Joowon wouldn't be caught dead preparing junk food lol) @gigerisluv Aww. That’s really very sweet. It’s another way they’re suited for one another. But I will say that Junwon was being a snotty little shit when he offered his cooking to Dongsik. As much as I wanted them to share that meal I’m not surprised Dongsik declined. @vindicated-truth That's true, though it would've been funny to see the surprise in Dongsik's face when he tasted that Joowon's cooking *is* good and at that point he's too prideful to admit it lol I do wish someday we can see Dongsik trying Joowon's tastes, for a change. So *both* their tastes in food can expand :)) @gigerisluv That’s what fanfic is for. Can you imagine Dongsik becoming a YouTuber celebrity in his retirement for his dining habits? Juwon would lose his mind @vindicated-truth Joowon would pretend to be uninterested at first but would eventually be notoriously fussy about the set-up and the lighting and the camerawork and would be like Lee Dongsik-ssi do you not know anything about production AT ALL, and Dongsik would be like, well do YOU? And Joowon would casually mention he dabbled in amateur filmmaking / photography while he studied abroad and Dongsik’s mind would be BLOWN 😆

So I'm pretty sure Dongsik CAN cook - he somehow made it to 40 without anyone to do it for him for like half of that time, besides if his parents ran a restaurant they probably wouldn't stand for a son who doesn't know how to handle himself in the kitchen.

...But I'm settling more and more on the headcanon that he doesn't really like to. He loves to eat, and to feed others, yes, but we only ever see him buying food. The closest I can recall to him cooking on screen* is helping Jaeyi prepare some meat in one of the early episodes.

Compare and contrast Joowon who's barely ever shown to eat anything BUT he's shown to cook, and doing something fancy-looking at that.

*me forgetting something is always a possibility tho

[jingooism]

i’ve been looking at this picture for ten minutes. my brain sounds like tv static.