#HSY IS THERE YOU JUST HAVE TO LOOK DEEPER.

[hansooyung]

i was watching the fall of a world like i was turning pages.

@animangacreators favorite animanga challenge: omniscient reader's viewpoint.

[directorofthefalselastact]

i blame noe’s INCREDIBLY SEXY 1863!HSY FIC for getting me back into this mood. but even without that, every few months my brain gets stuck on a little hamster wheel, and that wheel is actually the general observation to be had first is: yoo joonghyuk, if we exclude the obligatory kim dokja and also every other yoo joonghyuk, vibes most Intensely with han sooyoung and jung heewon and that’s Hot, narratively speaking. i will only explain this somewhat. but back to my main point, which is i think that while it may not be intentional, jung heewon and yoo joonghyuk are alike in very particular ways that makes something inside me cramp with love. and also misery.  first! we discuss the superficial. so obviously we’ve got these sexy, bisexual swordspeople with a worrying level of investment in kim dokja and an even more worrying sense of like... identity? babes, quit situating yourselves as the solemn defender risking life and limb every battle, it’s unsettling. (i also think they have the same demon slaying attribute? neat). they’ve both had the honor of carrying kim dokja around like a sack of potatoes AND the honor of slapping his face into raw beef. gee, kim dokja, how come you got TWO sexy sword masters to smack the living shit out of you? intriguingly enough, as far as i can remember, jung heewon is the only incarnation in kim dokja’s company who secretive plotter sends an indirect message to, way back when the seoul dome fell. that always made me smile. secretive plotter and jung heewon, united in hating the paparazzi. they’ve both got..... little siblings the narrative fucking abandons (every day i think about you, jung heewon’s vanished little brother...) she fucking. steals his status as the strongest incarnation in korea. GOD, i love her. everyone please join hands with me and replace yoo joonghyuk with jung heewon once and for all. but we must go deeper! the most obvious scene that comes to mind is the one in 541 where jung heewon confronts yoo joonghyuk after the failed 1865th round. yoo joonghyuk says it basically in text, how the look in jung heewon’s eyes is so familiar and it must repulse him! to see in her what he once had been, years and lives ago, confronting him like this. she threatens to kill him! she’s got her hand on the blade! jung heewon! i know yoo joonghyuk, more than anyone, would understand this energy but please! and then, past this, when we think about the lives of kdc in this new peaceful world... both yoo joonghyuk and jung heewon feel very much like people who needed the world of the scenarios more than their friends. we have the exchange between jung heewon and kim dokja that she refers back to in the final scenario; for jung heewon, this apocalyptic world is what revealed her true potential. she thrives in hard times and something about those years flipped one hell of a switch in her. for the love of god, the woman opened up a security firm. i weep for her cop adjacent status, but i really feel it’s the only way she could think to preserve that role she’d made for herself, because without it... whoof. what would she be? how would she maintain that level of usefulness? going back to 541, i think it makes a LOT of sense that she’s the one insisting yoo joonghyuk send her back to try again. girl’s probably thinking this janky old man can’t do half as good a job as she can! retire, bitch. this doesn’t even touch on the way they’ve both got their brains thoroughly scrambled by kim dokja to the point they’d kill him rather than go along with his bullshit one more time. to be honest, this is an AOE affect he has, so it’s not entirely fair to say it’s a THEM thing, but whoo! they get it Hard. anyway. this is all just to say that i think these two fuckers, who wanted peace at any cost (like murder) are also so good at what the apocalypse needed from them (like murder!) found themselves left adrift in the world that followed it. i think they should hang. actually i think i will also cross post my vacation au for them here, it’s good and i like it.

ladies we are thinking about jung heewon and yoo joonghyuk again