#following only “facts” it's possible to make suwon a villain but the manga itself doesn't stop at facts

[soo-won]

Actually I think the problem is maybe the opposite. Like, of course there are people who simply don't know how to read what the manga textually says about him, without even mentioning what it visually shows us. But what I personally feel is that people don't read him with their emotions at all or enough. What I see is people again and again talking about how he's stupid and useless and a villain because they only judge "facts" from a distance. Suwon was stupid for killing Il, Il had good reasons for killing Yuhon! Can't he see that? Suwon is stupid, there were other more peaceful ways to take the throne! I'm sure in a world where the characters were all acting 100% correctly (what does it even mean?) it'd be true! It's logic!

Since Suwon had no "logical" reason to act the way he did for people who hate him, then that makes him a villain, a sociopath, useless and boring, whatever people call him. I'm sure people hate him and brand him as a villain because they indeed can't get over their negative feelings irt his actions, but it's exactly because they stop at the general "facts" that they don't get anything and miss the most important. Yeah Suwon was cruel to Yona and Hak, yes Suwon condones his father's actions, yes Suwon sees people as pawn on a chessboard, yes Suwon didn't want to have anything to do with Yona in the castle arc even if she offered him her help when he needed it etc...But you need emotions to see how he himself feels, how he loves and hates, how he's hurt and how he struggles and changes.

People will read chapters like ch196/197 and get out from them with "this confirms Suwon is a sociopath and scary and inherently bad", because they stop at the facts. They don't care if Suwon is upset, if Suwon is holding the reins because no one else is up to it and to respond to expectations, if he's desperate to cling on any trace of his father, if he doesn't look the slightest happy when he mentions killing Il, they stop at Suwon looking unfazed and unaffected and already ready to kill Il and discard Yona in the future. They don't even conceive that the "facts" representing Suwon are generally subjective and from different POVs than his. Il stopped at those "facts" when he read Yonhi's diary. Il heard the fact that Suwon in the future will kill him and discard Yona and he treated him like he was already a villain. From the facts. It's because people don't try to engage with his interiority (that he himself conceals as much as possible until recently) that he looks like a villain to people.

So personally, I find it far more tiring and upsetting when people judge Suwon not because they don't know how to follow events, but because they refuse to feel him. If people cared about emotions they wouldn't make Suwon a villain because they would feel for his circumstances and his struggles. But you need to make this effort to really understand! Even Yona and Hak do this! So I'd argue that people should care about emotions when Suwon is on a page. I wish people cared more about Suwon's own emotions like they do for every other main character! On top of obviously have basic literacy skills and not make things up.

the fact that so many people see suwon as the villain simply shows that people in general care more about emotions than about facts and logic