#hyangi or sanyeong?

[buttercuparry]

Spoilers

Why do I feel like all the objects together would tether hyangi's soul to sanyeong's body once and for all. Like she asked and asked and asked to find those objects but didn't tell them her name because she wanted to put as many hurdles in the path to her truth but in the last shot, with the flying hair shadow settling to a mere shadow and that smile...why do I feel like Hyangi is in preparation to bind herself to the mortal realm so that she might be the one who gets to live Sanyeong's life? Maybe it's two sides of the same coin. The shaman yeom talked to, warned him that ghosts can be deceitful...and the grandma ( YAYY THE WITCH IS DEAD!!) tried to bargain with another one of Hyangi's secret!! I wonder if finding the objects is like a coin being balanced on its side. The coin flips to one side and the spirit finds its release. the other? and the spirit is forever bound to the body it has possessed. Like even the preview! With Hongsae asking Haesang if Sanyeong isn't herself as she took the last of the objects with her right hand...I feel like it is too on the nose to not mean something.

Sanyeong using her right hand, hugging her mother...is it really Sanyeong? Or is it Hyangi preparing to play the part should she be successful in her schemes?

I feel like it is like The Mummy movie! Imoteph went around collecting his organs and by the end of it all he changed from a rotting corpse to how he last was in his mortal life. Cats the supposed guardians of the underworld would have stopped mattering too, had our heroes not foiled his plans.

I feel like Hyangi can do things, now that all the objects have been collected, that she couldn't before.

Sjdkllll my god last episode tomorrow. I can't wait for the mystery to unfold.

[d-eathvalley]

anyways hands down ep 11 by far to me is my favourite episode in terms of flow and characterization. hyangi’s back story really ties up a lot of questions and it’s so satisfying to see how she did not spared the grandmother at all. even at her fucking deathbed she’s trying to make a capitalistic deal how selfish her death felt satisfying. also i love the attention to detail kim taeri is so talented like the little hand thing hyangri does when she was asking her friends about her parents and how when she’s controlling sanyeong she does it too. i absolutely cannot wait for this last episode. came for kim taeri, folklore and whatever little romance trope they were going for but absolutely stayed for the plot and the social commentary of capitalistic greed.

[buttercuparry]

The tragedy of Hyangi is that she never got the taste of bliss she thought the money would buy her. And yet she was killed and her anger became the means through which the Yeom family acquired its wealth. When Hong sae says he prefers Sanyeong because she is strong ( I mean Hyangi literally is a teen but ok), I can't help but wonder how unfair it is that in this world strength, decency, genuineness for those who suffer poverty is so connected with how they react to this lack and what they do to get out of it. Surely the voice pishing offender was a terrible terrible person. He conned people out of their money and we see how distraught Sanyeong and her mom was when they fell victim to him. But what pushed him to be a scammer? To not think of the ruin he brings to others, even to people who already have so little? Greed yes, but what might have sparked that greed?

Hyangi was terrible. She sold her sister to the shaman for money. A poisoned fruit that ultimately brought no luck but death to her family ( at least I think so). And yet was it not her who was initially marked for death? Given a hair accessory that typically would have signified a wish for a girl to have a good life and yet it was a betrayal as it damned her to a cruel death ( sold by the villagers who would have stood by and watched her die). Why shouldn't she then play the same game? Afterall was it not the insatiable greed of the Yeom family that created for her the opportunity of not only ridding herself of her little sister by making Mokdan bear the curse of death, but also to get money out of it? I mean it's not like it mattered to the villagers which of the Lee girls became lamb to the slaughter...

Sanyeong was the "good" poor. She locked her desires tightly in herself. Never letting herself be frivolous. Working 24/7 only to get home, have her dinner, study and sleep. Again rinse, repeat, the next day. She went to no clubs, went on no dates, got herself nothing. She smiled, she bowed, she broke her back, kept those screams inside her and became so miserable that in the last episode we find out that all along she was suicidal. Strength...? How can the measure of blood filling our mouth be strength?

[buttercuparry]

Hyangi, the eldest daughter, competitive, tenacious, angry at the hand dealt by fate. She wanted to be an artist-was willing to work hard for it too but the time said it wasn't for her. Poverty said it wasn't for her. Her mother asked what use it was for her to go to school? Why can't she help in rearing her sister and in housework? Her sister asked the same. "Rice Pot, Rice Pot...I am hungry. Feed me. Why didn't you eat your lunch? Are you ashamed because you don't have meat or egg with the rice? " And Hyangi wishes that she didn't have to deal with being a second parent to her sister. Wishes she was born into wealth. Wishes she didn't have to stand outside the shop because she cannot afford the paint. This was 1958

Then in 2023 we have Gu Sanyeong. Young and carrying the weight of the world on her back. Working part time after part time, god knows since when, managing only to survive and never live. Supporting a mother with an anxiety disorder who could never hold a job, paying off the damages caused by her. Living for everyone else and never for herself. Poverty dictates that she keep a tight lid on her wishes. She can't party, she has to work. She needs to study hard for civil service if she wants to afford all those finer things in life. Party dresses and make up are a frivolity. What would she do with them when she has to rush come hail or hell trying to keep a roof on their head. But oh how she wants, how she wants to be frivolous just once.

No wonder Hyangi could latch onto her so easily. These two young girls are connected via an experience of the lack. One angry at the way the world dictates she should live, the other crushed and half dead while following this dictation. One selfish in her desires and asking loudly why shouldn't she be? The other thinking why can't the world see how many of her desires she has given up on...God I am not big brained enough to put all the thoughts in words when it comes to these two but Revenant!!! yes!! Yes!! Brilliant