#i’m only allowing myself to fangirl in the tags because omg!!!! hieori hi girl 😳 it’s not like i read ur stuff religiously ashsshsksmdjd

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Your tags 😭 literally he’s an idiot, but I remember reading that he likes to analyze player/game stats and that’s like the only hope I’m clinging to him being somewhat real life intelligent and not fully air headed — hieori

LMFAAOOO STOPP i’m dead he really is an idiot i’m 😭🤚 rant incoming

okay no but listen. i think sae is, actually, intelligent. might even go so far as to say he’s clever, and extremely so because come on. he has to be for the career he’s pursuing. we’ve seen a multitude of examples already about how quick thinking he is on the field, how he can analyze players’ thought processes in a heartbeat and counter it accordingly – but that’s just it, isn’t it? that these abilities of his are mostly applicable through soccer. so, yeah, sae is intelligent, no doubt about it, but only in like a kind of niche, hyper specific sense.

the public knows he’s incredibly private about his personal life, but that just works to feed into their adoration and enamorment of him, because it basically packages this overwhelmingly talented prodigy into something one dimensional they can digest. out of all the public appearances he’s had, sae’s only been approached with questions about football, his career and maybe sometimes his sponsors or workout routines – things he excels at, and can demonstrate that he does. again, no personal questions, because (1) he wouldn’t answer them anyway, and (2) at this point, people only associate him with his sport now, and nothing else, really. so on the surface, everybody has this notion of him that yeah – he’s a genius, in all sense of the word.

what sae is a 100% not, however, is smart, and i will die on this hill 😭😭😭

there absolutely is a difference between intelligent and smart btw!! yes he can come up with a bajillion different attack options from taking a single glance at the field in front of him and memorizing every players’ positions but he will probably burn his scrambled eggs. you get me, you must.

sae’s not really life smart. or academic smart. or emotional smart (well, give him like maybe 5 more years lol). and because most of the relationships he maintains are strictly professional, no one really knows he does lack in some areas looll.

you know who i bet is painfully, excruciatingly aware of this side of sae though? that, let’s be honest, he can be a bit life incompetent? (i’m really roasting him here oop) his manager 😭😭😭😭 that poor man has to deal with so much shit i just know it

you best believe sae never took the time to get his driver’s license. when his driver isn’t available to take him places he just pays an outrageous amount of money on taxi rides like thank god he’s rich. literally spent half his teenage years in spain and i bet he does not know a single word of the language i’m actually crying. cooking?? forget about it he has a personal chef that prepares his meals according to his diet his fridge would be otherwise empty. do you think this man would know to separate his laundry absolutely not 😭😭😭 bet he never listened in his high school classes either his grades were horrendous. i could literally go on about this for ages but yeah i think i made my point <3

so, no, definitely not an air head, but not not an air head either lmao. depends entirely on what you choose to ask him about.