#janguk and cho yeong

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Ukyeong vibes

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Jang uk & Naksu ● Ep 8 Kiss [p2]

Source: Alchemy Of Souls Pt. 2/TVN/Netflix

[jahe]

Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow new teaser

[meenawrites]

AOS Oneshot - missing scene

I did it. I did the thing. I couldn't help myself.

Go for it yall! Let me know what you think.

[hollaringmountains]

Ok. So.

The original bodies belong to jin buyeon & cho yeong/naksu.

Then naksu performed spell to switch bodies but got stuck with buyeon in buyeon's body. So there's two souls in one body. Body of jin buyeon hosts two souls( jin buyeon & naksu) with naksu being in main control with no powers courtesy of the spell and /maybe/ buyeon.

Then death happens.

Both are saved by Master Lee who, uses Naksu's energy to save buyeon. This leads to the naksu soul being more in control while still being in control of jin buyeon.

On the outside, since naku's souls is the one fueling the body the original body shape transforms into the naksu's body shape.

On the inside, buyeon controls or well tries to but the souls are merging or atleast the powers are. This is mainly due to everyone else around calling her the Jin BuYeon, the divine princess of Jinyowon. And so this leads to the memories of naksu to be regained while the powers of Jin buyeon are given to her as y'know BuYeon herself has shared the same body so she has also felt and experienced the same things maybe to a lesser extent but she did.

So tldr buyeon wanted revenge which naksu also wanted so they worked together in a convulated way. THATS MY THEORYYY BECAUSE WHY ELSE WHOUKD EVEN BUYEON GIVE CHO YEONG BACK WHEN JANGUK AND EVEYONE HAD ACCEPTED THAT SHE WOULD DIEEE!! THE FREAKING DRAMATIC ASSSWS THAT THISVWORLD COBSISTS OFFFFF LIKE FOR REALLLL WHO THE HECKKSDAJLQHSJAKQHSJSLSKHSB

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LOL fr though

Seo Yul was the only one that was like this is kinda susssss

Mu deok and Jang Uk every episode: Can’t stay away from each other, hug each other all the time, first thing they ask others is “where is mu deok/ jang uk”, would literally die for each other, clingy af, fight like a married couple

Every one else: aaaahhh what a typical maid and master relationship how lovely

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Jang uk & Naksu ● Ep 9 [2]

Source: Alchemy Of Souls Pt. 2/TVN/Netflix

[meenawrites]

AOS brain rot

So did I start writing a little Jang Uk x Naksu drabble to fill in a moment I wish we had seen? Yes

Is said moment him really taking the time to look at her face knowing it resembles her original face? Yes

Do I have many other things to write and many other school-related things to do?

Also yes.

Will this be posted by the end of the day?

...

Do I even need to answer?

[meenawrites]

He dug his own grave there lol

yeong: yul is my friend uk: *shocked pikachu face*

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Jang uk & Naksu ● Ep 9 [4]

Source: Alchemy Of Souls Pt. 2/TVN/Netflix

[tansu-bomb]

About Cho Yeong, Do Hwa, & Jin Bu Yeon.

For whomsoever it may concern:

There are ONLY two women who have been greatly wronged in the AOS-verse.

1. Cho Yeong / NakSu — his wife.

2. Do Hwa — his mother.

Do Hwa was raped. She wasn’t aware of and did not / would never consent to sleeping with that idiot! King let alone conceive someone through him. She was deceived. Her agency was stripped off. Her name has been completely slandered as someone who has committed adultery.

Cho Yeong witnessed her entire household killed / burnt including her papa dearest, when she was all of four. She had noone else to look to so she held the first helping hand that came her way. She was brainwashed and left alone to live amongst wild beasts in a harsh environment — where you know, it freezes every winter and it becomes extra-hard to find food. She was used for the insane skills she built up for herself and then unceremoniously discarded. She saw her own body burn and I will never forget how depressed / suicidal she was. If not for Jang Uk holding onto her (albeit for his own selfish reasons), she wouldn’t have survived on her own — she would’ve either killed herself or be killed by Jin Mu’s cronies. Then again, when she was finally brimming with love and hope and warmth, she lost agency and was made to kill the love of her life and witnessed him dying at her hands — his blood all over her.

What a grim life where she’s had to deal with death & loneliness ALL HER LIFE. Jang Uk is the only person — other than her father — who unconditionally loves her and for whom she sheds tears for.

In contrast to these two women, Jin BuYeon always had agency. She was and is a much loved daughter / sister. She is revered for her divine powers. For someone as powerful as her — who could find / wield the icestone at a young age — she could’ve found her way home if she truly wanted to. She probably chose not to…coz let’s face it, had she tried to return home, her father / her uncle Jin Mu would’ve plotted for her murder sooner than later lest she expose their evil plans to mama Jin.

Bu Yeon also chose to NOT JUST protect the girl NakSu targeted to shift her soul into but also actively decided to imbibe NakSu’s soul into herself — most likely coz she finally has found the way to use NakSu’s skillset to get to the capital / get to the ice-stone. Further, she could — in nearly all critical situations — take back control of her body she allowed NakSu to use. MuDeok persona is not just a COVER for NakSu but also been a cover for BuYeon for over 10 years.

Bu Yeon chose to stay in the shadows and observe. She didn’t even reveal herself when she was in close proximity to her mother or her sister coz she always had a higher purpose — which is to get the ice stone back from evil Jin Mu’s hands. This is why she opened the Jinyowon doors for Soi coz she wanted Jin Mu to play all his cards and reveal the ice stone so she could finally destroy it or hand it over to the person who is capable of wielding its power for the good of everyone. The only moment she chose to reveal herself is when her mother was snuffing the life out of her & NakSu. She then shifts the ice-stone to the training center and presents advice to NakSu — that power cannot be controlled, that there will be consequences, and that the ideal thing to do is to choose NOT to use that power. At that point, it’s upto either NakSu or JangUk — both who have realized the barrier for what it is — to take the icestone.

I digressed a bit….but long story short, there are only two AOS women who greatly suffered, sacrified and whose agency was stripped away. BuYeon, in contrast, made strategic choices. She is the noble one who attempted to destroy and finally offered the icestone to the King’s Star…she stealthily moved the chess pieces…and she protected NakSu & JangUk all along.

Given how the two most important people (women) in his life suffered and were greatly wronged, it’s no surprise that Uk turned into this cold monster-hunting monster to avenge them.

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god, when Kim Dojoo helped mama jin and chose to sacrifice herself to help her, I cried so hard I was screaming so hard to my screen to leave that witch inside that cave. Imagine the relief I felt when I saw her alive thank you hong sisters!

when Go Won asked the useless king to abdicate I ascended to heaven. That throne looked so perfect with him sitting on that. THE RIGHTFUL KING OH YES

Spring Girl and Summer Boy have a twin! Cho Yeon looked so pretty with her hair down.

Mama Jin. Okay. I hated her this season... but... I could... somewhat understand her pain. She carried a dead baby in her stomach for 13 months, plead and beg and performed sorcery to bring it alive, put her everything in raising that child only to be it forcefully taken away from her and she looked for her child for more than a decade and when she found her, a different soul is living inside her daughter and it's already petrified. There's also the guilt of almost killing her own child. If I'm on her shoes, I would go crazy too. I would never forgive the things she's done to Yeong (imprisonment and stitching golden needles to her skin) that's horrible and I like that JangUk told that straight to her face. What I love about this, is that it's Yeong's kindness that broke her madness.

Jang Uk and Yeong. I freaking love the ending!

I love that Yeong got to choose. All her life, she was manipulated by Jin Mu, now she got to choose what she wanted to do. She chose her name Yeong (finally! In the past, I don't know what to call her mudeok, naksu, buyeon and there's seol ran too. girl I- ) and she chose not to use her sword again. She decided to let go AND THAT is strength too.

Badass husband and wife fighting side by side. This is the perfect ending.

[rubylane]

tbh after the trauma the hong sisters gave us in part one, i dont even care that the firebird plot was anticlimatic so long as that happy ending was served 

HOWEVER. i have thoughts about how the episode could have been improved upon ( in my opinion )

not revealing park jin, kim doju, and jin hogyeong being alive until the end

jinmu’s death needed to be a little more excruciating imo, deserved to see janguk fuck him up a little more but i get why they didn’t

have the firebird behave as more of the actual threat they’d been building it up to be: have more damage done to the towns, show more serious injuries occurring with danggu and co., have the entire group practically crawling to show up at the constellation basin; have jang uk suffer more injuries ( even tho this would hurt me LMAO ) and have it be a near death thing bc quite frankly, it was a little too easy; and then after the firebird is defeated, have buyeon / seolran pass out with the panic of her ‘dying’ from exhaustion and no longer having use for the body. 

with all of the above, this would’ve left us in a state of Stress and added more tension necessary for a final episode

THEN do a time jump with the Happy future and whatever and let us be confused for a minute before setting up the flashbacks that give us answers as to: how park in, kim doju, and jin hogyeong ended up being saved, and the scene where buyeon / seolran gives naksu control over the body again

honestly the time skip was just fine imo, but very rushed and it felt like there were very few scenes for jang uk and cho yeong so maybe a preview of them capturing other relics in a montage kinda style before hitting us with the tree scene + the ending scene with the cat relic

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Jang uk & Naksu ● "I want to go with you.”

Source: Alchemy Of Souls Pt. 2/TVN/Netflix