#saeran ae

[schmellows]

Happiness grows when shared.

(Though Icecream doesn't)

[k4txlulzz]

[not a ship post.]

mystic messenger 707 after ending secret endings are better than whatever happens with the twins in another story . saeran is allowed to be human and not a perfect little baby boy who is hyper-dependent on mc(the girl who he met a few days ago) . he gets rehabilitated by his twin brother who is the one person who has and will always understand him most(they are a lot more similar and mirror each other more than some ppl think). people say this saeran doesn't have enough agency but truth is he was not in the right state to make decisions and in ray's route and after ending it's just mc doing it instead of saeyoung anyway. again, saeyoung is the person who knows whats best for him, not mc. additionally, seven goes through exact same mental struggles as his brother(example: suicidal tendencies + inferiority and guilt complexes) and its BECAUSE of the fact that he overcame them that he can reassure his brother properly. furthermore, saeran mirrors his twin's way of thinking when he basically asks himself "do i deserve this good ending?"

this route also has the most correct characterization of seven that, unlike another story stuff(ray AE especially lol), does not paint saeyoung as the aggressive bad boy twin . that whole thing with him being feral when it comes to protecting his brother and standing up to the agency + his dad + v is something i do love but it is, again, used to make him "the angry troublemaker one" . he gets tortured for two weeks straight for god's sake and saeran not only isnt allowed to have a proper reaction to it but sae just quickly recovers like nothing AND is "not nice" for not forgiving the dude who just did all that to him, apparently😭to give cheritz the benefit of the doubt, this maybe could be chalked up to seven thinking lowly of himself again but that's debatable

secret ending choi twins>>>>>>>>>

even though i love them being sweet in another story and i still think it is a very happy ending for twins, it isn't the right characterization

[marshmallowprotection]

Hey Kait! I've got a question about Saeran's AE and the different bad endings

I was wondering if you had come up with any analysis or even better understanding you could explain on the...most upsetting and heartbreaking ending....

The one where he...walks out into the lake.

When I was gathering up the bad endings to get the full AE experience, I was horrified and literally i think I cried watching it - and I never understood...why.

Hi! I have an entire series where I reacted to the entire After Ending for Saeran, and I went through each of the Bad Endings that you're capable of reaching back when it came out. So, if you want to read my initial feelings and reactions to that, you can click this post that has links to every post in that collection.

However, what you're looking for is Bad Ending 2. That ending was hard for me and stirred a lot of feelings that are hard to talk about to this day because it hit so close to home. I don't think there's a way to explain that ending to people. Saeran knows there's hope in that end because you and Saeyoung are forever beyond his reach now... as far as he believes. In his stomach, he knows that you will do what he told you to do and not come back. He can't stomach the despair and it is too much for him.

For a man robbed of choice and consent, at this moment, it's one of the few things he can think to do to decide what happens to him. If he were to let his father find him... well, Saejoong would use him as collateral and not kill him. He refuses to be used as a tool ever again. This is a way to make sure that doesn't happen... and it keeps you and his brother safe from having to fight anymore...

He's tired.

He can't fight anymore.

That's all.

[k4txlulzz]

i like 707😭i understand the whole thing with the agency but why does he suddenly hate the name now ... its an easteregg to an error code that with its meaning fits his whole meta plot and reset theory too😔

Some more thoughts bc this angst is sickening! 🤪

This line makes me want to vomit 🤢 Daddy-son time? Omgggg

I KNEW IT WAS BASED OFF OF 007

I have decided that I hate this look 😬 Sorry, honey

I'm just over here praying that the power of love will lead me to a good end!! ;w;

[liptauer]

Have you gotten everything you ever wanted?

No. But once I got very close

[mukuberry]

I will never not be over how Rika Kim is genuinely one of the best written characters I've ever seen and a perfect example of how hostile the world is towards abuse survivors, but the people who wrote her somehow did it entirely by accident?

Rika was horrifically abused by her family growing up, and only managed to protect herself after so many years by using the anger she felt to threaten her abusers into leaving her tf alone. They told her time and time again she was nothing but a devil, and she learned to played into that to keep her and her dog safe. But despite that, she truly wanted to be a kind and safe person to the people around her, and only showed her anger when she felt she had to protect herself.

So when she's finally in a safe place, when she finally has access to therapy, what does her therapist tell her? That she has to put her anger aside and forgive the people who abused her. Cheritz loves pushing the idea that people need to forgive their abusers to heal, that not forgiving them will make you an abuser as well, they've shown this time and time again (zen's route, v's ae, saeran's ae). But for Rika, her anger has been the only thing that protected her. So obviously she's going to reject that idea! And she should! No one is obligated to forgive anyone who hurts them and anger isn't an inherently evil thing to feel. It's no wonder she immediately drops therapy after hearing that... but this rejection is shown as a flaw of hers, rather than a completely understandable response to being told something so stupid.

Holding onto anger for too long can certainly be dangerous and damaging, but I believe if the people around her hadn't told her that her anger was inherently evil and something she had to hide and fix, she would've eventually processed her emotions and trauma in a healthy. But she never got that chance! And after being told that the only thing that protected her is actually wrong and makes her just as bad as the people who hurt her, it's no wonder that she instead chose to let her emotions consume her and rejected the world and the concept of healing entirely;; if she can't rely on her anger, who can she? V? She's constantly afraid he's going to abandon her for the very thing she's being demonised for. If she can't rely on her 'devil', she's completely defenseless in the world. And if the world is going to object this 'devil', she has no choice but to object the world back.

[cephydeluxe]

TW: eye strain, blood, no visible gore but eye injury implied (also rambling in the tags)

Early work in progress painting of v,,,, the final piece won’t look anything like this (…..maybe) but I was messing with layer settings and hard mix is serving ,,,,,

tbh I’m starting 2 understand V h8ters now,,, mf needs 2 get the FUCK outta my head before I do something crazy 🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣 (((draw him more****

[password-door-lock]

Oh god we’re that couple….

[littleaipom]

i somehow never found a place to squeeze this drawing into a post, what a shame. [EDIT: no i actually did post this a few years ago! whoops my bad.] it's self-insert fluff of me hanging out with saeran. we are gardening and watching tr0llhunters together with my cat c:

[corpiote]

replaying saeran's route brought back all my original anger and disgust for rika

[anarkiworld-blog]

Re-reading old rants about people claiming Ray's route was "better" than the SEs and these certainly didn't age well after Ray's AE came out lol

[brighteststar707]

An update on my progress playing Ray's after ending (spoilers under the cut)

SCREAMING CRYING WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO HIM

I know Saeran is supposed to be a pacifist but I can't do this. Let me fight them PLEASE 😭 as if forcing him to be his father's puppet wasn't enough they had to go and drug him too.

His whole speech was so upsetting to read through and I have a feeling its only going to get worse from here. Bad time to be a saeyoung MC huh.

Also, I'd like to have a word with whoever drew the CGs for this because this broke my heart

[marshmallowprotection]

Hi Kait, how are you? I'm curious.... I wonder if you had an idea or imagined what the story of Saeran's After Ending would be like before it's official release in 2020. If you already had a plot I'd like to know haha.

Hello! I do. It's not easy to scroll through my blog for that, though. It's buried under years of content so let me help you out! I had a long time to gauge what I wanted and speculated out of Saeran's After Ending... so, of course, there is a long post about it.

[Here's my initial reaction to the Release Post.]

[Here's my Analysis on what I thought the RAE would be like!]

[Here's my Reaction Series to the actual RAE.]

[anas-tasiaa]

Gosh-

Thinking about Ray AE giving me a headache. As a choi twin lover, I'd give an F.

A BIG FAT F.

Honestly, if I can slap Saeran GE, I could. I WOULD DO IT 10 TIMES IF I CAN. That pretending jesus to be, ugh. He's not Saeran for me. Saeran wouldn't hug his murderous crazy little bastard dad, who make their life hell. Saeran wouldn't forgive his mother who starved him, beat him, choke him. Cheritz did Saeyoung dirty, really, really bad. We don't even get to see them hug? Now he forgave everyone? Where the hell is the Saeyoung's bookmark? It's gone now?

Even in BE, Saeyoung isn't having a full blown panic with Saeran's death? And RFA praised Saeran for his skills and admiring his so called "love" so much when he's the first one create all the crisis with the prime minister? Isn't that ridiculous??? He's like "omg I think I fucked up so I must save my brother now. 🥺". He's gone too far with that, honestly. Saeyoung is the only one cared and worried so much about him in Ray route while Saeran is (???) Damn bruh who the hell are you.

We don't get to see the twin's proper reunion when this is RAY AFTER ENDING. So Saeyoung isn't important anymore??? Yoosung is now forgetting Rika already and admire Saeran?? Like really, GOSH-

Why would RFA members gushing on Saeran and MC when they barely know them???? They put their 💯 trust on them like????? Even more they came from the organization that once attacked RFA messenger?? They won't shut up about the "fairy tale alike love" of Saeran and MC like it is come out from a romantic Romeo Juliet novel 💀 STOP- We, we don't have to emphasize on the romanticism so much. We have mission??? Tone it down a bit???? Ok I would stop now and

Bye.

[welliguessimin]

If Saeran's eyes changed colours due to the elixir could they change back again after detoxing?

[pastelsapphy]

my brain: what if you just made a bunch of video compilations of mysme characters using their various terms of endearment

me: stop giving me ideas saeran's my love took four hours