#that joo won and han ki hwan's relationship in beyond evil makes me want to eat cement

[katierosefun]

I'm still stuck on that scene from the end of episode 8 (beyond evil), where dongsik breaks his promise to juwon. Like I'm really not sure what to make out of juwon's incredibly emotional reaction, homeboy was bout to cry his eyes out on the spot and I'm like?? Is this Really just about arresting him? Like his sense of justice is That strong that would get him to react like that? Or it's also more heavily about how he let himself trust dongsik and believed his promise and now he's being let down.

If it's the second one then he's way more emotional than anyone ever gave him credit for. And this also makes me think about what he said to dongsik about trust being fragile cause it's based on emotions, maybe he was talking about his own experience with dongsik.

Promises mean a lot to juwon it seems and maybe dongsik's promise meant more to him than him getting to arrest him.

(pain cause at the end dongsik did keep his promise to him)

anon, you're getting at my own personal curiosity with joo won's reaction in that moment, because if i'm being honest, i still don't really know what to make of it except joo won is a) dramatic, b) DRAMATIC, and c) not normal, he doesn't know how to be normal about anything, what a silly prince--

but also, i do think that a lot of it does also stem from joo won's intense sense of what's right vs what's wrong (and then watching it all kind of. crumble to pieces as he gets personally closer and closer to the truth of just what happened to the lee family all those years ago). and i think that also coexists with the fact that han joo won is very emotional. i hate han ki hwan with my whole heart, but i think if he's right about one thing, it's that joo won is very much so an emotional person, even if he doesn't necessarily want to think of himself that way.

but here's the thing: i think something that's lovely about beyond evil and joo won's character as a whole is that yeah, i might laugh at how joo won's one dramatic bastard, but his emotions are also what really make him a good person. he's actually a pretty intelligent guy--we only make fun of him because we're mostly seeing him from dong sik's perspective, i think, and also because dong sik's tricking joo won into believing what he literally set up for him. but outside of that? joo won's a smart dude, and he's also insanely emotional. he cries when he's upset! he gets scared and backs away a few steps and he cries when he's being yelled at! and like, even though joo won himself is a "no touchy, no need for relationships" kind of guy, i think he was always very weirdly attached to dong sik, even before he knew the whole truth about him.

anyways, to actually answer your question: i think it was genuinely a mix of all of those things. han joo won's a bit of a mess. we love him for it.