#the glory spoilers

[khaotungthanawat]

Even if you try to break me, I’m not scared of you anymore. And I will wear red lipstick.

The Glory (2023), dir. Ahn Gil Ho

[gizkasparadise]

GQ Daddy just straight up shoved a guy off a building into some wet concrete and then wheeled his daughter's tiny pink suitcase out of the narrative like what a king

[nacrelysis]

"...if i wanted to save animals, i'd become a veterinarian. if i wanted to save the devil, i'd become a preacher. but i am a doctor, and my oath doesn't apply to those as inhuman as you."

jesus fucking christ. that's cold.

[sab-teraa]

[jeanvanjer]

the fact that the simple act of Ha Do-yeong taking his shoes off before entering Dong-eun's home has her showing a semblance of mercy to Yeon-jin has me wanting to cry for the kind soul those bastards destroyed.

[golden-redhead]

I'm really happy that, in the end, the bullies in The Glory were the ones who destroyed themselves.

It's a good, beliavable and strong message. It's exactly like Dong-eun said, she set the board, but most of it was just them being horrible, destructive people that they always were, incapable of truly reflecting about their actions or making amends.

If they stopped, at any point, maybe the outcome might have been different. They didn't, though, and instead they showed that they were forever stuck in this high school mindset and convinced that in the end everything is going to work out in their favor.

It's exactly the kind of ending this show should have had and I'm so glad this is the direction the writers took.

[beldaroot]

one of the best things about the glory and how dong-eun brought her revenge is that everything was natural. dong-eun could have easily planted false evidence to bring everybody down, but she didn't have to do anything like that because everyone was already so rotten to the core that they brought their own undoing.

and dong-eun knew this - she actually incorporated this into her plan - she didn't have to make the final blow against any of her perpetrators because they were already doing the job for her. the five bullies that believed they were so superior and prided their loyalty to each other, didn't realize that their narrow-mindedness and that "friendship" were ultimately what caused their downfall.

dong-eun's greatest form of revenge was that she simply initiated the vengeance, those who wronged her faced their retribution all by themselves.

[the-expired-tofu]

The Devil's Trumpets | Pt. 1

|| A 'The Glory' fanfic ||

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a/n: Hey there, this is my first time writing a fan fiction. I might change a few things in my fictions later on. Also, my English isn't my first language so my writing might lack some fluency. Hope you enjoy :) trigger warnings: bullying, murder, gore, depression, abuse, mature content, violence, sexual themes. pairing: reader x multi

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Y/N

“Y/N DID YOU MESS UP YOUR CUSTOMER’S ORDER AGAIN?” My manager yelled.

 “I’m sorry, I’ll make sure this doesn’t happen again,” I apologise as I bow in front of him, followed by a sharp pain of his slap right across my face. Gasps and whispers echoed in the room.

  “Fifth time this month. Do you get what I'm saying? FIFTH TIME THIS MONTH!!! Am firing you next time you do this again. YOU HEAR ME?”

“Yes sir.”

 He begins to walk away as I retreat back to clean the counter.

 "Honey, you should go easier on her," The manager's wife whispered.

  "Look, we are the only ones properly running this restaurant and we barely get any customers. This is the least i can do to atleast get more people.”

"Don't you think he's being too hard on her? She barely got a proper job after her graduation. He should be grateful that she even chose to work here," whispered one of my co-workers.

"I don't know. I heard she ran away from her house. We don't even have any information about her family. Don't you think it's all too suspicious?"

"Is Min-Hee really even her niece? Or is that a child she had out of wedlock?"

And so all the whispers followed. So many rumours yet none of those ever bothered me.

My shift is almost over.

I’ve been working at a fast food restaurant in Seoul for two years now. I live in an apartment few blocks away with Min-Hee, my four year old niece. Her parents were killed in an accident two years ago. Her mother, who was also my sister, had wished for me to take Min-Hee into custody. Quite many people were against this idea since I was financially unstable to raise her on my own. Today, I can say am financially stable enough to get Min-Hee into a school. The restaurant employees, including myself, are not well compensated. Payment of bills and rent is quite difficult for all of us. The money I make from my job was enough for me to manage a roof over our heads. Even though I never wanted to live like this, I am still grateful of the fact that I no longer live in Semyeong.

I finish my shift by depositing the rubbish outside in the restaurant's back yard. I was thinking of buying some noodles for Min-Hee on the way home when I notice a shadowy figure standing at the end of the street.

I didn't give it much thought until the person started walking towards me. Nobody else was on the street except me, and our restaurant had just been closed by one of my coworkers. It was 9:45 p.m. I don’t know where to go. I don’t have anything to protect myself with.

The faint light in the street helped me figure out the person’s appearance. The individual had their hair tied back as a low ponytail and wore a long grayish coat along with long loose pants. As the individual came more nearer, I could finally see the face. It’s a woman.

As she eventually approached me, I could finally recognize her. I felt chills running down my body when she got more closer. I remember who she is.

Moon Dong-Eun. After so many years. I was quite curious to what happened to her after she dropped out. The Moon Dong-Eun I remembered from high school feels like an entirely different person than the one standing right in front of me. But what the fuck is she doing here? How and why did she find me?

“It’s been quite a long time. How are you doing y/n?”

 I didn’t say anything at first.

“You can say am doing fine I guess. I have a job now and…." I paused. I decided to stop blabbering and cut straight to the chase. "What are you doing here? How the hell did you even find me?”

“I will explain that later. I need your favour.”

“Favour?” I crossed my arms as I said so.

“Yes. I’ve been wanting to do this for quite many years now. I can even pay you if you want.”

“Pay me?" That's strange. "Okay. What is it that you need from me?” I ask hesitantly.

She doesn't say anything and looks around. Is she trying to look out for someone?

“I need you to go back to Semyeong.”

My arms dropped to my sides. The silence grew louder between us. I stood right there in disbelief. No, I cant go back there. Not when I have Min-Hee now, no. I worked hard to get away from that godforsaken place. No. I cant go back there.

“Sorry I cant. I cant just go back to Semyeong just because you asked me to. Am not going back even if you pay me. Since you’ve been able to find out where I live, you might already know that I have my niece to take care of. Sorry. Just find someone else.” I raise my hands as I try to dismiss our conversation and retreat away from her.

“I understand your reason. But don’t you think they're living their lives quite easily, after knowing what they’ve done to you? What they’ve done to us? Don’t you want revenge too-”

“Am sorry. I already told you, I cant go back there. I can barely afford anything these days, let alone go back to the hell I escaped from. Sorry, I wont help you.” I nod my head as I gather my things.

“It’s 10 pm. I have to get back.” I say after a pause. I start walking towards my apartment. Min-Hee is waiting for me.

“Yoon So-Hee was murdered.”

I stop dead in my tracks. Yoon So-Hee? Oh I remember her so well. Someone like us. Yoon So-Hee. She disappeared one day out of nowhere. Or so I was told. Nobody was able to find out what happened to her. Yoon So-Hee.

“What?” I turned around to face her.

She shows me a picture of a dull yellowish name tag. On it was carved in black “Park Yeon-Jin”. My mouth went completely dry. Yeon-Jin? She is behind the disappearance of So-Hee? How did Dong-Eun find that out?

“I mailed this name tag to the police right after I dropped out, hoping it would work, I was pretty naïve back then.”

“If you gave that to the police, how do you have the picture with you then?”

“I have my sources, which I can’t tell you yet.”

I keep staring at the name tag, did she really murder her? She willingly went that far to kill someone for her pride?

“After Yoon So-Hee’s disappearance, the police found a body of a girl in her teens with her skull cracked. Maybe she had few of her ribs broken as well. The body was found near the abandoned building of our school. Apparently, they did find a pink lighter at the roof of the building and never informed anyone outside their own people, but because of the snow, they couldn’t trace who it belonged to. The sweater she wore was burned too.”

All this information was just a lot for me take in. I just couldn’t say anything.

Dong-Eun takes my phone out of my hand and dials some random digits on it. She saves the number under her name. I need to put on a phone password.

“Call me if you ever change your mind. I’ll see you later.”

I stood there completely motionless as she walks away to the end of the street. She gets into her car and drives past me, didn’t even bother to look at me. What did she get herself into? How the hell did she manage to get hands on a confidential evidence? What will be her next move? She did mention she had some help in accessing the name tag. Then who’s helping her? Are they even reliable?

The ring of my phone interrupts my chain of thoughts. It’s Min-Hee calling from a telephone number.

“When are you coming home?”

“Almost there. Just crossing the street.”

“Doesn’t your shift end at 9.30?”

“Yeah I was just caught up with some stuff. Do we have food at home?”

“Oh yeah we have the leftovers from today’s lunch.”

“Oh that’s great. I’ll be right home.”

“Okay.”

I slide my phone inside my pocket as I walk up the stairs. Moon Dong-Eun. What the hell are you playing at?

I walk into my apartment. I haven’t stopped thinking about what Dong-Eun told me. She comes out of nowhere, tracks me down, finds out where I live and where I work, and decides to tell me about an information I am in no liberty to talk about to anyone. Are there more people who know about this? Or is it just me? What the hell do I do now?

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[archive-dew]

there aren't enough of y'all acknowledging that BOTH jae jun and myeong oh were sexual abusers....

[ambafaerie]

The Glory did an excellent job highlighting the hubris of the antagonists. The bullies, most especially Yeon Jin and Jae Joon, saw nothing wrong in demeaning and committing violence on people they believed to be beneath them. They remained unapologetic and cruel even when confronted about their actions. That was until the pieces in Dong Eun’s revenge begun falling into place. People in higher positions (Do Yeon, the police) started realizing what they did and the option to blow it all away with family money increasingly became smaller as scandals and past crimes started to catch up. The “tight knit” gang turned on each other to save their own hide but it hardly did anything to delay their inevitable downfall, only speeding the process.

[heavensenthearty]

Many people say there were plot holes in The Glory about each crime and that the successful punishments depended too much on coincidences. But the way I see it, things are left open enough and we don't actually know how the discovery of each crime is staged, we just know the abusers received what was coming to them. That's the plot, it's not a mystery or detective show, it's a revenge drama. (SPOILERS AHEAD).

Take Teacher Kim's death for example. We know how he died but we don't know how he was found by the paramedics. Let's say his son moved some of the bouquets to another room after the teacher fainted and said he was moving them to where they wouldn't pose a danger to the teacher before the latter arrived home, but he busied himself before he could move them all. His father arrived home earlier than expected, saw the remaining bouquets in the room, panicked, dropped his inhaler, his son couldn't listen or help because he was in another room.

The police wouldn't be able to prove it happened otherwise.

Did he buy the flowers? No, they were gifts sent to him. Were his fingerprints on the flowers? Yes, of course they were, they were sent to him and he received them at the door. Were his shoe/footprints in the room? Yes, of course they were, it was his father's house.

Even if they were suspicious, they would need motive to build a circunstancial case. But they can't investigate motive if the physical evidence doesn't point to anything else than this being an accidental death at worst.

The point is that none of that matters because the spotlight isn't meant to be on the police but on the protagonist who is setting these events in motion.

As for the coincidences, I agree that Dong-Eun couldn't have known certain things would happen the way they did no matter how much she planned her revenge, but I also think those things weren't in her original plan. It seemed like she had clear goals but was flexible enough on how to achieve them. That's her established character. She didn't know what happened to Myeng-o immediately, but she was happy with the result and moved on.

And I think some others like Jae-Joon's crash and death were simply luck being on her side, which plays into the symbolism and irony of the story as well. Dong-Eun doesn't believe in God but she caught many "lucky breaks" in her journey as improbable as they seemed.

From the beginning, what were the chances that Yeon-Jin's own maid would need help with a revenge too? Dong-Eun says so herself.

There is even the no-so-subtle introduction of a God that believes in punishment when Dong-Eun "prays" to Him in front of Sa-Ra.

So, yes, that's one of the themes of the show rather than a plot hole.

[gizkasparadise]

about halfway through part 2 in the glory!

yeo jung is gonna lose his medical license for the drama of it all and i support him

dong eun’s love language is acquisition of property like a machiavellian monopoly player and yeo jung is ready to comply with his lil fondue set and i love that for them

i am begging the writers to search college campuses or outdoor concerts to find a weed consultant for this show. it does not do what you think it does

SO GLAD CREEPY TEACHER GOT BEAT DOWN

GQ daddy really threw hands in front of two lawyers and a whole ass police station. i cant wait for him to go off the deep end (please let him go off the deep end)

lmao @ yeon jin accusing GQ daddy of cheating because he gets a little too into strategy games

protect king louis the 11 year old spaniel who didnt ask for any of this

in the flashbacks, myeong oh is giving:

[froggiestfroggy]

The Glory: Episode 8 - Episode 16 opening titles

"...Dear Yeon-Jin, who I've always dreamed of killing, goodbye. This is my last letter to you. And to everyone else, farewell. I hope the end burned, like it did for me. I hope... it was painful..."

[jeanvanjer]

Nothing will beat Moon Dong-eun showing Yeon-jin that her mother doesn’t care about her.

Nothing.

That was her ultimate revenge.

The one person Yeon-jin always thought she had in her corner to help her, the one person she always ran to, betrayed her.

Nothing hurts more than knowing your mother chose herself over you.

[jadeinretrogrde]

joo yeo-jeong: *opens a drawer full of knives"

me:

[redwithjoon]

Everyone gets whats coming for them but when i tell you sa-ra's punishment really got me howling yall

This bitch got caught masturbating while being high af with a needle still stuck in her fucking arm in HER OWN FATHER'S UNFINISHED CHAPEL LIKE i cant make this shit up