#yohan texts

[chaeinedup]

Sentimental WEi

[sscarletvenus]

phone gallery cleaning day

[lilianhuas]

“why didn’t he just kiss him”

[maystea]

— The houses of cards: the middle.

In the first part, we talked about the first house of cards shown in the series. Now, I would like to have this post of the ending for the house cards since the third and the last part is going to be about different cards.

　

— The second house of cards.

Let's start with the first one we see after the beginning of episode eleven. Just like in episode ten, Yo-Han builds it patiently; this time, though, we're unaware after which events this scene takes place.

But what we do know is that 1) the structure is different from the one shown in ep. 10 (back then it was a pyramid); 2) the top is temporarily absent but as Ga-On walks in and talks, Yo-Han carefully puts it on the peak of the building.

The most interesting part begins when we start to look into the meanings. It would be nice to read through each card (since it has many "spoilers" for what's going to happen next in the show) but just like previously, some cards are blurred while some are basically unseen. We see only a small part of what can be deciphered, but it's already enough to do some conclusions.

Returning to the main point — the top — we can see that the card Yo-Han puts when Ga-On talks about Doh Young-Chung on the right is different in the first and the following shortly scenes. It may be the house that fell and they had to rebuild it, but in both scenes where the top is shown properly, the structure doesn't change. At all. The same cards are on each floor in the same order.

Either way, the meaning behind the card we see first is intriguing, even though it's kind of a small card with the number Four of Hearts (description taken from here). But I do not want to focus on the card too much because 1) it's not accented on; 2) Yo-Han closes it with his hand (meaning the card changes); 3) we have a card more interesting to discuss.

Once again, according to this site and the photos of the deck, the one standing on the top the second time is Jack of Spades.

Once again taking the description from here, we see words that fit the end of episode eleven along with the next ones pretty well; even more, we see that Jack of Spades characterizes both Ga-On's personality and motive pretty well... or it doesn't?

Since it's a show where even directions of eyes are important, Ga-On not looking at the Four of Hearts not even once gives us a hint about him being the second card on the top: the hidden card, which neither number nor suit is known. Again, his role is yet to be discovered and may be interpeted wherever.

　

— The third and the last house of cards.

Repeating already something that was told one thousand times (and still will be repeated), but The Devil Judge is not a drama where something is happening just because. Everything has its reason, whether we, the viewers, know it or not.

That is why the last house of cards is shown in ep. 16 is... kind of odd. The structure is similar to the one in ep. 11, but... that's where all the similarities end.

All the times Yo-Han had played with the cards the only way he knew knows, we always could see at least half of the whole building with the cards. Here, all the floors are shown blurry and we can catch only a few ones. With previous houses, we could get a lot of information about the plot and the characters' inner thoughts and motives. That was before, and not now.

Before, we saw the top that consisted of two cards. Now, instead of reading into the roles of Yo-Han and Ga-On in the game they played, all we see is emptiness at the top... which also may be the answer: the game is over, and it's not going to continue ever again.

And apparently, as much as it saddens, it gives new opportunities for writers. Because "Every ending is a new beginning", there are many ways to begin the new page... which we will uncover in the next part.

[wederyed]

finished love live sunshine do you ever think of ending it all

[nozomitojoyuri]

they can be ur angle or yuor devil

[nomadjones]

Dallas: I appreciate the encouragement, genuinely. Dallas: Got any activity or place recs for if I do? @yohanbae

Yohan: Um.... You'd be stupid not to take a week off. Do it, you deserve it.

Yohan: It's never pointless to take off.

[yilinglaozu]

[whumplist]

BLACK OUT (2024) Whump List

Synopsis:

Two 19-year-old girls were brutally murdered. The bodies were abandoned and could not be found anywhere inside the warehouse, scattered with blood. The only suspect was their friend. He was drunk on the night of the incident. He doesn’t recall a single memory. No memories of committing a murder. No memories of not committing a murder either. The boy had become a young adult by the time he was released from prison in 11 years. He wished to pursue a quiet life… But another murder flips the village. A white bone carcass has been discovered. The real devil is hiding somewhere within the seemingly peaceful village. Who’s the real devil? (Source: Hulu)

⚠️ MAJOR CONTENT WARNING FOR SUICIDE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT — Context for CW at bottom of list in red text. ⬇️

Whumpee: Goh Jeong-woo (played by Byun Yohan)

➤ BONUS: Hyeon Geon-oh

Have mercy, this is only my second attempt at a whumplist. Let me know if I missed anything important!

[SPOILER WARNING] ⚠️

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Some notes:

※ The elipses (…) represent a scene change.

※ The way this drama is formatted, sometimes scenes at the end of an episode will not only be continued in the next episode or recapped, but the entire scene will be shown again in its entirety; in this case, it will be represented in this list as [scene continued: x, y, z] with x, y, and z being things that occurred both in the previous episode and the current one.

※ And finally, the links are to gifsets on Tumblr!

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➤ Goh Jeong-woo

01: grabbed, violently woken up, restrained, crying … crying, hit in head … handcuffed, interrogated, sleep deprivation … sleep deprivation … crying, amnesia, restrained … crying, restrained, held against ground … injured … imprisoned … crying … harassed (food tray kicked over on him), lightly slapped, bullied (made to eat food off floor) … crying … injured, bullying (food tray knocked over), attacked (blanket thrown over head and knocked to the ground), ganged up on, kicked repeatedly, punched, stepped on … injured ("Did they beat you?") … crying, grasping at chest, ("Please don't kill me.") thrown to ground, kicked … crying … attacked, ganged up on, punched … ganged up on, collapsed, in pain … injured (face covered in cuts and bruises), suicide attempt (slit wrist) … harassed, kicked repeatedly, ganged up on, dragged up, punched repeatedly, bleeding from mouth, grabbed at … fighting … scarred back shown … crying, grieving … grabbed, shook, pushed … shoulder-checked, fighting … [flashback: hit in head] … crying

02: tantrum, crying … slapped, crying, bottle smashed on his head, bleeding, startled, flinches, watery eyes ("Are you alright?" "No.") … grabbed, shook … grabbed … shoved

03: shoved … grabbed, slapped … crying … crying, screaming/wailing … crying, grabbed, manhandled, out of it, slapped, punched repeatedly, bleeding from mouth, gun pulled on him

04: [dream: crying] [scene continued: crying, grabbed, manhandled, out of it, slapped, punched repeatedly, bleeding from mouth, gun pulled on him] manhandled, helped up, helped to walk, bleeding from mouth ("Are you all right?") … manhandled, shoved, grabbed, punched, knocked into table, begging, crying, grabbed … chair kicked … pushed

05: grabbed … crying … flinches … grabbed … watery eyes … held at gunpoint

06: [scene continued: held at gunpoint] shot at, pistol-whipped … cared for (bandaged + sleepover) … slapped … concern for him, treated at hospital … grabbed, manhandled

07: [flashback: pushed, grabbed, punched, kicked, shoved down] attacked from behind, pot smashed on his head, knocked out, bleeding from head, worry for him (phone call) … loaded into ambulance, unconscious, bleeding from forehead, taken to hospital … treated, diagnosed with malnutrition … grabbed, shoved down … crying

08: crying, grabbed, restrained, shook, crying, punches wall, lightly punched in chest … shoved, hit by a car

09: unconscious in hospital … wakes up in hospital, tries to stand, legs give out, pulls out iv, runs outside barefoot while injured and dressed as a hospital patient … crying, manhandled, held against wall … hit in chest ("Are you alright?")

10: worry for him ("Eat up … This is his first meal today, right?")

11: shoved … crying, pushed

12: [scene continued: crying, pushed] crying … despondent … worry for him (downloads phone tracking app)

13: [flashback: crying] flinches back, hugged without consent, crying, pressured into drinking alcohol … drugged, dizzy, falls over, unconscious … unconscious, carried (piggyback) … unconscious, manhandled … kissed on mouth without consent while unconscious … unconscious, worry for him, checking his pulse ("Is Jeong-woo okay?") … wakes up, flinches ("You're safe now."), worry for him ("How is he? Is he okay?"), needs help sitting up … crying

14: worry for him, brought to hospital, lightly manhandled (led by hand around wrist), hand injury … crying … betrayal, watery eyes … crying, hit in head and on back with an easel, struggling to get up … breaks into a burning room, coughing … [flashback montage: restrained (handcuffed), manhandled, crying, interrogated, sleep deprivation, held against ground, harassed, beaten, fighting, injured, crying, distressed, begging, held at gunpoint, bleeding from mouth, hit over head with pot, collapsed, bleeding from forehead, crying, punching wall, kissed without consent while unconscious, etc] … crying … hug :) … object bounced off head (comedic)

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➤ Hyeon Geon-oh

01–05: nothing

06: drink slapped out of hand, shook … passed out drunk … drunk, crying, stumbling … drunk, stumbling, hysterical laughter … stumbling, drunk, hysterical laughter, legs give out, grabbed, almost falls over, is caught, helped to walk, manhandled, grabbed at ("Don't touch me.") … crying, almost falls over, is caught … crying … crying

07: [flashback: fighting] drunk, almost falls over, is caught, helped to walk, vomiting … [scene continued: crying] … manhandled, knocked to ground, knocked into table, hits his head, knocked out, carried while unconscious (piggyback) … crying, grabbed, dragged, locked in attic, claustrophobia, crying

08: nightmare, minor hallucination, withdrawal (alcoholism) … drunk, slaps himself, crying … hallucinating … slaps himself, crying … scratching arm, crying … crying … grabbed … suicide (hanging)

09: suicide (hanging) [flashback: crying, grabbed, shoved against wall, restrained] funeral [flashback: held against wall]

10: [flashback: held against wall, grabbed, crying]

11–14: nothing

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※ CONTEXT FOR CONTENT WARNINGS:

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⚠️ [WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS] ⚠️

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Suicide CW:

The protagonist repeatedly tells people to kill him, has little self-preservation, and slits his wrist at one point in the first episode; it is later self-described as a suicide attempt. Another character, not the protagonist, commits suicide; it is shown in episodes 8 and 9. Episode 13 also contains a staged suicide, and in episode 14 a character attempts suicide but is rescued.

Sexual Assault CW:

One of the murder victims is raped and while we see the lead-up and the aftermath, the actual act is not shown. The sexual assault is, however, discussed repeatedly throughout the drama, particularly after the body is found and autopsy performed in episode 6. The actual scene isn't shown until episode 8, after which it is shown multiple more times in flashbacks.

[renewedmotionforjudgment]

Scenes missing from the Devil Judge (as told by a RL lawyer aka yours truly)

(with the disclaimer that I don't practice in South Korea, nor dystopian South Korea)

That one case deadline where you really need Kang Yohan's input and he's nowhere to be found.

That one case question where you have emailed Kang Yohan 4 times and texted him once, and no response, because again, no idea where he is.

Telling someone via Zoom in a hearing that they need to mute themselves.

Telling someone via Zoom in a hearing that they are muted.

Internet reception getting spotty in the middle of a Zoom hearing as the judge is making the ruling.

That 30 email exchange in which hairs are getting pulled out because the parties cannot agree to a goddam hearing date.

[thedeviljudges]

Hi, I've been searching through your Devil Judge script book tags and loved seeing all the extra detailed character notes. Could you post the final airport scene where Ga On runs after Kang Yohan and they stare into each other's eyes. I would love to know what the script direction was for that?

so actually, the scriptbook is a bit different than what they put in the show. it’s very straightforward and why i prefer the show variation bc there is so much more nuance.

however, there is a really great note by the writer that it was jinyoung’s thought to add in “what should i do in a world without yohan.” although the script included soohyun in the line, while the show didn’t.

google translate has gotten so good at translating. this is SO much better than when the show first came out. this is def gonna make me want to go back again and translate more. ignore the black though. when converting to text, it added random words, lol.

[chaeinedup]

Reacting to WEi teaser photos (maknae line)

hyung line

[sscarletvenus]

when the brainrot actually is rotting your brain...

[lilianhuas]

X

[m3loria]

. . . why do they ignore this one's existence?

well i can't answer that one, but i can tell you what the albums name means. salva veritate is a latin phrase that means " with unharmed truth ", a frankly fitting name because this album represents a collection of diary entries more than anything. it wasn't expected, and the personal aspects clearly weren't either, but it seemed to an artistic choice..

. . .     % four arduous months following the release of their second mini album, salva veritate was released on november twentieth twenty twenty. no prior social media posts, no indication from the members, just released out of nowhere at midnight and allowed to simply fester. funnily enough, the members act like this album just doesn't exist, especially a certain member despite the fact that his name is scrawled over basically every song. it's personal, it's slow, and it was barely promoted, five tracks, an easy snow day listen.

. . . ▸ opening rather soothingly, knock on is basically the songification of the phrase " kicking my feet and giggling ", basically, these men want the subject of this song BAD, so bad that they hope they're writing about them in their diary. once again, it's the product of a yohan-hwan pairing, starting to think they've never gotten over anything in their lives. basically enough, knock on is a love tune, it's about the heartwarming moments before confessions that make you roll around your bed happily, giggling over the basic things such as text messages or simply hearing them talk. honestly? it's cute.

. . . ▸ again yohan penned (his name is all over this thing), light a flame sports the " love is like fire " analogy, though not that intense of a song, it narrates the intensities of love, how it may begin light yet feverishly grows passionately like a fire. all consuming, occasionally overbearing, but sometimes you are so intrigued that you yearn to step closer, for the warmth, the spark which makes you feel special. it can both destroy you and offer you available mellowness. while it isn't exactly title track worthy according to everybody, the message seemingly covers all bases, even in a cozy 3:15.

. . . ▸ it's like everyone in this group had a bad breakup or something, because etiolate is a clear breakup tune, and though i don't know much, i know one of them must've been clutching their hair strands for days. written and produced by louvix audio head music pro ahn sohyun in a not so surprising partnership with yohan, the prior staff member noted that the meliora members were " experts at yearning, they needed more of that ", she was right, we thank her for her sound judgement. if we can take anything from listening to this, it's that they did not take the breakup well at all.

. . . ▸ okay so imagine the last song, crank it up to like 10000%, and you have so long, the songification of " sobbing on the floor " apparently.. they're getting desperate y'all. literally the only song on the album having not been poked and prodded by a certain leader, so long was written and produced by a frankly talented eighteen year old named eden, probably not her real name but it's impressive nonetheless! though also a clear breakup tune, it instead takes the approach of " you might just be the problem ", less of an innate tune regarding love and being angry over the ending of that love, but coming to terms with what humans are, overly complicated. maybe you were a pushover, blinded by your very own ambition, careless concerning the feelings of the person who you tell " i love you " rather indifferently. somewhat silently, it's encouraging people in relationships to be better.

. . . ▸ finally, after insane collections of seemingly depressing music, i wish is the closing tune which provides somewhat solace, a bit of hope in this album which appears to paint love in a negative steering light. frankly, i wish is much more about friendship than romantic relationships, at least that's what our beloved writer yohan says, yeah he's back, did you miss him? he didn't write the whole thing, eventually junmin came in to write the second half of the song.. a strangely fitting pairing. platonic or romantic, this song is about somebody who loves someone so much it's sickening, that they want to get sick in tandem with that special someone, love is surging, whether it be between friends, or lovers, something those two probably know a lot about.

. . .     % era notes

the album was actually barely promoted, no prior messages or even hints from the members that it would be released, it was clearly very thought of but after it was released louvix audio rarely batted an eye at it

light a flame won exactly 1 music show, fitting because they only did show up for like.. two days to promote it

selling over 750,000 copies in the span of a month, it was certified platinum by the kmca on december twenty ninth twenty twenty, by late january twenty twenty one it had surpassed over 1,000,000 sold copies

memorable era moments

okay so.. the members kinda pretend this album doesn't exist for some reason

especially yohan, yeah he created like half the thing and he always squints uncomfortably whenever interviewers bring it up

this album, and late 2020 brought a cute collection of meliora vlogs, the fan favorite one being ‘nov.log #7: the making of knock on’, which is.. pretty self explanatory, it gave fans a glimpse into the song-creating process

"would you rather be a human with strawberry thoughts or a strawberry with human thoughts?" — kang yaejoon, 2020

hajoon and haneul's totally not sober karaoke vlive which then got taken down a week later, the latter straining his vocal chords at the attempt of ‘really bad boy’ by red velvet

00 vlive but instead of promoting the album junmin and hajoon were arguing over baseball teams whilst yohan just sat there wanting to die

hajoon describing the album as a ‘diary entry of sorts’ in an interview while yohan glared from beside him, eventually giving him a hard nudge with the elbow before he could say any more

[amethystina]

For the wipe tag game:

May I inquire about :

The devil's due ( I have been hooked since the first chapter that u posted. It's such an interesting idea with so many possibilities)

The gentle light ( will we get more of yohan's poverty?)

Thank u, and have a nice day 🩵

Thank you so much for the ask!

The Devil's Due

Oh man, this one. I am hooked on this one too, but I keep holding it off because I know it'll be pretty long and it's also going to be pretty, uh, sexually charged? And that intimidates me x'D

But yeah, I LOVE the idea and the possibilities it offers. It's a story that would focus on Ga On and Yo Han's relationship without the power imbalance of them being chief and subordinate. That's to say that Ga On is going to be even feistier than in canon, if you can believe that. And he's going to be more aware of his sexuality and what he actually wants — or who, I guess I should say.

The main plot would really just be Ga On getting to know Yo Han — and Elijah — during different circumstances. And the biggest conflict will be the fire and whether or not Yo Han caused it, plus Yo Han trying to open Ga On's eyes to the corruption in their country. The main portion of the fic would be set a couple of years after the first chapter, and a couple of years before the start of the drama. So they're all a little less jaded and, since the situation is so different — Ga On isn't sent to spy on him, for one — Yo Han won't be as defensive. But he's obviously also going to be, well, Yo Han. He's working as a normal judge, trying not to draw too much attention to himself — biding his time for his revenge, and all that — but he would definitely not mind having some fun with the bright-eyed, reformed delinquent he saved from a life as a criminal.

As a treat.

As with many of my WIPs at the moment, this fic is mostly just a collection of lines of dialogue from various scenes, with no connecting text around them. So there are no complete snippets I can show, but I can say that the first time they do something sexual together it's because Ga On has finally had it with Yo Han's teasing and flirting and just marches into his office — at Yo Han's work, yes — and goes:

Ga On: "Fine. Let's fuck."

Yo Han, after a small pause: "Right now?"

Ga On, very scathingly: "Do you want me to schedule an appointment?"

Yo Han: "You're an absolute delight when you're angry."

There are reasons why Ga On is being so blunt, I want to point out, because he wouldn't usually be. Again: Yo Han and his manipulation tactics.

... and yes, they do have sex right then and there, in Yo Han's office. Which is one of the reasons why I'm afraid to write this. I'm way out of my depth here x'D

But I will continue eventually! I like the story way too much to give up on it :)

The Gentle Light

As for this one, I was kind of shocked to realise that I have a lot more written on chapter 2 than I initially thought. It takes place right after the first chapter, so basically Yo Han's side of the very loaded conversation that takes place during chapter 7. I've just been adding bits and pieces here and there when I've felt like it and now I have almost 4 000 words. Imagine that.

Here's a snippet!

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Yo Han slowly walked up the steps leading to Kim Ga On's apartment, his hand sliding along the railing. The metal was cold against the mess of scar tissue on his palm, sending a chill up his arm. Yo Han paid that no mind, focusing instead on taking in his surroundings. While he'd known Ga On's address ever since K did the first background check, Yo Han had never actually been to visit before.

There had never been a reason for him to — until now.

As Yo Han finished climbing the first set of stairs, his gaze swept briefly over the terrace to his left, then flicked upward, toward the rooftop. There was apparently another terrace up there, but it was dark for the time being and therefore not of much interest to Yo Han.

Instead, he turned and looked out at the surrounding buildings. The neighborhood was as run-down as he'd expected, debris littering the streets and the majority of the buildings in desperate need of repairs — some even looked abandoned. Or perhaps the owners had simply given up, choosing to huddle inside the dark, decrepit shells of what used to be their homes, waiting for the end to come. That seemed common in these parts, where unemployment and hopelessness blanketed every house and street corner, sucking the life out of those few remaining.

Yo Han could tell it hadn't always been that way, though. There were glimpses of a once lively neighborhood hiding underneath the grime and despair, the descent probably having happened slowly over time as the economy kept getting worse and worse — money getting tighter and tighter. And, eventually, whether they wanted to or not, the people had no choice but to give in.

It made sense, Yo Han supposed, for Kim Ga On to have grown up in a place like this, where he'd had to watch what he once knew wither away and fall into disrepair in front of his very eyes.

That deeply rooted disdain for the rich must have come from somewhere, after all.

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A lot of what I have so far is basically just Yo Han sauntering around in front of Ga On's apartment, observing things and drawing conclusions about Ga On. It's kind of adorable in it's own way xD But things obviously take a very dramatic turn once Ga On shows up, some of which I've shown before in snippets that you can find here.

I can't promise I'll ever post this, though, since I'd obviously have to finish it first and this is very far down on my list of priorities right now. But we'll see, I guess? If I keep chipping away at it one piece at a time, eventually it will be finished.

I hope you like it! And you have a nice day, too 💜

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