The Trauma Code is giving The Devil Judge, if Yohan, Jinjoo, and Gaon were all immediately on the same page. And Gaon was still having horny obsessed fantasies about Yohan, and Yohan was secretly asking Jinjoo for tips on how to woo Gaon, and Jinjoo was just so tired, and they were all messy quirky girls.
Genre: Slow Burn, Humor, Medical Drama, Fluff, Light Angst, Social Media AU
Warnings: Medical emergencies, hospital setting, occasional strong language
Synopsis: You’re a trauma center resident trying to survive under the infamous Baek Kang-hyuk. Between chaotic ER shifts, teasing coworkers, and life-or-death situations, you never expected your biggest challenge would be dealing with Kang-hyuk himself. As rumors spread and tension builds, one question remains—are you just another one of his underlings, or is there something more?
MASTERLIST
Chapter 1: Initiation by Fire
Chapter 2: Diagnosed with Trouble
Chapter 3: Flatline or Falling?
Chapter 4: Diagnosis — Denial
Chapter 5: Vital Signs — Unstable
Chapter 6: Breaking Point?
Chapter 7: Cracks in the Armor
Chapter 8: Close Enough to Break
Chapter 9: Denial is a Losing Game
Chapter 10: The Worst Kept Secret
Chapter 11: A Not-So-Secret Date
Chapter 12: Kiss and Tell (Or Don’t)
Chapter 13: Denial is Futile
Chapter 14: The (Not-So-Secret) Secret
Chapter 15: The Slip-Up
Chapter 16: The Aftermath
Chapter 17: Denial is a Losing Battle
Chapter 18: The Breaking Point Pt. 2
Chapter 19: The Tease and the Tipping Point
Chapter 20: Cracks in the Armor 2.0
Chapter 21: Denial is a River in Egypt
Chapter 22: The Five Stages of Falling for Baek Kang-hyuk
Juwon has seen naked people before, at boarding school bathrooms, locker rooms etc. and it’s not a big deal when he sees them because he isn't interested in nudity. But the moment he sees Dongsik naked, he freaks out like a horny highschool freshman, has to leave the room, and nuts into his pillows at night.
nam sangbae taking the responsibility for this boy he saw as a potentially criminal will always make me so devastated. sangbae seemingly also didn't have any family, not that he ever mentions or are shown. dongsik lost two people forever and while one become a 'statue'. these two became each other's family, for over 20 years, sangbae made sure to drag dongsik through thick and thin, lifting him up, just being there. he didn't raise him. sangbae 'reincarnated' dongsik. he watched over and made sure that dongsik was still breathing. he gave him the hope and opportunity to do something and feel that although his efforts could have been futile, HE still did something. sangbae was dongsik's savior.
Juwon in Beyond Evil is so funny because my guy went from 'this man is a danger to others and I will arrest him' to 'this man is a danger to himself and I will tie myself to him' to 'this man is the salvation of my life and I'm ruined by the handcuffs on his wrists' and it's somehow the best thing that happened to him. 10/10 on matching the freak and changing yourself because of knowing someone.
imagine you were born a twin and then your sister died when you were 20 but you'll never stop being a brother because you decided to stop living for yourself the minute she was gone. and your parents stopped existing because one of their kids was gone and you couldn't make it up for the void. and then you try hard to live in a way that'll keep others safe, anyone who sees you as a brother or a son. but they keep dying and you survive, sometimes for them and sometimes because of them. now imagine you're a 40 year old man with more trauma than a Jenga pile can handle and your coping method is laughing at inappropriate times and generally letting people perceive you as a lunatic so that you can protect yourself. now imagine a 27 year old perfectionist with repression that's one step away from exploding decides you are his nemesis then partner then somehow even religion when he loses faith in everything he knew before he met you. now you have to get him out of hell and keep yourself from losing your sanity too. you are Lee Dong-sik and you keep getting adopted into different roles by people around you, and the last simple problem in your life was that you were once 20 and sucked at singing.
I honestly feel so deeply unhinged about Beyond Evil I cannot believe I didn't watch it before. it has everything : doomed childhood best friends, tragic twins, traumatized forged families, you can't escape the past (derogatory), you don't have to escape the past (kind), devotion as a weapon, devotion as an absolution, loyalty being a curse and loyalty being given freely, death and life being inseparable, love and arrogance and love and humility, falling to your knees in surrender, surrendering to raise someone off their knees, women being unheard and heard and protectors and persecutors, and there's yaoi that's insanely poetic somehow. absolutely built for endless rewatches.
That awkward moment when The Moment(TM) is over... what gets me in this scene is not only the fact that, at an impasse and at odds, they still don't let go of each other till Lee Dongsik gets the call; it's also that Han Joowon takes the phone and brings it to his face as if it wasn't just held in Lee Dongsik's - potentially dirty - hand. It seems that even at this point, when he's nothing but infuriating and a suspect, Lee Dongsik makes Han Joowon forget about his mysophobia.
WHY DOES DONGSIK LOOK LIKE HES FALLING IN LOVE WHILE JUWON PUTS THE CUFFS ON HIM WHY DOES JUWON LOOK LIKE FOLLOWING HIS RIDICULOUS MORAL COMPASS THAT HAS PROPELLED HIM THROUGH THIS ENTIRE SHOW IS BREAKING HIM INTO PIECES WHY CAN THEY ONLY HOLD HANDS WHEN DONGSIK IS HANDCUFFED WHAT THE HELL
the way lee dongsik wore a turtle neck and leather jacket before han juwon arrest him made me think he did it on purpose because that's so him right? but it also reminds me of that one scene from star wars where padmé wore the sexiest outfit to tell anakin they can't be together. he's silly like that.
In a deleted scene that was originally in the script book, Joowon actually disappeared for a week after the scene in the rain when he confessed to Dongsik about Han Kihwan’s crimes.
Their little Manyang family was getting worried about Joowon, but Dongsik reassured them that he knew he was okay.
It turns out that Dongsik had let him stay at the Okcheon residence, the one Dongsik had inherited from Nam Sangbae.
(Amusingly, it was also revealed that Joowon spent the entire time cleaning and organizing Dongsik’s home there, with Dongsik teasing Joowon that he doesn’t seem to have mysophobia anymore with how clean the house was)
It says a lot about how despite what Joowon has just revealed, Dongsik still readily forgave and accepted him, even allowed Joowon, remarkably, to stay in his home for a whole week. It says a lot that Dongsik cared for Joowon’s well-being knowing, despite everything, that Han Kihwan was still his father.
(What happened within that week and why that scene was deleted will now be up to fans and fanart and fanfic.)
I just realized that Dongsik and Joowon play right into the romance trope of the main leads being connected since childhood even without them being aware of it, so they've always been star-crossed fated lovers, except the fate in question—the red string that binds them—is none other than Han Kihwan.
And that tells you that Beyond Evil is also a twisted love story in which the most fascinating plot twist is that the star crossed lovers' destiny is to destroy the one person who has been the reason they've come together in the first place.
The poetic justice is darkly, profoundly beautiful.
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