Hak sure forgot all about this and left in the end though
Thank goodness he did
Oh for sure, I joked once they should all leave her for all the bullshit she put them all through and took them for granted....
The ending of the gaiden is gloriously bleak:
• Yun is supposedly studying medicine, so I guess he is not exactly available to provide Yona with constant companionship. • Zeno stays at the palace, but has basically become its resident alcoholic, alternating between being drunk and hungover depending on the time of day.
So the great queen finally fulfils her destiny surrounded by:
a busy medical student;
a tipsy former immortal;
a squirrel, whenever scheduling allows. 🐿️
The dragons leave. Hak leaves. Their shared life disappears. Yona is left with the throne, the paperwork, and Zeno trying to remember where he put his cup.
Honestly, as an ending for SuperYona, the irony is exquisite. She wins the crown and loses the daily worship of her entourage.
It almost feels like poetic justice, although I strongly suspect Kusanagi never intended that reading at all.
I might be wrong, though.
Yun is supposedly studying medicine, so I guess he is not exactly available to provide Yona with constant companionship.
Yoon´s whole job is taking care of Yona. He wakes her every day, she has a maid, who cares for her a lil like a mother, who takes the work away and forces her to eat something.
Zeno even sleeps in the same bed...history repeats itself. Just like Soo Won. And he reminds her sometimes, that Hak is not there, because - of course - Zeno is lonely, too. But he also appears to be happy, to observe the changes one more time.
Val and Mei Nyan not only protect her, but are also pretty amusing. Ju do is also trying his damnest like always. Screaming at her like he used to do it at Soo Won, while Soo Won is treated like he would consist of literal glass.
Nearly as if Soo Won and Yona have changed places. (As if Soo Won had become suddenly a child again.)
The dragons leave. Hak leaves. Their shared life disappears. Yona is left with the throne, the paperwork, and Zeno trying to remember where he put his cup.
Zeno´s head works pretty well, apparently. I am not 100 % happy with it, too. But everybody concluded, that he had enough work for the last 2000 years.
The dragon warriors have scars, too. I don´t think, it is bad for them to leave and live their own lives apart from Yona, for once.
Grown-up children often leave the house after a while, but they come occasionally, back. To their parents.
Yoon says in the final chapter of the manga that he is starting a medical team, that he will continue studying, and that he will eventually become Yona’s personal physician.
If he is studying, as he explicitly says he is, then I do not think he can also be available to look after Yona twenty-four hours a day. If he were, he would hardly have any time left to study, and studying is precisely what the manga says he is doing. If, only two months after Yon
a’s coronation, Yoon is already supposed to be a fully qualified physician, then I want to move to Kouka, because apparently people there acquire knowledge by osmosis.
The gaiden also never shows or states that the dragon warriors come back to visit occasionally. They might, or they might not, because the text does not establish either possibility.
As for Zeno, I do not see him as happy or emotionally fulfilled. I see him as lonely. The gaiden shows him drunk or hungover, and that does not feel like a peaceful or deserved ending to me. Sharing a bed with Yona from time to time does not erase that loneliness, nor does it automatically turn their relationship into a new family.
The maid caring for Yona, taking work away from her and making sure she eats does not automatically make her a mother figure either. She may simply be doing her job as Yona’s attendant.
Val and Mei-nyan feel, to me, as if they were placed beside Yona so that the absence of Hak and the dragon warriors would not feel quite as obvious. And Joo-doh is still being used mostly as comic relief, just as he was in the manga. I honestly feel sorry for him.
My point was simply about what the ending actually shows: the people who shared Yona’s daily life throughout the story leave, while the people surrounding her now are mostly guards, officials and caretakers. And to me, that is not a family.
Yoon says in the final chapter of the manga that he is starting a medical team, that he will continue studying, and that he will eventually become Yona’s personal physician.
Indeed, but he still cares and comes to her. And this is completely enough right now. Yoon does not need to stay 24 hours glued to Yona´s side right now. Many people support Yona, after all.
This is the reason, why Soo Won made her queen - most likely.
Zeno even lies in Yona´s bed, because he loves to be scolded and cared for by Yoon, as well. Does Zeno not wish to help Yona? Sometimes, it is both.
Well, Yoon has a big family and he cares about the people, who are here right now.
Hak is keeping watch over the rest of them. He is learning from his "Mother Yoon".
"Don´t get hurt, okay?" - Typical things mothers say on a daily basis.
Male mothers or "caretakers" apparently are called priests. At least based on this book I have read about Buddhism recently.
I was curious and thought...the analogies to Jesus Christ and Christianity cannot be a mere accident. So maybe there is another religion involved as well.
Indeed. There are some important similarities between the teachings of Buddhism and Christianity. And this is, what Kusanagi implied in her work.
Yoon has just never understood, that Iksoo made a priest out of him. Yoon is therefore a priest, who does not simply believe in the gods.
a’s coronation, Yoon is already supposed to be a fully qualified physician, then I want to move to Kouka, because apparently people there acquire knowledge by osmosis.
Oh, Yoon isn´t. But he does not need to be, right now, because there are other physicians around. Like Min Soo. Yoon still learns from him, too.
But Yoon is obviously a genius, as well.
The gaiden also never shows or states that the dragon warriors come back to visit occasionally. They might, or they might not, because the text does not establish either possibility.
Fiction sometimes works in a way, that the readers need to imagine certain parts. All the dragon warriors want to know, how Yona is doing. So it is heavily implied, that the former dragon warriors would want to see her again.
It also could demonstrate a contrast to Zeno, who did visit the people, he wished to see, far too late.
As for Zeno, I do not see him as happy or emotionally fulfilled. I see him as lonely. The gaiden shows him drunk or hungover, and that does not feel like a peaceful or deserved ending to me. Sharing a bed with Yona from time to time does not erase that loneliness, nor does it automatically turn their relationship into a new family.
Personally, I do think, that nobody feels completely "happy or emotionally fulfilled" at this moment. (With the exception of Hak, maybe) But everybody is trying to find their way, to learn, to change.
I think, for Zeno it might be a completely new experience, that he does not need to do anything and is still loved.
Right now, he is forced to do nothing, while the younger ones try to run the country. And he can lean back and recuperate.
How will his life be, after this statue? I imagine, that he will find a new purpose.
The maid caring for Yona, taking work away from her and making sure she eats does not automatically make her a mother figure either. She may simply be doing her job as Yona’s attendant.
As far as my own experiences goes, I would say: Sonon does more than her job.
You can be lazy at your job and literally just do, what you are told or you can really care about the people and the place and do more.
And this woman, Sonon, is doing more than her job.
Sonon takes care - with her son - that Yona is not overworking.
She is also helping Yona to get out and have a little fun with her guards.
Val and Mei-nyan feel, to me, as if they were placed beside Yona so that the absence of Hak and the dragon warriors would not feel quite as obvious. And Joo-doh is still being used mostly as comic relief, just as he was in the manga. I honestly feel sorry for him.
Mei Nyan and Val are from Kai Empire and I guess, that this people will literally go back to this place at one point in the future or/and help establish a link between Kouka and Kai Empire.
And Ju do is trying to keep everybody safe. Both Yona and Soo Won tend to listen to him, because he used to be a caretaker of them.
Mei Nyan is trying to relax him a little. I hope, she will be succesful.
My point was simply about what the ending actually shows: the people who shared Yona’s daily life throughout the story leave, while the people surrounding her now are mostly guards, officials and caretakers. And to me, that is not a family.
To Yona, they might become a new family. She does not look too unhappy, that Hak and everybody else is going their own way. Actually, she looks kind of content.
People in a working place or another establishment, can become sort of a family to you, when I go with my own experiences. Before this people were strangers, but after a while, they can become a second home to you.
