I don’t understand what you like about V. He’s soo whiney and apologizes every 2 seconds. brainwashed his girlfriend into changing herself so he can love her the way he thinks is best with no regard to her feelings, and then has the gall to say he never loved her and send her into mental breakdown. He’s rude to his best friend. Keeps secrets from all his other friends. I just don’t get what is so great about him. I haven’t seen him do one good thing in the whole story. At least Rika did RFA
See, I know this was sent only to provoke me, and that I probably shouldn’t respond– but I’m going to anyway because I know you want me to admit that V did bad things.
“brainwashed his girlfriend into changing herself so he can love her the way he thinks is best with no regard to her feelings”– Half true. Brainwash? No. Attempt to change her? Yes– but Rika wanted him to. V and Rika enabled each other. Plus, V definitely cared about her feelings and how people thought of her.
“then has the gall to say he never loved her and send her into mental breakdown” – So what? He said he never loved her. He was young when he met Rika, and confused. He didn’t know where to go in his life so he attached himself to Rika on the simple fact that “she understood me,” and Jumin does the same exact thing with MC in his route. He was just finally realizing part of the reason their relationship was so toxic. What would you have him rather do? Lie and say that he still loves her?
“He’s rude to his best friend. Keeps secrets from all his other friends” – Yeah. V mistreats Jumin as a friend. He lied and went against his trust. Jumin was kind enough to not give up on Jihyun, and frankly, friendships can be mended and repaired. He kept secrets either to preserve Rika’s image, or to protect Seven from his father. Were those necessarily the best reasons? No, but they’re his reasons and you have to understand that he isn’t meant to be a character that thinks logically.
“At least Rika did RFA” – You right
Things that aren’t true in your ask:
“I haven’t seen him do one good thing in the whole story.” – Then I guess you didn’t play the damn game, because there are a lot of good things V did in the game:
Co-founded a charity organization
Donated/auctioned off his works to charity
Took the Choi twins out of an abusive home (and yes, that did go south, but he either A- couldn’t prevent what happened or B- had a reason)
Took food to MC when Saeran was literally starving her
Prevented Saeran from forcing MC to take the Elixir
Tried several times to save the MC, knowing he may fail, and trying again even after he was caught
Actively collected evidence against the Prime Minister throughout the years so, whenever the time came, it would be next to impossible for the PM to escape justice and thus keeping the twins safe
Constantly asked MC to watch over and help Saeran, whom he obviously cared about as he referred to Saeran as “the child.”
And a lot of other little things that I may have missed but I know other people can add-on
Things that bug me in your ask:
“I don’t understand what you like about V. He’s soo whiney and apologizes every 2 seconds.” – A lot of people who apologize constantly are victims of emotional (and sometimes physical) abuse. I know this may be a preference thing for you, but don’t be so quick to equate constant apologies = annoying. V suffered from both kinds of abuse. Of course he will say sorry constantly. It’s probably a reflex. I, also, personally never saw V as whiny- but moreso difficult. I understand that his personality doesn’t mesh well with others. However, I can understand how V thinks easily or why he does X or Y thing.
“At least Rika did RFA” – Oh! Well, isn’t that dandy? Here’s a list of other things Rika did:
Verbally and emotionally abused someone
Physically abused someone
(most likely) Embezzled/Illegally acquired money
(most likely) Subdued former guests of RFA parties to become members of Mint Eye
Knowingly drugged someone, and most likely multiple people
Attempted to drug several others at the RFA party via drugged wine, knowing it was drugged
Attempted to murder someone
This list also probably goes on!
Anyway, thanks for the passive-aggression, uhm. I like V because I think he’s really kind and sweet and I can understand why he does what he does, though I do not agree with some of it.