He has a normal life, Yoohyun is born and he picks his little brother over the world; he loses everything else in the process.
Their parents die and Yoojin builds a life for them with multiple jobs and a bright future, he builds it off the back of a Han Yoojin that doesn't exist outside of being a caregiver.
The dungeons break and he loses his brother in the process.
He goes to an awakening broker, he goes to the awakening centre, he loses the money accumulated for Yoohyun's future and any chance of integrating positively in society in the process. While dungeoning he gains friends that will side with him even with his struggles, they die in the process. He gains more friends; Taewon, Yerim, and Hyunje. Taewon dies, Hyunje takes his memories and he loses all three of them in the process.ย
Regardless, Yoojin pushes through and tries to find himself.ย (He does, somewhat.)
Han Yoohyun dies.ย
Han Yoojin turns back time and loses himself in the process.ย
Something about Han Yoojin, Song Taewon, and Sung Hyunje being fated to meet but holding onto one other by choice.
How Song Taewon was grown to be an eclipse, destined to swallow Sung Hyunje and lose himself to that, but instead he tears himself away from that fate and forms his own identity that can protect Sung Hyunje instead. And how Han Yoojin, someone so ordinary that even their destined string was unclear to the point that they couldโve just walked past each other, becomes someone so extraordinary and so determined in his love that he ties himself to Sung Hyunje with his own hands. Sung Hyunje, whose highest priority is self-preservation to the point that he can remain himself even as everything else disappears, decides to declare Han Yoojin and Song Taewon to be his life and death.
Taewon seperating himself from the shadow of Hyunje, and Yoojin who wraps that pink string round tight. Han Yoojin, a mere f-rank who embraces the both of them in weak arms, and they just, stay.
Reading: I started the ROTS novelization and uhhhโI am scared tbh.
Last series: Pokemon! My partner is obsessed with it rn. But we are watching that and BBC Merlin back to back soโฆI watched them both tonight. Merlin is MY obsession rn (tho not as much as Star Wars..oops)
Last Film: Johnny Englishโฆitโs so cringe itโs good.
Last song: As Above So Below by Essenger and Cryoshell (itโs from my Vaderkin playlist..I am in the trenches)
Coffee or Tea: Tea! My stomach stopped tolerating coffee so I usually drink more tea now. Especially Matcha! I used to drink the same amount of both :( I really love both lol. Iโll get some milky Oolong because itโs so good in the morning.
Working on: Two Obikin fics! Iโm only sketching out the ideas though, no actual writing yet unfortunately ๐ but Iโll get there ๐ฆพ
Reading: amagami wo kimi ni (play-biting you!) i got vol 1 for christmas ๐ฉท๐ฉท๐ฉท and many many fanfics...
Last series: adventure time, always because i play it on loop for bg noise
Last Film: jujutsu kaisen: execution ! the animation was sooooooo good
Last song: this
Coffee or Tea: tea ๐ฅฐ coffee smells like poop to me asdfghjkl
Working on: cutieful ver of a prison realm with sparkly eyes and glitter uwu i'm not good with clay and my hands haven't been workingโข๏ธ though ๐ญ
Reading: A hundred ways to kill a heartthrob. Imma be honest, I'm just reading it out of boredom. I can't click with the characters but I'm also too curious about the ending to drop it out now.
Last Series: Evil. Actually an amazing serie!! Pretty heavy on the religion but there's a piece of cake for evrybody. Religious or not. Definitely check it out!!
Last Movie: Ultraman(the last Netflix version). I'm pretty late on the hype but I liked it. It was a cute movie.
Last Song: Eve by ado. Low-key obsessed nowadays with this. I recommend the clip video. The visuals are a must.
Coffee or Tea: Now, I can NOT choose between the two okay. Both is good.
Working on: (now that's a big word lmao) daydreaming about a tcf android au and I guess some of my OCs designs. Man, I have so many WIPs in my drawer.
Tagging: @thepizzamanisaneva @thepurplewombat @the-godly-apple-being @harudemuri @luzzxsgabi @chaoticflowertree @generoustarworld @anitamta @delusional-daydreamer18 and all my mutuals(sorry I couldn't put everyone) and anybody interested
Oh wow, did not expect to get tagged but thank you anyways! \(> v <)/<3
Reading: Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop. I've already read this but I wanted to reread it because it's officially one of my comfort books. And also, many, many fanfictions, ahem.
Last Series: Gachiakuta. Haven't finished watching it yet, but it has a unique plot with loveable characters and the lore is quite intriguing as well. The artstyle is also just ugh, AMAZING! The music is catchy too~
Last Movie: Dead Poets Society. It's a good movie which teaches you valuable life lessons and the characters are people the audience can relate to greatly, especially the protagonist. Beware of the ending, though.
Last Song: Rendezvous by AHOF. I've never been a K-pop fan or stan before, but that was before I discovered AHOF. All of their songs are great and I've been listening to them nonstop every single day.
Coffee or Tea: I can't drink coffee because it gives me heart palpitations and is overall bad for my health. So tea it is, specifically honey lemon tea. Yum.
Working on: Another TCF Modern Au fanfic with Cale and KRS as its protagonists as per usual. Will try to experiment a different writing style and whatnot. And I should probably work on my WIPs...
Tagging: @mojitotheslothsblog @cale-thames @calethescammer @sleepy-ssi @kireeen and all my other mutuals that I can't tag because I can't find y'all and I suck at tagging in general. And to anyone else who wants to try this out:D
thank you for the tag i woke up saw this and went avdgvsywhagdyuajqj???!!! <333
Reading: currently binging 'How to survive as the second son of the magic household' (webnovel), while comfort-reading on the side 'My friends' by Fredrik Backman (third time laughing and crying over his books, i can never rec him enough)
Last series: Vinland Saga, completed till the end and I was just living dazed for a week afterwards.
Last movie: I don't really watch movies so the last one i did was like, Spider man: No way home, right after its release (which year was that..?)
Last song: Isabella's lullaby from The Promised Neverland. Listening to it without the music is a routine therapy atp ^^
Coffee or tea: TEA!!!! THERE'S NEVER ENOUGH TEA FOR ME!!! I would've liked coffee as well but i physically am incapable of swallowing the bitterness. Milk tea is my every day comfort drink <33
Working on: Uhh just started the first chapter of a tcf torture Cale fic,,,,lots of wip in the background as well but this one's my current focus. Also working on getting a sleep schedule that involves sleeping before 4am.
Tagging: @scammysmileroksuu @a-main-blog-for-me @gatoquecontaestrelas @aro-screams-into-the-void @rosekitsune @forgetme-eternally-blissfully @mirusx @certifiedcoffeeaddict @tiredforeternity @dani-the-human @straysnail @moondrip027 @chillinghereathome @murasaki-cha @gottamakethiswork @mojitotheslothsblog @lolomity @luzzxsgabi uhh that's a lot (if i forgot anyone blame my memory not my love)
thank you for the tag<333 (thank you too @forgetme-eternally-blissfully !!)
i realised as i was answering this that i really need to consume media again omg
reading: a little life (i can never not rec it enough but the vocab is tasty and i wanted to see if i still hate it as much as i did during my first read) and iron flame (my friend is holding me at gunpoint, iโve been trying to finish it for m o n t h s)
last series: uuuuh itโs been a hot minute but i rewatched tian guan ci fu (gorgeous and sent me right back into the hyperfixation) & and knight rider was being broadcast recently
last film: i can genuinely not rememberโฆ.???
last song: currently listening to new perspective by p!atd
coffee or tea: coffee!!! (who woulda thought) but ill tea if im feeling under the weather aka throughout the entirety of winter
working on: a lot of thingsโฆโฆ. too many thingsโฆ. the rokcale yearning fic, itcwsas (this one in my head, mostly) and a tgcf longfic (which, knowing myself, will never see the light of day). and right as i am typing this i should be working on my math assignments oopsie
tagging: @the-red-thread-that-strangles @fictionalcreator @uncreative-dumpsterfire @yummxi and any willing mutual !
Both you and @forgetme-eternally-blissfully tagged me so I guess Iโve gotta! (lighthearted)
Reading: currently on non-holiday-reading-jail (i historically have a Problem with failing to stop reading through the night and having to call out sick the next day so i try to avoid reading Actual Books while not on break), but last I read was Trash of the Countโs Family Part 1, and Iโve been voraciously consuming fic of it in the meantime (the trick is that most fic arenโt 100k+ so I can binge them without locking myself into crippling sleep deprivation)
OH AND I NEARLY FORGOT need to catch up with S Classes That I Raised and actually find a place to read the ORV side stories
Last series: TV series, Iโm assuming? In which case uhhhhh Link Click? Itโs been a hot minute. Need to get back to itโฆstill on the The Gang Goes to England arc. The last one I remember that I both finished season 1 and really really enjoyed was S1 of Wind Breaker and S1 of DanDaDan, but now they have S2s and I need to catch uppppppโoh! And Battlebots! Gotta catch up on the last two seasons. Missed the tournament last year
Last film: uhhhhhhh oh! Everything Everywhere All At Once! Watched it on the plane last flight :) really good!!! Of course I vibe with absurdism in general, but the execution and unflinching ridiculousness of it all was 11/10. Youโve GOTTA play a story like this straight and sincere and by god they DID it
Last song: Tsuki wo Miteita by Kenshi Yonezu just finished playing in the car. Next in the queue is Taikutsuwo Saienshinaide by EVE. This isnโt me being deliberately obtuse or pedantic btw this is just how these two songsโ names are listed on English language iTunes. They donโt even treat the ใ particle the same. In Yonezuโs the wo is separated by a space and in EVEโs itโs not. Romaji!
Coffee or tea: NEITHER!!!!! Give me water give me soda but do NOT give me the leaf/bean juice
Working on: too much and not enough! Main project right now is Heir to the Dragon God, original longform fantasy inspired by TCF and the like. Also some art is brewing in the background. I may or may not try and write some media analysis essays in the future. Who knows? What I really should be doing tho is cleaning my houseโ
Tagging uhhhhh @1-800-i-ship-it , @tryingahandinholdingapen , @zorlovinghue , @makzee-51percent , @unhealthyobsessiveworm , @buqbite , @beloved-fool-clown give me your personal information. Or not. Iโm not the older mentor character you have a complicated relationship with but consider a father
THANK YOU FIR TAGGING ME @fictionalcreator IM HONORED!!
Reading: Children of the holy emperor (WebNovel) im very early into it and havenโt had much time to read it lately, but Iโve heard loads of good things and the plot is super cool! On top of that I have so many fanfic tabs open that Iโm too scared to count but Iโll just leave those for laterโฆ
Last series: Madoka magica. Itโs one of my favorites and while Iโve already seen it, Iโm doing a rewatch while forcing my friend to watch it with me so we can go see the new movie in theaters together when it comes out.
Last film: I donโt really watch movies often (sitting and doing nothing for that long gives me too much opportunity to read instead) but I did go see Zootopia 2 in theaters with my sister back during thanksgiving
Last song: we hug now by Sydney rose. Itโs a constant in every playlist for me. My absolute favorite song! Itโs perfect for every Scenerio in my head. No matter what ship, they can be edited to it. Itโs perfect. It was my too song on Spotify for 2025 with almost 200 listens (Iโll top that number this year)
Coffee or tea: Iโve always been a huge sucker for tea. For warm tea, a good black tea with milk and honey will never get me wrong. For cold tea, I get an iced chai everywhere I go. Itโs delicious, quick to make, and available at every coffee shop youโve ever heard of.
Working on: unlike most of the people in this thread I am not a fanfic author. I am however, an artist! I donโt typically start projects and not finish them in one sitting but I am working on turning my friends and my mutual ocs into cookie run kingdom cookies. Iโm also planning a fanart for another Totcf crossover fic, so look forward to that.
Oh my, this was an amazing way to return to tumblr! Thank you, @makzee-51percent
Reading: Currently rereading Yona of the Dawn manga since the second season was just announced after like a decade and it is my favorite manga of all time (10/10 recommend).
Last series: Frieren: Beyond Journey's End in preparation for the second season! It's also up there in my top five lists, haha. I've been following the series since it started all the way in 2020! I guess I'm just a sucker for slice-of-life and found family.
Last film: Not much of a movie person either (reader through and through). I think the last movie I might've watched would have been K-pop Demon Hunters, and that'd be all the way back in August oof.
Last song: Like Him, by Tyler the Creator and Lola Young! I typically have Spotify playlists curated specifically for each of my fics (or certain characters). But this song is a constant in all of them simply because of how versatile and downright amazing it is! One of my absolute favorites!
Coffee or tea: Hot chai girlie all the way - I think my culture forbids me from anything else lolol. But I'm also a college student, so coffee is my best friend. A better answer would be chai or any type of tea for pleasure, coffee when I have six assignments to grind before midnight!
Working on: I'm the author of the TCF series lullabies of broken fates on ao3! I haven't updated for a while since life got to me, but it's primarily character study and slice-of-life fluff!! Also on some Cale fam fluff fics oof. Currently, I'm helping beta a friend's debut novel and working on the script for my own original short drama!
I feel honored to be included, @lizmidfordsblog ( หถยด แต `หถ ) Thank you!!
Reading: I'm in the middle of way too many things (my friends gape in horror and awe when I show them my 'in progress' list), but my top reading priorities right now are the SCTIR/MSCH Afterword and the Greatest Estate Developer webnovel, both of which have been burning a hole in my pocket while I distract myself with mouthwateringly-high-quality fanfiction.
Last Series: Vanitas No Carte. Ah... it's way too good! I was blessed with the fortune to finally decide to watch the anime right before the manga came off of hiatus, so I felt very special for that! ^^* I want to eat the VNC color palette.
Last Film: Doukyuusei (Classmates). I just finished it this evening, and I'm still reeling from the "I can't believe I finished such a sweet story" vibes. It was so soft; such a lovely and low-stress watch! Great way to spend an hour.
Last Song: The Family Jewels by Marina. I, too, make playlists to match the fanfics I write, and a number of Marina's songs have been entirely too fitting for the Villain!Midoriya Izuku fanfic I started writing recently (inspired by the fandom resurgence provoked by the release of the final season of the anime, although I finished the manga ages ago).
Coffee or Tea: An impossible decision, really, but when given the choice I usually go with coffee for practical rather than favoritism reasons.
Working on: I've got an SCTIR/MSCH wingfic in-progress (momentarily slowed down because of the difficulty of executing my ideas), my Villain!Midoriya fic, and a Tokyo Ghoul manga reaction fic (not posted anywhere as of yet) all buzzing around my head atm. I'm also working on studying for a management certification exam! Hurray for career development ูฉ(หแห*)ู
Tagging: @fear-the-grape-goddess @cale-bration @completelyburnout @eatin-bread-n-cryin @lycoric3 @lord-jebbydiah-smith
Have come back to tumblr specifically for this, so thanks @readerattheend ( ยด โ `)ใ๏ฝ โก
Reading : Am currently rereading (or trying to, very, very slowly) Turning by Kuyu in preperation for a fic, and am also catching up to One Piece. (Sctir, my love, I'll get back to you soon)
Last series : I... gosh I can't remember what I've watched. It might be The Eminence in Shadow because I decided to click on the first recommended after finishing another series on Netflix. It is, surprisingly interesting to say the least, odd chuunibyou mc in a literal fantasy world makes for a weird meta.
Last Film : Uhh... I don't watch that many movies so... It might have been Kpop Demon Hunters? If that's the most recent ones that have come out.
Last Song : Siren by Lydia the Bard, been listening to a bunch of her villain songs (and some originals) and gosh damn. Also, kinda been listening to Epic the Musical on repeat as well (and I can't stop thinking about that one sclass fanartist that drew hjyj as odypen from Would You Fall In Love With Me Again-)
Coffee or Tea : Tea. I have too much caffeine and I just start crashing, so, yeah, tea's the most caffeine I'm getting (I say like I'm not someone that enjoys hojicha).
Working on: Currently I'm writing up a Turning Trans!Yuder fanfic with a focus on the first timeline and.... yeah, it's basically angst, huh. Am also inspired to finally write that sequel for my OP fanfic When Dusk Comes Before Dawn which... is... pure angst... hmm.. But don't worry! Once I get back to writing stuff for msch it will hopefully be happier! :'D
Tagging : @starrbird51 umm, I don't tend to follow people because I just pop in to make posts and dip (and am also a massive overthinker so idk if I should follow back, so uh, if you wanna join the chain then go ahead!)
Just imagining a wedding with hjyj and having it go like this-ย
Yoojin swallows lightly, throat feeling incredibly dry yet so completely full he almost wants to throw up. His heart tumbles in his chest, threatening to use up all the oxygen in his lungs just to beat faster for Hyunjeโs sake. To beat louder and harder so that his newly formed husband will hear all the love his vows could not express.ย
Itโs with a shyness quite late given the moment, that Yoojin dares to properly glance at Sung Hyunjeโs perfect face, tearing his eyes from those large hands which steady his own trembling ones. He stares, steadfast and fearless into Sung Hyunjeโs eyes.
Itโsโ heโs. Well.ย
Sung Hyunje looks so young.ย
His lips parted to a wide smile thatโs almost ill-fitting to his regular composure, causing the wrinkles around his eyes to accentuate and just showing the edges of his gums. Cheeks lightly flushed and eyes electrifying, the stable breaths Yoojin hears from him seem to get louder and louder, and he feels Hyunjeโs hands tighten around his. Itโs almost manic.ย
Itโs endearing, emotions tumbling out of Hyunjeโs perfect restraint and forming a love so painfully human.ย
Yoojin feels his eyes getting misty. He watches those soft lips open up and whisper honestly into the air,
โI think Iโve fallen for you.โ
A short, wet laugh peals out of him, โyou said you already fell.โ
Hyunje leans his head down, beautiful strands of moonlight tickling the edge of Yoojinโs forehead.ย
โI could fall again.โ
He lets his arms wrap around Hyunjeโs neck, his soft white tux resting against that pale skin and crumpling Sung Hyunjeโs collar. Yoojin tilts his head up, lips brushing against Hyunjeโs and his feet slightly rising off the ground.
โYou already have.โ
Hyunje laughs gently and lightly, like chains tinkling against one another. His arms loop around Han Yoojinโs waist, sweeping him off his toes and catching him right before the fall.ย
โHow could I resist falling for this wonderful partner of mine?โย
Their lips press, soft yet impatient.ย
Rings worn and promises made, itโs still not enough.
Han Yoojin, who has a deep and desperate desire to be protected and taken care of, because when he was just a child he chose to be his brother's caretaker at the price of losing his own caretakers. But also who - exactly because he lived his own life without parents or guardians, committing to being a protector for others - simply cannot bring himself to let others take care of him, because it is just too tempting and dangerous to let go willingly and he doesn't know how to, so he can only submit to that vulnerability when he's exhausted, or hurt, or desperate.
Sung Hyunje, who has such a strong instinct to take care of the people he is interested in, he loves to spoil them and feed them and keep them safe. But who, at the same time, has to juggle those instincts with his nature as a natural born S-Class, having an almost irresistibile desire to hurt those same people that he loves, because he is a hunter and he likes to chase and to catch, to make them his inside and out as he tears them apart.
The both of them, who like to roleplay and to fight and who get truly unreasonably excited in virtual reality scenarios where they can fight and kill each other with no consequences.
Look me in the eyes and tell me they're not made for bdsm.
Love that Yoojin & Hyunje having this level of understanding that no one else will really get. Both of them being used by the transcendents. Sung Hyunje being haunted by the lives he doesnโt remember and Han Yoojin being haunted by the lives lost alongside him through final gratitude, having lifetimes that arenโt really their own yet still impacting their being.ย Both of them so used to playing roles that no one really knows who โtheyโ are.
Sung Hyunje who has lost himself over and over again through countless worlds meeting Han Yoojin who threw himself away by choice, twice for the sake of his younger brother. Someone who gave up their identity willingly vs someone who has long lost the reasoning as to why itโs happening. Itโs also reflected when pre-reg Hyunje takes away Yoojinโs memories without asking. Maybe he couldnโt fathom the idea of someone giving up a part of themselves willingly, maybe he never realised that Yoojin cared for him that much, that even if he lost those memories heโd still fall for him again.ย
Even in that moment where Yoojin ties themselves together with pink yarn so he can find him in Crescent Moonโs domain, that pink string saves the both of them. Itโs to reach Hyunje before he loses himself but itโs also what stops Han Yoojin from losing himself to the onslaught of memories from final gratitude, his identity being forcefully rewritten over and over through experiences not his own.ย
Also when the transcendents talk about their potential plans for the two, discussing what is in a sense the worst reality for them. Yoojin forcefully hopping worlds while losing his sense of self like Sung Hyunjeโs life. Hyunje being placed at the bottom of the chain but being extremely desirable while always falling right at the edge of greatness, becoming a honeypot just like Yoojinโs whole narrative. That the worst case scenario is each otherโs realities.
Just something about Han Yoojin and Sung Hyunje being the only ones who can understand each other in the worst possible ways.
I love how chapter 414 gives us this particular insight into Crescent Moon's mind.
I always appreciated how the main villain in sctir has love as her main motivation, making her the perfect enemy for Yoojin; 2 characters whose powers and personalities are both shaped by love, but who understand and live that love in completely different ways.
Crescent Moon, whose love is so absolute (and so empty), she is literally incapable of hating anyone; Yoojin, who burns with hate almost as much as he burns with love - never without reason - and will never forgive those who hurt the people under his care.
Crescent Moon, who would sacrifice anyone in order to save the worlds she so deeply love; Yoojin, who would always choose saving his loved ones over saving the world.
But this chapters gives us a new layer of this dichotomy that I never truly noticed before, while reading machine translation.
Yoojin is also possessive with the people he loves. They are "his kids". But that possessiveness is there to shape the way HE behaves. They are his, so he must protect them. They are his, so he can never give up on them, even if they hurt him or push him away.
Meanwhile, Crescent Moon is possessive in the way she sees the objects of her love as her belongings. Her tools. Meaning she can do whatever she wants with them.
It explains how she could hurt and use Sung Hyunje so much, while also confirming that he truly was the one she loves the most.
Oooh, I still get mad at Sung Hyunje for that sceneโ when he decides to bury his emotions for Han Yoojin and he says โGood job. But it seems youโve failed.โ Itโs the idea that their love was conditional. That there was something to be gained out of it, that for all the development and vulnerability that progresses throughout the novel, Yoojin and Hyunje never truly stepped away from their origin as item and skill. As people with roles to play.
And thatโs why in this arc with Sung Hyunje without his emotions and Han Yoojin losing his memories, youโre faced with the knowledge that every action they make is deliberate. Itโs moving on from this transactional relationship of Hyunje seeking salvation and Yoojin seeking validation. Han Yoojin being forced to acknowledge whether Sung Hyunje is someone he would still save, even if he were to never reciprocate any affection. Hyunje being confronted with that sort of selfless love, of someone who would hesitate to kill him, of a Yoojin who lost his memories and yet would still decide to chase him. And Hyunje, both pre & post-regression depending on Yoojinโs memories and affection for him to keep him going even as he denies Yoojinโs presence. (Yoojin calling himself useless pre-regression yet the part of him that Hyunje depended on was the core part of him, his caregiver abilities.)ย
Then Hyunje falls. He accepts the idea of being Yoojinโs only failure, he tells Yoojin that he can erase his emotions again but confesses to Taewon that he canโt. Sung Hyunje decides to hold onto the memories of Han Yoojin and walk straight into the hands of Crescent Moon, bearing death over and over again but still has his love for Yoojin which ties into his desire to live. Them defining themselves as mutual guardians, as friends, as partners, no longer using roles as a basis for give and take but rather accepting them as titles describing their mutual affection for one another.ย
Itโs the catalyst that causes Yoojin and Hyunje to come to the decision that theyโll love each other just because they can.ย
I know it's a little late, but finally took some photos of my haul so everyone can see my poor spending habits (,,ยฌ๏นยฌ,,). It's fine! We're out here supporting artists so everything is alright... (๏ฟฃโฝ๏ฟฃ*)ใ
(I cannot help with the glare guys I'm sorry if it's blinding ya'll)
Also took some more spaced out photos and tried to add as many artists as I could find (mainly their insta accounts).
All the Korean series, hunting down every bit of s-class merch that I can get my hand on.
Miscellaneous series
A bunch of stamp rallies that I did! I'll just link the instagram posts below because there was a lot of artists involved.
Final Gratitude, Han Yoojin's only naturally selfish skill
Spoilers for msch/sctir ~870
Final Gratitude, Final Thanks, whatever one may call it, was always such a curious skill to have given that every single one of Han Yoojin's skills is rooted in support, for the benefit of others. He literally has to pay for a D-rank stab skill so that he at least has one offensive skill in his arsenal at all times. So why did Han Yoojin, of all people, end up with such a skill?
Final Gratitude ties into how the identity of Han Yoojin didnโt exist outside of being a caregiver, and the only way for him to be powerful was when he no longer was one. Itโs the only original skill that Han Yoojin had that solely benefits him because it only occurs when he no longer has a ward to dedicate his existence towards. Some sick, twisted play on the possibilities of Han Yoojin. All his focus and support onto those he claims his own falls back onto him in the form of potential unreached, how everything they ever were was everything he couldโve been. That Han Yoojin could only exist if his children didnโt. ย
It can also be an extension of Han Yoohyun, for everything that he is is everything his Hyung made, so itโs only natural for that to return to its origin, no?ย
And with a quiet farewell, Final Gratitude disappears at the end of the main novel, for Han Yoojin has finally solidified his identity alongside his role as a caregiver. (That he too, is allowed to care for himself.)
Just needed to make sure we were all aware that Biwan (artist for the s class webtoon) has released shirts on marpple, mainly Peace shirts but msch/sctir shirts nonetheless, because I cannot be the only person that's going to make a detrimental monetary decision here.
Twitter Post (+ translation by Grok)
Hello! It's been a while since my last update. To celebrate the 7th anniversary of the original serialization of My S-Class Hunters, a limited-edition peace T-shirt is now available at Marbly Shop! Please show lots of love and support! #MySClassHunters #SClass #WebSClass #MarblyShop
---- Warning: Major Spoilers for Ending of the Novel -----
Q. How does Yoobin perceive Yoohyun? Does he remember his past life? Or is there a possibility that he will remember it as he grows up? Does Yoojin want Yoobin to remember Yoohyun?
Han Yoobin is a 'Source' who originally couldn't be born without swallowing the world, so he is greatly influenced by his nurturer, Han Yoojin.
Therefore, this will depend on how Han Yoojin separates Han Yoohyun and Han Yoobin. Han Yoojin recognized Han Yoobin as a different person, but it is impossible to completely erase the memories of 25-year-old Han Yoohyun.
If Han Yoojin is able to thoroughly separate them in his mind, Han Yoobin will not even remember his past life, and if he accidentally conflates the two, Han Yoobin will experience confusion in his self-identity.
There will inevitably be ups and downs, but if Han Yoojin is able to be steadfast and maintain a balance, then Han Yoobin will also be able to accept his past life smoothly^^
So we have the whole Han Yoohyun being the base of Yoobin because (I'm going off the mtl and it was confusing trying to understand the whole paradox situation) they explained that the whole world/caregiver situation was needed to set up a Source that did not devour because the title would be passed down/automatically applied (or something?)
But.
In a sense, the two of them are still "devouring a world" especially considering that so much of the narrative (mainly due to Han Yoojin's personal experiences) expresses the idea that caregiving = sacrifice.
Han Yoojin choosing to become their world was at a loss of himself, he made himself a foundation or maybe a shell that encapsulates them whole while they solidify their existences to fit the future they want. And even as we progress through the story and stray away from the basis of 'sacrifice', the very act of nurturing is giving away parts of yourself. It's loving without the expectation of being loved back. It's being swallowed up slowly, drop by drop and maybe if you're strong enough, you'll still be whole by the end of it.
Whether it's a fire that burns or a Source that creates, both of them need fuel to exist and Han Yoojin is simply the one that decided to burn for them.
