they’re both being so careful with each other here because they’ve just been having such a sweet and lovely time and this turn in atmosphere is so sudden and unexpected and they neither of them know exactly what’s wrong or why or where they stand with each other. but also they’ve both learned from their previous fight, and this fight mirrors that one so closely–someone is leaving unexpectedly, someone feels abruptly left out–and so they’re very cautious with their words and how they react to the hurt they’re feeling cause they neither of them want what happened before–the not talking, the night spent apart worried followed by days of anger and no communication–to be repeated.
for mijoo he just said he’s moving out, that in fact he came to the shoot already prepared to move out–to leave her. so while taking care of her while she was sick, while feeding her, while encouraging her to do as she pleases, he was already prepared to leave. and leaving means something to mijoo–she was told to leave the set early, but she stayed to finish her work; she had no home and she built one, created one for herself–and seongyeom already defined the home she built as “a place to *return* to.” and seongyeom has this entire history, too, one that’s informing how he’s taking in mijoo’s words. he’s mr. one month. people are interested in him (his good looks and money and family?) for a month and then they bail cause he’s too boring. somehow mijoo has lasted for over a month. and so when she says he’s putting up walls, and he–who so assiduously started writing in a journal so he could know himself better–has no knowledge of himself doing so, what his history of romantic interest is telling him is that she’s getting becoming with him.
but the angst here, the angst. ACADEMY AWARD. mijoo’s eyes are wide with confusions and fear cause out of nowhere he gives her a fucking parting gift. like what the fuck is that??? and seongyeom! he’s on the brink of fucking tears. he’s fucking devastated. he’d scared that mijoo’s about to, omg, leave him, and he looks down and takes a breath and builds up his courage and says the like gentlemanly thing, which is to give her an opportunity to say she’s not interested in him anymore. i love it when feelings are so clearly overwhleming characters but instead of giving in to those feelings (*clenches fist in victorian repression*) they hold back and try to do right by themselves and the person in front of them, which is what both mijoo and seongyeom do here.
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