When Hana was talking smack about Y/n to Jungkook and admitted she deleted her text from his phone, did he realize he had some sort of feelings for her then? Or what exactly went through his mind when all of that was revealed aside from realizing Hana was crappy?🫣
he was in disbelief because hana never even spoke in that tone before. no, he didn’t have any feelings for oc beyond platonic ones. still, romantic or not, she held a high value in his life, and her avoidance bothered him enough to affect him, whatever happened between them in jeju confused him but after he went back to seoul he got too busy with hana to reach out to her (also he wasn’t in a good mental headspace because of the constant passive aggressive arguments that kept happening with hana) but in the last chapter after their BIG FINAL FIGHT jungkook was beyond mad at her and also lowkey disgusted by her…he felt embarrassment for bringing himself to that stage, that incident had taken quite a mental toll on him, he couldn’t properly process what hana revealed to him regarding oc. yet the thought stayed at the back of his head. he pondered over it later on, obsessively trying to figure out….…but in the end he always chose to dodge it off as a misunderstanding. he thought that narrow minded women had misinterpreted oc’s lighthearted text and assumed the worst. because she knew how close u and jungkook were….and it was normal cause he had said words like “you’re the best” or “love you” to oc before, obviously not romantically. what he did understand in that moment was that he would never let her into his life again, it was over from his end, because fortunately he finally viewed hana for the crappy person she truly was. as someone pointed out in an earlier ask, jungkook had already begun mentally detaching himself from hana after the argument at the airport. he is, by nature, an attentive and deeply sensitive person, and when he loves someone, he loves them sincerely & wholeheartedly. however, love alone is never enough for him, character matters. it is important to him that the person he loves is fundamentally good, empathetic, and respectful of boundaries. once those lines are crossed, once cruelty or a lack of empathy reveals itself, detaching himself emotionally becomes easy.