#blind 2022

[mafiacornsalad]

Blind (2022) episode 5 Ok Taecyeon as Ryu Sung-joon Jung Eunji as Jo Eun-ki

[scestional]

being in the blind fandom is not for the weak there's literally no active stan <//3 where my yoonjae defenders at

[hannigramislife]

Random opinions about kdrama I've watched!

That nobody asked for

1. Mouse:

I cried for him, and I will continue to cry for him. Talk to the fucking wall, he deserved to be sympathized with. The show as a whole had some issues when it came to its concept and a few narrative choices I didn't agree with, but if you take it at face value, it's a masterpiece.

2. Strangers from Hell

For some reason, I found Jongwoo very boring, and I would have liked a little more reasoning for Moonjo's obsession. Jongwoo should have been a little more suspectible to evil for my liking. Also, Seokyeon deserved better. Gi-Hyeok was such a waste of character.

3. The Devil Judge

Best kdrama lead, best family dynamic, best fucking villain. Emphasis on the villain. Did I mention I loved the villain??? An icon. Y'all won't ever catch me saying a bad word about this show.

4. Blind

Where to begin. I want my two hours of tears back, please. Undeserved. The ending killed me. I will never forgive them for it. Also, Sung Joon should have been more sympathetic, and I will die on that hill.

5. Vincenzo

Jang Han Seok was the one and only reason I managed to somewhat get through this show. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone even if it would somehow cure them of cancer. Every episode infuriated me as a person. Thank god Ok Taecyeon is hot.

[bl3ssed-cursxd]

Did You Ever See Me As Your Brother?

Blind TVN, Blind 2022, Blind Kdrama, Oneshot

Ryu Sung Joon & Ryu Sung Hoon

notes: posted on ao3 as well. this show literally destroyed me anyways here's the oneshot i claimed id post like uh 6+ months ago ?? idek anymore. they may be slightly OOC but oh well 🤡

link to ao3: Did You Ever See Me As Your Brother?

Word count: 711

"Father, you are under arrest for attempted murder," Ryu Sung Joon said as he put the handcuffs on his own father. "You have the right to remain silent, you have a right to an attorney..."

Rain poured upon the three, including Ryu Sung Hoon who was still on the ground. After making sure his father was cuffed properly, Sung Joon got up and went over to his brother. He felt so betrayed and furious—Sung Hoon was working with Yoon Jae the entire time?

"Are you happy now?" Sung Joon scoffed. "It turned out the way you wanted to."

Silence. Spare for the rain hitting the ground. It was too loud.

Sung Joon balled his fists, hands trembling.

"Are you happy now?!" he shouted, hating the silence. For once, his brother had nothing to say. Well, how could one possibly excuse lying to him for so many years?

In a fit of rage, he went and pulled Sung Hoon up by the front of his shirt. He braced himself for the one final question he had.

The question he was scared to ask. Or rather, the answer he was terrified to hear.

"Did you-" Sung Joon took deep breaths, the adrenaline of forcing the gun out of his father's hands from earlier wearing off. "Ever, just once ," his voice took on a pleading tone, "think of me as your brother?"

Sung Hoon finally snapped. "What do you take me for?"

"ANSWER ME!" Sung Joon shook him. Perhaps he was being selfish, there were more pressing matters to get to, like taking his father and brother to the station, but he had to know.

Did Sung Hoon really hate him? Has he ever truly cared about him?

"You thought I didn't because Yoon Jae told you, don't you?" Sung Hoon asked simply. Sung Joon wanted to pull out his hair in frustration.

"You came from Hope Welfare Center."

"Scary men there would hurt you."

"Don't tell our parents or they'll send you back there."

The necklace.

"I gave you that necklace because I think of you as my real brother."

"You're still pathetic, though," with a hint of a smile.

"You said you gave that necklace to me because you considered me as your real brother!" Sung Joon screamed, voice breaking. He pushed Sung Hoon away and made him fall right back on the ground. "Why did you lie? Why did you make me get my hopes up?"

"Ryu Sung Joon!" Sung Hoon shouted, wincing and bringing a hand to the wound on his side. "Stop speaking nonsense, I didn't lie. Why are you being like this?"

"If you meant it, why did you lie and make me believe I was adopted? That I was Yoon Jae?" Sung Joon couldn't help it, his eyes watered. The tears threatened to spill. He shook his head vigorously. No need to make himself look more pathetic.

He was already practically begging his brother to love him—like a child.

"I… I projected my… experiences onto you," Sung Hoon admitted. "I’m… You didn't deserve that. I understand if you never forgive me. I’m… I’m sorry,” he swallowed.

Sung Joon stared at him, feeling hyper aware of the sounds of the ocean waves behind them. The sounds of the waves, almost calming if it weren't for the situation at hand. The pitter patter of the rain, how his clothes stuck to his body. He felt sick. Sick to his stomach.

His brother disgusted him, but at the same time, he apologized. Sung Hoon never apologized. Granted, perfect Ryu Sung Hoon never had a reason to. Their parents adored him, Sung Hoon was never the one recklessly getting into fights and trouble.

Why would he have apologized before?

“You… you tricked me,” Sung Joon whispered, voice breaking. “Why did you have to lie?”

“How much do you… recall? Those memories… Yoon Jae w-” Sung Hoon began, but the second Yoon Jae’s name came out of his mouth, Sung Joon snapped.

"It's always Yoon Jae!" Sung Joon let out an unamused huff of laughter. "Yoon Jae this, Yoon Jae that! Has it always been about Yoon Jae? Your real brother?”

"At some point in time," Sung Hoon exhaled, pushing himself off the ground. “It stopped being about Yoon Jae.”

HAHA THE END MY MOTIVATION ENDED THERE

might make pt 2?? but last time i said that it never happened so honestly imma just say Inshallaah 🤠

[panjakes]

Did you watch blind? The drama with Ok Taecyeon? If you did can I get something where the reader is his characters girlfriend and when he gets framed she’s trying to convince everyone that it wasn’t him

I did watch it!! I loved it! My fav drama from 2022!! I love this request!!!

Your hands shake as you sit the cup down on the table. Sungjun? A killer? Couldn’t be. You look over at Sungjun’s parents as they had the same look you did.

“No, that can’t be true. Is it?” His father says

“Of course not! Sungjun would never murder someone” you say

You start shaking at the headline on the news. No way your boyfriend was behind all those murders. He literally chased Jung manchu DOWN and they believe he’s the one behind the killings?

A few hours later sunghoon was standing before you and his parents with a displeased look on his face

“Why’d he have to do this now?! My big day is in two days!” His mother whines

“Sunghoon where is he?” You ask. Sunghoon looks over at you before sighing deeply

“I don’t know” he says

“How do you not know?! Do you not pay any attention to your brother?!” She asks raising her voice

“My apologies mother, I’ll try to look for him. Yn could you help?” He asks

You nod grabbing your coat and purse biding his parents a goodbye before going out and getting inside his car

“I can’t believe him” sunghoon mumbles

“Excuse me?“ you say looking at him

It was silent as you two shared eye contact

“Do you seriously think Sungjoon did this?” You ask when he looked down at the ground and didn’t say anything you had your answer

“I can’t believe you. Sungjun would NEVER and we both know that. What kind of brother are you?” You ask

“Come on Yn! Don’t tell me you don’t expect this from Sungjoon” he says making you frown

“I don’t, I know him and I know he wouldn’t do something like this” you say

“You shouldn’t be so trusting” he says making you scoff

“I’ll look for him myself, asshole” you say before getting out and slamming his car door with extra force.

Sunghoon sighs in defeat.

You walk into Inseongs place you sit down with captain oh and seokgu. Soon detective kang walks into scoffing at you

“What’re you doing here?” He ask sittinf down across from you

“Talking” you say

“About? Sungjun? You know where he is don’t you” he says

“If I did I wouldn’t tell you” you say making him scoff

“You could go to jail for hiding the location of a killer” he says

You slam your hand down on the table causing everyone there, including him, to jump

“Sungjun is NOT the killer and I think we both know that” you say

“I don’t know what you see in him” he asks shaking his head

“Your fucking pathetic” you say standing up walking away leaving him with a shock look on his face.

You go outside taking a deep breathe. It seemed to get a lot hotter. You take the navy blue scrunchy off your wrist pulling your curls into a messy puff pushing back the curls that didn’t fit.

“Excuse me? Yn?”

You turn around seeing a women.

“Yes?” You ask

“Can you come here please?” She asks

You look her up and down before slowly walking over to her.

“You are Yn correct?” She asks

“I am…who’s asking” you ask looking her up and down

“I’m Eun-ki…and I know where Sungjun is” she says whispering the last part

Your eyes go wide as you step closer to her. You look around before speaking again

“Do you really? Is he okay? Where is he?” You ask eyes shaking in worry

“He is fine, he asked that I give this too” she says handing you a folded piece of paper

You look at the paper before taking it

“Don’t read it here…please” she says looking behind you

You turn around seeing Detective kang standing outside looking over at you

You look over at her and nod

“Thank you, please keep an eye on him. He tends to wonder off and They’re searching for her pretty heavily” you say making her nod

You slide the paper into your bra and head back over to inseong

“Who’s that?” Detective kang asks

“One of jury’s, asked me about the investigation” you say

“And what did you say?” He asks

“I told her to tell you to kiss my ass” you say pushing past him

He laughes sarcastically before following you into the restaurant

After you get home you sit and wait for sunghoon to come over after you called. Soon you heard the keypad signaling that he was here

“You called? He asked coming inside

“Sungjun reached me” you say

“What did he say?” He asks

You don’t anything. You just hand him the note. He takes it reading over it. He looks over at you before handing it back

“You believe him?” He asks

“You don’t? You genuinely think he did this?” You ask

“They have hard evidence Yn” he says

You sigh before looking over to him

“Sunghoon, I know Sungjun didn’t do this. What reasons does he have to go and kill people?” You ask

“I don’t know, Sungjun has always been the violent type and you know that” sunghoon says making you scoff

“So because he beat people up i middle school means he’s the killer? Be realistic sunghoon” you say

“No Yn, you be realistic” he says making you shake your head

“I am being realistic I know he didn’t do this!” You say causing him to sigh

“You have to report this Yn” he says

“What? No! They’ll find him!” You say

“It’s best” he says you sigh before going into your purse pulling out a stack of cash handing it to him

“What’s this?“ he asks

“S-so you won’t tell. Sungjun didn’t do this and a need some time to prove it. You take this and say nothing” you say tears welling in your eyes

He sighs pushing your hand down pulling you into a hug.

“I don’t need or want your money Yn.” He says rubbing your back

By all that you were doing to clear sungjun’s name he knew you loved and cared about his brother. It was now his mission to help you.

Sungjoon throws his hat to the floor before looking over at Eun-ki

“I told you he wouldn’t help” he mumbles to her

“I told you he would” she says making Sungjoon stare at her in confusion

Before he could say anything Sunghoon was walking up the stairs. He stands up quickly

“Sunghoon” he says

Before he could respond another voice was heard

“Sunghoon! What is this place?”

Sungjun peeks over His shoulder as his eyes go wide

“Yn” he says causing you to look over at him.

“Sungjun!” You quickly say and without another word you were running over to him. He opens his arms welcoming you into his embrace. He melts as he face plants into your curls.

“Yn” he mumbles into your hair

You pull away pushing him away from you before hitting his arm

“Aw! Yn what the hell” he says

“You idiot! How the hell are you being framed for MURDER” you say

“I-I don’t know” he says

“Out of everything you can get in trouble for YOU get in trouble for murder! This doesn’t even shock me! I know your dumbass didn’t do it…did you?” You asks

“What? No! Of course not!” He says making you nod

“Who’s she to him exactly?” Eun-ki asks

“His girlfriend” Sunghoon reply’s

“G-girlfriend?!” She asks making the man nod

“Something the matter” he asks looking at her shocked face

“Nothing! Just didn’t expect him to be seeing anyone” she says making Sunghoon nod

“It still surprises me how he got her too” Sunghoon says

“Your such a dumbass Sungjun. Detective kang is really gonna be on your ass now because he’s already on mine!” You say pinching his arm

“Ow! You don’t think I know that? Instead of chastising me maybe give me a hug! I haven’t seen you in what feels like a week!” He says swatting your hand away

“It’s not my fault your being framed” you say pinching him again

“Ow! Yn stop!“ he says trying to pinch you back

“Don’t pinch me! Your going to pinch me after you had me worried about you?!” You ask now swatting him

He stops with a sigh. He pulls you into a hug resting his chin on top of your head

“I know, I didn’t mean to make you worry. I’m sorry sweetheart” he says rubbing your shoulder

“She’s not the only one you need to be apologizing to” sunghoon says

“Excuse me?” Sungjun says pulling away from you

“Mom is pissed! Dad is worried, not to mention you stressed Yn to no end” sunghoon says

“Hey! Don’t you think I know that? I’ve already apologized to Yn and I will apologize to mom and dad when I clear my name” he says

“Clear your name? Sungjun your always at the scene of the crime. There may be no clearing your name” sunghoon says

“Eun-ki can you leave us for a moment?” Sungjun says

“Uh sure” she says leaving. After the door closed Sungjun walks over to sunghoon with an angry look

“I said I was sorry alright. The least you can do is act as if your happy I’m okay after I’ve been kidnapped and tortured” he says

“Kidnapped and tortured?” Sunghoon says

“Yeah! Mr.beak is convinced I’m the one who killed his daughter. He tortured me” he says lifting up his shirt to show the bloody bandage

You sigh before sitting down on the makeshift bed. The two brother began to argue again but soon stoped when they heard sniffles

Sungjoon walks over to you taking your hands in his

“Yn? Baby what’s wrong? Why are you crying?” He asks

“Because sunghoon look around! Look at the fucked up mess your in! How In the fuck are you going to clear your name?” You ask

He sighs before wrapping his arms around you

“I don’t know baby and I’m sorry for worrying you like this” he says sighing

“I don’t want this for you” you say looking at him with teary eyes

He looks you in the eye with a smile and chuckles before wiping your tears

“You are so beautiful when you cry” he says making you laugh

“Not the time Sungjun. Not the time at all” you say making him laugh

“I know, I couldn’t help myself” he says leaning in to kiss your lips.

“I have to get out of here and back in our bed” he says smirking at you causing you to giggle

“Actually I would love that” you say

Before the conversation could go any further sunghoon gags

“Still here” he says

“Apologies brother” Sungjun says

“Yeah whatever, me and Yn will be back tomorrow. You don’t move. DONT go anywhere” sunghoon says pointing

“Fine! You just take care of Yn” Sungjun says making you scoff

“I’m a big girl I don’t need him” you say folding your arms

“You couldn’t open the peanut butter this morning” sungjoon says making your jaw drop

“Sunghoon! That was confidential!” You say

“Oh that’s nothing new, she can never open the peanut butter” Sungjun says waving him off

“Sungjun!”You say turning around

“Love you bye” he says pecking your lips

You groan and follow sunghoon outside getting into his car. You both sit there for a moment in silence

“Still think he did it?” You ask

“I never did” he says pulling off

[forepop]

diversity win! the guys on a revenge murder spree are gay!

[mare-sanguis]

the smile... the genuine smile. yoonjae really only smiled a real smile when he was with jungsoo 💔💔

[pointparadox]

My Issues With Blind (In No Particular Order)

Now I am not above admitting I was wrong so if these questions are answered in the drama and I just missed it then please do tell but so far here are all my qualms: 

1. How did Yoon-Jae and Sung-Hoon actually get Sung-Joon to believe he was Yoon-Jae? 

I understand the whole story about Yoon-Jae pushing Sung-Joon off of the playground set and everything, but `1) amnesia would definitely not happen from such a minor fall like that, especially when he did not fall headfirst and 2) How did they get Sung-Joon to remember the fact that he is Yoon-Jae from the Hope Center but not the fact that the information is coming from Sung-Joon? It just seemed like tacky plot armor. I literally rolled my eyes when Sung-Joon conveniently remembered that after Yoon-Jae pushed him down a flight of stairs (another thing that would not cause someone to regain memory). I know Yoon-Jae made some off-hand comment about “the shock therapy working” but there is no way in hell that LITTLE BOY got his hands on a torture device. 

2. Why did the parents adopt Sung-Hoon? 

I don’t understand what part of the story explained the reasoning for this. Sung-Hoon delivers the personal account of the atrocities of the Hope Center, Judge Ryu ignores them, and then somehow time skips to the judge adopting him? Like it would be one thing if they adopted him out of shame for what happened at the center but it seemed like he didn't care when he dismissed Sung-Hoon’s petition so what really changed? 

3. Why did Sung-Hoon admit he was an accomplice -- better yet, how did he even get sentenced? 

This one irks me the most because, unlike Yoon-Jae, all of the evidence against Sung-Hoon was circumstantial. Yes, Sung-Hoon saw him leave the wedding banquet but the cameras did not--even if Yoon-Jae testified against him there was not a single time in which it was implied that there was anything that connected him so why the hell did he confess? It makes me feel like there must have been some scenes that I was missing because one second he is fighting with Sung-Joon out in the rain and the other he is in jail; I don’t think we even saw anyone read him his rights. 

4. How were the police so inefficient? 

Now I understand that they were working under a corrupt chief but it is not like anyone listened to that dude--they were essentially working on their own. How does the police not have software that can show them what Yoon-Jae would realistically look like 20 years later--I know it’s a thing that exists also faces do not really change *that* much so upon seeing Yoon-Jae and Sung-Hoon the police chief and Crazy Dog should have realized it was them way sooner. 

5. What is the point of making Yoon-Jae and Crazy Dog fight to the death? 

I guess there's no technical issue with this It just seemed like such a big fuck you to victims of abuse that might have resonated with the character kind of. Like did he really have to lose his life just to avenge the other children? I am in no way saying Yoon-Jae is a saint (though I firmly believe he is also not a psychopath) but c'mon why couldn’t he get this one win against someone who was a lot worse than him

6. What is the random switch-up between Sung-Hoon, Sung-Joon, and Yoon-Jae? 

I saved my biggest issue for last but I feel like these characters all acted in such a contradictory way to how they have been written since the beginning of the drama. To start with Sung-Hoon; I think his switching up on Sung-Joon out of nowhere in the last few episodes and completely dropping the facade is so tacky. It’s not like Sung-Hoon was ever an emotional character, to begin with so I feel like they didn’t have to try and make him comically evil with the whole “Ooo guess what I'm going to do next Sung-Joon ooo I never liked you I just wanted to use you Sung-Joon oooo I don’t care about you at all Yoon-Jae” bullshit. I find it hard to believe he didn’t care about Yoon-Jae at all, and while I think it’s fair for him to say that maybe he never thought of Sung-Joon as a brother (since it’s probably hard to think of the man who raped your sister and his wife as parents) I don’t think it’s fair to say that he never cared about Sung-Joon. I wish they dug into that concept of Sung-Hoon maybe not feeling any brotherly connection to Sung-Joon but still looking out for him because he feels bad for him. We know Sung-Hoon can feel emotions towards people: he felt genuine hurt and rage when Yu-Na was killed so I find it hard to believe that he didn’t have any sort of connection to Sung-Joon (especially when he also told Yoon-Jae to spare Eun-Ki and made sure her only punishment would be finding out about who her father really was) since he is essentially the same as Eun-Ki in the sense of being born to people who did bad things. 

On the topic of brotherly connection, I also find it unrealistic that Sung-Joon can switch to hating his brother so quickly. I don’t expect him to condone Sung-Hoon’s action’s in any way, but the scene where Sung-Hoon tried to take his life and then Sung-Joon came and called him a coward and said that he hoped he would live in pain for the rest of his life or whatever was so random? I was expecting an emotional outburst, yes, but I feel like something that would be more in character for him would be the continuation of the whole “How could you do this to me when I did all this for you” thing they have going on (which is how the interaction did start but alas). I just thought it was weird. 

Finally, for Yoon-Jae, why did they make him so comically evil after the reveal? Every interrogation scene made me roll my eyes because they just made him act like the Joker in all of them and it was just so overdone. Sung-Joon calling him a “psycho who is obsessed with murder” was annoying too because it’s like--you’re missing the whole point he’s not doing this cause he enjoys killing people he’s doing this cause he was backed into a corner by his abusers. It’s one thing to not condone his actions but to completely ignore what got him to that point just seemed foolish (which is also what I have to say about Eun-Ki). 

I personally think that the show should have gone more into the brotherly relationship between Yoon-Jae and Sung-Hoon because it’s like yeah we see that Yoon-Jae feels betrayed by Sung-Hoon but why should he be? They did no development on that and honestly hindsight 20/20 the whole “Sung-Joon on the run” arc should have been a lot shorter to allow more time to develop this relationship. 

7. Why is everyone except Sung-Hoon allowed to be corrupt?

The whole basis of this show is how corrupt bad people can be (the police chief, the guy trying to bribe Sung-Hoon in episode 1, the producer, the taxi driver, Crazy Dog) so I don’t see why Sung-Hoon, Yoon-Jae, and Charles couldn’t have gotten off under the same basis of corruption. Like you cannot tell me this man is gonna work his ass off and become a judge, orchestrate a whole string of murders with literally nothing technically connecting him to them, and then go to jail because of his OWN CONFESSION when he could have just used his status as a well-known judge (and one that refuses to do anything that isn't by the books) to just deny (hell, he wouldn't even look guilty so he doesn't even need to do that) and then stack the jury so Yoon-Jae could get a not guilty charge. Call it tacky, but them doing that would make so much more sense than them just putting their hands in the air and going to jail/committing suicide. 

That’s all I got for now but if I think of anything I guess I’ll add it. The ending of this show just seems so drab and dull; I don’t really understand what the theme or point is supposed to be. Sung-Joon’s monologue about “oh if they had someone like Eun-Ki things would have probably been different...what a shame :/” like no shit sherlock if Eun-Ki was there they probably also wouldn’t be used for slave labor like...it was just so random. The acting was great, but the writing and plotting just took a nosedive I am afraid. 

Also. the bury your gays (or idk homosexual leaning) thing that happened with Charles and Yoon-Jae was so tacky I’m sorry.