So we got CHAKHO back... and what a mess.
[WARNING! I WILL BE GIVING SPOILERS LIKE ITS MY LAST DAY ON EARTH AND WE DON’T GIVE A F*CK]
So.. 7 Fates Chakho is back.
But why did these last 2 chapters feel like when Netflix is about to cancel a show and they have to cram 40+ books/volumes worth of story-telling into ONE episode?
‘Cause that’s exactly what Episodes 13 & 14 felt like. Everything was just so rushed!
Like one minute we got explicit acts of cruelty and violence mixed with super long, boring and pointless dialogue. Then the next minute there’s a bit of comedy and then back to Heavy Angst.
I DID liked that we got an actual visual of Narae (Jooan’s Beom girlfriend who was killed by Bulti trying to protect him and WHY Bulti killed her. The main issue wasn’t that she was in love with a human, but more the fact that she pulled her weapon against her own kind).
CEIN! WE FINALLY GOT HIM INTO THE STORY.... but I was slightly meh with him??
In the wattpad/written version of Chakho, Cein is introduced as this young lad who had a traumatic experience with a Beom who was going to eat him, yet he somehow survives (Cein lost consciousness before being eaten so he has no recollection of HOW he survived and got out). And also the Beom Brow that lets him see people’s past lives is described as an actual brow he RIPPED OFF from the Beom while fighting for his life.
Due to this event, Cein is left with PTSD that makes him crave other’s company but at the same time FEAR of getting close to anyone in case they turn out to be bad guys. So the Beom Brow serves as a type of escapism from the world he lives in.
He is SO TERRIFIED of Beoms that when he is finally introduced to Zeha’s team he outright refuses to become a Beom Hunter and even leaves, but continues to follow them for a long time.
Yet in the webstoon version he is shown as this extroverted wiseass that didn’t even hesitated to come between the Weapon Shop’s owner and Zeha’s team when it was very clear the guy was scamming them till the point where they got Jooan’s weapon as a “freebie”.
However in the written/wattpad version the scene played out differently. The guys go to the Weapon Shop, but realize they only have enough money for ONE new weapon. Jooan notices the spear and feels a strange attraction to it and for a brief moment remembers Narae so he asks how much for it and the shop owner tells them its worth the exact amount of money they earned from the last bounty. And it is Zeha who offers to buy it for Jooan as a “thank you gift” for helping them in the last mission.
Another detail that seemed to change is the person Cein is shown that connects everyone in Zeha’s party. Like all of them are bound/connected to the SAME past life, like all of them were part of them same being.
In the wattpad version of the story the entity is simply described as a powerful man dressed in white robes and also having white hair. Which leaves you to believe it could be a sacred being like Haru.
But in the webtoon version we are shown that this being is actually a Beom who rebelled against his kind and fought them until his final breath.
I also don’t recall Hwan appearing so quickly to regroup with them and why weren’t we shown the scene where he goes back to his home and he has the flashback of what happened the night that his family was killed??
Which version is the correct version? The Webtoon or the Wattpad version??
