Hey Francis!
I'm having a great time with my romantic scammer as well !
In honor of that show, can you share some of your favorite Earnest characters (like North, a little naive but heart is firmly in the right place, and just by being themselves they make those around them better) ?
Okay, let me try!
Teerak, from Your Sky. I love that boy so much and he means everything so much and his little attempt at fake dating was so earnest he found the other most earnest man in all the land in Fah and they simply fell in love over their own sincerity.
Weird one? Shi Lei from Be Loved in House I Do. I love him and even the trouble he starts out causing comes from this place of deepseated earnest need to work at a place with sane rules and later turns into a desperate and earnest need to love that broken man who set the rules. A bit of an outlier for this but I think he deserves to be mention.
Gi Seop is like the most damaged version possible of this trope. He is truly earnest but learned to never, ever cause people to worry and lost some of the strengths of that but gained them back as he learned to love again and learned to be himself. Anyway, I love him.
Fueng from City of Stars was shocking earnest and sincere for an actor but that was what made me love him so much. A little less naive but he fits the rest.
Tae-Kyung from Light on Me wins every earnest and sincere award as well. Love him.
God from Monster Next Door. That man? Perfection. And so earnest and sincere and caring and directly making the world a better place by living in it and by loving Diew.
Yutaka from Our Dining Table isn't perfect for this but he fits enough that I have to include him. He's precious and he has that same air of sincerity and earnest honesty... love him so much.
And just to amuse myself... Thada from Reset. He is not naive. But he is so earnest... in love at least... that I am putting here here because I can.
Tan from We Are. He fails at the naive bit he passes absolutely everything else and I adore him so much I have to include him.
Okay, that's a good list. I could keep going but I gotta stop eventually and here's my point! Enjoy!