life philosophy headcanons
♘ — Do they believe humanity/their species, as a whole, to be moving in the ‘right’ direction or the ‘wrong’ one? Why do they believe this?
Overall, the “wrong” one, for sure. Joohwan doesn’t think humanity has quite reached the point of no return yet – or ever, really, he truly believes there will always be a way to change things so long as there’s, you know, people alive for that –, but he’s not unaware of the consequences of capitalism in several aspects. The material is an obvious one, as the levels of world poverty increase and the rich get richer. The environmental is also another obvious one and, as someone who’s majoring in Chemistry with the goal of going into Environmental Studies at one point, he’s aware of the actual technicalities of it beyond the whole global warming bad. But he also sees the damage that it’s doing to people’s minds. More than ever depression and anxiety are being diagnosed, and he’s one of the people that struggle so much because of the pressure capitalism puts into profit and productivity. Again, he believes there’s a way to change because otherwise he’d spend every single day being a miserable person.
♡ — How would your muse define love? Do they believe in soulmates? Do they believe this definition of love is achievable?
This is all about romantic love because going into platonic and familial love is too much for him.
For Hwan, love is partially a choice. It’s consciously choosing to be with someone, choosing to put in the effort, choosing to get to know them better, to share a life with them. He doesn’t believe in two people being predisposed to be together, he doesn’t believe that soulmates are a thing, especially because that’s erasing the people who love more than one person at a time. He believes there are people who complement each other, whose temperament are just a perfect fit for each other, but that there isn’t only just one option for that either. It’s all about that conscious choice, it’s meeting someone who charms you and you want to put in that effort to be with. For a long time, he thought love wasn’t a thing he was ever going to have because, as much of a hopeless romantic he is inside, he didn’t think he was good enough to be truly loved by anyone.
With that said, those are Hwan’s rational views on love. As someone who is in love, though, sometimes he’ll let love songs and the idealization of romantic love get the best of him. Sometimes when he wakes up next to Andy in bed and is given a moment to just look at him, think about what they’ve been through and how far they’ve come in their relationship, he wonders if maybe soulmates are a real. He tends to shake that thought off very quickly because that’s just too big of a statement, too strong of a possibility for him to be fully comfortable with it. But he’ll think about the small things the two of them do for each other, and the big ones as well. How much they’ve changed not necessarily because of each other, but around each other and with each other, always striving for being better people but also being better for their relationship. It honestly makes him a little giddy to think about how much he loves Andy and Hwan loses rationality around him sometimes.