See, part of the reason why I want to go through and notate every single time someone denies Yona her agency?
Is because Hak and Soo-Won do it too.
Every time Soo-Won offers her freedoms (going exploring in the town, or the horses) she takes it. She breaks the rules her father puts in place and seeks what she can.
Why wouldn't she want to take knowledge as well?
But they never stop seeing her as a child to be protected.
I wonder if her kidnapping that time they took her into the city impacted them, made them afraid to ever expose her to anything as well.
After all, they were so clearly willing to not follow king Il before then
What if they had put a weapon in her hands when he wasn't looking? What if they told her things when he wasn't there to hear?
What if Soo-Won did have a chance to go back in time? The point Hak was trying to make is that you don't have to do it alone. Talk to us, tell HER, and we can help you without having to kill King Il. He doesn't have to die to fix the country, you don't have to fix the country without us, without HER.
The two of us know better now than to shelter Yona from this