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The Disenchanted Story of Olly Wang

In the Manhwa Lookism by Park Taejoon, the character Olly Wang (Wang Ochun) died at the end of the Hostel arc. He committed suicide after discovering the differences between the intense emotions he felt during the tragic events of his life. He most likely had several mental illnesses as he frequently severely overdosed and obsessed over Eli Jang (Jang Hyun) to the point where he lived just to find him again. Despite being so mentally and physically numb from his mental and physical illnesses, he still paid quota to Jong Gun every month to protect Hostel B from the 4 Major Crews. He lived a life of despair, and despite all of his bad choices, most things that he did were for selfless reasons.

You could say that his life was rather Disenchanted.

“Disenchanted” is also the name of a song from the early 2000s rock band My Chemical Romance. They always made sensational music and “Disenchanted” has got to be one of my favorite songs. One thing that makes me love it so much is that some of the lyrics remind me so much of Olly and everything that he went through in his life. So I’m gonna do a little analysis/ramble about the song and how some of the lyrics remind me so much of one of my favorite characters in Lookism, who is most definitely the most underrated one!!

((btw here is the link to the full lyrics of “Disenchanted” https://www.google.com/amp/s/genius.com/amp/My-chemical-romance-disenchanted-lyrics

Now that The Patient will die soon he says that he’s not enchanted by his life experience and that life is kind of overrated. The Patient a

and here’s the spotify link to the song: https://open.spotify.com/track/6T7MAQCekVb3UnCykjX3BP?si=_rUzQ9lPQIqdsvnpbPThhQ ))

So this is the first verse of the song and there are a few lyrics here that stand out to me a lot. ((btw i’m gonna put all the lyrics in italics so they stand out from the rest of the text))

“Well, I was there on the day

They sold the cause for the queen

And when the lights all went out

We watched our lives on the screen

I hate the ending myself

But it started with an alright scene”

So the first thing that really stood out to me was when it said “We watched our lives on the screen.” Guys. Remember that movie that Olly was watching about family, the one he got from Sally? The one he watched on the screen on the roof of his building and on his phone while he was with Gun? The film probably brought back a lot of memories of the past with Hostel B, as if he was watching his life.

Another few lines that reminded me of Olly were, “I hate the ending myself / But it started with an alright scene.” At the end of Olly’s story, he ended his own life by jumping from the roof of the building the old Hostel resided in. His life started out okay, when he was friends with Heather and when he first met Eli, but things went very downhill from there and he was never really happy for the rest of his life.

“It was the roar of the crowd

That gave me heartache to sing

It was a lie when they smiled

And said, ‘You won’t feel a thing.’

And as we ran from the cops

We laughed so hard it would sting”

So in these lines, the first one that stuck out to me was “It was a lie when they smiled / And said, ‘You won’t feel a thing.’” I’m sure you guys can figure out why. With Olly’s illness, he was told that he would never feel pain. However, despite severely overdosing on pills that were prescribed for this illness, the pain he ended up feeling in the end was emotional rather than physical. He was so numb physically that he became emotionally numb, and he never felt fear before because he didn’t fear getting hurt. When Eli was beating him after the incident with Heather, Olly swore he was fleeing fear for the first time in his life. However, he realized in the end that the emotion he felt was guilt over something that wasn’t even entirely his fault. And he searched for years to find Eli so he could feel something again, feel the things that he thought was fear. However, it was guilt all along. Despite having an illness that made it impossible for him to feel physical pain, the agonizing sensation of guilt was what killed him in the end.

The other group of lines that reminded me of Olly was when it said: “And as we ran from the cops / We laughed so hard it would sting.” This isn’t as deep as the other one, but since Hostel is a crime organization and Olly used to commit crimes alongside Eli in the past, it reminded me of him because he seemed happy when he was doing those kinds of things.

“If I’m so wrong

How can you listen all night long?

Now will it matter after I’m gone

Because you never learned a goddamn thing”

In the pre-chorus, the lines that remind me of Olly is when it said, “Now will it matter after I’m gone / Becuase you never learned a goddamn thing.” I thought this was really powerful because Olly spent almost three years of his life paying Gun a $100,000 dollar quota every month just so Sally (Serim) and Warren (i don’t know what his korean name is i’m sorry) wouldn’t get dragged into the 4 Major Crews and wouldn’t get hurt. Despite the fact that they mistreated him so much, he still did this for them, which was basically saving their lives. And even after he died, they still had no idea about what he had done for them; they never learned.

“You’re just a sad song with nothing to say

About a lifelong wait for a hospital stay

And if you think that I’m wrong

This never meant nothing to you”

The chorus doesn’t relate much to Olly, but the line “This never meant nothing to you” is similar to what I said about the pre-chorus. Sally and Warren knew nothing about what Olly did to protect them despite the fact that they mistreated him so much in the past.

Since the second verse doesn’t remind me much of him and the pre-chorus and chorus are the same, I’m gonna skip to the post-chorus, which is the last verse I’ll talk about.

“So go, go away

Just go, run away

But where did you run to?

And where did you hide?

Go find another way, price you pay”

I think this whole verse reminds me of him so much. Eli ran away with his baby after the incident with Heather’s death. He asked his family, “How about we play hide and seek?” and disappeared for years. Olly was searching for Eli for years, wondering where he went to hide, while Eli was finding another path for himself, trying to escape the crews and abandoning his family. He did it so he wouldn’t hurt them anymore, but they were left by themselves without someone that they loved. And the price paid when he returned was the loss of Olly’s precious life.

I’m really proud of this one so i’m gonna tag some mutuals x3 @prompt-disaster @jaeyeolla and @biigdeal , let me know if you have any thoughts on it ✨✨

which crew should i do an analysis on

1. god dog

2. hostel

3. big deal

4. workers

i’m bored i wanna do it on all of them but which one should i do first

(also before i make a series of crew analyses would you guys like to see an analysis on olly 👉👈 i know a lot of people don’t like olly but i love him so just tell me if that would be accepted 😇)