This interaction between Hyunsung and Dokja just feels off.
In the novel, Dokja reinforces the idea that Hyunsung is an important character in TWSA.
Interestingly, Hyunsung says:
Even if I had lived, I wouldn’t have been able to live as a person. […] I am ashamed.
Keep that in mind. We’ll come back to that.
Here’s what it says in the webtoon:
One thing to point out is the lack of Dokja saying he’s an important character in TWSA. He says that Hyunsung is a tanker, but leaves out the part about how he’s an important figure. Back in Episode 3, he was just called a supporting character.
But the main thing I wanted to point out, and the point of this discrepancy, is what he says.
Even if we had survived through that method, we wouldn’t deserve to live as humans.
Well, for one, the pronouns. In the novel, Hyunsung says I. In the webtoon, he says we.
N!Hyunsung is referring solely to himself. He wouldn’t be able to live with himself. He is ashamed.
But W!Hyunsung is referring to the other 3 survivors (not including Dokja). They wouldn’t deserve to live. Which is a crazy line coming from him.
Hyunsung is a soldier and from the looks of it, he lives being a soldier. I don’t know much about Korean patriotism, but it just seems strange to me that he would imply that no one who would’ve killed another human being deserves to live. He seems like the type of person that believes the good in people. But I guess he also has his limits.
It’s just that when he says I in the novel, it feels so much more personal. It’s more obvious that it’s not “oh I wouldn’t be able to live with myself cause I killed someone.” It’s him taking that guilt onto himself and never being able to forgive himself. He’s ashamed, a line they leave out in the webtoon.
That’s some good quality character development and they cut it out (￣ヘ￣)
