Who needs to father children in a traditional way when there’s always a low-ranking member of your company aiming for your seat at the head of it that is exactly like yourself going through a corruption arc as we speak?
There being a place based off of Russia in world, and the whole 20 wonders of the world, with the massive fuck all size sword in the middle of the mountains, is making me so curious about the rest of the world in hand jumper.
Like clearly our characters live in whatever their equivalent of Korea is. What about everywhere else. I need a canonical map RIGHT NOW. I want to know what the conditions and the cultural views on aberrants are like everywhere. I want to know more about aberrant culture in general. The myths and folklore surrounding them.
Sleepacross give me an atlas and a folk lore book.
making my own post bc its silly. Ryujin were u not the one who went to steal these clothes in the first place . Why did u steal the dress then .
im going crazy like im remembering correctly right . SHES THE ONE WHO STOLE IT. Did she get it for sayeon, and then sayeon refused it? Was the dress the only thing in ryujins size? Did she plan on wearing the pants and then they turned out too long (💔) so sayeon nabbed them? was she not looking at what she was grabbing from the store? was this a themed clothing shop w mostly dresses? was there a tiny corner of her heart that thought it would look better on her..? did she get it bc she would be unrecognizable w it on? did she want to force fem sayeon w the dress and get rebuffed 💔 like WHAT HAPPENED.. girl u only have urself to blame here!!! u cant be acting all pissed… U STOLE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE…….
I have an absolutely immaculate, The lee parents live and Sayeon is a captain in the sea wolves au and yesol brings in ryujin as a new member, turning about in my brain right now, however I cannot write nor draw so you people will just have to take my word for it, yous may hear me yapping about it at some point though
the tree; the apple that desires to be unlike the tree; the fish that desires to be the apple
handjumper, multiple panels / bluets by maggie nelson / xkcd 2347 / Gustave Doré's illustration of the writing on the wall from Daniel 5:25 "Mene! Mene! Tekel Upharsin!" / slaughterhouse by yves olade
finished my hj reread and paid extra attention to min. he does not seem to have ANY “internal monologue”, at least not in his own voice. a majority of his emotions and thoughts are conveyed through flashbacks, thru his facial expressions/framing, OR *vague spoilers for ch128 which is currently a fast pass chapter* thru occasional omniscient narration/another characters voice.
this is ofc fundamentally abt his agency and personhood being denied thru his whole life. he is not afforded a voice and interiority at all on account of being samins sharpened blade. I really really love this as a narrative choice - his arc seems to be abt breaking free from both samin and sayeon and reclaiming agency for himself as a person, rather than as a tool - and so it will be great if, as he develops his own goals and autonomy, we start actually seeing his internal monologue the way we see sayeons/ryujins/iseuls
more rambling + screencaps under the cut
ch111 (first kiss) also clued me in to how mins body and personhood is not just weaponized but violated in other ways, so during my reread I catalogued each time ppl touch him - most times r . sudden and one sided, such as ppl hugging, kissing, smacking, or putting a hand on him …
im not counting combat, such as training between sayeon and min, or combat w wolhye, etc. so sayeons first “punch” where she tricks min in the first five chapters or so is not here lol, but it is an important characterization moment: if min is fairly opaque due to his lack of internal monologue, then his speech tends to be honest, except in cases where it is necessary to lie. min doesnt speak much, so the times he does speak tend to indicate either his honest thoughts (“im sorry for cutting off your hand. i didnt want to do it”) or maintaining his cover as samin commanded him (questioned about samin: “i dont know who that is.” arguably he might be honest bc he knows her as red more than samin)
when min doesnt have anything honest to say, he keeps quiet. such as when iseul asks him early on his name and what his goal/dream is and min just says his name (sayeon talks abt world peace!<3) or when iseul asks whether min knows sayeon from before, and min doesnt answer until a dozen chapters later. these questions r some of the only times min is treated as a full fledged person w thoughts and emotions of his own. samin and sayeon both use him as a tool, samins gang understands him better but tend to condescend to him (see below lol), cell 3 is wary (or hates him in taehos case). juni mostly dgaf. ryujin doesnt talk a lot to him - notably calls him sayeons attack dog lol. no wonder he was making banana bread for iseul day 1
As for the screenshots and touch: the most positive physical touch seems to be with iseul, who pushes taeho away and touches mins shoulder as .. protection? and also hugs him and says he loves him LOL. jungwoo (silver, samins group) is being playful but min kind of looks pained. pink hugs min only after she denigrates him (“you’re a puppet, booooring”), and it seems more to assuage her guilt than something that would make him feel better lol. i wouldnt be surprised if hes not super fond of either jungwoo or pink, despite the fact that all of them share the role of samins second favorite (sayeon is always first!!) the fortuneteller lady is more neutral..? i dont think he was expecting the cheek thing but he cooks dinner and helps her get to bed so.. I guess he likes granny? but what i rly wanna get into is samins hold
mins past as a victim of trafficking implies either a lack of physical affection/touch, or experiencing violating, traumatizing physical touch (as in, being strapped down and operated on, but up to and including sexual abuse). he doesnt flinch back, though he does seem to freeze, as in the assault scene (first kiss). probably he grew up with very little positive and affirming physical affection. he may or may not be touch starved, but does not generally react to it. So when samin squeezes his cheeks, refers to him as a cute child, and promises him a Family, i think the physical affection is part of why he gets attached to her. shes the cloth mom LOL she provides affection even as she treats him as a tool and denies his personhood. i think paralleling sayeon holding his face the same way - explicitly threatening, demanding loyalty and obedience - reframes samins own hold into something more foreboding. holding a head in place, unable to move, restrained, caged. samin and sayeon r capable of great brutality and gentleness, sometimes both at the same time! sayeon only ever exchanges blows w him in training, while treating him as her attack dog!
re: sayeon, she also seems touch starved (sleeping w a plush rabbit, deriving comfort from being punched by ryujin..) so I find the resonances btwn min and sayeon fascinating. sayeon rejects samins kindness, a loving touch and a scarf around her neck. min watches. min would do anything to be sayeon, to have a scarf wrapped around his neck by family. Sayeon avoiding samins affection and min craving it…. physical affection being an important part of child development, and both either being denied of positive physical affection or forced into unwanted physicality. samin being at least partially the reason for both of them being the way they are….
the other samin touch is from the most recent chapter (124), where samin puts a hand on the umbrella min is holding, while saying she’s counting on him.. again, a light but loving touch. Cloth mom doing it again while sharpening min into her own personal knife. she sucks <3
So combining everything: min does not talk often, min does not have his own internal monologue, mins interiority is explored thru the voice of others (flashbacks) or thru fairly ambiguous cues like facial expressions. mins body is used as a weapon, and his own desires and thoughts are deemed unimportant, unheard and unvoiced. when not used as weapon, min is touched by other ppl in what i would argue r largely neutral to negative ways, in neutral to negative contexts. his body, agency, autonomy r all violated. the ongoing arc has been the tension btwn this reality and mins own burgeoning emotions and ideas - the desire to protect iseul, the desire to disobey sayeon, the desire to make samin happy. disobeying will have consequences, but it might also lead to a min who more openly voices his thoughts, who initiates touch or physical affection, and who has his own internal monologue. im very curious how things will go!!
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so with all that said I find it delightfully wonderful that samin is also mins Voice in his internal monologue. Even in his head the way he speaks to himself is thru her, he is not afforded a voice… not even in his own head… samin is a person in a way he is not.. his self talk is samin denigrating his actions, forever…. WOW!! GET A JOB STAY AWAY FROM HIM
i need min to just. Speak his mind and cuss sayeon out. Maybe he doesnt fully renounce samin but god he should cuss sayeon out at least once . Let’s use our words… let’s say how we really feel.. no more internal monologue samin to mediate. . . let’ss be a person🫶 i am looking forward to how his arc develops a lot!!
I want Sara lee to have been such a goddamn menace to the entirety of society as a whole that every single person who ever encountered her, gets full PTSD style flashbacks seeing Samin or Sayeon, not because “oh they’re her kids they’re probably really strong” just based on sheer visual resemblance, like in the way that humans are evolutionary wired to be afraid of snakes.
thinking about Sara Lee and Raon Kang. how they're foils, just like how Sayeon and Ryujin are foils of each other. specifically thinking about how they view themselves in regard to their respective daughters
Sara's "you're my daughter. you're above that," in contrast with Raon's "Ryujin, you can't grow up to be like Mom. she's the biggest loser in the entire world"
Sara's sheer ego versus Raon's utter lack of pride in herself. the implication that Sara expected success from Sayeon because of who her mother was. while Raon hoped a better future for Ryujin despite who her mother was
You know we have seen a Relic being activated twice now and I realized something. Both Rarog and Wolhye's Relics had these four pointed star-like patterns around them when activated.
We also have often seen similar star-like patterns around Sara's Relic at seemingly random times. Originally I just thought it was a stylistic choice, but is it possible her Relic is actually active? Did Sara activate her Relic even in places that were not considered dangerous? If so, why?
[Image. 1 ep 72 - Blood Covenant, Image. 2 ep 42 - A Perfect Lie and Image. 3 ep103 - Insects]
Her Relic is red. In other words it is a Relic that should enhance the body in some way. If it is active during these times then we cannot observe what it is actually doing. I wonder though if it is making her gift (future sight?) stronger? Or if it synergizes somehow with her gift in some other way?
Also when Rarog activated his Relic his eyes changed to the color of his Relic's essence (orange). I notice in all these scenes we never see Sara's eyes. Could they be red?
i am crazy and insane i cant believe that sayeon tries to “buy” ryujins trust by offering revenge, promising to act as accomplice to violence and murder. but an arc later ryujin promises her trust and support to sayeon if sayeon.. saves someone. sayeon will commit violence (enable murder!!) but what will actually get ryujin to trust sayeon is kindness, saving someone from death . Completely opposite to what sayeon offered her. the revenge offer didnt tempt ryujin one bit. sayeon fundamentally doesnt understand her … sayeon who “can’t think of another reason why” ryujin wont use her gift. who can’t fathom that ryujin doesnt want to commit all this violence and seems to have a moral and emotional boundary to using her gift…
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