"What a slut!" "Yeah, he is."
I...
I...
I think I may have changed ships.
JUST FOR A SECOND.
But the thought was there.
(For the record, there is something really fucking devious about securing my OTP loyalty through a Very Specific Scene (scar-kissing) only to turn around and have the secondary guy do it too... and better.)
This cap is to remind myself that I am already rooting for one couple and don't actually want the other.
YOU HEAR ME, KIM JAE WOOK? I DON'T WANT YOU AND YOUR FLAWLESS CHEEKBONES AND TENDER BEDROOM EYES AND IRRESISTIBLE SCATTERING OF NECK FRECKLES. NOT... NOT AT ALL. ;_____;
So Mae Ri hustles Moo Kyul out the door, but not before Jung In gets in one last look.
Moo Kyul doesn't understand what all the fuss is about. He doesn't seem to realize that seconds before, Mae Ri was constructing a slash fantasy based on the two of them in Jung In's bed. "I just need to go back inside and get my guita..." "NO!"
They think they're safe, but nothing stops Jung In when he has sights on a wounded gazelle indie musician for his music drama! (Before I forget, when Seo Joon gets the script she's like "a romantic comedy based on music? wow, what a fresh concept!" lolol)
You know a drama is slashy when the heroine actually has to GET BETWEEN THEM, WAVING HER ARMS to be noticed.
AND EVEN THAT DOESN'T WORK.
LOLOLOLOL SHE'S POUNDING ON THE WINDOW LIKE "HONEY? HONEY, LET ME OUT!" AND THEY'RE JUST EYEFUCKING IN BROAD DAYLIGHT LOLOLOL
Little do they know...
...the window isn't the only thing about to get a pounding.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAHHH!
Most incompetant stalker ever? Probably.
I CAN'T EVEN DEAL WITH HOW CUTE THEY ARE. This is like the second Who-esque running scene and the third or fouth moment of handholding. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Of course, they have to keep up the charade of dating. Of course. That smitten look on Mae Ri's face? Just acting, I'm sure.
LMAO her father hears him singing and is offended. "SUCH A CHICK MAGNET. AUGH."
"You looked rather handsome just now."
"What?!"
"You looked handsome just now when you were singing. I mean... I just always thought you only did rock or heavy metal, and this was the first time I heard you do a ballad."
"Does that mean... you like me?"
"(HITS) I'M JUST SAYING YOU LOOKED HANDSOME. Objectively speaking."
OMG CAN THEY GET ANY MORE DARLING. HE STEALS HER RAMEN. SHE HITS HIM IN THE FACE. HE WRITES SONGS HE DOESN'T EVEN REALIZE ARE ABOUT HER. SHE THINKS HE'S HANDSOME! OBJECTIVELY.
Chilling at his bachelor pad, literally, because they're freezing. Did you know Mae Ri was born in November and Moo Kyul on Christmas Eve? This makes Mae Ri a whole month older.
Moo Kyul calls her "noona" and I spontaneously burst into flames of hotness and die.
SHE'S GOING TO MAKE HIM A PAIR OF MITTENS! OMG THE CUTE. THE CUUUUUTE. LOOK AT HER FACE!
She works well into the night, which hits my domesticity buttons for the second ep in a row. Then she realizes the time.
She waves, leaves, doubles back to deliver a warning ("if you touch them, you're dead!"), grins, waves again, and lets herself out.
He touches them as soon as she's gone.
The next morning sees Mae Ri shipped off to Casa de (Polite) Jerk. She makes sure to call Moo Kyul on the way, loudly declaring her love for him and dropping lots of "honey"s and syrupy platitudes.
Moo Kyul has not actually woken up yet.
The whole convo goes like this:
Moo Kyul: Bwuzzwha?
Mae Ri: HONEY!!!!! DON'T WORRY HONEY I'LL BE BACK SOON I KNOW IT'S JUST AWFUL THAT I'M GOING AWAY BUT IT WON'T BE LONG HONEY!!!!! I'LL MISS YOU!!!!!!
Moo Kyul: ...................................I'm hanging up.
Mae Ri: I KNOW YOU'LL MISS ME TOO. BECAUSE WE'RE MARRIED. AND THAT'S WHAT MARRIED PEOPLE DO. YES.
Jung In: Let me talk to him.
Mae Ri: NO.
Moo Kyul: ldsf?
Mae Ri: BYEEEEEEE, HONEY!
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
Way to go, Jung In! You're sweeping her right off her feet.
Most of her scenes here are irrelevant and/or creepy, except the veeeeery nice view at dinner.
Poor Moo Kyul is lost without his Shrek cat (/alley dog/girl wizard) which of course is when his mother chooses to strike. Does she have some kind of radar for his emotional vulnerability?
Surprising no one but Moo Kyul, she makes him all kinds of promises and then ditches him not an hour later. Literally, she just walks away when he's in the middle of buying them ice cream. Drama gods? There's low, and then there's tragically pitiful Moo-Kyul-sitting-alone-in-the-dark-eating-ice-cream-by-himself-because-his-mother-doesn't-love-him.
THREE GUESSES WHO IT COULD BE.
"HONEY!!!!!!!!"
"Could you cut it out? You're giving me goosebumps."
"I KNOW, I MISS YOU TOO, HONEY!"
Despite not knowing what's going on, where he is and what he just went through, Mae Ri manages to say exactly the right thing to hit home. Again, this surprises no one but Moo Kyul himself. The icing on the cake? When Mae Ri takes a deep breath and says "I LOVE YOU!" before hanging up, and Moo Kyul just stares at the phone...
...AND DOESN'T STOP SMILING THE REST OF THE SCENE.
Back at Casa de Jerk, Mae Ri stumbles on a picture of... her and Jung In as kids?!?!
"What does it say?" she asks, because it's in Japanese.
Jung In translates. "I'm here, and I'll protect you forever."
Oh my god.
Seriously??? Seriously?! That's how they're going to torture me? Adorable fluffy kittens OTP vs angsty full-of-past-trauma first love? This is cheating, drama. You can't drop that kind of insta-kink on me after FOUR EPISODES. HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO CHOOSE NOW?
I'm guessing Mae Ri's mother died when she was four, somehow giving her that scar. Jung In was eight and promised to protect her forever, knowing his father was about to move them to Japan in his grief. Current theories in order of plausibility:
1: He didn't realize the grown-up Mae Ri was his Mae Ri.
2: He knew it, but the death/move/loss of first love made his childhood something he didn't like to think about, not until the picture awakened old feelings he suddenly couldn't ignore.
3: He actually does have selective amnesia and he's clinging to the picture (and what Mae Ri represents) to deal with his own PTSD and daddy-unapproved emotional issues.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH UNFAIR UNFAIR SO UNFAIR
I WANT TO LICK HIM LIKE CAAAAAAAAAKE.
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Okay. Okay. SO THE THING IS.
Moo Kyul's kiss was wonderful and romantic and made me squee like a broken powersaw, but... this one kinda TOTALLY MADE HIM LOOK LIKE AN AMETEUR?
I mean, just compare them. One was a funny drunken impulse that she may or may not even remember. The other was part of a deliberate declaration of protectiveness, devotion, commitment and eternal childhood love that seems to have spanned TWENTY YEARS AND TWO COUNTRIES.
Get a faster bus, Moo Kyul, because you've got a lot of catching up to do.
I...
I think I may have changed ships.
JUST FOR A SECOND.
But the thought was there.
(For the record, there is something really fucking devious about securing my OTP loyalty through a Very Specific Scene (scar-kissing) only to turn around and have the secondary guy do it too... and better.)
This cap is to remind myself that I am already rooting for one couple and don't actually want the other.
YOU HEAR ME, KIM JAE WOOK? I DON'T WANT YOU AND YOUR FLAWLESS CHEEKBONES AND TENDER BEDROOM EYES AND IRRESISTIBLE SCATTERING OF NECK FRECKLES. NOT... NOT AT ALL. ;_____;
So Mae Ri hustles Moo Kyul out the door, but not before Jung In gets in one last look.
Moo Kyul doesn't understand what all the fuss is about. He doesn't seem to realize that seconds before, Mae Ri was constructing a slash fantasy based on the two of them in Jung In's bed. "I just need to go back inside and get my guita..." "NO!"
They think they're safe, but nothing stops Jung In when he has sights on a wounded gazelle indie musician for his music drama! (Before I forget, when Seo Joon gets the script she's like "a romantic comedy based on music? wow, what a fresh concept!" lolol)
You know a drama is slashy when the heroine actually has to GET BETWEEN THEM, WAVING HER ARMS to be noticed.
AND EVEN THAT DOESN'T WORK.
LOLOLOLOL SHE'S POUNDING ON THE WINDOW LIKE "HONEY? HONEY, LET ME OUT!" AND THEY'RE JUST EYEFUCKING IN BROAD DAYLIGHT LOLOLOL
Little do they know...
...the window isn't the only thing about to get a pounding.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAHHH!
Most incompetant stalker ever? Probably.
I CAN'T EVEN DEAL WITH HOW CUTE THEY ARE. This is like the second Who-esque running scene and the third or fouth moment of handholding. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Of course, they have to keep up the charade of dating. Of course. That smitten look on Mae Ri's face? Just acting, I'm sure.
LMAO her father hears him singing and is offended. "SUCH A CHICK MAGNET. AUGH."
"You looked rather handsome just now."
"What?!"
"You looked handsome just now when you were singing. I mean... I just always thought you only did rock or heavy metal, and this was the first time I heard you do a ballad."
"Does that mean... you like me?"
"(HITS) I'M JUST SAYING YOU LOOKED HANDSOME. Objectively speaking."
OMG CAN THEY GET ANY MORE DARLING. HE STEALS HER RAMEN. SHE HITS HIM IN THE FACE. HE WRITES SONGS HE DOESN'T EVEN REALIZE ARE ABOUT HER. SHE THINKS HE'S HANDSOME! OBJECTIVELY.
Chilling at his bachelor pad, literally, because they're freezing. Did you know Mae Ri was born in November and Moo Kyul on Christmas Eve? This makes Mae Ri a whole month older.
Moo Kyul calls her "noona" and I spontaneously burst into flames of hotness and die.
SHE'S GOING TO MAKE HIM A PAIR OF MITTENS! OMG THE CUTE. THE CUUUUUTE. LOOK AT HER FACE!
She works well into the night, which hits my domesticity buttons for the second ep in a row. Then she realizes the time.
She waves, leaves, doubles back to deliver a warning ("if you touch them, you're dead!"), grins, waves again, and lets herself out.
He touches them as soon as she's gone.
The next morning sees Mae Ri shipped off to Casa de (Polite) Jerk. She makes sure to call Moo Kyul on the way, loudly declaring her love for him and dropping lots of "honey"s and syrupy platitudes.
Moo Kyul has not actually woken up yet.
The whole convo goes like this:
Moo Kyul: Bwuzzwha?
Mae Ri: HONEY!!!!! DON'T WORRY HONEY I'LL BE BACK SOON I KNOW IT'S JUST AWFUL THAT I'M GOING AWAY BUT IT WON'T BE LONG HONEY!!!!! I'LL MISS YOU!!!!!!
Moo Kyul: ...................................I'm hanging up.
Mae Ri: I KNOW YOU'LL MISS ME TOO. BECAUSE WE'RE MARRIED. AND THAT'S WHAT MARRIED PEOPLE DO. YES.
Jung In: Let me talk to him.
Mae Ri: NO.
Moo Kyul: ldsf?
Mae Ri: BYEEEEEEE, HONEY!
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
Way to go, Jung In! You're sweeping her right off her feet.
Most of her scenes here are irrelevant and/or creepy, except the veeeeery nice view at dinner.
Poor Moo Kyul is lost without his Shrek cat (/alley dog/girl wizard) which of course is when his mother chooses to strike. Does she have some kind of radar for his emotional vulnerability?
Surprising no one but Moo Kyul, she makes him all kinds of promises and then ditches him not an hour later. Literally, she just walks away when he's in the middle of buying them ice cream. Drama gods? There's low, and then there's tragically pitiful Moo-Kyul-sitting-alone-in-the-dark-eating-ice-cream-by-himself-because-his-mother-doesn't-love-him.
THREE GUESSES WHO IT COULD BE.
"HONEY!!!!!!!!"
"Could you cut it out? You're giving me goosebumps."
"I KNOW, I MISS YOU TOO, HONEY!"
Despite not knowing what's going on, where he is and what he just went through, Mae Ri manages to say exactly the right thing to hit home. Again, this surprises no one but Moo Kyul himself. The icing on the cake? When Mae Ri takes a deep breath and says "I LOVE YOU!" before hanging up, and Moo Kyul just stares at the phone...
...AND DOESN'T STOP SMILING THE REST OF THE SCENE.
Back at Casa de Jerk, Mae Ri stumbles on a picture of... her and Jung In as kids?!?!
"What does it say?" she asks, because it's in Japanese.
Jung In translates. "I'm here, and I'll protect you forever."
Oh my god.
Seriously??? Seriously?! That's how they're going to torture me? Adorable fluffy kittens OTP vs angsty full-of-past-trauma first love? This is cheating, drama. You can't drop that kind of insta-kink on me after FOUR EPISODES. HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO CHOOSE NOW?
I'm guessing Mae Ri's mother died when she was four, somehow giving her that scar. Jung In was eight and promised to protect her forever, knowing his father was about to move them to Japan in his grief. Current theories in order of plausibility:
1: He didn't realize the grown-up Mae Ri was his Mae Ri.
2: He knew it, but the death/move/loss of first love made his childhood something he didn't like to think about, not until the picture awakened old feelings he suddenly couldn't ignore.
3: He actually does have selective amnesia and he's clinging to the picture (and what Mae Ri represents) to deal with his own PTSD and daddy-unapproved emotional issues.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH UNFAIR UNFAIR SO UNFAIR
I WANT TO LICK HIM LIKE CAAAAAAAAAKE.
fsdkl;fsdlfsdf
sdfksdjfsdkl;fjsdlfjksdfl;jasd
fsdjafkl;asjfsdf
sjdkfl;jsdfkl;jassdf
Okay. Okay. SO THE THING IS.
Moo Kyul's kiss was wonderful and romantic and made me squee like a broken powersaw, but... this one kinda TOTALLY MADE HIM LOOK LIKE AN AMETEUR?
I mean, just compare them. One was a funny drunken impulse that she may or may not even remember. The other was part of a deliberate declaration of protectiveness, devotion, commitment and eternal childhood love that seems to have spanned TWENTY YEARS AND TWO COUNTRIES.
Get a faster bus, Moo Kyul, because you've got a lot of catching up to do.