[PART 3] He is BIGBANG's Taeyang
He is a man with the unwavering smile. His eyes disappear and his cheeks lift and nobody can resist a smile like that. He’s a man with a smile that gives and gives and never ever takes. He’s a man with a smile that is capable of hiding the teeth he may be baring inside.
He’s lonely. But he hides it well. He has his friends and his family and he’s become someone that they all can’t live without. He keeps them grounded because he himself is so firmly embedded in the ground. He’s gotten under their skin and he knows them all too well. He knows their faults and their qualities and the things that make them tick. Yes, he has plenty of friends. But he’s lonely still because precious few of those friends can see past the charming, sweet, and charismatic front. This is his flaw.
People laugh at him for being alone. For being the odd one out, the one who can’t commit. He can’t bring himself to be pinned down, nor can he be himself around anyone besides those who he has deemed he could trust. And much to his chagrin, this number still remains small. How can he trust anybody in the cut-throat industry that he works in? How can he let anyone see his anger, or his sadness, or his loneliness?
Even now, after half his life working in the Korean music industry, he is uncomfortable. He still can’t quite let go of the smiling Dong Youngbae and live up to being BIGBANG’s Taeyang.
This was so weak oh my god. Why is Taeyang so hard to characterize?