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* ArcherArchetype: A skilled archer who isn't very emotional for the most part. The last part goes out the window whenever Woo-jin is involved.
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* ArcherArchetype: AloofArcher: A skilled archer who isn't very emotional for the most part. The last part [[NotSoStoic goes out the window window]] whenever Woo-jin is involved.
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* SicklyChildGrewUpStrong: As revealed in ''Strangers''.
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* TraumaCongaLine: The Fic. Neglected by his parents in favor of his sister, outed as gay to his entire school and bullied or othered by everyone but his closest friends, with even the boy he was seeing abandoning him. He was hospitalized and put into a coma after a large fall after running from bullies. He decides to leave the country, and the teacher helping him with that suddenly dies. He gets a job to pay for the move, loses his virginity to his co-worker, and the co-worker (who was working to support his family) then loses the job. After finally leaving, Woo-jin cuts himself off from every ally he still had. He experienced racism as an Asian immigrant in America, his first two roommates treated him poorly, and just when things began to look up for him, with him gaining a best friend in Sam and falling for one of his classmates, his boyfriend's mom dies in a racially motivated attack and Woo-jin's forced to break up with him because he develops a drinking problem. Then when he's convinced to return for Cheong-san and On-jo's wedding, he realizes that he no longer fits in with his older friends due to how much time he's spent gone. And also he gets into a fight with a homophobe he comes across on the streets. ''Jesus Christ''...
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* TraumaCongaLine: The Fic. Neglected by his parents in favor of his sister, outed as gay to his entire school and bullied or othered by everyone but his closest friends, with even the boy he was seeing abandoning him. He was gets hospitalized and put into a coma after a large fall after running from bullies. He decides to leave the country, and the teacher helping him with that suddenly dies. He gets a job to pay for the move, loses his virginity to his co-worker, and the co-worker (who was working to support his family) then loses the job. After finally leaving, Woo-jin cuts himself off from every ally he still had. He experienced experiences racism as an Asian immigrant in America, his first two roommates treated treat him poorly, and just when things began to look up for him, with him gaining a best friend in Sam and falling for one of his classmates, his boyfriend's mom dies in a racially motivated attack and Woo-jin's forced to break up with him because he develops a drinking problem. Then when he's convinced to return for Cheong-san and On-jo's wedding, he realizes that he no longer fits in with his older friends due to how much time he's spent gone. And also he gets into a fight with a homophobe he comes across on the streets. ''Jesus Christ''...
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* TraumaCongaLine: The Fic. Neglected by his parents in favor of his sister, outed as gay to his entire school and bullied or othered by everyone but his closest friends, with even the boy he was seeing abandoning him. He was hospitalized and put into a coma after a large fall after running from bullies. He decided to leave the country, the teacher helping him with that suddenly dies, he loses his virginity to his co-worker at the job he has to pay for the move and the co-worker, who has the job to support his family, after his school finds out. After finally leaving, Woo-jin cuts himself off from every ally he still had. He experienced racism as an Asian immigrant in America, his first two roommates treated him poorly, and just when things began to look up for him, with him gaining a best friend in Sam and falling for one of his classmates, his boyfriend's mom dies in a racially motivated attack and Woo-jin's forced to break up with him because he develops a drinking problem. Then when he's convinced to return for Cheong-san and On-jo's wedding, he realizes that he no longer fits in with his older friends due to how much time he's spent gone. And also he gets into a fight with a homophobe he comes across on the streets. ''Jesus Christ''...
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* TraumaCongaLine: The Fic. Neglected by his parents in favor of his sister, outed as gay to his entire school and bullied or othered by everyone but his closest friends, with even the boy he was seeing abandoning him. He was hospitalized and put into a coma after a large fall after running from bullies. He decided decides to leave the country, and the teacher helping him with that suddenly dies, he dies. He gets a job to pay for the move, loses his virginity to his co-worker at the job he has to pay for the move and the co-worker, who has and the job co-worker (who was working to support his family, after his school finds out.family) then loses the job. After finally leaving, Woo-jin cuts himself off from every ally he still had. He experienced racism as an Asian immigrant in America, his first two roommates treated him poorly, and just when things began to look up for him, with him gaining a best friend in Sam and falling for one of his classmates, his boyfriend's mom dies in a racially motivated attack and Woo-jin's forced to break up with him because he develops a drinking problem. Then when he's convinced to return for Cheong-san and On-jo's wedding, he realizes that he no longer fits in with his older friends due to how much time he's spent gone. And also he gets into a fight with a homophobe he comes across on the streets. ''Jesus Christ''...
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Mother example. Eun-sook considers Woo-jin being gay as "ruining his life" and apparently told Ha-ri she couldn't be gay. Yeah... in the adult timeline, she probably isn't happy about her daughter ended up with a woman who is also her super cool manager (a position Eun-sook probably would've wanted for herself).
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Mother example. Eun-sook considers Woo-jin being gay as "ruining his life" and apparently told Ha-ri she couldn't be gay. Yeah... in the adult timeline, she probably isn't happy about that her daughter ended up with a woman who is also her super cool manager (a position Eun-sook probably would've wanted for herself).
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* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Despite keeping her smoking habit well into adulthood, she seems almost weirded out that Woo-jin's taken up the habit as well. Doesn't stop her from doing it with him.
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* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Despite keeping her smoking habit well into adulthood, she seems almost weirded out that Woo-jin's taken up the habit as well. Doesn't stop her from doing it going to buy a pack with him.
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* AntagonisticOffspring: Always resented Woo-jin and saw him as competition for Ha-ri, so by Woo-jin's teen years, he defies her whenever she asks anything of her. Ha-ri also grows to hate her, slapping her for her lack of sympathy for Woo-jin getting hurt.
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* AntagonisticOffspring: Always resented Woo-jin and saw him as competition for Ha-ri, so by Woo-jin's teen years, he defies her whenever she asks anything of her.him. Ha-ri also grows to hate her, slapping her for her lack of sympathy for Woo-jin getting hurt.
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* AngerBornOfWorry: It's mostly his own fault, but he is implied to care about Woo-jin at least somewhat. However, completely without his knowledge, his son is put through ''hell'', all the while being convinced that Dal-hoon (as well as Eun-sook) ''hates'' him. He screams at Ha-ri when Woo-jin leaves because from his perspective, this comes out of nowhere. It's his fault that he didn't know, but from his perspective, that's still a scary thing to be blindsided with.
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* AngerBornOfWorry: It's mostly his own fault, but he is implied to did care about Woo-jin at least somewhat.a lot. However, completely without his knowledge, his son is put through ''hell'', all the while being convinced that Dal-hoon (as well as Eun-sook) ''hates'' him. He screams at Ha-ri when Woo-jin leaves because from his perspective, this comes out of nowhere. It's his fault that he didn't know, but from his perspective, that's still a scary thing to be blindsided with.
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* IveComeTooFar: When she hears one of her kids is in the hospital, assumes it's Ha-ri and despite apparently loving her most, is most concerned about her own hard work being wasted.
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* IveComeTooFar: When she hears one of her kids is in the hospital, assumes it's Ha-ri and despite apparently loving her most, is most concerned about her own hard work being wasted.wasted.
* MyBelovedSmother: Well, not 'beloved' but she was incredibly controlling over Ha-ri.
* MyBelovedSmother: Well, not 'beloved' but she was incredibly controlling over Ha-ri.
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* NotSoStoic: Keeps his composure for most things, but is most emotional when Woo-jin wakes up in the hospital and when Woo-jin leaves for Chicago.
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Mother example. Eun-sook considers Woo-jin being gay as "ruining his life" and apparently told Ha-ri she couldn't be gay. Yeah... in the adult timeline, she probably isn't happy about her daughter ended up with a woman who is also her super cool manager (a position Eun-sook probably would've wanted for herself).
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* NotSoStoic: When Woo-jin is hurt.
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* RageBreakingPoint: Lets Eunsook have it after Woo-jin is hospitalized. It's possible that the screaming match she has with Dal-hoon was also this for her in some part.
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* DrivenByEnvy: Interesting case. She's envious towards Woo-jin for Ha-ri, though Ha-ri herself feels nothing but love for her brother, and that drives her.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Despite knowing ''why'' her kids hate her, when she slaps Woo-jin she does show resentment over how Ha-ri views the work Eun-sook puts into her success.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Despite knowing ''why'' her kids hate her, when she slaps Woo-jin she does show resentment over how Ha-ri views the work Eun-sook puts into her success.
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* ZeroApprovedGambit: Dedicated herself to Ha-ri's success in archery, which ruined her marriage and made her kids hate her.
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* CoolBigSis: Really just wants Woo-jin to be happy more than anything.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Is unable to stop any of the trauma Woo-jin goes through, inadvertently piles onto it, and fails to communicate with his family.
* DisownedParent: Woojin has no interest in speaking to either of his parents after he leaves.
* EmptyNest: Most likely his fate after Woojin leaves, as Woo-jin has no interest in contact, he's definitely divorced Eun-sook at this point, and Ha-ri says she hates both their parents.
* HandsOffParenting: Knows that Woo-jin mostly does whatever he pleases, seems to have let Eun-sook take care of most of Ha-ri's training, and when he does try to address issues, comes off as not really caring.
* EmptyNest: Most likely his fate after Woojin leaves, as Woo-jin has no interest in contact, he's definitely divorced Eun-sook at this point, and Ha-ri says she hates both their parents.
* HandsOffParenting: Knows that Woo-jin mostly does whatever he pleases, seems to have let Eun-sook take care of most of Ha-ri's training, and when he does try to address issues, comes off as not really caring.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Dal-hoon genuinely loved Eun-sook a lot, and it caused him to turn a blind eye to what she was doing to their kids.
* ParentsAsPeople: Loves both his kids more than anything but was emotionally distant and loved his wife enough to be in denial about her abuse of them. When he does realize how bad things have gotten, he tries to help but is helpless in doing so.
* UselessBystanderParent: Spent years in denial over the fact that Eun-sook did not care for one of their kids and was overly controlling and possessive of the other.
* DisownedParent: Woojin has no interest in speaking to either of his parents after he leaves.
* ArcherArchetype: A skilled archer who isn't very emotional for the most part. The last part goes out the window whenever Woo-jin is involved.
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* PromotionToParent: Implied to be the case as despite only being a year older, she took it upon herself to be his rock when their parents were absent for him. Even as adults Woojin describes her as acting maternally towards him.
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* MasterArcher: An archery prodigy who, in adulthood, is an Olympic medalist.
* PromotionToParent: Implied to be the case as despite only being a year older, she took it upon herself to be his rock when their parents were absent for him. Even as adults Woojin describes her as acting maternally towards him. This is made especially clear when Ha-ri reunites with him after waking up and calls him her 'baby'.
* PromotionToParent: Implied to be the case as despite only being a year older, she took it upon herself to be his rock when their parents were absent for him. Even as adults Woojin describes her as acting maternally towards him. This is made especially clear when Ha-ri reunites with him after waking up and calls him her 'baby'.
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* TraumaCongaLine: Neglected by his parents in favor of his sister, outed as gay to his entire school and bullied or othered by everyone but his closest friends, with even the boy he was seeing abandoning him. It was so bad, he left the country and cut himself off from every ally he still had. He experienced racism as an Asian immigrant in America, his first two roommates treated him poorly, and just when things began to look up for him, with him gaining a best friend in Sam and falling for one of his classmates, his boyfriend's mom dies in a racially motivated attack and Woo-jin's forced to break up with him because he develops a drinking problem. Then when he's convinced to return for Cheong-san and On-jo's wedding, he realizes that he no longer fits in with his older friends due to how much time he's spent gone. Jesus Christ...
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* TraumaCongaLine: The Fic. Neglected by his parents in favor of his sister, outed as gay to his entire school and bullied or othered by everyone but his closest friends, with even the boy he was seeing abandoning him. It He was so bad, he left hospitalized and put into a coma after a large fall after running from bullies. He decided to leave the country country, the teacher helping him with that suddenly dies, he loses his virginity to his co-worker at the job he has to pay for the move and cut the co-worker, who has the job to support his family, after his school finds out. After finally leaving, Woo-jin cuts himself off from every ally he still had. He experienced racism as an Asian immigrant in America, his first two roommates treated him poorly, and just when things began to look up for him, with him gaining a best friend in Sam and falling for one of his classmates, his boyfriend's mom dies in a racially motivated attack and Woo-jin's forced to break up with him because he develops a drinking problem. Then when he's convinced to return for Cheong-san and On-jo's wedding, he realizes that he no longer fits in with his older friends due to how much time he's spent gone. Jesus Christ...And also he gets into a fight with a homophobe he comes across on the streets. ''Jesus Christ''...
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Genuinely seems to not know why Woo-jin is leaving the country. It's possible that he's missed *ahem* his son sneaking around with boys, the horrible bullying he's going through, Ha-ri taking care of her brother and essentially getting a PromotionToParent for him in his and Eun-sook's place, Woo-jin isolating from his friends, apparently the English classes his son is taking, until finally Woo-jin is driven away and he's blindsided.
* OocIsSeriousBusiness: He's described as being cold and unemotional in nearly every mention of him. This makes one of the first impressions the reader gets of him, when him and Ha-ri are screaming at one another over Woo-jin leaving, quite notable and hints that he might care for his son more than he lets on.
* OocIsSeriousBusiness: He's described as being cold and unemotional in nearly every mention of him. This makes one of the first impressions the reader gets of him, when him and Ha-ri are screaming at one another over Woo-jin leaving, quite notable and hints that he might care for his son more than he lets on.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: His marriage with Eun-sook is strained, and it gets much worse after Woo-jin gets hurt. They start arguing over everything, even in front of their kids, and Dal-hoon starts sleeping on the couch. WordOfGod admits he is just waiting until his kids are adults before he divorces her.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop:Genuinely seems Is the only member of his family to not know why that Woo-jin is leaving gay. Ha-ri and Woo-jin do not tell him about the country. It's possible that he's missed *ahem* picture, though Woo-jin does admit to being bullied. He does not learn about Woo-jin's job, his son taking English classes or the SAT, or Woo-jin sneaking around with boys, the horrible bullying he's going through, Ha-ri taking care of her brother and essentially getting a PromotionToParent for him in his and Eun-sook's place, boys. He seems genuinely blindsided when Woo-jin isolating from his friends, apparently the English classes his son is taking, until finally Woo-jin is driven away and he's blindsided.
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* OocIsSeriousBusiness: He's described as being cold and unemotional in nearly every mention of him. This makes one of the first impressions the reader gets of him, when him and Ha-ri are screaming at one another over Woo-jin leaving, quite notable andhints that shows how much he might care for does not want to lose his son more than he lets on.son.
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* OocIsSeriousBusiness: He's described as being cold and unemotional in nearly every mention of him. This makes one of the first impressions the reader gets of him, when him and Ha-ri are screaming at one another over Woo-jin leaving, quite notable and
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* AntagonisticOffspring: Always resented Woo-jin and saw him as competition for Ha-ri, so by Woo-jin's teen years, he defies her whenever she asks anything of her. Ha-ri also grows to hate her, slapping her for her lack of sympathy for Woo-jin getting hurt.
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* BecauseYouCanCope: Since Woo-jin was a healthy baby and Ha-ri wasn't, she saw Ha-ri as needing her more and focused all her energy into her daughter.
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* NoSympathy: To Woo-jin, even after he is bullied, hospitalized, and traumatized.
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* ZeroApprovedGambit: Dedicated herself to Ha-ri's success in archery, which ruined her marriage and made her kids hate her.
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* AbusiveParents: Straight up told Woo-jin that he didn't deserve any of his achievements and scolds any of her friends who give the slightest bit of praise to her son.
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* AbusiveParents: Straight up told Woo-jin that he didn't deserve any of his achievements and scolds any of her friends who give the slightest bit of praise to her son. She also hits him at one point. She also screams at a toddler Ha-ri, and then makes her miserable with all her pressure.
* BeingEvilSucks: By Eunsook's own admission, it's her own fault that she is so miserable, and knows that she is ''going'' to lose her husband and daughter because her entire family hates her so much. She just knows it's too late to change for the better so continues how she always has.
* IveComeTooFar: When she hears one of her kids is in the hospital, assumes it's Ha-ri and despite apparently loving her most, is most concerned about her own hard work being wasted.
* BeingEvilSucks: By Eunsook's own admission, it's her own fault that she is so miserable, and knows that she is ''going'' to lose her husband and daughter because her entire family hates her so much. She just knows it's too late to change for the better so continues how she always has.
* IveComeTooFar: When she hears one of her kids is in the hospital, assumes it's Ha-ri and despite apparently loving her most, is most concerned about her own hard work being wasted.
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* FreudianExcuse: The prequel ''Strangers'' reveals that Ha-ri's birth traumatized her and she felt she had to be her daughter's defender. She resented how easy everything seemed to come to her younger child and ignored him in favor of forcing her daughter's success.
* TheResenter: Towards Woo-jin for being born healthy, and for how much Ha-ri loves him.
* TheResenter: Towards Woo-jin for being born healthy, and for how much Ha-ri loves him.
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* FreudianExcuse: Struggles to trust his friends even after they vehemently defended him after he was outed, and cut himself off of everyone in his life in Korea, including his sister who took care of him in place of their parents, but this is out of trauma from the bullying he endured in high school.
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* FreudianExcuse: Struggles to trust his friends even after they vehemently defended him after he was outed, and cut himself off of from everyone in his life in Korea, including his sister who took care of him in place of their parents, but this is out of trauma from the bullying he endured in high school.
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* FreudianExcuse: Struggles to trust his friends even after they vehemently defended him after he was outed and cut himself off of everyone in his life in Korea, including his sister who took care of him in place of their parents, but this is out of trauma from the bullying he endured in high school.
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* FreudianExcuse: Struggles to trust his friends even after they vehemently defended him after he was outed outed, and cut himself off of everyone in his life in Korea, including his sister who took care of him in place of their parents, but this is out of trauma from the bullying he endured in high school.
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* NeverMyFault: A sympathetic example. He doesn't acknowledge that he hurt his friends by leaving and cutting off contact. This resulted in Joonyeong developing abandonment issues and blaming himself for not convincing him to stay. While Woojin definitely missed his friends, the only person he shows remorse about cutting off is his older sister.
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* StepfordSmiler: Downplayed. He is genuinely happy with Chaewon, but hides just how hurt he is by Woo-jin leaving.
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* UndyingLoyalty: To Woojin. He makes it very clear that this loyalty remains even years later.
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* GreenEyedMonster: When he finds out about Sam, he becomes very jealous of her and feels replaced. This is while thinking Sam is Woojin's girlfriend. When that's cleared up, he's still jealous in realizing that her friendship with him is just that strong.
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* BestFriend: To Woo-jin. They're close enough that almost everyone they come across thinks that they're dating.
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Woo-jin. Both are art majors who are also gay.
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Woo-jin. Both are art majors who are also gay.
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* TheReliableOne: Woo-jin constantly refers to him as being reliable, a welcome change to his difficult life so far.
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* NiceGirl: Is very sweet and gets along with Sam very easily.
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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Like Woo-jin, coped with her stress by taking up smoking.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Despite keeping her smoking habit well into adulthood, she seems almost weirded out that Woo-jin's taken up the habit as well. Doesn't stop her from doing it with him.
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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Like Woo-jin, coped with her stress by taking up smoking.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Despite keeping her smoking habit well into adulthood, she seems almost weirded out that Woo-jin's taken up the habit as well. Doesn't stop her from doing it with him.
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* TraumaCongaLine: Neglected by his parents in favor of his sister, outed as gay to his entire school and bullied or othered by everyone but his closest friends, with even the boy he was seeing abandoning him. It was so bad, he left the country and cut himself off from every ally he still had. He experienced racism as an Asian immigrant in America, his first two roommates treated him poorly, and just when things began to look up for him, with him gaining a best friend in Sam and falling for one of his classmates, his boyfriend's mom dies in racially motivated attack and Woo-jin's forced to break up with him because he develops a drinking problem. Then when he's convinced to return for Cheong-san and On-jo's wedding, he realizes that he no longer fits in with his older friends due to how much time he's spent gone. Jesus Christ...
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* TraumaCongaLine: Neglected by his parents in favor of his sister, outed as gay to his entire school and bullied or othered by everyone but his closest friends, with even the boy he was seeing abandoning him. It was so bad, he left the country and cut himself off from every ally he still had. He experienced racism as an Asian immigrant in America, his first two roommates treated him poorly, and just when things began to look up for him, with him gaining a best friend in Sam and falling for one of his classmates, his boyfriend's mom dies in a racially motivated attack and Woo-jin's forced to break up with him because he develops a drinking problem. Then when he's convinced to return for Cheong-san and On-jo's wedding, he realizes that he no longer fits in with his older friends due to how much time he's spent gone. Jesus Christ...
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* AngerBornOfWorry: It's mostly his own fault, but he is implied to care about Woo-jin at least somewhat. However, completely without his knowledge, his son is put through ''hell'', all the while being convinced that Dal-hoon (as well Eun-sook) ''hates'' him. He screams at Ha-ri when Woo-jin leaves because from his perspective, this comes out of nowhere. It's his fault that he didn't know, but from his perspective, that's still a scary thing to be blindsided with.
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* AngerBornOfWorry: It's mostly his own fault, but he is implied to care about Woo-jin at least somewhat. However, completely without his knowledge, his son is put through ''hell'', all the while being convinced that Dal-hoon (as well as Eun-sook) ''hates'' him. He screams at Ha-ri when Woo-jin leaves because from his perspective, this comes out of nowhere. It's his fault that he didn't know, but from his perspective, that's still a scary thing to be blindsided with.
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* AngerBornOfWorry: It's mostly his own fault, but he is implied to care about Woo-jin at least somewhat. However, completely without his knowledge, his son is put through ''hell'', all the while being convinced that Dal-hoon (as well Eun-sook) ''hates'' him. Him screams at Ha-ri when Woo-jin leaves because from his perspective, this comes out of nowhere. It's his fault that he didn't know, but from his perspective, that's still a scary thing to be blindsided with.
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* AngerBornOfWorry: It's mostly his own fault, but he is implied to care about Woo-jin at least somewhat. However, completely without his knowledge, his son is put through ''hell'', all the while being convinced that Dal-hoon (as well Eun-sook) ''hates'' him. Him He screams at Ha-ri when Woo-jin leaves because from his perspective, this comes out of nowhere. It's his fault that he didn't know, but from his perspective, that's still a scary thing to be blindsided with.
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* AdultFear: It's mostly his own fault, but he is implied to care about Woo-jin at least somewhat. However, completely without his knowledge, his son is put through ''hell'', all the while being convinced that Dal-hoon (as well Eun-sook) ''hates'' him. Him screams at Ha-ri when Woo-jin leaves because from his perspective, this comes out of nowhere. It's his fault that he didn't know, but from his perspective, that's still a scary thing to be blindsided with.
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* AdultFear: AngerBornOfWorry: It's mostly his own fault, but he is implied to care about Woo-jin at least somewhat. However, completely without his knowledge, his son is put through ''hell'', all the while being convinced that Dal-hoon (as well Eun-sook) ''hates'' him. Him screams at Ha-ri when Woo-jin leaves because from his perspective, this comes out of nowhere. It's his fault that he didn't know, but from his perspective, that's still a scary thing to be blindsided with.
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* BondBreaker: Is the only member of the Class 2-5 friend group to have not stayed in touch and that absent is greatly felt.
* HasAType: Of his love interests, Ji-sung and Lucas both grow close to him since they share his love of art and baseball. David is also studying art. Additionally, Ji-sung is described as being practical, to-the-point, and logical, like Joon-yeong.
* HereditaryHomosexuality: Both him and Ha-ri are gay.
* TheMourningAfter: He takes a long break from dating after his relationship with David ends poorly, and when he does get a new boyfriend, Lucas, he tries to take things slowly in fear of getting heartbroken again.
* HereditaryHomosexuality: Both him and Ha-ri are gay.
* TheMourningAfter: He takes a long break from dating after his relationship with David ends poorly, and when he does get a new boyfriend, Lucas, he tries to take things slowly in fear of getting heartbroken again.
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* TraumaCongaLine: Neglected by his parents in favor of his sister, outed as gay to his entire school and bullied or othered by everyone but his closest friends, with even the boy he was seeing abandoning him. It was so bad, he left the country and cut himself off from every ally he still had. He experienced racism as an Asian immigrant in America, his first two roommates treated him poorly, and just when things began to look up for him, with him gaining a best friend in Sam and falling for one of his classmates, his boyfriend's mom dies in racially motivated attack and Woo-jin's forced to break up with him because he develops a drinking problem. Then when he's convinced to return for Cheong-san and On-jo's wedding, he realizes that he no longer fits in with his older friends due to how much time he's spent gone. Jesus Christ...
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* TraumaCongaLine: Neglected by his parents in favor of his sister, outed as gay to his entire school and bullied or othered by everyone but his closest friends, with even the boy he was seeing abandoning him. It was so bad, he left the country and cut himself off from every ally he still had. He experienced racism as an Asian immigrant in America, his first two roommates treated him poorly, and just when things began to look up for him, with him gaining a best friend in Sam and falling for one of his classmates, his boyfriend's mom dies in racially motivated attack and Woo-jin's forced to break up with him because he develops a drinking problem. Then when he's convinced to return for Cheong-san and On-jo's wedding, he realizes that he no longer fits in with his older friends due to how much time he's spent gone. Jesus Christ...
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* HereditaryHomosexuality: Both her and Woo-jin are gay.
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* LeavingYouToFindMyself: Woo-jin breaks up with him because of his drinking problem, deciding he needs time to recover from his grief and pull himself together.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: Like Jisung before him, he bonds with Woojin over a love of art and of baseball.
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* AdultFear: It's mostly his own fault, but he is implied to care about Woo-jin at least somewhat. However, completely without his knowledge, his son is put through ''hell'', all the while being convinced that Dal-hoon (as well Eun-sook) ''hates'' him. Him screams at Ha-ri when Woo-jin leaves because from his perspective, this comes out of nowhere. It's his fault that he didn't know, but from his perspective, that's still a scary thing to be blindsided with.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Genuinely seems to not know why Woo-jin is leaving the country. It's possible that he's missed *ahem* his son sneaking around with boys, the horrible bullying he's going through, Ha-ri taking care of her brother and essentially getting a PromotionToParent for him in his and Eun-sook's place, Woo-jin isolating from his friends, apparently the English classes his son is taking, until finally Woo-jin is driven away and he's blindsided.
* OocIsSeriousBusiness: He's described as being cold and unemotional in nearly every mention of him. This makes one of the first impressions the reader gets of him, when him and Ha-ri are screaming at one another over Woo-jin leaving, quite notable and hints that he might care for his son more than he lets on.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Genuinely seems to not know why Woo-jin is leaving the country. It's possible that he's missed *ahem* his son sneaking around with boys, the horrible bullying he's going through, Ha-ri taking care of her brother and essentially getting a PromotionToParent for him in his and Eun-sook's place, Woo-jin isolating from his friends, apparently the English classes his son is taking, until finally Woo-jin is driven away and he's blindsided.
* OocIsSeriousBusiness: He's described as being cold and unemotional in nearly every mention of him. This makes one of the first impressions the reader gets of him, when him and Ha-ri are screaming at one another over Woo-jin leaving, quite notable and hints that he might care for his son more than he lets on.
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* AbusiveParents: Straight up told Woo-jin that he didn't deserve any of his achievements and scolds any of her friends who give the slightest bit of praise to her son.
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* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Thanks to the amount of mistreatment he's endured, both from his parents and from his classmates, he leaves the country altogether and stops contacting any friends he had in Korea, including his older sister. Even after he's agreed to return for the wedding, he wonders if there's any point to trying to salvage his old friendships when he's made friends that don't remind him of one of the worst times of his life.
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* FreudianExcuse: Struggles to trust his friends even after they vehemently defended him after he was outed and cut himself off of everyone in his life in Korea, including his sister who took care of him in place of their parents, but this is out of trauma from the bullying he endured in high school.
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* TraumaCongaLine: Neglected by his parents in favor of his sister, outed as gay to his entire school and bullied or othered by everyone but his closest friends, with even the boy he was seeing abandoning him. It was so bad, he left the country and cut himself off from every ally he still had. He experienced racism as an Asian immigrant in America, his first two roommates treated him poorly, and just when things began to look up for him, with him gaining a best friend in Sam and falling for one of his classmates, his boyfriend's mom dies in racially motivated attack and Woo-jin's forced to break up with him because he develops a drinking problem. Then when he's convinced to return for Cheong-san and On-jo's wedding, he realizes that he no longer fits in with his older friends due to how much time he's spent gone. Jesus Christ...
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* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: After spending years in America, and having gone even longer without speaking to his friends, sans Joon-yeong, he is very aware of how out of place he is among his old friend group.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Feels quite guilty over encouraging Woo-jin to take an art class offered by their school, as that's where he met Jisung, the boy he got outed with, which led to him getting bullied and eventually leaving.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: Woojin's sexuality isn't elaborated upon in the original show. Here, he's gay.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: Woojin's sexuality isn't elaborated upon in the original show. Here, he's gay.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: Hari's sexuality isn't elaborated upon in the original show. Here, she's lesbian.
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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Took up smoking to relieve his stress. And he has a lot to be stressed about.
