Hello, I'm back to yap more. 🐶(using this as my emoji until I eventually get off anon haha). I am a different anon than the other talking about mg coin and Nam-gyu and purity culture obv, but I have thoughts abt the same stuff and like yapping lmao. Sorry in advance for this actual tome i am about to write.
Ive been having the opposite experience than the other anon and it might be because I'm more on ig than here tbh but! I feel like theyve hit the nail on the head about purity in fandoms and i see the reactions im getting coming from that too. Because every time ive made a comment on a thread on ig unless its on a nam-gyu fan account i get comments acting like ive just said i sacrifice small animals to the devil.
for me Nam-gyu's actions aren't ok towards min-su (poor lil guy is scared just like him, i kept hoping theyd have a point where they made friends tbh).
And while I get why se-mi is pissed at nam-gyu, she did kind of irk me too (because what she said h reminded me of judgemental ex-friend I had when I was a drug user who would basically laugh at me and my addiction). But I don't think she deserved to die, of course not! If anything i wished the opposite. (I was stupidly hoping after thanos died that nam-gyu and min-su and se-mi would make a trio and really want to read a fic like this, or write one lmao).
Then, from another angle, I find Nam-gyus character easy to understand and i don't think understanding it has to be excusing the stuff @ min-su and se-mi, but i also don't see him as evil! Nam-gyu is my favorite in s2 and overall tbh even over gi-hum, sang-woo or thanos and yes, he is hot, but my fave in s1 is sang-woo and i wasn't attracted to him for example.
But i enjoy a character who 1. Has many aspects, theyre very interesting and people are usually never just one thing! (Also these arent real people so like you said we can like whoever!) & 2. I can actually relate to some aspects of him! Even while not being ok with the actions @ min-su and se-mi! I know what addiction is like, and people just treat you like you're worthless, not many consider why a person has addiction, they just assume it's about partying which for me mine was thanka to lots of abuse prior and during that time, so that abuse + people treating me like i was worthless for my addiction made me into a hater back then too. I was a little shit too lol. I promise I never forked anybody to death though 😈
in seriousness when Roh Jae-Won said people haven't ever respected Nam-gyu, I immediately thought he's been abused growing up and or had a bad partner like what was my situation, it just makes sense to me. (Tbh i already got that vibe so his confirmation sealed it).
I've come in contact with people saying he is evil111 and that I'm evil for not thinking he is (i got the same re sang-woo tbh) and it's like... being able to empathize with him while stilllll not being ok with him killing se-mi is possible. I think it's easy to see how it came about too, his mental state in there wasnt great already even when the one person he had some liking for was there, with that person dead, hes spiralling badly plus the pills hes gobbling, its a perfect storm. Again i dont think he should have killed her i can just see how the escalation happened. But like... yeah why can't I understand and still feel sad he killed her?!
I don't get why people have to put characters I absolutes either, and that goes for nam-gyu, thanos and mg coin. like they all have flaws, and then they all are just victims of the capitalistic scheme in the games and they all have their own issues. I can totally understand why thanos and nam-gyu hates mg coin (and I kept thinking of Elon musk because of the dalmatian/doge coin lmaooo), but also they could have been more cautious too like he said!
Verrryyyy tldr: I really agree about not having to apologise for liking and finding characters interesting, and theres something else weird some friends and i have picked up on with regards to these puritanical mindsets.
They seem to dehumanize characters they dont like? Like they have the idea that unless a character is a perfect cinnamon roll like Ali from s1 they dont deserve empathy? Examples I've seen people commenting and making jokes about how thanos and sang-woo was thinking of suicide, and some saying they hope the baby dies because mg coin is a deadbeat etc and I'm like...they're not even real people but the commenters are and the way they can't even have compassion for fictional characters, makes me wonder how they would be in a situation worse, ie: with someone they dislike in person.
Also! I was the anon who has the dog headcanon and omg yesss I'd be honored if you wrote about the dog in one of your fics. You're such a talented writer I'd love to read your vision for this. I can imagine him thinking of the dog waiting for him 🥺 but not saying anything about it because again my dude would rather die in squid game than admit to an emotion (even though hia emotions are still coming out anyway!!) i also hc him as a dog person and not just because i am one haha but for the reason you wrote. Dogs are amazing, once they love you they dgaf who you are. That aside I also think he'd really like and respect that they come from wolves and how if they choose to they can mess someone up with a bite! Even the cuddliest good boy can go feral if threatened or a person he loves is threatened and I think nam-gyu would relate to that too.
I always see people saying he's cat like but I don't see it! thanos is cat!coded and a cat guy to me too so I love that you see that as well. I actually hc that thanos has a playful orange cat who has his own Instagram and thanos writes captions and comments as the cat lmao 🐈
And yikes I'm so sorry this is recoed yapping I've been writing this for like 23 mins!
