#cheonliang fam lookism

[uglytintedshades]

On one hand I want the Cheonliang fam arc, on another hand, I don't bc I haven't caught up yet with the current plot, aaand post

He's talking toward Vin Jin btw ^^

#zzz/zeta's art #episodes 261 and uuuh i cant remember exactly which eps he appeared in #261 and some episodes onward?? #zzz speaks #mc pesticides #외모지상주의 #lookism webtoon #lookism #cheonliang fam #cheonliang fam lookism #webtoon lookism #lookism webtoons

[lookismstuff-2]

Cheonliang Fam: Then and Now

#lookism #lookism webtoon #lookism spoilers #lookism 483 #cheonliang #cheonliang fam #vin jin #jin hobin #mary kim #kim miru #park jewoo #mc pesticide #lim taebong #mc rice bag #choi wooseok #lee hyungjae

[manikas-whims]

Seongji Yuk and Jin Hobin

like teacher, like student

#jin hobin #vin jin #seongji yuk #lookism #외모지상주의 #진호빈 #lookism 484 #lookism 200 #cheonliang #cheonliang fam

[lookismstuff]

Highlights of Eps 489-491

SPOILER ALERT

Soojin Kim (the sister) told Jewoo Park (the leader of Cheonliang Fam) that Vin went to attack the shaman Shinmyeong Cheon because of what she told him regarding his mother.

The Cheonliang Fam rushed to save Vin (or prevent him from killing), but actually only Vin managed to even get inside Shinmyeong's residence and did some minor damage.

Vin told them that he had to do this for his mother, whom the shaman killed, or else he wouldn't be able to live with himself.

The shaman's men, particularly the yakshas and the Gwang Yoo trio whom Shinmyeong hired, were stronger than them.

Even though Vin managed to surprise Beolgu Lee, who suspected the teenager's lineage as Mujin's son, he was still no match for Beolgu.

Just as the kids were cornered (Mary even had to carry Vin on her back), Seongji came and saved them. They ran away, but followed by Beolgu, Gwang, and Jaesu Noh.

Apparently Seongji got there after Soojin told him what happened, and Seongji burned down his house, then decided to face Shinmyeong once and for all, even if he had to die.

The Kojima brothers were overwhelmed by Seongji's actual strength, and Shinmyeong was worried.

Especially since the young King of Cheonliang told him that he wasn't actually indebted to the two yakshas, or the Gwijeon Brothers (Ghost Legend) as Gabryong and Baekho used to call them. Yes, Seongji's actual teacher was none other than Mujin Jin: Vin's father.

Then, supposedly delegated by Charles Choi to help Shinmyeong "clean" the mess, James Lee arrived at the scene.

To Shinmyeong's annoyance, James came instead of Gun. Additionally, instead of fighting Seongji right away, young James offered Seongji a position as the manager of the budding four crews: someone who was better than "the two people I got first" (was James referring to Gun and Goo?). And was hiring a minor always in the plan from the get-go, yet James was willing to hire Seongji instead?

Seongji refused, and he and James dueled, each topping the other, from broken collarbone to fighting with one's hands out of one's pockets, speed against speed, strength against strength.

James saw that he and Seongji fought in a similar way: tough and powerful, with only differences in experiences.

The duel was so fiercely brutal, until in the end Seongji remembered how Mujin told him to believe in himself, literally his entire body (and his "cool" hands and feet, especially-- this is why he called Vin's eyes "cool") and won against James.

In satisfaction, Seongji reminded James that there was someone who surpassed him (and that person was Seongji).

We saw that the jacket Seongji tied around his hip was Mujin's all along, just like the daenggi (ribbon) of Vin's mother was also Mujin's.

#lookism #lookism webtoon #lookism manhwa #vin jin #jin hobin #seongji yuk #yook seongji #king of cheonliang #soojin kim #jewoo park #mary kim #kim miru #cheonliang arc #cheonliang fam #lookism 489 #lookism 490 #lookism 491

[kanamayari]

I like to believe that if ever Vin is getting bullied back before he gained polycoria aka back when they were kids, Mary is the one always defending him. atleast, until he can finally stand up for himself.

#Also Mary's probably taller than him when they were kids #Taller than most of the cheonliang fam before they hit puberty #Mary: can't believe those twinks are fucking skyscrapers now #Lookism #mary kim #vin jin #cheonliang fam

[manikas-whims]

get yourself a gang that will stick with you through thick and thin but will also save your ass from getting killed 😂

#lookism #cheonliang fam #vin jin #mary kim #park jewoo #lee hyungjae #lim taebong #choi wooseok #cheonliang #외모지상주의 #lookism 489 #jin hobin #kim miru #webtoon #manhwa

[manikas-whims]

my babie, my pookie, my blorbo 🥹🫶

#mary kim #kim miru #lookism #김미루 #외모지상주의 #lookism 484 #cheonliang fam #cheonliang

[lookismstuff]

Highlights of Ep 484

SPOILER ALERT

"The more you try to trap me, I'll go off the rails. So take a good look. If you want to see the end, push my buttons." - TAEMIN, "Advice"

It was revealed that Shigeaki Kojima and Seongji Yook entered a one-sided agreement in the past, for Seongji's annointment as a yaksha (guardian spirit) for Taejin. Apparently Seongji was taught to become this (and therefore sort of "graduated" from his original "sacrifice" slavery) by Shigeaki.

As she was helping her friends, Mary warned Seongji that the Japanese men were dangerous. Then they noticed that their master and Shigeaki were arguing in Japanese.

Tension escalated. Shigeaki accused Seongji of hiding Vin from the shaman the cult, Vin denied that the King was hiding him and followed the Japanese men instead.

Taejin was furious and jealous that Vin, (his property) was seen with Seongji, his promised yaksha (his other property). (There's no saving this kid I fear...)

Afterwards, Mary told the others that she thought Vin followed those people to protect them, but Seongji dimissed her, saying that Vin was just another brainwashed kid.

However, Wooseok told them that Vin was only there because he was trapped, and originally came there with his mother for the cure of polycoria, until she took her own life and he was enslaved as a sacrifice. This explanation seemed to stun Seongji.

Meanwhile, a surprising guest visited the shaman: Charles Choi, as a newly rising CEO. It was revealed that the businessman knew that men from Shigeaki's side of the Yamazaki faction were supporting the shaman. The shaman then asked, what exactly it was that Charles wanted from him.

During a ritual that night, Vin had a mental breakdown and shouted that this whole thing was a scam and that everyone was fooled into thinking that Cheonliang and the cult were their salvation.

The shaman demonized Vin (who also wanted to die) instead. The kid was pummeled, kicked, and eventually almost stoned by the cult members until Seongji stopped them.

The shaman proceeded to introduce Seongji as Taejin's yaksha, and Taejin was excited.

However, Seongji asked Vin whether he wanted to be rescued. Not getting used to neither admitting that he needed help nor getting actual help, Vin said no at first then broke down and said "Save me" (which reminds me of the cult kdrama Save Me).

As Vin wondered why he was worthy of saving, Seongji told him that they were both sacrifices, and that Vin's eye was cool. The kid wept as he was hearing this, probably the first time after years and years of being ashamed of it.

Seongji announced right then and there that he was taking Vin away, and breaking his promise of becoming a yaksha. He welcome the oncoming fight.

Notes:

Mary had always been quick at discerning people's behavior and I'm glad that Wooseok was the same. I thought Jewoo was the more perceiving kind but going by the awkwardness between him and Mary in the future, I don't think that's the case.

I like how PTJ made almost everyone, including Seongji, think that Vin was just a brainless cult member until they got the full story. This is consistent with what I watched and read about cults. People usually are quick to judge that people in cult are foolish, without understanding why they were manipulated in the first place.

I wonder whether it was Seongji's death that sent Vin back into his vicious cycle of shame and guilt, including hiding his polycoria.

#lookism #lookism webtoon #lookism manhwa #jin hobin #seongji yook #yook seongji #lookism spoilers #lookism 484 #choi wooseok #cheonliang fam #cheon taejin #taejin cheon #wooseok choi #mary kim #kim miru #SoundCloud

[lookismstuff]

Highlights of Ep 483

SPOILERS ALERT

"Drowning so much, I'm affected by the ripple. Feeling so low that I can't even see the middle. Dark days, lost ways, made me feel little..." - "Something Beautiful", Tom Walker and Masked Wolf

Cheonliang Fam was basically the kids who were pupils of Yook Seongji's, the King of Cheonliang. They were present at Seongji's house, enjoying tanghulu candies, when Vin came barging in naked and begging to be killed.

Seongji wondered whether Vin really wanted to die, as the boy rambled on and on about how the monster in the mountain turned out to be this candy-eating hobo, to his dismay. To that, Seongji replied that Vin ate so many of his tanghulu candies anyway.

The Cheonliang Fam members, consisting of Park Jewoo, Lim Taebong, Choi Wooseok, and Lee Hyungjae, told Vin that Seongji had been teaching them the truth behind the Child God Cult's manipulations.

To that, Vin told them that it was all a futile crap, and Jewoo stood up to beat him up for being rude at school (Seongji's School of Truth). Vin was stronger than Jewoo, however, and before the other three kids could do anything but rushing at Vin, they were stopped by a girl.

This girl was none other than Mary. Because she was big, Vin mockingly called her The Elephant Monster, to which she replied by throwing him down.

Fainting, Vin realized that she was the strongest person he had ever met so far.

It appears that Taejin was the culprit who called the students to the sacrifice ritual, just so they could watch Vin walking all naked and paraded in the street. Having made this conclusion, Vin was livid when Taejin flippantly said that the other kids were bound to find out sooner or later, anyway.

When one of the kids was about to shame Vin further, Taejin even condescendingly stopped the kid, leaving a grand impression on that kid and the others that he was such a good person.

Vin came rushing at Taejin to punch him but Taejin pulled a Kudo move on him, having learned about the martial art from his father's Japanese bodyguards.

The kids cheered for Taejin, for trampling on the Eye Monster, who is none other than Vin. But Vin defiantly told them that they were the stupid ones for following the Shaman and his entourage and giving up everything for the cult. Yet it was Vin who was called the Eye Monster.

But Vin wasn't completely alone, it seems. Four boys stood up for him: The Cheonliang Fam. And Mary threw Taejin down, announcing that anyone who caused a ruckus at school would be stopped by The Elephant.

Being rescued didn't make Vin grateful. Simply because years of abuse made him believe that the Shaman would be out to get them anyway. But Jewoo told him that Mary's fame as a young, promising judoka shielded him from harm, even though her own parents were neck deep in the cult.

Jewoo welcome Vin in the fold. They were impressed that Vin stood up to Taejin like that, and promised to protect Vin from the shaman. Offended, Vin lunged at him but he was thrown thrice by Jewoo, Taebong and Wooseok. All of them were good at ssireum, the Korean traditional wrestling sport, and it was Seongji the King who taught them. The reason why Vin defeated Jewoo the day before was because Jewoo held back: Seongji had warned them that ssireum was a dangerous sport.

The shaman's bodyguards found the kids. Their leader, a former member of the Yamazaki faction (Gun's) named Kojima Shigeaki, told Vin to get ready for the next sacrifice ritual.

Mary and the other Cheonliang Fam members tried to stop them but failed, since Kojima and his two lackeys were stronger than the kids. As they moved to execute Wooseok, somebody else came to the clearing.

It was Seongji. He came and crushed the ribcages of the two lackey bodyguards... with his six fingered-hands. Yes, he was the original sacrifice boy who ran away.

Kojima taunted whether Seongji wanted to start "another war". Seongji retorted that it was Kojima who started all of this, anyway. And he said that would show Kojima and the other two, why he was called The King of Cheonliang.

Notes:

I'm so glad that Mary's characterization and illustration are very humane. There's even a new sense of purpose and direction in the way she's written: what with her ambition as a young athlete and her conflict with her manipulated family members.

However, I wish PTJ didn't retcon her hair color because originally in the God Dog arc it was implied that Mary didn't color her hair before she came to Seoul, but after. This was why Vin was surprised to see her as a blonde after he removed his tinted glasses for the first time in the arcade, after his duel versus Ivan Park.

I wish we saw Taejin's upbringing from up close. From what I read and watched in cult docuseries and books, children of cult leaders either turned into power hungry figures, dysfunctional individuals, or people who disassociate from such cults or any belief system. But all of these results stemmed from a distorted upbringing. So I think it would be interesting to see how the events in Taejin's formative years led up to his bizarrely wrong choices.

#lookism #lookism webtoon #lookism manhwa #vin jin #jin hobin #cheonliang fam #cheonliang arc #kim miru #mary kim #lookism 483 #yook seongji #king of cheonliang #SoundCloud #lookism spoilers

[manikas-whims]

Vin Jin consoling Mary Kim and stopping her because he doesn't want blood on her hands..

He doesn't want her to be branded as a killer with people after her life, just like the Cheonliang fam is after him rn..

#vinmary #lookism #vin jin #mary kim #y'all they're making me so soft rn #jin hobin #kim miru #cheonliang fam #mc pesticides #cheon taejin #cheonliang #외모지상주의 #진호빈 #김미루 #호빈미루

[manikas-whims]

Cheonliang

we're getting closer and closer to meeting the gang and experience their backstory 🥺

#ptj i swear if you troll us again 🔪 #lookism #vin jin #mary kim #cheonliang fam #cheonliang #jin hobin #kim miru #mc pesticides #외모지상주의 #진호빈 #김미루 #호빈미루

[manikas-whims]

Happy New Year Lookism Fandom ♥

Hope this year we'll actually get the Cheonliang arc and learn at least a smidge about Vin Jin, Mary Kim, Mc Pesticides and the rest of the Cheonliang Fam 🙏

#cmon ptj you've dragged this arc too long #give us cheoliang #vin jin #mary kim #mc pesticides #cheonliang fam #lookism #외모지상주의 #jin hobin #kim miru #진호빈 #김미루

[manikas-whims]

No one:

Boys from Cheonliang: *hauling people up with bare arm strength*

(left to right: Mc Pesticides and Vin Jin)

Lets not forget they both did wrestling and Mc Pesticides is apparently a national level champion too

#lol this is such a random observation #vin jin #mc pesticides #lookism #진호빈 #MC 농약두봉지 #cheonliang fam #lookism cheonliang #jin hobin #외모지상주의 #mary kim #김미루 #kim miru

[kanamayari]

Because friends are ride or die. :))

#lookism #mary kim #vin jin #jin hobin #kim miru #cheonliang fam

[manikas-whims]

What do you think is the reason why the MC Cheonliang gang, specifically MC Pesticides, we’re particularly scared of Mary and had some guilty feelings?

She was not bitter but she wasn’t buddy buddy with them either. I remember Vin once told MC Pesticides to apologize to Mary. I thought they may have played a prank on her back when she was bigger, or asking her on a date only to humiliate her.

Whatever it was, Vin sure wasn’t happy with them either.

sorry anon, took me a while to answer cuz i was looking up certain screenshots again 😂

⚠ warning ⚠ long post ahead:

So from everything said about Cheonliang Fam so far, this is how i perceive it:

It probably goes like Vin and his Cheonliang Gang were the strongest gang in Cheonliang and they were all good pals and respected him as the leader.

Around the same time, he was probably a member of the Judo club at his C middle school. And there, he probably knew Mary as another member of the club..you know like someone you just know in passing, not as a friend.

These panels right here are where Vin Jin suddenly starts reminiscing the old days. He was talking about Mary. About how she was the best Judo student of his batch and how every coach and manager wanted her..

Mary was a plus size girl back then and most likely taunted over it, because we know how awful middle schoolers can be 😒

Around the same time, Vin probably met with an unfortunate accident that led to his eye condition– polycoria.

Now, this is where things started going downhill for him. He probably got admitted to a hospital and upon his recovery, his left eye became like that.

From there onwards, probably his parents said some unpleasant stuff, his school kids began mocking him n all..

And i suppose thats when he talked to Mary for the first time. Like one day, she just found him ditching classes n sulking someplace. So she probably talked to him (she is pretty wise) and like..uplifted him and told him that his eyes are still fine.

And maybe thats when he realised she wasn't that bad. I feel like he probably already respected her for being the best of Judo club. As he has stated himself that when it comes to Judo, Mary can beat him. But this is the point where he actually saw her as more than a plus size girl at his school and you know..became friends with her.

So gradually, Vin picked up some glasses and his entire gang took up to wearing glasses as a sign of respect for him. And Mary (now friends with Vin) sorta became a part of their gang, hanging out with them, riding motorcycles and all..

Now this is where i incorporate your date idea..

Mary probably developed a crush on one of their junior members in the gang (just a bad guess). She probably confessed and got rejected and told that even though she's a friend, there's no way anyone would date her due to her plus size (yeah awful middle schoolers 😑)

Thus, she left crestfallen.

By the next year Mary lost all her weight and grew out her hair (Vin said this but I can't add the panel as tumblr only allows 10 pics in a post 😭).

Then, she probably went back to confess to the junior. And this time she got invited to a date but ended up being pranked.

Mc Pesticides is probably the one guy who knew about the prank and still let it happen. Which would explain why she has forgiven him for whatever happened.

But from her gaze its evident that there's still traces of hurt and disappointment.

But after so much time, now she just wants to talk to him like a mature person and get over it.

However, a date prank can't be reason enough to kill someone.

This is my wild guess but probably something worse happened to Mary.

From how I see it, when Mc Pesticides called Vin a murderer, Vin wasn't fazed. He countered by calling out Mc Pesticides for his hypocrisy and said he should be apologizing to Mary.

In Vin's eyes, him killing someone is equal (and even worse) to what Mc Pesticides did to Mary.

Wild guess but not completely unbelievable: Mary was probably sexually harassed.

Lookism deals with a lot of societal issues and scary topics. Harassment of women, especially younger girls, is a common thing prevailing in many parts of the world.

It was their junior who probably touched her inappropriately or tried to force himself upon her.

Now Mc Pesticides probably knew about the prank but didn't expect his junior would go as far as to harass her.

And this is what led to Vin losing his temper as Mary is an important person to him. He ended up beating the guy, probably going too far in his anger and ending up accidentally killing the guy.

He probably also had a fight with Mc Pesticides for knowing about the prank yet not warning Mary.

Which also explains why Vin doesn't regret killing him. And also Mary thanking him for it.

this is just a wild theory so take all of this with a grain of salt :)

#vin jin #mary kim #vinmary #mc pesticides #lookism #lookism theory #i'm bad at theories okay? #take this with a grain of salt #진호빈 #김미루 #외모지상주의 #jin hobin #kim miru #asks #anon asks

[uglytintedshades]

(The resolution of the pictures gets better once you click on them.)

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- Sorry for the messy formatting, anyways I'm currently betting that Vin Jin was the one that got injured from the motorcycle accident.

- Maybe one of the Cheonliang Fam members was behind the accident? (It was mentioned somewhere that Mary used to ride motorcycles. So I'm guessing it could be possible.) (Like...the rest of the members could've also been riding motorcycles..)

- This is probably the reason why he always wears tinted sunglasses. Since he doesn't want anyone else to know that his eyes were (possibly) injured.

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- The rest of the Cheonliang Fam probably went along w/the whole "friends are ride or die" thing since Vin Jin was their leader, or because of guilt (probably both), thus they decided that they would all wear sunglasses.

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Sources/Episodes:

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Lookism episode 204

Lookism episode 254

Lookism episode 261

Lookism episode 263

Lookism episode 279

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