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That trope where a character is so desperate to protect the person they love, they lose themselves in it and need to get “awoken” by someone else telling them it’s okay now.

One of my favorite tropes as used in Heart of a Jedi.

Jaebeom passed out against the landing platform. Jinyoung stood over him, protective, his eyes blazing as he faced down his enemies. Anger filled him, like an easy pulse of access to the force.

The dark tempting, drew at the heart of him. He held the force around himself strong and around Jaebeom, shielding but that shield could become a weapon. He could feel the pull of the dark as he fought to hold himself together The edge was right before him. He breathed heavy at the strain of holding the shield and wanting to fight back. He didn’t know what happened to Jaebeom but he had a need in his heart to protect the other. He wanted to protect him with everything, even so close to the edge of darkness again.

He breathed deep at the strain of all he’d gone through and holding the shield up. The force around them was protective, the essence of what it meant to be a Jedi. Jinyoung knew he had to remain the defender, not attacker. He could fight back with the force, he knew what it was like but he held himself back. It hurt but he held up his shield with strength as his heart pounded. If he dropped it to fight back he'd leave Jaebeom exposed. He couldn't do that. With all he was he knew he couldn't do that.

It was Jaebeom who was next to him. He'd come for Jinyoung, and Jinyoung couldn't let him down. Jinyoung held his hands out. He cried out from the strain as so many of the bounty hunters fired. Guns and blasters were going off in quick succession as if to kill them. He could feel heat through his body, the living force becoming more and more attuned with every cell of his being. He didn't know how much further he could go, how much longer he could hold.

He heard more gunshots and heard shouts but he could barely see what was happening. He could barely feel anything but the force flowing through his veins to protect.

"Jinyoung!" he heard someone calling his name but he stayed still, no matter how much it hurt he held his hands high.

"Jinyoung it's okay!" Someone shouted at him but he didn't recognize anything. The haze was too much to see through. He had to get out, to pull out just enough to see, to understand why someone was calling him. But enough to still protect Jaebeom. He breathed deep as he tried. He tried to pull back and suddenly he lost it entirely. It became too much.

He breathed heavy as he collapsed and fell to the ground. He caught himself with his hands, his head was dizzy. He was next to Jaebeom. He reached out to cover the other's body with his own. A last resort to shield Jaebeom from their enemies.

"Jinyoung!" Hands touched him. He looked back ready to fight and saw that it was Youngjae. Jinyoung shook as he glanced around and saw his clones had flooded the platform. They were safe, they’d been saved. He was shaking as he tried to turn about to see what had happened.

"We got them to run," Youngjae explained, "it's okay now." He still felt on edge despite seeing that Youngjae was correct. They’d attacked on Kamino and almost had gotten away with it.

#jj project #jinyoung x jaebum #fanfiction #read on ao3 #star wars au

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The repetition of having to do each sequence over and over again, and trying to get it so that it is as perfect as we could get it to be... was exhausting.

Revenge of the Sith Featurette: The Return of Darth Vader (x)

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I need to explore Jeongdae more. This kid really had rest in peace written on his main gun, and colorful string wrapped around it. What kind of guy keeps a message like that on his gun? Seems to me like he’s always shooting to kill.

In some scenes he seems so innocent and out of place but it seems like he uses his looks to his advantage. He looks unthreatening but he’s got an arsenal of equipment, manages the team’s operations, can go in guns blazing and take down anyone and doesn’t mind hitting police with a van if he needs to. Yet Jinyoung calls him innocent cause he likes animals and has a pet Lizard.

So how did Jeongdae join the black team? What is his relationship like with the rest of the team members. They work together so well but they’re not above putting each other in their place.

I just have so many thoughts about this fascinating character. Honestly Jeongdae seems a bit crazy in a good way, maybe a bit of trauma made him this way. I just want to know so I’ll probably try to write it. I want to write a few things.

#Yaksha #yacha #Jeongdae #park jinyoung #jinyoung

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Promotional stills from Yaksha: Ruthless Operations (2022) dir. Na Hyun — April 8, only on Netflix

#yacha #*heavy breathing*

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Just started https://archiveofourown.org/works/36141364

Current In progress fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36141364

Prince Kim Gaon is to be escorted across the country by General Kang Yohan to take his seat as the crown prince in Josen era Korea. However difficulties arise as Gaon’s enemies close in, and Gaon reveals he has no desire to be King. As everything closes in around him he has to learn to trust Yohan, and that trust turns into something more dangerous.

Meanwhile Yohan is desperate to complete his mission to bring down the clan responsible for his brother’s death. He must get Gaon to the Hanseong. Along the way he doesn’t expect conflicts to arise with his own heart and this boy who is the most unreachable in the kingdom.

#the devil judge #work in progress #kim gaon #kang yohan #yohan x gaon #fiction #fanfiction #historical fiction #kdrama #park jinyoung

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Another short yet meaningful scene from episode 13 which shows how Yohan and Gaon can't help but keep tabs on each other because they're concerned.

According to canon, this is the first time Gaon and Yohan are speaking to each other after their break-up scene. It's important to note here that Gaon called Yohan of his own volition. He initiated communication however stilted it might have been.

He'd only recently been rescued from a SRF conducted riot by Soo Hyun. Then suddenly Yohan is nowhere to be found at work the next day. I'm assuming Gaon would've gone to find Yohan in his office first, only to find it empty. It must've taken great courage to call up a man he'd basically rejected for all intents and purposes. But Gaon did it anyway. Because he cares what happens to Kang Yohan. Their way of working might not match, but Gaon's connected with Yohan on a deeper more personal level.

Likewise, Yohan's somehow watching over Gaon as well. Unfortunately, K has been lost to him. Maybe he asked Lawyer Ko to unobtrusively check on Gaon to see if he was hurt in any way. He'd been shot the previous day, had his fortress of a mansion broken into and had to sit through Sunah threatening Elijah. He must be going through so much physical and emotional trauma and yet the only thing he's worried about is whether Gaon is hurt. Once Gaon confirms that he's alright, Yohan doesn't really care for anything more.

Ji Sung's attention to detail while acting comes through once again when he flinches in pain after ending his call with Gaon, shrugs his shoulders and then stands up tall once more. He's somehow feeling lighter after hearing from Gaon and is also brushing off all his pain and suffering to go and battle with Heo Joong Se.

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“what has hector ever done to me?”

or, the parallels of mujin, taeju, and jiwoo as achilles, patroclus, and hector

there’s a really interesting comparison to be made that janey initially pointed out about mujin and taeju being tragic like achilles and patroclus that i think extends even further into jiwoo being their hector, of sorts.

i mean, mujin is this theoretically untouchable, imposing figure. seemingly unkillable—he survived the several attempts on his life. he’s dongcheon’s god.

taeju is mujin’s closest ally, especially in the aftermath of donghoon’s betrayal. taeju ended up in dongcheon so it’s reasonable to assume that he found dongcheon by way of some personal exile; he seemingly has no attachments to anything but dongcheon and, by extension, mujin. you can see the reverence in his eyes any time he looks at mujin.

jiwoo, then, is arguably dongcheon’s greatest warrior. she is the victor in several of her own battles and, though she’s a bit gruff, jiwoo is still kind where it counts. she can be tender. a hero in her own right.

while we have to stretch the comparison a little bit—after all, hector dies by achilles’ hand, not the other way around—there’s still a good parallel:

mujin won’t fight, not yet, and whether taeju thinks it’s because he won’t because it’s jiwoo or something else, he decides to take the matter into his own hands. he takes the initiative to kill jiwoo; he takes on the shroud of mujin and appears to her, the way patroclus appeared as achilles, and the way mujin appeared to her father. jiwoo, the valiant fighter that she is, bests taeju and kills him. she sends his body home with a knife blade still stuck in it.

and when mujin finds out? when he’s brought to taeju’s body and sees what she’s done? it’s pure rage. he retaliates against her in the most violent way possible. had she been alone in the car, yeah, he probably would have shot her and it would have been over. but when he sees pildo, he sees that he can hurt her in a worse way than just killing her, so he kills pildo in front of her instead. you kill mine, i kill yours. an eye for an eye. this retaliation is the violent dragging of her body behind his chariot to hotel liber for their final showdown.

and while jiwoo is the ultimate victor and the comparison largely stops there, the parallel is just good enough to hurt. the companionship between mujin and taeju, the dying in his stead, the rage, the retaliation. a study in the violence of grief and revenge.

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Why weren’t Gaon’s parents named? It would make my life as a fic writer much easier if they were.

#the devil judge #kim gaon #kdrama

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Current In progress fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36141364

Prince Kim Gaon is to be escorted across the country by General Kang Yohan to take his seat as the crown prince in Josen era Korea. However difficulties arise as Gaon’s enemies close in, and Gaon reveals he has no desire to be King. As everything closes in around him he has to learn to trust Yohan, and that trust turns into something more dangerous.

Meanwhile Yohan is desperate to complete his mission to bring down the clan responsible for his brother’s death. He must get Gaon to the Hanseong. Along the way he doesn’t expect conflicts to arise with his own heart and this boy who is the most unreachable in the kingdom.

#the devil judge #work in progress #kim gaon #kang yohan #yohan x gaon #fiction #fanfiction #historical fiction

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Thinking about the emotions Gaon had to be going through when he made that phone call from the hitman’s phone and Yohan answered.

Every worse thought he ever has, little details from many of their conversations and all his feelings for this man just messily swirling around. Brilliant acting by Jinyoung as Gaon has his literal breakdown. It would be interesting to see a novelized version of that moment. The mental pressure of the days leading up to it. Jeongho is the worst, they broke him in the worst way possible.

#the devil judge #kim gaon #yohan x gaon #kdrama #trauma #so much trauma always

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Gaon is such a warm character in the drama and the webtoon. He gives a lot to those around him and he can’t help but take care of others.

He has his dark sides too. His brash bold sides. He acts on his anger rather quickly at times.

All of it makes me wonder more about his backstory. How he was as a delinquent teen. It makes me think his parents were very nurturing and losing them formed something darker in him.

He definitely struggles with the feeling powerlessness in the face of situations that have gone on around him, but it doesn’t stop him from fighting. His whole life it seems he’d get himself right into any fight he could. He cares deeply for others but has no self preservation. The traumas he had when he was younger defined a lot of these different parts of him.

I keep thinking of writing a sequel and I cant help but think Gaon wouldn’t follow Yohan to Switzerland. I feel like he’d stay going it alone until someone forced their way into his life. After all he’s lost it doesn’t seem like he’d be that open to others when he never was to begin with.

#the devil judge #kim gaon #kdrama #kpop #park jinyoung

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Ever think about how Gaon probably has a lot of trust issues to only have two people in his life 16 years after losing his parents?

He indicated sleeping at different people’s homes and not wanting to be alone to Elijah. I wonder what other people were in and out of his life and what other hurtful experiences he had. He clearly has deep empathy for others but keeps them at a distance and leans on one person for emotional support, one he is terrified of losing in Soohyun.

We don’t explore much of his backstory outside Soohyun and Min Jeongho. He ended up losing them in the end too, I just wonder how many more bad experiences he has had with people that left him to having so few in his life.

#the devil judge #kim gaon #fiction #television #kdrama

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A post about where Yohan contributed to Gaon’s eventual manipulation. Gaon was betrayed by his mentor but it was possible by the many missteps Yohan made. Yohan in many ways pushed Gaon and pushed him away through his own action.

1. Yohan said he would do anything to manipulate Gaon to his side even switching the conman out of jail himself. Gaon has been given constant indications by Yohan that he doesn’t care about the method as long as the outcome is what he wants. This is a throughline throughout all their interactions.

2. Withholding information and hiding his plans from Gaon repeatedly. Never being forthcoming about his actions. Gaon has many reasons to believe Yohan wouldn’t be honest with him as there’s many things Yohan did and planned, admitted to doing that Gaon had been skeptical of. Not to the point that Gaon would have called Yohan a monster but he understands Yohan’s goals are personal and not due to any justice he wants and that he will withhold information to benefit his own plans.

3. Indicating he is okay with murder as long as his goals are met, even good with manipulating mass amounts of people into being complicit in a public execution. Gaon confronted him directly and Yohan did not care if Jukchang died. Gaon wanted Yohan to deny this, Gaon wanted that assurance so badly. Even if some viewers might believe Yohan wouldn’t have done it, Yohan actually gives no indication that he would have ever stopped. And even if he had given some indication that he wanted to, the president had rigged it so there was no way for Yohan to win there. The main point though is Gaon was told by Yohan he would kill to achieve his goals.

4. Having a general blind spot to humans who are not rich and powerful like him. Yohan didn’t understand Sunah or Min Jeongho’s motivations so he was unable to predict their actions. Yohan’s pride in understanding humanity proved to be a downfall several times as humans acted in ways he did not expect. Another example Yohan was able to predict the foundation was involved in shady things but it was beyond his imagination.

5. Yohan’s speech to Gaon after Soohyun’s death was insensitive to the situation and his understanding of the situation was flawed. He was unable to assess that the gunman was clearly aiming for Soohyun and shot to kill Soohyun. He was self centered in thought and believed the gunman was after them. And as such when Gaon wants to search for the gunman Yohan doesn’t want too because he too quickly passed it off as an accident and didn’t question it further.

6. Yohan never questioned a lookalike to his brother coming into his life. Especially one connected to a man like the chief justice who only recently was appointed. Yohan seemed to miss a huge point of interest in the appointment of Min Jeongho from lowly professor to suddenly chief justice. He never questioned it at all nor thought it was important because he overlooked people who weren’t massively wealthy with consistency.

These are simple points that make me believe that people focus solely on how Gaon was manipulated in episode 15 but ignore ways that Yohan was also manipulated and ways Yohan behaved that made Gaon’s manipulation possible.

Everyone likes to talk about Gaon betraying Yohan but ignore that Gaon was majorly betrayed by the man he considered his father figure, a man he had no reason not to trust as that man had never done anything to cause Gaon to question him except spout old platitudes on how things should be.

It is also important to see that Yohan did not consider Gaon’s betrayal as a betrayal once the full story and the full manipulation was revealed. He has pity on Gaon, which is interesting because throughout the story Gaon has pity on him. The two of them share a lot of adjacent experiences that by the end I believe leads them to understand one another entirely. By episode 16 all misunderstandings and manipulations are fully cleared up which is why their chemistry in their interactions shines fully and we get the whole conclusion of everything.

I love them so much, they went through so much in loss and betrayal. The whole world tried to rip them apart and in the end they still stood stronger together.

The details in this show are truly incredible to dig into.

I would like season 2 now please.

Side note: Imagine if Soohyun hadn’t lied about Yohan calling her to save Gaon, what a wrench that would have thrown in the bad guys plans. They wouldn’t have been able to ever run that con plan at all.

#the devil judge #kang yohan #kim gaon #yohan x gaon #fiction #television #kdrama #my take

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Truly Gaon’s battle with his morals, the safety net he has in his found family, and his budding feelings for Yohan make him such an interesting character.

Gaon becomes a hero in his own right because he is willing to put his whole self on the line to change things. He is in it for justice even when Yohan isn’t and when he struggles at his lowest he doesn’t have Soohyun or Yohan to help him. He has to fight entirely alone and find the strength inside himself to do it.

When it all falls apart and he’s lost everyone Gaon shines, maybe he doesn’t even realize it but he has all the strength he needs inside himself.

Where the show leaves off is a Gaon whose journey was learning to trust himself. I am interested to see where a season 2 would take him. Because truly his moral compass is never lost and his compassion for others sets him apart. He is a hero in his own right.

#the devil judge #kang yohan #kim gaon #yohan x gaon

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All the ways Gaon looks at Yohan in the last few episodes. He goes through so many emotions so quickly . Bless TVN for giving us all these screencaps.

#the devil judge #kim gaon #kang yohan #yohan x gaon

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Jinyoung and his increasing man collection here in the year of our peach 2021.

#the devil judge #yumi’s cells #yacha #park jinyoung #jinyoung #GOD Jinyoung #Jinyoung man collector

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The Devil Judge webtoon is not holding back with the gay subtext. Yohan is described as a monster and this is the screen that is given to illustrate it.

#the devil judge #kang yohan #kim gaon #yohan x gaon