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I think of Nakyum as a portrait of strength and kindness that perseveres in an environment designed to crush it. He's struggling even BEFORE he met Seungho: growing up in the margins of a society that's unkind to outcasts, selling his art to survive. +
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and even kept mum when labeled a "whore," accepting it as his role when being a painter was deemed not enough. Those things, he could take, as if they come hand-in-hand with being a lowborn.
But being an object of affection of a nobleman? +
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Almost in every chapter, Nakyum's social status is always shoved in his face: a nobody raised by the kisaeng, just a notch higher than thieves and beggars during the Joseon period. He's aware of this. He made no objections when compared to an "ill-bred cur" +
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In a hell-bent attempt to prove that this foreign feeling he harbors now is not love, he had to see Nakyum like this—held by arms that're not his, dazed & submissive like on their 1st night—before he snapped. He wanted to prove something, yes, but at what cost? #PainteroftheNight
Development is how Seungho's physicality—one of his character's stronger points, so to speak—is affected by his unacknowledged affection towards Na-Kyum. How he jumped to protect the boy despite his adamant denial of special treatment. The kiss in C.50. Na-kyum's embrace in C.53. https://t.co/rOLnRIkH4l
Quick doodle of my favorite idiots before I hit the sack tonight. ✨
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The embrace might have calmed the enraged Seungho, but it was the hit that stopped him dead in his tracks. It was this chapter's first shock for the noble: he realized he couldn't bear to see Na-Kyum hurt again, be it by someone else's hands or his own. (1/4)
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