That Winter the Wind Blows - ep 4

I confess I think largely abandoned this LJ in favor of tumblr, where I have been hanging out a lot. But this is still a good place for ep posts, so here goes.



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You know what is killing me? Soo is a total stranger to Young, who has only gotten close to her to get money to pay off the Mob and who is running a con. And he is the only one who cares what happens to her! He is the only one who actually is concerned about her well-being, who gets angry at how she’s been treated (and not treated), who cheers her up and pushes her outside her comfort zone to live it up! He doesn’t need to do any of it to get his hands on her money, but he does it because he is drawn to her and because it’s a pattern of his - he is a lost soul who used to collect fellow lost souls and sort-of bail them out, unthinkingly. And even though he now has nothing and things are twisted, he still can’t help it. But the thing is - it is horrifying that Soo is the best and most caring thing Young has got! No wonder she is bitter and cynical and with a deathwish, if she spent the last twenty years surrounded by ‘near and dear’ who make a stranger-swindler look like a knight in shining armor.




















I ship those two with an unhealthy degree of love. When she tells him she hates people mocking and laughing at her behind her back. And he tells her that she she go in front of them, so that they can’t do it behind her back. GUUUUUUUUUUH. I wonder if he is trying to make her life as functional and as good as it can as a sort of repayment for the money he is going to take from her. I think it’s a mix of that, his being a good person despite the situation he is in, and the fact that he can identify with her broken soul, seeing that his is broken as well, in a different way. As he tells her, he knows what it’s like to be alone, and he doesn’t want her to be so. On a shallow note, Jo In Sung and his eyes and his height and his high-strung intensity and his rapid speech - damn. Damn. Damn. Damn.














You can see the precise second where his emotions in this scene transform from ‘joking and making Young feel good’ to breath-taking, all-encompassing attraction which completely overcomes him. And she can feel it, as well. Ummm, seeing that I am shipping real siblings Cesare/Lucretia in the Borgias, shipping fake siblings is nothing…


















Speaking of attraction and lines becoming blurry - I love how excited he is to get her that candy, not because it will verify to her who he is (because he doesn’t need it by that point), but because it will please her. And then that blinding moment of awareness of her proximity and how loaded it is, when he starts eating the candy with her…























That scene! The longing and the emotion and the darkness and hope and everything. She is going to be both his salvation and his damnation, isn’t she? Because she is going to save his soul (and wake up his heart - she already has) but that love is going to get him killed. And when she says she wants to touch her brother’s face once, and his eyes, looking damned. And the way he looks at her when she strokes his face. Jo In Sung’s eyes are - seriously. This is making me bawl.