A mature, making-sense relationship in a kdrama? What is the world coming to...

I will make you watch this, flist. I will. Because I want someone to jabber about this with!



ETA: !!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT?????? WHAT WHAT WHAT???? The OTP made love in ep 9 !!!!!!! What are they going to spend next 15 eps on? Ahhh, right, family opposition, and evil secrets, and nearly terminal illness. YES.

( More rambles, spoilers through ep 9 )

I found this MV for the OTP on youtube. Clips aren't really great visual quality, but the cuteness is still there ;)

Please, someone, watch it with me, I want to discuss it!!!

Also, I am still in shock this has a happy ending. It has all the ingredients of 'Angsty Woobie finds love with Pure Woman, only to lose her in an agstily-lit scene' type drama. Which it apparently was going to be but they changed their mind, in part because they kept getting letters from the viewers begging them to give the OTP a happy ending.

I have also been promised a delicious 'he has to push her away for her own sake even though his heart is breaking' scene of total angst and wonderfulness. YES. That type of scene is my favorite.*

*Note: in RL, it is concievable that the hot, rich, withdrawn guy who ditches you in a cruel manner after you gave it up to him, is in fact a hot rich withdrawn jerk who was only interested in one thing and now that he got it, just wants to free himself from you ASAP. But in drama world, cruel rejection is merely proof of his love. YES. Much as I enjoy this sort of thing, I hope there isn't some subcontingent of women who took these dramas a little too much to heart and actually believe this in real life.

A mature, making-sense relationship in a kdrama? What is the world coming to...

I will make you watch this, flist. I will. Because I want someone to jabber about this with!



ETA: !!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT?????? WHAT WHAT WHAT???? The OTP made love in ep 9 !!!!!!! What are they going to spend next 15 eps on? Ahhh, right, family opposition, and evil secrets, and nearly terminal illness. YES.

( More rambles, spoilers through ep 9 )

I found this MV for the OTP on youtube. Clips aren't really great visual quality, but the cuteness is still there ;)

Please, someone, watch it with me, I want to discuss it!!!

Also, I am still in shock this has a happy ending. It has all the ingredients of 'Angsty Woobie finds love with Pure Woman, only to lose her in an agstily-lit scene' type drama. Which it apparently was going to be but they changed their mind, in part because they kept getting letters from the viewers begging them to give the OTP a happy ending.

I have also been promised a delicious 'he has to push her away for her own sake even though his heart is breaking' scene of total angst and wonderfulness. YES. That type of scene is my favorite.*

*Note: in RL, it is concievable that the hot, rich, withdrawn guy who ditches you in a cruel manner after you gave it up to him, is in fact a hot rich withdrawn jerk who was only interested in one thing and now that he got it, just wants to free himself from you ASAP. But in drama world, cruel rejection is merely proof of his love. YES. Much as I enjoy this sort of thing, I hope there isn't some subcontingent of women who took these dramas a little too much to heart and actually believe this in real life.

A mature, making-sense relationship in a kdrama? What is the world coming to...

I will make you watch this, flist. I will. Because I want someone to jabber about this with!



ETA: !!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT?????? WHAT WHAT WHAT???? The OTP made love in ep 9 !!!!!!! What are they going to spend next 15 eps on? Ahhh, right, family opposition, and evil secrets, and nearly terminal illness. YES.

( More rambles, spoilers through ep 9 )

I found this MV for the OTP on youtube. Clips aren't really great visual quality, but the cuteness is still there ;)

Please, someone, watch it with me, I want to discuss it!!!

Also, I am still in shock this has a happy ending. It has all the ingredients of 'Angsty Woobie finds love with Pure Woman, only to lose her in an agstily-lit scene' type drama. Which it apparently was going to be but they changed their mind, in part because they kept getting letters from the viewers begging them to give the OTP a happy ending.

I have also been promised a delicious 'he has to push her away for her own sake even though his heart is breaking' scene of total angst and wonderfulness. YES. That type of scene is my favorite.*

*Note: in RL, it is concievable that the hot, rich, withdrawn guy who ditches you in a cruel manner after you gave it up to him, is in fact a hot rich withdrawn jerk who was only interested in one thing and now that he got it, just wants to free himself from you ASAP. But in drama world, cruel rejection is merely proof of his love. YES. Much as I enjoy this sort of thing, I hope there isn't some subcontingent of women who took these dramas a little too much to heart and actually believe this in real life.

Be still, my geeky heart...

Flist!

Flist!

Why did none of you inform me of Blue Harvest, a 48-minute long Family Guy spoof on Star Wars?.

I am getting this tonight.



Also, must restart my rewatch of Farscape. It's just I am right before the second part of IP two-parter and don't want to cry like a five year old.

Be still, my geeky heart...

Flist!

Flist!

Why did none of you inform me of Blue Harvest, a 48-minute long Family Guy spoof on Star Wars?.

I am getting this tonight.



Also, must restart my rewatch of Farscape. It's just I am right before the second part of IP two-parter and don't want to cry like a five year old.

Be still, my geeky heart...

Flist!

Flist!

Why did none of you inform me of Blue Harvest, a 48-minute long Family Guy spoof on Star Wars?.

I am getting this tonight.



Also, must restart my rewatch of Farscape. It's just I am right before the second part of IP two-parter and don't want to cry like a five year old.

Advice to Characters in Fantasy, SciFi or Wuxia-land

I was thinking about my old, old, old post of fictional character advice and decided to rework it. Here is the results and the advice.

The Hero’s True Love: No matter The Hero’s hotness, you should say no. You should stick to it even if he is your ideal man times 10. No need for last minute confessions if you think he/you/both are about to die, as he is The Hero, and of course you will be rescued. However, if you do hook up, you will never be able to enjoy that romantic weekend getaway you’ve always dreamed about, as his work will invariably interrupt. Date a plumber instead. He can say “it can go to Hell” without being literal, as the emergency is likely to involve merely leaky pipes. In addition, if you persist in your course, you are likely to die tragically, in order to enable The Hero to either free himself from fleshly desires and die in saving the World or to go Evil as he has nothing left. Either way, there is nothing in it for you. Dying old and ugly beats dying young and pretty.

The Villain: You are the smartest character in the story. Admittedly, that is not hard since all the other characters rely on their charming good looks, destiny, or magical amulets, while you are forced to rely solely on yourself. Yet invariably The Hero beats you. The Hero’s True Love beats you. The Faithful Sidekick beats you. The Faithful Sidekick’s second cousin’s roommate’s dog beats you. Shouldn’t all of this have given a clue to someone of your intelligence? Gather all your loot and retire peacefully to a distant place to enjoy your ill-gotten gains. Leave the Kingdom/Empire/Island/Planet to the Hero. See how he likes dealing with Tax Problems, Boundary Disputes, and Water Rights.

The Faithful Sidekick: You might die to help The Hero or to make him seek revenge. But that is by no means certain. You might even survive to lead a peaceful life. However, unless you like doing half the work and getting none of the praise, The Faithful Sidekick is not a gig for you. And even if you are content to labor in the shadow, go work for The Villain instead. He pays better.

The Hero: Yours is a pitiable lot. The fact that you have a reputation as The Best Warrior/The Prophesied Savior/The Rebel Leader/The Chosen One leads to any amount of cocky minor baddies trying to prove their mettle against you. Of course you will always win, but it is exhausting and wreaks havoc with your social life. In addition, no sane woman would want to become your True Love, and you can’t even take advantage of your stunning good looks to seduce random wenches, as it would impair your Hero status. You have no money, no fun, and when your loved ones die, it is always because of you. In fact, you yourself are likely to have to die for the good of the World. You can’t even join the Villain, as that would only lead to your suffering, eventual redemption and death. Why don’t you just save yourself decades of misery and kill yourself now?

The Hero’s Parents: You are kind and loving. Unfortunately you are forced to die when the Hero is young as a character-building exercise. Alternatively, you might wander for decades incognito, as the Hero seeks either your advice or your life. None of this sounds like fun, so if you suspect your child is The Hero, drop him at the local orphanage. Better yet, adopt The Villain instead. That way, someone will have the means to take care of you in your old age.

The Comic Relief: Your position is enviable. True, half the Fandom might hate you, and The Villain will never tremble at your name. However, nobody ever kills the Comic Relief, and women are attracted to men who can make them laugh and who won’t make them into The Hero’s True Love.

I really must do a drama version of this.

Advice to Characters in Fantasy, SciFi or Wuxia-land

I was thinking about my old, old, old post of fictional character advice and decided to rework it. Here is the results and the advice.

The Hero’s True Love: No matter The Hero’s hotness, you should say no. You should stick to it even if he is your ideal man times 10. No need for last minute confessions if you think he/you/both are about to die, as he is The Hero, and of course you will be rescued. However, if you do hook up, you will never be able to enjoy that romantic weekend getaway you’ve always dreamed about, as his work will invariably interrupt. Date a plumber instead. He can say “it can go to Hell” without being literal, as the emergency is likely to involve merely leaky pipes. In addition, if you persist in your course, you are likely to die tragically, in order to enable The Hero to either free himself from fleshly desires and die in saving the World or to go Evil as he has nothing left. Either way, there is nothing in it for you. Dying old and ugly beats dying young and pretty.

The Villain: You are the smartest character in the story. Admittedly, that is not hard since all the other characters rely on their charming good looks, destiny, or magical amulets, while you are forced to rely solely on yourself. Yet invariably The Hero beats you. The Hero’s True Love beats you. The Faithful Sidekick beats you. The Faithful Sidekick’s second cousin’s roommate’s dog beats you. Shouldn’t all of this have given a clue to someone of your intelligence? Gather all your loot and retire peacefully to a distant place to enjoy your ill-gotten gains. Leave the Kingdom/Empire/Island/Planet to the Hero. See how he likes dealing with Tax Problems, Boundary Disputes, and Water Rights.

The Faithful Sidekick: You might die to help The Hero or to make him seek revenge. But that is by no means certain. You might even survive to lead a peaceful life. However, unless you like doing half the work and getting none of the praise, The Faithful Sidekick is not a gig for you. And even if you are content to labor in the shadow, go work for The Villain instead. He pays better.

The Hero: Yours is a pitiable lot. The fact that you have a reputation as The Best Warrior/The Prophesied Savior/The Rebel Leader/The Chosen One leads to any amount of cocky minor baddies trying to prove their mettle against you. Of course you will always win, but it is exhausting and wreaks havoc with your social life. In addition, no sane woman would want to become your True Love, and you can’t even take advantage of your stunning good looks to seduce random wenches, as it would impair your Hero status. You have no money, no fun, and when your loved ones die, it is always because of you. In fact, you yourself are likely to have to die for the good of the World. You can’t even join the Villain, as that would only lead to your suffering, eventual redemption and death. Why don’t you just save yourself decades of misery and kill yourself now?

The Hero’s Parents: You are kind and loving. Unfortunately you are forced to die when the Hero is young as a character-building exercise. Alternatively, you might wander for decades incognito, as the Hero seeks either your advice or your life. None of this sounds like fun, so if you suspect your child is The Hero, drop him at the local orphanage. Better yet, adopt The Villain instead. That way, someone will have the means to take care of you in your old age.

The Comic Relief: Your position is enviable. True, half the Fandom might hate you, and The Villain will never tremble at your name. However, nobody ever kills the Comic Relief, and women are attracted to men who can make them laugh and who won’t make them into The Hero’s True Love.

I really must do a drama version of this.

Advice to Characters in Fantasy, SciFi or Wuxia-land

I was thinking about my old, old, old post of fictional character advice and decided to rework it. Here is the results and the advice.

The Hero’s True Love: No matter The Hero’s hotness, you should say no. You should stick to it even if he is your ideal man times 10. No need for last minute confessions if you think he/you/both are about to die, as he is The Hero, and of course you will be rescued. However, if you do hook up, you will never be able to enjoy that romantic weekend getaway you’ve always dreamed about, as his work will invariably interrupt. Date a plumber instead. He can say “it can go to Hell” without being literal, as the emergency is likely to involve merely leaky pipes. In addition, if you persist in your course, you are likely to die tragically, in order to enable The Hero to either free himself from fleshly desires and die in saving the World or to go Evil as he has nothing left. Either way, there is nothing in it for you. Dying old and ugly beats dying young and pretty.

The Villain: You are the smartest character in the story. Admittedly, that is not hard since all the other characters rely on their charming good looks, destiny, or magical amulets, while you are forced to rely solely on yourself. Yet invariably The Hero beats you. The Hero’s True Love beats you. The Faithful Sidekick beats you. The Faithful Sidekick’s second cousin’s roommate’s dog beats you. Shouldn’t all of this have given a clue to someone of your intelligence? Gather all your loot and retire peacefully to a distant place to enjoy your ill-gotten gains. Leave the Kingdom/Empire/Island/Planet to the Hero. See how he likes dealing with Tax Problems, Boundary Disputes, and Water Rights.

The Faithful Sidekick: You might die to help The Hero or to make him seek revenge. But that is by no means certain. You might even survive to lead a peaceful life. However, unless you like doing half the work and getting none of the praise, The Faithful Sidekick is not a gig for you. And even if you are content to labor in the shadow, go work for The Villain instead. He pays better.

The Hero: Yours is a pitiable lot. The fact that you have a reputation as The Best Warrior/The Prophesied Savior/The Rebel Leader/The Chosen One leads to any amount of cocky minor baddies trying to prove their mettle against you. Of course you will always win, but it is exhausting and wreaks havoc with your social life. In addition, no sane woman would want to become your True Love, and you can’t even take advantage of your stunning good looks to seduce random wenches, as it would impair your Hero status. You have no money, no fun, and when your loved ones die, it is always because of you. In fact, you yourself are likely to have to die for the good of the World. You can’t even join the Villain, as that would only lead to your suffering, eventual redemption and death. Why don’t you just save yourself decades of misery and kill yourself now?

The Hero’s Parents: You are kind and loving. Unfortunately you are forced to die when the Hero is young as a character-building exercise. Alternatively, you might wander for decades incognito, as the Hero seeks either your advice or your life. None of this sounds like fun, so if you suspect your child is The Hero, drop him at the local orphanage. Better yet, adopt The Villain instead. That way, someone will have the means to take care of you in your old age.

The Comic Relief: Your position is enviable. True, half the Fandom might hate you, and The Villain will never tremble at your name. However, nobody ever kills the Comic Relief, and women are attracted to men who can make them laugh and who won’t make them into The Hero’s True Love.

I really must do a drama version of this.

A Drama Character Guide

Well, I watch a lot of dramas and a little character guide will never go amiss. Armed with this, you can navigate drama world safely.

The Hero: Your life is no vale of roses. While you are good-looking, tall, white-toothed, and very very rich (unless you are picturesquely dirt poor. No HERO worth his salt can be middle class), you must have really done something terrible in your past life to gather such bad karma. Your family is undeniably psychotically evil and abusive, or if not, poor and dead, in either case giving you enough issues to keep a psychiatrist employed forever. Maybe it’s this craving for family members who are not wanted by family protection services, that will often lead you to fall for someone who is technically related to you.

Not that this would help. Your true love will undoubtedly develop cancer, run away or get engaged to SECONDARY MALE. Whatever it is, it will likely involve a painful scene at the airport, where, instead of being dragged away by Security, you will be left to wail and scream in peace. Your taste in women is questionable enough to start with, if that psycho ex or high-maintenance one-sided childhood love is anything to go by.

Your fashion tends towards pink or v-necked, and to prove your masculinity despite such clothes you often have to fight groups of GANGSTERS at a stretch. Your back needs constant care after all the piggy-back rides you are forced to give, and you must get constant headaches from excess of hair gel. Basically, your life sucks. Sometimes, you might even die yourself. But no matter what, take comfort: you could have the SECONDARY MALE’s lot in life instead.

The Heroine You are kind to stray dogs and small children, are conscientious, hardworking, and law-abiding. Just as well, as you are also dirt-poor and need all the money and societal good-will you can get. Your family is either warm and loving, or exploitative and probably alcoholic. Regardless, since they are also dirt poor, they are a constant money drain, and it would be better for you to change your name and move to a different neighborhood.

You are a one-man woman, unless you simply cannot make up your mind. In the former scenario, you will put up with any indignity and sadness inflicted on you by the HERO, with your love unswerving. Probably because you know a rich sucker when you see one. In the latter scenario, the easy way to solve who you should love is to figure out which one of your suitors is played by a bigger star. If you cannot do so, I suggest you go for the one with the bigger bank account and easier prenup.

You might as well enjoy your cash and furs now, once you hook the HERO, because soon enough you will develop cancer and die. My personal theory is that the excessive dampness created by your constant weeping has probably seeped through your skin and mutated your cells. Hey, it makes as much sense as leukemia you get from being hit by a car!

Secondary Male: Now, you Sir, are a truly pitiable individual. You might be better looking, kinder, richer, saner than the HERO, but even if you amputate your arms as a Valentine’s Day gift to the HEROINE, she will never ever prefer you to the HERO. This sad fact often causes you to go evil, but unlike a proper good VILLAIN you can’t even have fun bullying widows and orphans, because unlike VILLAIN or GANGSTER, you are still fixated on one lachrymose, morose woman, possibly with terminal illness and definitely with a great talent at a martyr routine.

End your misery and kill yourself now. You always have hope of being reincarnated as the HERO in the next life.

Secondary Girl: Your nails are redder, your hair is bigger, and your brain is crazier than of anyone else around. Scientists are still trying to figure out how someone like you is allowed to wander around unsupervised. Hapless HERO seems to have fallen for you at some point, probably as a result of brain trauma induced by beatings from his abusive family, or maybe a mental malfunction caused by inhaling too much hair gel. Whatever the reason, he’s been trying to get rid of you ever since, but you are sort of like VD: easy to get, hard to get rid of, and socially undesirable.

Hero/Heroine’s Best Friend: Unless the individual in question is also in one of the above categories, your job is not so bad. Wearing cooky outfits and commenting on HERO/HEROINE’s personal life seems to be the extent of your lot in life. Clearly, you have no interest in your own affairs and no personality if all you are fixated on is someone else’s life. I suspect you write RPF/S in your free time.

Parents: You are either rich or poor. If you are rich, you are evil and abusive. The end. Your free time seems to be spent in devising new methods of tormenting your child, and as you have years of practice you are quite good at it. Go easy on him/her however. You don’t want their sudden death or the love of that uppity HERO/HEROINE take your favorite abusive pastime away from you.

If you are poor, you might also be abusive, but you might also be good. Fat lot of use that does you, as you seem short on food and rent in either case. But look at it this way, you could be dead, in order to give HERO or HEROINE a character-building lesson, so thank your lucky stars you are left alone in squalor instead.

Gangster: Unless you are the HERO, you exist solely to provide the opportunity for the HERO to show off his masculinity and protective instincts by beating scads of you at once. Let’s hope you have good health insurance, you’ll need it.

Teacher: Either you are an inspiration to HERO or HEROINE, or, if you are young and cute, you are a love interest. In the latter case, I hope you like stripes and confined spaces with regular schedules.

Villain: Boo-hiss. Whether you are a PARENT, GANGSTER, SECONDARY MALE, or SECONDARY GIRL, tone it down a notch! While the HEROINE might die of cancer and the HERO might freeze to death in the snow, they have at least some chance emerging out of this unscathed. But you, sir or ma’am? I hope you have good life insurance policy and funerary arrangements. Enjoy the little cackling time you have left.

A Drama Character Guide

Well, I watch a lot of dramas and a little character guide will never go amiss. Armed with this, you can navigate drama world safely.

The Hero: Your life is no vale of roses. While you are good-looking, tall, white-toothed, and very very rich (unless you are picturesquely dirt poor. No HERO worth his salt can be middle class), you must have really done something terrible in your past life to gather such bad karma. Your family is undeniably psychotically evil and abusive, or if not, poor and dead, in either case giving you enough issues to keep a psychiatrist employed forever. Maybe it’s this craving for family members who are not wanted by family protection services, that will often lead you to fall for someone who is technically related to you.

Not that this would help. Your true love will undoubtedly develop cancer, run away or get engaged to SECONDARY MALE. Whatever it is, it will likely involve a painful scene at the airport, where, instead of being dragged away by Security, you will be left to wail and scream in peace. Your taste in women is questionable enough to start with, if that psycho ex or high-maintenance one-sided childhood love is anything to go by.

Your fashion tends towards pink or v-necked, and to prove your masculinity despite such clothes you often have to fight groups of GANGSTERS at a stretch. Your back needs constant care after all the piggy-back rides you are forced to give, and you must get constant headaches from excess of hair gel. Basically, your life sucks. Sometimes, you might even die yourself. But no matter what, take comfort: you could have the SECONDARY MALE’s lot in life instead.

The Heroine You are kind to stray dogs and small children, are conscientious, hardworking, and law-abiding. Just as well, as you are also dirt-poor and need all the money and societal good-will you can get. Your family is either warm and loving, or exploitative and probably alcoholic. Regardless, since they are also dirt poor, they are a constant money drain, and it would be better for you to change your name and move to a different neighborhood.

You are a one-man woman, unless you simply cannot make up your mind. In the former scenario, you will put up with any indignity and sadness inflicted on you by the HERO, with your love unswerving. Probably because you know a rich sucker when you see one. In the latter scenario, the easy way to solve who you should love is to figure out which one of your suitors is played by a bigger star. If you cannot do so, I suggest you go for the one with the bigger bank account and easier prenup.

You might as well enjoy your cash and furs now, once you hook the HERO, because soon enough you will develop cancer and die. My personal theory is that the excessive dampness created by your constant weeping has probably seeped through your skin and mutated your cells. Hey, it makes as much sense as leukemia you get from being hit by a car!

Secondary Male: Now, you Sir, are a truly pitiable individual. You might be better looking, kinder, richer, saner than the HERO, but even if you amputate your arms as a Valentine’s Day gift to the HEROINE, she will never ever prefer you to the HERO. This sad fact often causes you to go evil, but unlike a proper good VILLAIN you can’t even have fun bullying widows and orphans, because unlike VILLAIN or GANGSTER, you are still fixated on one lachrymose, morose woman, possibly with terminal illness and definitely with a great talent at a martyr routine.

End your misery and kill yourself now. You always have hope of being reincarnated as the HERO in the next life.

Secondary Girl: Your nails are redder, your hair is bigger, and your brain is crazier than of anyone else around. Scientists are still trying to figure out how someone like you is allowed to wander around unsupervised. Hapless HERO seems to have fallen for you at some point, probably as a result of brain trauma induced by beatings from his abusive family, or maybe a mental malfunction caused by inhaling too much hair gel. Whatever the reason, he’s been trying to get rid of you ever since, but you are sort of like VD: easy to get, hard to get rid of, and socially undesirable.

Hero/Heroine’s Best Friend: Unless the individual in question is also in one of the above categories, your job is not so bad. Wearing cooky outfits and commenting on HERO/HEROINE’s personal life seems to be the extent of your lot in life. Clearly, you have no interest in your own affairs and no personality if all you are fixated on is someone else’s life. I suspect you write RPF/S in your free time.

Parents: You are either rich or poor. If you are rich, you are evil and abusive. The end. Your free time seems to be spent in devising new methods of tormenting your child, and as you have years of practice you are quite good at it. Go easy on him/her however. You don’t want their sudden death or the love of that uppity HERO/HEROINE take your favorite abusive pastime away from you.

If you are poor, you might also be abusive, but you might also be good. Fat lot of use that does you, as you seem short on food and rent in either case. But look at it this way, you could be dead, in order to give HERO or HEROINE a character-building lesson, so thank your lucky stars you are left alone in squalor instead.

Gangster: Unless you are the HERO, you exist solely to provide the opportunity for the HERO to show off his masculinity and protective instincts by beating scads of you at once. Let’s hope you have good health insurance, you’ll need it.

Teacher: Either you are an inspiration to HERO or HEROINE, or, if you are young and cute, you are a love interest. In the latter case, I hope you like stripes and confined spaces with regular schedules.

Villain: Boo-hiss. Whether you are a PARENT, GANGSTER, SECONDARY MALE, or SECONDARY GIRL, tone it down a notch! While the HEROINE might die of cancer and the HERO might freeze to death in the snow, they have at least some chance emerging out of this unscathed. But you, sir or ma’am? I hope you have good life insurance policy and funerary arrangements. Enjoy the little cackling time you have left.

A Drama Character Guide

Well, I watch a lot of dramas and a little character guide will never go amiss. Armed with this, you can navigate drama world safely.

The Hero: Your life is no vale of roses. While you are good-looking, tall, white-toothed, and very very rich (unless you are picturesquely dirt poor. No HERO worth his salt can be middle class), you must have really done something terrible in your past life to gather such bad karma. Your family is undeniably psychotically evil and abusive, or if not, poor and dead, in either case giving you enough issues to keep a psychiatrist employed forever. Maybe it’s this craving for family members who are not wanted by family protection services, that will often lead you to fall for someone who is technically related to you.

Not that this would help. Your true love will undoubtedly develop cancer, run away or get engaged to SECONDARY MALE. Whatever it is, it will likely involve a painful scene at the airport, where, instead of being dragged away by Security, you will be left to wail and scream in peace. Your taste in women is questionable enough to start with, if that psycho ex or high-maintenance one-sided childhood love is anything to go by.

Your fashion tends towards pink or v-necked, and to prove your masculinity despite such clothes you often have to fight groups of GANGSTERS at a stretch. Your back needs constant care after all the piggy-back rides you are forced to give, and you must get constant headaches from excess of hair gel. Basically, your life sucks. Sometimes, you might even die yourself. But no matter what, take comfort: you could have the SECONDARY MALE’s lot in life instead.

The Heroine You are kind to stray dogs and small children, are conscientious, hardworking, and law-abiding. Just as well, as you are also dirt-poor and need all the money and societal good-will you can get. Your family is either warm and loving, or exploitative and probably alcoholic. Regardless, since they are also dirt poor, they are a constant money drain, and it would be better for you to change your name and move to a different neighborhood.

You are a one-man woman, unless you simply cannot make up your mind. In the former scenario, you will put up with any indignity and sadness inflicted on you by the HERO, with your love unswerving. Probably because you know a rich sucker when you see one. In the latter scenario, the easy way to solve who you should love is to figure out which one of your suitors is played by a bigger star. If you cannot do so, I suggest you go for the one with the bigger bank account and easier prenup.

You might as well enjoy your cash and furs now, once you hook the HERO, because soon enough you will develop cancer and die. My personal theory is that the excessive dampness created by your constant weeping has probably seeped through your skin and mutated your cells. Hey, it makes as much sense as leukemia you get from being hit by a car!

Secondary Male: Now, you Sir, are a truly pitiable individual. You might be better looking, kinder, richer, saner than the HERO, but even if you amputate your arms as a Valentine’s Day gift to the HEROINE, she will never ever prefer you to the HERO. This sad fact often causes you to go evil, but unlike a proper good VILLAIN you can’t even have fun bullying widows and orphans, because unlike VILLAIN or GANGSTER, you are still fixated on one lachrymose, morose woman, possibly with terminal illness and definitely with a great talent at a martyr routine.

End your misery and kill yourself now. You always have hope of being reincarnated as the HERO in the next life.

Secondary Girl: Your nails are redder, your hair is bigger, and your brain is crazier than of anyone else around. Scientists are still trying to figure out how someone like you is allowed to wander around unsupervised. Hapless HERO seems to have fallen for you at some point, probably as a result of brain trauma induced by beatings from his abusive family, or maybe a mental malfunction caused by inhaling too much hair gel. Whatever the reason, he’s been trying to get rid of you ever since, but you are sort of like VD: easy to get, hard to get rid of, and socially undesirable.

Hero/Heroine’s Best Friend: Unless the individual in question is also in one of the above categories, your job is not so bad. Wearing cooky outfits and commenting on HERO/HEROINE’s personal life seems to be the extent of your lot in life. Clearly, you have no interest in your own affairs and no personality if all you are fixated on is someone else’s life. I suspect you write RPF/S in your free time.

Parents: You are either rich or poor. If you are rich, you are evil and abusive. The end. Your free time seems to be spent in devising new methods of tormenting your child, and as you have years of practice you are quite good at it. Go easy on him/her however. You don’t want their sudden death or the love of that uppity HERO/HEROINE take your favorite abusive pastime away from you.

If you are poor, you might also be abusive, but you might also be good. Fat lot of use that does you, as you seem short on food and rent in either case. But look at it this way, you could be dead, in order to give HERO or HEROINE a character-building lesson, so thank your lucky stars you are left alone in squalor instead.

Gangster: Unless you are the HERO, you exist solely to provide the opportunity for the HERO to show off his masculinity and protective instincts by beating scads of you at once. Let’s hope you have good health insurance, you’ll need it.

Teacher: Either you are an inspiration to HERO or HEROINE, or, if you are young and cute, you are a love interest. In the latter case, I hope you like stripes and confined spaces with regular schedules.

Villain: Boo-hiss. Whether you are a PARENT, GANGSTER, SECONDARY MALE, or SECONDARY GIRL, tone it down a notch! While the HEROINE might die of cancer and the HERO might freeze to death in the snow, they have at least some chance emerging out of this unscathed. But you, sir or ma’am? I hope you have good life insurance policy and funerary arrangements. Enjoy the little cackling time you have left.

Wherein I get incoherent about Beautiful Days

Is "Die, die, die, you creepy stalker!" which I literally yelled at my TV at one point, a good indication of me feelings towards Ugly Brother?

Seriously, I've gotten to the point where I am actively wishing for someone to make a sex tape of Hero and the Heroine and make Ugly Brother watch it in a loop.

UGH. His latest masterpiece? Occurs after the Heroine and Hero return from their little overnight trip. Heeee, the trip was adorable. After lovemaking they went to the market in the morning, and bought live fish, and she made some kind of seafood dish, and she was literally picking pieces of crab and putting it in a spoon for him (sort of like a Mom does with a kid, picking out best pieces, I guess) and feeding him, LOL. And I am glad that the drama made explicit what I thought anyway: he said she reminds him of his Mom. We know you have family issues a mile wide, woobie! And then he got all jealous and possessive and grumpy, because she talked about how she knew Ugly Brother as a kid, and was all 'I don't want to talk about things that don't concern me,' sounding like he was five. He is quite insecure, isn't he? Makes sense, as his Mom died when he was a kid and that was the end of normalcy, basically. And I love Heroine, because instead of being weepy at that, or having a fight, or whatever, she can totally read him, and is all 'Fine, I won't talk about other people.' And he grins and says that sounds remarkably like a white flag. Then she tells him she can't deny she is attracted to him, Hero (Yeah, girlie, I hope so, you just slept with him) and that she has feelings for him. You go, girl! And awwwww, he is all happy now, and motions for more feeding LOL. Men are so easy :)

Anyway, they get back and Ugly Brother first tries to throw a hissy fit at Hero, to which Hero points out, with startling common-sense, of whom he is the sole possessor in the family, that Heroine is not Ugly Brother's woman, so it's none of his business.

Then, then, then, is when my yelling at the screen started. Because charming Ugly Brother bursts into Heroine's room, bodily manhandles her out of the house into the lawn, demands to know where she spent the night, and when she is about to answer, bursts out he doesn't want to know and tells her that the last 24 hours didn't happen. Way to deny her choices, or her volition. I am glad to see such unilateral decisions, MORON!!!!

But wait, wait, when she says she is not interested because she loves Hero, Ugly Brother, who should be renamed into Needs-to-be-stabbed-in-his-stupid-face Brother, states, in rapid succession:
(1) Hero doesn't love you. He told me has no feelings for any woman, some time ago, and then he ran off with you. Clearly, he must have slept with you just to spite me. This is all about memememememe! You don't know my brother as well as I do, he eats babies for breakfast, though I have not seen it myself, but I am sure he must. Yes.
(2) I will wait for you, even though you professed no interest. I will creepily stalk you.
(3) Did I mention that I will insult you by saying that the only reason a guy will want to sleep with you is to get back at me, for some obscure reason?

STAB DIE DIE DIE PIG PERSON.

So poor Heroine is understandably mopey, even if she did tell Ugly Brother off. And next day, she is moping because Hero didn't see her that day and Ugly Brother's words worry her (she is only human). And then Hero swoops by and is all 'sorry I didn't come by earlier, I was swamped at work.' And then sneaks a quick kiss at her forehead, and then walks off with such a smug smirk. It was totally adorable. And then comes back and goes for the kill and kisses her lips and heeeeeee, it's awesome and sexy and goes on for a while, and her arms go around his neck, and seriously, this OTP is so functional.

But wait, Ugly Brother has not yet fulfilled his annoyingness quota. He stalks her all day, waiting for her, then comes up and says 'fine, you don't love me, let's be friends.' He cements this new-found resolution, he proceeds to say:
(1) I believe you love him, but I still don't believe he loves you
(2) I shall nobly give you up because brothers fighting over same woman is wrong. *musingly* That is probably why Hero took you away from me. (Thus he manages to reiterate both his earlier insult AND imply how much nobler he is than Hero).
(3) If you find out you are wrong about Hero, let me know, despite my statement in (2).

DIE DIE DIE PIG PERSON SCUM.

Seriously, I think we are supposed to think he is sensitive and artistic, but I just thing he is a pig. The fact that Hero has not yet killed him, is some sort of proof of amazing self-control on his part.

ETA: Pig Brother is now stalking her on his motorcycle to her date with Hero. It is very creepy. Just looking at him now makes my blood pressure rise. Seriously, DIE DIE WHY WON'T YOU DIE.

ETA2: Almost as much as Ugly Brother, I hate Heroine's Quasi-Sister. She is a selfish, weak, shallow little twit, and I want someone to drown her in the Han River the way I haven't wanted something in quite a while. If I were the Heroine, I'd bitch-slap the brat until she had no face left.

Wherein I get incoherent about Beautiful Days

Is "Die, die, die, you creepy stalker!" which I literally yelled at my TV at one point, a good indication of me feelings towards Ugly Brother?

Seriously, I've gotten to the point where I am actively wishing for someone to make a sex tape of Hero and the Heroine and make Ugly Brother watch it in a loop.

UGH. His latest masterpiece? Occurs after the Heroine and Hero return from their little overnight trip. Heeee, the trip was adorable. After lovemaking they went to the market in the morning, and bought live fish, and she made some kind of seafood dish, and she was literally picking pieces of crab and putting it in a spoon for him (sort of like a Mom does with a kid, picking out best pieces, I guess) and feeding him, LOL. And I am glad that the drama made explicit what I thought anyway: he said she reminds him of his Mom. We know you have family issues a mile wide, woobie! And then he got all jealous and possessive and grumpy, because she talked about how she knew Ugly Brother as a kid, and was all 'I don't want to talk about things that don't concern me,' sounding like he was five. He is quite insecure, isn't he? Makes sense, as his Mom died when he was a kid and that was the end of normalcy, basically. And I love Heroine, because instead of being weepy at that, or having a fight, or whatever, she can totally read him, and is all 'Fine, I won't talk about other people.' And he grins and says that sounds remarkably like a white flag. Then she tells him she can't deny she is attracted to him, Hero (Yeah, girlie, I hope so, you just slept with him) and that she has feelings for him. You go, girl! And awwwww, he is all happy now, and motions for more feeding LOL. Men are so easy :)

Anyway, they get back and Ugly Brother first tries to throw a hissy fit at Hero, to which Hero points out, with startling common-sense, of whom he is the sole possessor in the family, that Heroine is not Ugly Brother's woman, so it's none of his business.

Then, then, then, is when my yelling at the screen started. Because charming Ugly Brother bursts into Heroine's room, bodily manhandles her out of the house into the lawn, demands to know where she spent the night, and when she is about to answer, bursts out he doesn't want to know and tells her that the last 24 hours didn't happen. Way to deny her choices, or her volition. I am glad to see such unilateral decisions, MORON!!!!

But wait, wait, when she says she is not interested because she loves Hero, Ugly Brother, who should be renamed into Needs-to-be-stabbed-in-his-stupid-face Brother, states, in rapid succession:
(1) Hero doesn't love you. He told me has no feelings for any woman, some time ago, and then he ran off with you. Clearly, he must have slept with you just to spite me. This is all about memememememe! You don't know my brother as well as I do, he eats babies for breakfast, though I have not seen it myself, but I am sure he must. Yes.
(2) I will wait for you, even though you professed no interest. I will creepily stalk you.
(3) Did I mention that I will insult you by saying that the only reason a guy will want to sleep with you is to get back at me, for some obscure reason?

STAB DIE DIE DIE PIG PERSON.

So poor Heroine is understandably mopey, even if she did tell Ugly Brother off. And next day, she is moping because Hero didn't see her that day and Ugly Brother's words worry her (she is only human). And then Hero swoops by and is all 'sorry I didn't come by earlier, I was swamped at work.' And then sneaks a quick kiss at her forehead, and then walks off with such a smug smirk. It was totally adorable. And then comes back and goes for the kill and kisses her lips and heeeeeee, it's awesome and sexy and goes on for a while, and her arms go around his neck, and seriously, this OTP is so functional.

But wait, Ugly Brother has not yet fulfilled his annoyingness quota. He stalks her all day, waiting for her, then comes up and says 'fine, you don't love me, let's be friends.' He cements this new-found resolution, he proceeds to say:
(1) I believe you love him, but I still don't believe he loves you
(2) I shall nobly give you up because brothers fighting over same woman is wrong. *musingly* That is probably why Hero took you away from me. (Thus he manages to reiterate both his earlier insult AND imply how much nobler he is than Hero).
(3) If you find out you are wrong about Hero, let me know, despite my statement in (2).

DIE DIE DIE PIG PERSON SCUM.

Seriously, I think we are supposed to think he is sensitive and artistic, but I just thing he is a pig. The fact that Hero has not yet killed him, is some sort of proof of amazing self-control on his part.

ETA: Pig Brother is now stalking her on his motorcycle to her date with Hero. It is very creepy. Just looking at him now makes my blood pressure rise. Seriously, DIE DIE WHY WON'T YOU DIE.

ETA2: Almost as much as Ugly Brother, I hate Heroine's Quasi-Sister. She is a selfish, weak, shallow little twit, and I want someone to drown her in the Han River the way I haven't wanted something in quite a while. If I were the Heroine, I'd bitch-slap the brat until she had no face left.

Wherein I get incoherent about Beautiful Days

Is "Die, die, die, you creepy stalker!" which I literally yelled at my TV at one point, a good indication of me feelings towards Ugly Brother?

Seriously, I've gotten to the point where I am actively wishing for someone to make a sex tape of Hero and the Heroine and make Ugly Brother watch it in a loop.

UGH. His latest masterpiece? Occurs after the Heroine and Hero return from their little overnight trip. Heeee, the trip was adorable. After lovemaking they went to the market in the morning, and bought live fish, and she made some kind of seafood dish, and she was literally picking pieces of crab and putting it in a spoon for him (sort of like a Mom does with a kid, picking out best pieces, I guess) and feeding him, LOL. And I am glad that the drama made explicit what I thought anyway: he said she reminds him of his Mom. We know you have family issues a mile wide, woobie! And then he got all jealous and possessive and grumpy, because she talked about how she knew Ugly Brother as a kid, and was all 'I don't want to talk about things that don't concern me,' sounding like he was five. He is quite insecure, isn't he? Makes sense, as his Mom died when he was a kid and that was the end of normalcy, basically. And I love Heroine, because instead of being weepy at that, or having a fight, or whatever, she can totally read him, and is all 'Fine, I won't talk about other people.' And he grins and says that sounds remarkably like a white flag. Then she tells him she can't deny she is attracted to him, Hero (Yeah, girlie, I hope so, you just slept with him) and that she has feelings for him. You go, girl! And awwwww, he is all happy now, and motions for more feeding LOL. Men are so easy :)

Anyway, they get back and Ugly Brother first tries to throw a hissy fit at Hero, to which Hero points out, with startling common-sense, of whom he is the sole possessor in the family, that Heroine is not Ugly Brother's woman, so it's none of his business.

Then, then, then, is when my yelling at the screen started. Because charming Ugly Brother bursts into Heroine's room, bodily manhandles her out of the house into the lawn, demands to know where she spent the night, and when she is about to answer, bursts out he doesn't want to know and tells her that the last 24 hours didn't happen. Way to deny her choices, or her volition. I am glad to see such unilateral decisions, MORON!!!!

But wait, wait, when she says she is not interested because she loves Hero, Ugly Brother, who should be renamed into Needs-to-be-stabbed-in-his-stupid-face Brother, states, in rapid succession:
(1) Hero doesn't love you. He told me has no feelings for any woman, some time ago, and then he ran off with you. Clearly, he must have slept with you just to spite me. This is all about memememememe! You don't know my brother as well as I do, he eats babies for breakfast, though I have not seen it myself, but I am sure he must. Yes.
(2) I will wait for you, even though you professed no interest. I will creepily stalk you.
(3) Did I mention that I will insult you by saying that the only reason a guy will want to sleep with you is to get back at me, for some obscure reason?

STAB DIE DIE DIE PIG PERSON.

So poor Heroine is understandably mopey, even if she did tell Ugly Brother off. And next day, she is moping because Hero didn't see her that day and Ugly Brother's words worry her (she is only human). And then Hero swoops by and is all 'sorry I didn't come by earlier, I was swamped at work.' And then sneaks a quick kiss at her forehead, and then walks off with such a smug smirk. It was totally adorable. And then comes back and goes for the kill and kisses her lips and heeeeeee, it's awesome and sexy and goes on for a while, and her arms go around his neck, and seriously, this OTP is so functional.

But wait, Ugly Brother has not yet fulfilled his annoyingness quota. He stalks her all day, waiting for her, then comes up and says 'fine, you don't love me, let's be friends.' He cements this new-found resolution, he proceeds to say:
(1) I believe you love him, but I still don't believe he loves you
(2) I shall nobly give you up because brothers fighting over same woman is wrong. *musingly* That is probably why Hero took you away from me. (Thus he manages to reiterate both his earlier insult AND imply how much nobler he is than Hero).
(3) If you find out you are wrong about Hero, let me know, despite my statement in (2).

DIE DIE DIE PIG PERSON SCUM.

Seriously, I think we are supposed to think he is sensitive and artistic, but I just thing he is a pig. The fact that Hero has not yet killed him, is some sort of proof of amazing self-control on his part.

ETA: Pig Brother is now stalking her on his motorcycle to her date with Hero. It is very creepy. Just looking at him now makes my blood pressure rise. Seriously, DIE DIE WHY WON'T YOU DIE.

ETA2: Almost as much as Ugly Brother, I hate Heroine's Quasi-Sister. She is a selfish, weak, shallow little twit, and I want someone to drown her in the Han River the way I haven't wanted something in quite a while. If I were the Heroine, I'd bitch-slap the brat until she had no face left.