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dangermousie(My end-of-year post reminded me of my love for this OTP). We are all familiar with the trope of sweet girl healing damaged guy and making him well-adjusted and good. And if you are like me, you love this trope.
But you know what I love even more than that? I love two damaged people fighting and connecting and lashing out but ultimately healing each other, after all.
Hence my love for Que Sera Sera and Something Happened in Bali. Hence my adoration for Ma Jun/Yu Kyung in Baker King. It was not supposed to happen that way - I was supposed to be all about Takgu and his romances. I was supposed to be heartbroken when Yu Kyung left Takgu. I was not supposed to get so very obsessed about Ma Jun/Yu Kyung - Takgu's younger unbrother (long story) and Takgu's first love. Or maybe I was supposed to be obsessed about them after all - seeing that the makers shared my obsession with Ma Jun/Yu Kyung getting the lion's share of shippy screentime.
Have a MV (as a bonus, it's sung by Joo Won, who played Ma Jun):
How could I not love them? He was the son of a rich dysfunctional family always trying to prove himself to his icy, unfeeling father and always falling short and having to deal with the weight of his monstrous mother's ambitions into the bargain. She was a dirt-poor student activist trying to drown her abusive childhood and her memories of her horrible father who used to beat her and make her beg on the streets. In a way, their awful family backgrounds (awful in different ways, obviously) drew them together. Every meeting of theirs drew sparks and blood in equal measure and chemistry oozed through the screen. He was insecure and she was brittle and they played headgames with each other as if there was no tomorrow. His obsession arose out of his need to defeat Takgu and became about something else entirely and she started out with disdain and ended up wanting him instead. He craved her strength and she needed his instinctive understanding of her demons, something so-very-good Takgu could have never truly understood. They were not afraid to show their true selves, however ugly, to each other - at first because they didn't care and then because they couldn't stop. And ultimately they became one of my favorite OTPs of 2010.
My favorite scene - she finally takes down her barriers. For a while, at least.
But you know what I love even more than that? I love two damaged people fighting and connecting and lashing out but ultimately healing each other, after all.
Hence my love for Que Sera Sera and Something Happened in Bali. Hence my adoration for Ma Jun/Yu Kyung in Baker King. It was not supposed to happen that way - I was supposed to be all about Takgu and his romances. I was supposed to be heartbroken when Yu Kyung left Takgu. I was not supposed to get so very obsessed about Ma Jun/Yu Kyung - Takgu's younger unbrother (long story) and Takgu's first love. Or maybe I was supposed to be obsessed about them after all - seeing that the makers shared my obsession with Ma Jun/Yu Kyung getting the lion's share of shippy screentime.
Have a MV (as a bonus, it's sung by Joo Won, who played Ma Jun):
How could I not love them? He was the son of a rich dysfunctional family always trying to prove himself to his icy, unfeeling father and always falling short and having to deal with the weight of his monstrous mother's ambitions into the bargain. She was a dirt-poor student activist trying to drown her abusive childhood and her memories of her horrible father who used to beat her and make her beg on the streets. In a way, their awful family backgrounds (awful in different ways, obviously) drew them together. Every meeting of theirs drew sparks and blood in equal measure and chemistry oozed through the screen. He was insecure and she was brittle and they played headgames with each other as if there was no tomorrow. His obsession arose out of his need to defeat Takgu and became about something else entirely and she started out with disdain and ended up wanting him instead. He craved her strength and she needed his instinctive understanding of her demons, something so-very-good Takgu could have never truly understood. They were not afraid to show their true selves, however ugly, to each other - at first because they didn't care and then because they couldn't stop. And ultimately they became one of my favorite OTPs of 2010.
My favorite scene - she finally takes down her barriers. For a while, at least.
