all your favorites are autistic:

   han joowon (beyond evil)

when you and your boyfriend partner are obsessed with each other 🥰

i would die

love seeing people go into beyond evil expecting juwon to be another cool lone wolf type detective who solves the mystery with his ~superior mind~ and (ethically questionable) methods and then be met with a clueless wet rag of a man who gets egged for those questionable methods by a local and then almost cries because the suspect refuses to turn himself in

we talk about how juwon is both smart AND stupid somehow but i think a better way to say this is that he is book smart but street stupid.

hyuk directly calls him out on it when he tells juwon that dongsik will always run circles around him because unlike our boy dongsik didn't learn about the world from a textbook, he has firsthand experience dealing with people. and hyuk is so right because then juwon goes and tries to emulate dongsik and fucks up tremendously.

he graduated top of his class and that is completely in line with his character. single minded, obsessive memorization of text to the point that he knows it by heart, he is known to do that. but past the point of graduation we have no indication that juwon was a particularly outstanding detective. like he is a big time crime solving cop in seoul city, sure but he's also a nepo baby and his father definitely influenced his position. i don't even mean directly, just people trying to get on han kihwan's good side by treating his son well (i imagine they kept a lot of what they thought about juwon and his shining personality to themselves too)

so juwon is fresh out of the academy, he's top student, he's never been told off much, if at all. he has a very high opinion of himself. thing is: he knows the law well, he's quick thinking and determined but he's also extremely stubborn, unsociable and impulsive, so frankly i don't think he was a very fun person to work with and therefore not a very good employee. i can imagine heated fights and frustration of his colleagues whenever they disagreed on something. i think he was hyper aware and fed up with people's opinion of him in that 'i'm not a bad detective, everyone just gets in my way and if only they listened to me, we wouldn't be having these problems' type of way. he then proceeds to get obsessed with a certain case, goes completely rogue with no oversight and supervision, no doubt thinking that he's going to nail this and he'll show them and they're all gonna be sooo impressed and well.. we all know how that one ends.

he's so set on being right that he sees no alternative. and even when he turns out to be wrong again and again, it takes a painful amount of time for him to have an epiphany. his belief that he's the smartest person in the room comes from arrogance and entitlement and his arrogance and entitlement come from his rigid belief that if he's such a smart boy with good grades then he cannot be wrong because then what does that degree even mean, what does it all mean, who am i -> identity crisis. that's why he can't admit at first that his father is a criminal who doesn't play by the rules because then juwon's an idiot who's followed them for no reason expecting entire world to do the same. that's why he keeps running to dongsik with clues and flimsy proof expecting him to turn himself in like they're in scooby doo and dongsik's gonna go 'ahh you got me' as juwon takes off his mask. when you solve a mathematical problem you don't expect the numbers to suddenly leap up and change around or tell you to fuck off. juwon's main arc is seeing the grey between the black and white but it's also realising that humans are much more complex than a theoretical exercise and sometimes the solution is to set the textbook on fire.

officer fox and inspector rabbit 🦊🐰

is there a rebloggable version of the image in your header hjdsfhjsd

hey anon!! lol not yet as I made it in like 2 seconds last night when I couldn't sleep. But I'll share it here now, so people know what we're chatting about

thank you for your interest 💛💛

“Forget-me-not”, “Rose”, “Lily”. My gosh. There are all kinds of flowers here. 🌺 You’re a Police University graduate with top honors.

in my view juwon is a character who is always craving comfort. it is ironic (& also tragic) that dongsik is the person with whom he finds it frequently. dongsik is the only one with whom juwon can talk and be himself (because dongsik reads him perfectly);

even when dongsik chooses isolation juwon goes to him; at a certain point he puts everything in his life aside just to stalk that man & everyone around him; somehow, dongsik turned into his purpose and ironically the person who made him develop the craving for comfort & consequently for touch;

in the scene when he grabbed dongsik's shoulders it was like he was wanting to hug him (you can notice even dongsik is waiting for some initiation, but juwon gives up in the middle of the act -damn!). but that would be too much. it would be to admit that the whole "do not touch me" nonsense was a way to protect himself. it would be to admit he loved that man more than he ever loved himself.

On one side we have Lee Dongsik, a guy that lived a lot but had his youth taken away by all that trauma and now acts like he's less mature than he actually is.

On the other hand there is Han Juwon... his solitude from young age and effort to please his father makes him act like he's much more mature than he really is.

Until they meet and all masks start to fall. At one point, they see each other for what they really are and somehow they see on the other what they longed for.

Shin Hakyun for Grazia 2017

every couple of months beyond evil will just overtake my mind again and consume it and then i have to lie down and stare at the ceiling. thats just how it is.

Ok, hear me out... I noticed Han Juwon is very autistic coded, his restriction with food, his bluntness, how he hardly ever understand tones and jokes, his cleaning habits, how he goes "all the way" in his cases like an obsession, his social issues... Do I need to keep pointing?

But now let's talk about his special interest/ hyperfixation! Some might think it's on the murders, but I truly believe it's on Lee Dongsik. Ever since he found out about Lds existence he, the brilliant number one police officer of the academy, can't think straight (ba dun ts). And Hjw is very intelligent, the story show us all the time how he's capable, he goes after clues in places people don't, he makes fast connections and identify patterns, he pay attention to details that go unnoticed by other people, he knows the law so well... so I kept thinking, why is he always so pathetically wrong in his analysis, specially in the first half of the series? And the only reason I can think of is because of his obsession with Lee Dongsik. All his mistakes are based on his belief that Lds is involved. He was SO sure Lee Geum-Hwa would meet Lds... he never considered anyone else could be the suspect even thought THE ONLY THING on Lds was the accusations from the past. Then he manages to be transfered to manyang to observe Lds closely. But what's funny is that he keeps breaking the rules and keeps interacting with Lds, he doesn't treat him as a suspect at all, he shares too much and treats him as someone he deeply wants to understand. He asks Lds questions a detective would never ask a suspect and Lds points that out (the writters knew that Hjw's behavior doesn't make any sense!!!). But Hjw needs to see Lds, he feels the necessity to talk to him, to understand what the other thinks, for Hjw THESE are more important than actual proves, more important than respecting boundaries, even more important than catching the real culprit, his real objective from the beginning was to catch Lds no matter what, and no matter why. Because he can't get his hyperfixation out of his mind!!!!

Ps: Researching for this I found some autistic people sharing about hyperfixation in other people and if they feel if that's love or not, and I can totally see Hjw on some of them!