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Happy Lauren Day!
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let's all wish that in the next season, Eph & Soph will let our girl finally get the sleep she rightfully deserves🌝 (that is, if she is still alive ☠️)
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✨Purple Hyacinth Episode 10 Redraw✨
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Original VS Redraw
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The men of Purple Hyacinth be like:
“Yes sir I’ll have her home by 10.”
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“Your daughter calls me daddy too.”
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Let’s be real this is accurate don’t lie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Lauren and Kieran’s Relationship: Action not Words
*Mini rant before the actual post:
So apparently someone shared my post about Kieran to the Purple Hyacinth group on Band (shoutout to @lanxyuu​​ for showing me this) and a bunch of people there liked it including Sophism herself which is crazy because this comic has become my life??? And the work she and Eph do is amazing??? And she said she liked my brain!?!?!? AHHHHHHH- sorry I’m still shook but I honestly can’t believe that she actually liked my work just… AHHHHHHHH!
*Mini rant ended here*
Anyways, seeing as how I’m currently a broke, unemployed, soon-to-be-grad student under quarantine, I have no coins to fastpass the last episodes of PH. Believe me it is the greatest tragedy of my life. But I still wanna write more about PH so what should I do? Well I decided to write about how we can learn more about Lauren and Kieran’s relationship through their non-verbal interactions. By looking at how they act around each other rather than just what they say, we can get a better sense for what their relationship was like before episode 43, and where it may go from there. Now I’m not gonna talk about every single time they interact with each other because some are irrelevant, it would take way too long to write and this post would become even more of a mess than it already is. 
Now you might be thinking this is just an excuse to discuss one of my favourite ships because their relationship in the comic isn’t the greatest rn and I don’t want to/can’t accept that they may not get together (in the foreseeable future), and you’d be right. Let me have this. 
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Kieran White: Monster or Man?
With Purple Hyacinth’s season finale coming in the next few weeks and my feelings for this spectacular Webtoon continuing to grow over the course of the past few months, I have a lot I wanna talk about. I’ve decided to make this post to analyse our favourite handsome assassin, Kieran White, aka the Purple Hyacinth, through his actions in one scene in particular and see what we can glean about his past and future from there.
The scene I wanna talk about is at the beginning of chapter 45, right after Lauren leaves the cave after their… disagreement in chapter 43.
(TL;DR: She just stormed in, screamed at him for killing everyone in the Tower, asked if he felt any guilt at all the blood on his hands, admitted that she believed there had been some humanity left in him, but now calls him a monster. He gets triggered by this, tells her that she was stupid for thinking he was human, begins choking her, affirms that he is a monster, but lies when he tells her that he’d always been like that. He snaps out of it, let’s her go, then calls her a hypocrite and says she only cared about Anslow’s murder for her own investigation and she leaves.)
Once Lauren is gone and he’s finally left alone, he lets out his frustrations.
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Up until the past couple chapters we’ve only ever seen him be cocky, highly efficient, intimidating or charming, (except for that one time Lauren fucked up the interrogation and when he’s carrying out orders from the Leader and killing but we’ll get to that) but never this angry. And he’s angry at himself, not for attacking Lauren, but for letting his lies slip. For basically telling her he wasn’t always a ‘heartless monster’. He punches the cave wall and screams because fuck, he’s revealed too much of himself to her and that makes him weaker. He’s never been like this with anyone and that break in the facade he’s cultivated will now make him more vulnerable to her.
Then he turns to look at his reflection in the pool, and to us he just looks like a normal man. Angry and a bit dishevelled, but still just a man.
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But that’s not what he sees.
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He looks down at his hands and sees them covered in the blood of his victims, and he can hear Lauren’s words in his head. It’s very clear that he isn’t heartless and that all the lives he’s taken and the blood he’s spilled weigh on him, no matter how many times he tells himself it doesn’t.
This isn’t the face of a man who enjoys killing, nor it is the face of a monster.
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He keeps hearing Lauren’s words and her remarks that she though for a little while that he was human and felt something. And he sees his hands around her throat leave handprints of blood. She’s the only person whose gotten close to him in years. She’s seen parts of him he doesn’t show anyone because it jeopardises this persona he’s created to keep him going. Her believing even for a moment that he actually feels these things is dangerous, because if she sees it, maybe he can no longer deny that it’s been there the whole time.
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Nevertheless, despite his clean hands, all he sees in his reflection is a blood-soaked murder. A monster. The Purple Hyacinth.
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Whoever made him this way did a damn good job at instilling it into his brain that his humanity is gone forever and that his only purpose is to kill. Which is why it’s so dangerous having Lauren be so close to him. Chapter 43 was a masterclass of Kieran using evasive language and rhetorical questions to make Lauren believe what he was saying about his vile nature, only slipping up at the end when he got triggered. It’s clear that there’s a part of him that doesn’t believe his story either. If it were he would have told her. But he avoided lying to the human lie-detector because he would basically be admitting to the lie he’s been living by for years in order to get up everyday and do his job.
Of course we already knew this on some level. With his strict code of only murdering when ordered to or if necessary, his shock at himself for bringing her into his home in chapter 37, hell we see him literally giving money to orphans so they have a few days of food right after this scene. And of course there’s his backstory and motivation for wanting to take the Phantom Scythe down in the first place; don’t get me started on all that ‘you were that boy’ stuff we’ve been seeing. Also this.
But I digress. Point is our favourite subordinate has been through some shit and needs to work through it in order to take the Phantom Scythe down, and hopefully Lauren can help him with that, and he in turn could help her work through her own damage. Hopefully one day he’ll be able to accept that he’s not a monster. It won’t be pretty and the guilt will become even heavier, but he’s strong and with Lauren’s help, maybe they’ll both get through all this together.
Thank you for reading though the ramblings of someone who doesn’t have much better to do than critically analyse web comics.
If you haven’t yet, do yourselves a favour and read this amazing story on Webtoon and send the creators Ephemerys and Sophism some love! Their creation provides such joy and they deserve to hear it!
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NO THEY ARE NOT DYING! (Sophism, 2019)
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one of the few things that's been keeping me sane after finishing ep105 of purple hyacinth
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Soph : Calm it down. A plank of driftwood is not enough to build a ship yet.
Fandom :
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this ep was monumental but it's the a/n for me lol
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