#huisu

[so-lychee]

Cheram Han: Hewwo.

Mihui Yang: Hihiiiiii!

Jinhui Choi: Greetings, Humans.

Chaerin/Huisu: Three kinds of people.

Jihyeon Jung: I want pudding.

Hana Do: Four kinds of people.

Juri Ma: WHAT’S UP FUCKERS?

Shinbi Yun: Five kinds of people.

[turndon100-blog]

Surviving Romance? More like surviving through multiple heart breaks and emotional trauma lol

<Possible spoilers ahead>

Aaaaah! Nononooooooo Not My Warrior!!

*Pulls hair and screams in agony*

A lot of things are happening, a lot ......and still not a single one of them is going as I want 😭😩

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This moment brought out a lot of emotions 🥺😭😍🔥

I hope the author is not giving me false hopes 🙃

It's Okay! I'll now hold on to these little strings of hope even if they are going to turn out false!

[dididata]

[greendeanwinchester]

[divinestranger]

folie à deux

[hostilemuppet]

who knows? a miracle could happen

[de-sterren-nacht]

computer. chaerin x mihui images. now

[chaosgremlim]

Can we talk about how Huisu Kim says that she “locked” siyeon out of her heart, Siyeon, the one homosexual character of the story.

Like, that stinks of repressed homosexuality to me. My conspiracy theory is that Huisu imposed all those demonized traits into her because she wanted to justify to herself why she couldn’t be “like” Siyeon at all; and I also think that could be why Siyeon is so wary on the new loop, because she realized she was created as just a denial fodder y’know? I may be just tripping

[nyaruhodou]

stories where characters rebel against the author >>>>>

[justforthoughts]

Ah. But I love them.

Vincenzo - Nutria/Park Seok-do

Vincenzo - Tak Hong-shik

Vincenzo - Gwak Huisu

The thing I love the most about Vincenzo is the chemistry between every character and not only the main leads. These are some of my favorite relationships which are just not talked about enough. I'm here cheering them on.

I realize it's two years late but I just love them so much.

[magpiesbones]

ALSO. I KNOW IM GOING HAM ABOUT AMATONORMATIVITY RIGHT NOW. BUT THE AGENCY OF WOMEN IS ALSO SUCH A BIG THING THAT I AM ALSO THINKING ABOUT.

like!! The thing that gets all of them out is Jeha’s refusal to see chaerin as a romantic object. The insistence that chaerin and huisu are NOT in fact interchangeable even if they’re in the same body/running the same story because. Fundamentally. They are different people. And ALSO because. You cannot love an object like a person. And a fictional character can never be anything but an object.

but also! The way it acknowledges that not only is it fucked up to be put in a romance story and then forced to play along for a happy ending (I can and am making allegorical comparisons to real life here) it’s also. Fucked up to have the person you were in love with replaced with someone who is not the same amount of real person as you and ALSO completely dependent on you for their happiness.

hm the! Interconnectedness of misogyny and amatonormativity and the insistence that women can be and are social currency (if you have read Ace by Angela Chen: chapter five and the deconstruction of performative sexuality wrt male gender roles and incel culture DOES apply here!) as well as the idea that you can ‘win’ life by achieving a heterosexual marriage (your romantic life is also social currency) and the way that that concept is so carefully thematically decimated.

[ladyloveandjustice]

But WAIT! It turns out Huisu's not alone either! All the surviving girls who were with her with Cheiren explained her Master Plan now know the reality of this world and gained a will to travel back and reset too! I was wondering if that was a possibility, that one of them would gain a soul eventually, but I didn't expect it to happen so quickly! Huisu's struggles were not for naught, and she's not alone in remembering them-- her bonds persist, including her bond with Mihui. And she'll have help convincing everyone and winning their trust this time! A very happy twist!

And we finally get to what the story had been hinting at the whole time- these aren't supporting characters, they each have their own story and their own will, way beyond the marginal roles Huisu wrote for them. They're people, not extras, and they can change the narrative.

[bathsaltvendor]

Surviving Romance Rant (Spoilers)

I know the Author's already said something to the effect of Surviving Romance not really having a strong focus on romance plots, but consider this.

I see comments both for and against Chaerin/Kim falling in love and I can understand why people wouldn't want her to be in a relationship. With all the focus upon how empty Kim's attempts to force love with someone who's ONLY trait as a person is to love her really is, it would be a good message if at the end of it all, she doesn't find someone and is satisfied with having bonded with her classmates.

BUT WHAT IF, Kim DOES end up falling for another person, and this time around, it's a true, healthy romance with mutual understanding from both parties instead of mindless romanticism?

I don't think Mihui should be a romance option since I personally feel that the importance she has in restoring Kim's will to live shouldn't be tied to romantic attraction. I absolutely love her character, but I feel what she does is more meaningful in a platonic light.

Jihyeon however, is somebody Kim's come to know from the ground up. Jihyeon barely gets mentioned in the original novel, so how do they even get close?

They just interact with each other.

Kim gets to have these small moments with Jihyeon like with how she learns of Jihyeon’s music hobby and Jihyeon confidently stating they’ll recover from their injury and become a volleyball player after laughing off Kim’s admission of lying to her. Hell, half of chapters 23 and 80 is just the two of them, talking and enjoying the others company.

They work rather beautifully as an emotionally isolated girl getting along with someone with their own life and identity, but still maintaining that gentleness Kim Huisu so desperately wished for at the start of the story.

Who knows, maybe from that something special could blossom….

(I swear if they become endgame I could just die happy)

[theygotbitchesinmedia]

Aside from the character writing and art being nothing to write home about I also feel like surviving romance just isn't quite clicking together thematically for me. It just feels kind of clumsily handled? Like based on what we've seen of chaerin/huisu's pre-isekai life it seems a bit odd for a Perfect High School Romance to be the escapist fantasy, and it doubly doesnt seem like making a bunch of female friends is really the life lesson that would have made her not want to kill herself, but that definitely seems the be the narrative arc she's getting. I get the whole thing was that she was lonely but it just feels really underbaked for being more than halfway through. I'll reserve all final judgements til the end but my current impression is that despite having a super narrow focus this webtoon still can't manage particularly tight writing

[divinestranger]

WHO AM I TO U? DO U KNOW THE TRU U?

[Image Description: digital painting of Huisu Kim and Chaerin Eun from the Webtoon "Surviving Romance", in bright, abrasive red and pink. their poses perfectly mirror each other, each half-turned towards the camera with one hand on the other's shoulder. Huisu Kim is a young woman with short pink hair wearing a red gym uniform. she is crying. Chaerin Eun is a young woman with long black hair wearing a school uniform. her expression is blank.]

[hostilemuppet]

people in the comments were saying that specifically bc of this sequence

minwoo is the main character. and first off: if a comic about female friendships and #womensupportingwomen decided to do a 180 and make some random guy the main character i would eviscerate myself! minwoo is rinas little poprock and seonwoos brother ONLY.

second he is. literally Not the main character of I'll Love You Every Day. hes explicitly said to be the "secondary male love interest that chaerin doesn't end up with". hes obviously SUPER important yes but hes not equivalent to The Character Who's Eyes You See Everything Through

the conflict that was being raised was whether huisu is counted as the main character bc shes been fulfilling that role, or the actual character chaerin eun since huisu is her own person

i think a BETTER plottwist than "one of literally Two Guys is actually the main character" would be any of the characters who have gained a soul count as the main character, since theyre just as alive as huisu. maybe it could even be #drama as the characters who havent gained a soul yet might still be stuck in the school regardless of whether huisu is with them