#kechk being a creep

[zomandfriends]

Dumb junk. Romance is hard for an immortal goblin as is.

Left to right: King Yeo, Kim Shin, Reaper Yeo

Some rant-y things about age gaps (more like age of adulthood?) under the cut

This is basically me making stupid junk when thinking about the age differences etc. in goblin and how Shin/Yeo kind of are under that category as well... seeing that Shin “loved” Wang Yeo (the 18? year old brat). I like to think that the goryeo Yeo is separate from reaper Yeo, just because Yeo at the time was barely an adult. (otherwise a 1000 year old grieving goblin could have been possible, Shin missing his lover from 1000 years ago like the sunny/ yeo storyline... which is why I’m going to write this stupid goryeo au of these two idiots as childhood friends and rest my heart haha). 

I dabble in the chinese fandom (that has tons of fics and fanart, tumblr u disappoint meeee), and there are a ton of stories with 18 yo Yeo in love with 30+ Shin and from there it’s all canon angst running the story. I like the idea of this “transcending love lives”... but not Yeo’s age lmao. Both baby brat Yeo (as I think of him) and Eun Tak are technically adults but yeahhh... I’d prefer not to dabble in Shin being parental to his s/o. So in all my doodles + headcanons Shin falls in love with Reaper Yeo and his relation with King Yeo was purely duty. (I doubt they had much contact in Goryeo in the first place, what with Park Joon Wong coddling Yeo.) 

As for Reaper Yeo being younger than Shin by 600 years, lol i guess there’s still a gap between them. But this is still different from the 18-30+ gap. I guess what I mean to say is that the age Shin’s S/O enters the relationship bugs me... I’ve had this debate in my head for a long time now, still haven’t reached any damn conclusion for myself lmao. Questions like: If Eun Tak was older when she met Kim Shin- would the way they loved each other have changed? Would it have made the love between them seem like one more worth sacrificing lives for? If 19 is too young then what’s the appropriate age? etc. etc. I definitely don’t stop anyone from shipping ShinTak or young Yeo with General Shin (not like I can stop you lol, you do you) but these questions keep bugging me ARGH. (The fact that goblin is about Shin and Eun Tak doesn’t help in quieting this hahahah i should just leave the fandom since it’s driving me crazy thinking about these topics)

Reaper Yeo is technically the same age as Kim Shin... Shin had this period between his death and reincarnation as the goblin... which means Yeo caught up to him in age before going to hell... for 600 years. Plus the 300+ years he was a reaper, he’d be 939 years old too. So Yeo’s the same age as Shin? If you count being “conscious” as time “alive”. Lol. Idk. I over thought this, I KNOW.

On another, less frustrating note. Albeit sad, is that the internal affairs team that comes to return reaper Yeo’s memories in episode 13 mentioned that “reapers are given the special amnesia tea after being punished in hell for 200 years.” It doesn’t make sense for Yeo to have spent 600 years there, unless Yeo was so guilty about killing the Kim family that he asked for more time in hell to punish himself. ;-; That’s my reasoning for the time difference at least. Or it could just be even more plot holes in Goblin’s thin plot. 

Yes, I know, I overthink things within this show that are better waved off as plot holes and bad writing. (/-\) I just adore the concept of this little world and the character’s little quirks. Someone once mentioned how Goblin seems like Kim Eun Sook’s pet project, you know, the kind where you world build this fantasy world with its own system, language, races etc. And typically, the plot is flimsy but the world is fascinating. Also, you usually grow attached to media that isn’t fulfilling, hence all the need to fill/ fix it lol. Which is my current ailing (for the entirety of the past yearrrrrrrr).  *Bashes my head into the wall*

Okay I’m done with my rant, I’m just going to make stuff that won’t make me think too deeply about these dumb old men. *cries into my hands*

What was the point of this rant? I have no clueeeeeeeeeee.