#odd girl out Chanyang

[fakemonalisa28]

“Team Jeremiah or Conrad—“

Don’t care, Team Seungha or Chanyang?

[royaledessert]

Chanyang's expression while Nari holds his face is giving Colin Bridgerton when Penelope touches his hair. I just can't with them 😭

Also "a miracle happened".

[purple-dragon]

i understand the point odd girl out was trying to make with chanyang and the egg but come on. using an egg metaphor? with it cracking and him finally establishing his own identity? be so fr

[obssessive101]

I'm so upset that odd girl out built up seungha and nari's relationship since season one and then went "nahhhhhh" and completely dropped it like??? Why not have him deal with his family issues while also giving him and nari a nice relationship????? Why put so much effort in!?!?!?!!?

[ladyelainehilfur]

he a runner, he a track star

but seriously, no!! comeback!!! 🤣

[strawberryseeded]

NO SHES NOT... this is foreshadowing.. shes gonna be such a hardass (especially if chanyang gets the job lol)....

[bambiiluver]

The weBTOON AND KDRAMA MAKES MY HEART SO HAPPY LIKE HELLOOODJWJJDSJ

[sinukiyo]

Odd girl out single handedly curing the second lead syndrome😩❤️

[angeloncewas]

I caught up on Odd Girl Out last night and I know they're not gonna end up together but I am rooting so hard for Chanyang

[jelloia]

why i will always be a seungha defender

so i've been reading odd girl out on webtoon ever since it was translated officially into english and while i will always love s1 more, i have so much to say about the s2 love triangle... especially that...

i truly still like seungha more than chanyang, and seungha is way too criticized, especially by the webtoon comment section

so the main reason why people are mad at seungha is because he ignored and pushed her away while going through a major family event, and while i too also seriously hated how he dealt with it all, i ultimately feel for him as someone who has an avoidant attachment style.

however, people seem to forget this and view seungha as completely awful in comparison to chanyang, who dealt with his family issues with nari by his side.

i have many issues with this. for one, just because someone has an avoidant attachment style does not mean that they are a bad person. in seungha's case (as in many cases), it stems from how he had no one to trust in his household, from his brother abusing him to his father ignoring his personal troubles to even his mother for not telling him the truth about his birth.

(and again, this is a teenage boy. they are not all going to be mature and secure in life when this is a time when literally everything is changing)

this brings me into the second issue. while both seungha and chanyang have familial events, people often believe that chanyang is ultimately the better choice because of how he dealt with his. however, chanyang's and seungha's hardships were instead vastly different.

to paraphrase from this naver comment section, although both boys have been mistreated, chanyang has money, a (more) united family, and ultimately, his sisters have his back. in contrast, seungha doesn't even know who his real mom is (uprooting his identity), is afraid of being abandoned by the people he thought loved him the most, was harassed and threatened every day by his own brother, and ultimately decided to move away from home.

in my opinion, their situations are very unbalanced, so you cannot expect them to react the same way.

while seungha is more avoidant, he also didn't want to drag nari into his family mess. keep in mind that his brother literally threatened him to break up with her, and his father was very hard on him about keeping up with his studies.

also, at the time of the breakup, his family didn't know that yunha was destroying his stuff, and thought that seungha was the one with the mental problem--which must have caused even more unimaginable stress on his part.

^^ (literally this chapter breaks my heart and makes you realize just how vast his problems were at the time and why he felt like he couldn't accept nari's proposal)

also, his problems were so extremely personal. not only that but in mind that he and nari had barely been dating--i don't even know how i would tell my closest friends that it turns out i'm actually adopted. so many people in the webtoon section think that seungha is too up in nari's face yet simultaneously hate on him for being too detached.

(like whenever in the recent episodes seungha appears and is blushing/is happy while talking to nari, people beg him to move on... he just had his first love amidst the lowest point of his life and only truly realized how nari was trying to help once he was out of that headspace... of course he has lingering feelings and regret, especially since it's been what only a few months since they broke up)

finally, the reason why he wanted to become student president was yes, to measure up to his father, but also because he believed that he could be with nari if he was. it wasn't just bc he wanted to hurt her by teaming up with yurim.

so to argue against all of the people hating him because of who he is, seungha didn't treat nari the way he did just because he's a bad person; rather, he was stretched to his limits while external pressures (father/brother) were pushing him to break up with nari.

by the way, all of this isn't to say that i think nari should end up with seungha. i do think that nari was right to break up with him. seungha was going through a lot, but he hurt nari and gave her no explanation. she owes him nothing.

i do, however, think that seungha and nari had an amazing dynamic when they were together, and i truly miss what they had. to be honest, i think that seungha is a more fleshed-out character, and his personality just resonates with me more. (also, when seeing it from seungha's pov, it hurts to see how nari's feelings have completely faded... sob).

i'm not a chanyang hater by any means, but i do feel like most people gloss over the major flaws of him (though i admit, some of it may be attributed to the writing and not "him" as a character). for instance, i lowkey agree with the popular sentiment that he is kinda pushy and focuses too much on nari. don't wanna cover this in too much detail right now because i think i would need to reread the webtoon so i don't misinterpret anything, but in the end, i also don't really like him and nari together.

best case scenario is that nari ends her high school life stress free of relationship problems and having fun with her girls (which by the way, i hate that they're basically background characters at this point... like surely their lives could somehow be tied relevantly to the main plot a bit more)

(secret best case scenario is nari meeting seungha again in uni or after and they try again and form a healthy and secure relationship together...)

so tldr ;; seungha's lore and character seems to have flown out of most people's heads LOL but to be expected with such a long series

but yea, i've been wanting to get this out of my head for a while now! again, i've been reading odd girl out for quite a few years now, and i've grown quite attached to nari. also, honestly, my switch-up is crazy.... when nari x seungha were a thing, i was a chanyang girl because i liked his quiet moments of showing how he liked her and supported her, but then we learned about seungha and i found that i lowkey didn't like chanyang's tactics of wining nari's heart nor their dynamic as much.... tis the curse of a forever second-male-lead love T_T

[atlasllm]

odd girl out has me like sully watching the garbage in monster's inc because chanyang feels SO neurodivergent coded and i want to believe someone like me has his amount of rizz

8(

[mond-ciel]

This was so wholesome😭💕💞💖💗💓💞

Nari, please choose Chanyang!!

Webtoon: Odd Girl Out

[bearquirones]

IM SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING ON SOMETHING BUT MY TEARS 😭😭😭 DKXNRKFJNTKGKVKG

[snowwhitesbookshelf]

Odd girl out | The world of my 17 season 2

New season, new cast!

[ladyelainehilfur]

Yay!! I'm happy to see an Odd Girl Out reader who analyzes the story and really understands the characters (I read your blog post about your fave webtoons). How are you feeling about the hate Seungha is receiving? Many comments under each episode are about Chanyang being the best one for Nari and how Seungha is awful and how they'll drop the story if Chanyang x Nari aren't endgame. The way Morangg is writing Seungha's story saddens me not just because it is a sad story but because the author is incredible in fleshing him out, giving him so much development since the very beginning of season two, but the readers are too caught up on how he broke Nari's heart, refusing to see that Seungha is depressed and suffering just as much. So many shippers are focused on the romance and not the depth of the characters.

first: super sorry for answering this so late. I'm really glad to hear you enjoy reading me ranting about the comics I read :P

I believe the hate Seungha's receiving is from people who strongly relate to Nari and take her heartbreak as theirs. Seungha was in the wrong for refusing to communicate with Nari about his problems, but if Chanyang did the same thing, he might be disliked as well. People just don't like to think a guy they're in a good relationship with will turn on them for any reason, even if the reason is good.

Personally, I do prefer Seungha and Nari be endgame. As far as depth of character, Nari is much more suited to Seungha than Chanyang. We're experiencing Chanyang's backstory right now in the Korean updates, and while he's just as fleshed out as Seungha, his reasons for liking Nari still ring hollow in comparison to Seungha's. They both find her attractive, but like I've stated before, Nari is literally everything to Chanyang. His motivation, his happiness, his reason for living. It's not healthy and I don't want Nari to feel responsible for his growth as a person. He plants himself in various places in her life and some readers don't see that as problematic because his intention is romantic. Chanyang skipping school and running around the city to find her bookbag did display an admirable commitment, but also...that's crazy. Reckless displays of affection can be good, but he did it without thinking. Nari has that kind of influence over him, and that's just not it. I still like him as a character, because he does have a certain simple charm and humor about him, but he's simply not cut out to be a good long-term partner for her.

On the other hand, Seungha's brief time dating Nari without being her boyfriend showed how well they work together as a pair. I've heard people say they had to separate because Nari needed to come into her own as a student leader, and I don't disagree. She hadn't necessarily become reliant on him, but it did truly hurt her when she could no longer depend on him.

I think a lot of readers misinterpreted his decision to team up with Yurim. Admittedly, the optics of running for president against Nari while teamed up with her enemy were horrible. At that point, Seungha's main goal was to become the school president so his dad would "want" him and consider him as good as a biological son. He disregarded Nari's history with Yurim to achieve his goal because he felt had no other choice. He didn't know his parents would love him either way. His arc of coming out with the fact Yunha had been abusing him, and spending time away from his family to find and recenter himself was long. He didn't think Nari would stick around, and he didn't want to drag her through it anyway, so he wrongfully pushed her away instead of confiding in her.

Neither Chanyang nor Seungha are good at talking about their problems and feelings. Chanyang will make drastic decisions to solve his problems without telling the people he should so they're not in the dark, and Seungha does more or less the same. It's too bad that communication is Nari's main pull, because she does NOT like having to play detective. Chanyang could be dating Nari right now if he just told her about his messy family history, and I'm pretty sure she and Seungha would be half way to married if he'd just spilled about the abuse. Yunha would no longer be with us, but it would be a small price to pay.

However, it doesn't erase the good that happened when she and Seungha were on the same page. He met her where she was, he listened to her problems, and he supported her in the PR department when no one else did. He didn't blindly agree with everything she said, and in fact, he often challenged her. When she ignored him due to social pressure, he didn't let his feelings cloud his judgement or let that pressure get between their friendship. Like, when that man wants to fight for something or someone, he fights. He's not currently in the position to impose his feelings upon Nari, and he's not trying to, but they've made up in what has to be one of the cutest, goofiest ways I've seen a pair of characters perfectly suited for each other make up. (Spoiler: they both cried with each other).

I'm not sure what the author's intentions are with either Chanyang or Seungha at this point, but I've got a feeling this upcoming school festival arc is going to play a big role in determining who ends up with who. Nari slowly learning about Chanyang is leading up to something, as well as Seungha openly giving her full control of the organizational committee despite being school president. To me, the willingness to support Nari as a leader, while being a leader himself displays every reason why Seungha should be endgame. Neither of them consider each other above or below each other--they're equal partners.

I'm all for Nari putting herself first and deciding not to date anyone, but I hope she gives turtle-candy-loving, competitive-af, meticulous-date-planning, sometimes-cringe-fail Seungha a chance. I also hope she gathers enough information to give Chanyang a definitive, final answer concerning their relationship.

[fenika-s]

From the Webtoon "Odd girl out" by Morangji My triangle otp hahaha, please read the webtoon it's about friendship and slice of life, right now the comic has season 2 out with Seungha and Chanyang (the boys in the drawing.) AND SEASON 2 OF THE K-DRAMA IS COMING OUT  Can't wait for it. Fanart made by me, Fenika

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