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He'd be just like our cat😊

[Akatsuki no Yona]

A Demon Cat in the castle :))

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[Akatsuki no Yona]

A Demon Cat in the castle :))

#demon cat Kye sook #soo-won #suwon #king suwon #keishuk #the king and his advisor #soo won fanart

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[Akatsuki no Yona]

A dream of spring

#it's so adorable🥹 #soo-won #suwon #king suwon #keishuk #the king and his advisor #soo won fanart

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He is a drama queen. I love him so much.

#so true😆 #soo-won #king suwon #my beloved drama king❤️

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Me to Kusa in every Soo-Won less chap

Me in the last 15 years :

#That's it that's the question #I'm sure my boy is gone for another 6+ months #soo-won #king suwon #Akatsuki no yona #Akayona spoilers

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"A bird...?"

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[Akatsuki no Yona]

Summer lotus

(11 years old Soo-won and 18 years old Kye-sook)

#awww so cute! #soo-won #suwon #keishuk #the king and his advisor #soo won fanart

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Imagine Soo-Won waking up the moment Kei was doing his eyeliner😆

Soo-Won: (confused as he didn't know or never noticed that Keishuk is fond of makeups) What's going on?! Am I still unconscious or smth???!!

Keishuk: (in an embarrassing situation) Oh your majesty! You finally wake up!!! I'm so relieved!!!! (Please forget what you just saw😭)

[Akatsuki no Yona]

What Kye-sook did while waiting for His Majesty to wake up

Please take care of yourself no matter what ✨

#crying 😂😂😂😂 #soo-won #suwon #king suwon #keishuk #the king and his advisor #soo won fanart

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I had to think about Suwon's decision in ch.256 for a little bit, but I'm ready. His decision to retreat has two sides: a logical one and a personal one.

The reason Suwon kept pushing forward despite the apparent disadvantages was because he analyzed the consequences of a retreat: 1) he doesn't have much time, 2) he had full faith that they could bring this threat under control even without him there, and 3) he can't leave this unfinished for his successor to figure out.

When Suwon is told about the news that the dragons are potentially dead, he approaches the consequences of that from a logical standpoint as well: the country has stood without them in the past, kings come and go, and castles can be rebuilt. By those accounts, this shouldn't have changed his mind, but it did.

The reason things have changed is because while he was talking through this and clearing his head (as much as he's able to anyway), he deemed Yona losing the dragons a bigger threat to Kouka's stability than retreating. For his current plan, he had given up any and all personal hang-ups on Yona ruling with the dragons by her side and just accepted that it was what it was. Y'know, if Il was right all along. Yona losing the dragons, however, means she's not sufficiently equipped for becoming the ruler now. Something has deviated from what he might have been told throughout the years by Il himself.

That's where the personal standpoint comes in.

When Suwon named Yona his successor, I got the feeling that it was something he decided only after concluding that everything he stood on when it came to his stance on the gods and Il's beliefs was pointless and in vain. Il was right. Yona was King Hiryuu incarnate, she was going to become the ruler of Kouka one day, the dragons would be by her side and the country would be in their hands. It was something he fought against for as long as he had known about it. In the end, he succumbed to it, though.

Until Zeno did what he did.

So we have a destabilized successor, and we have an unknown future that Suwon wants to see unfold before he dies.

#the *Il being right* thingy still leaves a bad taste in my mouth #but I love to see more insight on Soo-Won’s thought process...it's really interesting #soo-won #king suwon

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how do you feel with all the people calling soo won aromantic because of his scene with lily when he said he doesnt really understand romance or love but he likes people?

Hello, @spriderlili,

It is a very interesting question. Thank you for asking, but keep in mind my response might be biased as I am personally not a fan of labels, and the fandom gives him plenty of silly ones, so most of the time I am - Even if he is dying, you don't have to be in a hurry to pick out a label for his gravestone quite yet, thank you. - kind of mood.

But I'll elaborate on this particular one.

The word 'aromantic' has a very vague meaning - little or no romantic attraction to others

Does it mean unable to have/devoid of romantic feelings? Or is it referring to people who have never had romantic feelings in their entire lifetime?

For the former, no, he is not devoid of/unable to have emotions - a sociopath or psychopath (I know they call him that, but he is neither) He feels, pain, anger, sympathy, joy, longing, etc., etc., as we have seen in multiple instances, so it doesn't make sense to just be unable/devoid of only romantic feelings.

If it is the latter, we are a little too early to say anything, because despite being "king" and wise beyond his years we often forget that Soo-won is only eighteen years old. Even if we go with the average lifetime of a person being 60 years old, he hasn't even completed half.

Now, is it referring to how he was unaware of Yona's feelings or how he doesn't understand the emotions of love or romance? Or how he seems to not really have attachments to people?

I do not believe the answer to these is - 'aromantic'

To make it a little clear, let's take Yona.

Why was she able to understand romantic love and why is Soo-won unable to?

Why was she able to love and adamantly insist on marrying Soo-won without considering anything else?

1. Because she had the freedom to be a child.

2. She had the freedom to be immature.

3. She had emotional freedom and creative freedom which were not restricted by adult burdens.

4. She was taken care of by a loving parent and allowed healthy emotional development.

For Soo-won, it is the opposite.

The privilege to be a child, the privilege to be immature, the privilege to rely on others, love immaturely, quit immaturely - he lost all that to the dream of making Kouka strong and secure.

Sure, that was his choice, but it was not his choice to lose a major source of parental affection & guidance while the remaining semblance of one was just a wreck.

Children are naturally emotionally reliant on their parents/guardian. So, what happens when a reliable source of emotional stability is just knocked out from right beneath their feet? Where do they put their feet?

For Soo-won, I believe it was in the memories of his father. This is sometimes seen in the way we see him clinging to the memories of his father for guidance.

So,

1. Heavy responsibilities, even the adults did not bother to do.

2. A limited social circle, predominantly made up of adults.

3. A fudging time limit.

It's like asking an athlete with a hundred miles left to the finish line and a 20 minute time limit if he could solve your algebra homework on the way.

I am not saying Soo-won is emotionally underdeveloped either. He is very excellent at controlling his emotions as we have seen. I'd say he is emotionally exhausted.

Romance is not in his priorities.

Romantic attraction is something generally experienced in leisure, when there is freedom to express the heart, when there is that subconscious freedom to trust your heart with another person.

Soo-won is not like Yona. She constantly has Hak or the four dragons whom she can be vulnerable with.

Who do we see Soo-won constantly be vulnerable with?

He has not had emotional freedom.

In the age to run, play, make mistakes, he had already become sensible, self- reliant, set in his beliefs — he's already run half the course before he even turned eighteen while the greatest worry for girls around his age was probably Geun-Tae getting married.

That's a major bandwidth problem.

I think we can all agree that based on what we have seen so far, Soo-won is not a love at first sight person. If he is going to fall in love with someone it is going to be a gradual process.

So, the person at least needs to be someone who can understand his views and talk to him on equal ground. Someone whom he can be emotionally free with. Someone whom he can eventually be vulnerable with.

Lili is a great example (Yes, I won't miss an opportunity to ship my top couple, but also seriously...)

Prior to the story's start Lili was probably just a love sick teen pining after Geun-Tae, but by the time Soo-won's coronation is over she is aware of the water tribe's major issues.

She wants to help, tries, fails miserably, tries again, gets help, slowly matures enough to be able to command the respect of the tribe in her own name.

Among all of Soo-won's female acquaintances introduced in the story so far which you can count on one hand she is the closest to have come to understanding the reality underlying Soo-won's decisions.

So, my point is, maturity wise, girls around his age circle are just catching up.

When there is someone (preferably Lili) whom he is comfortable with expressing his thoughts and emotions to, someone who actually understands him (Not like Hak), he'll eventually come to understand what it means to hold romantic affection for another person.

He just needs time and the right person.

#so true!! #soo-won #suwon #king suwon

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*feral noises*

#pretty boy soowon agenda #soo-won

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Yes plsss🥺

I think Soo-Won would not be an "overprotective" dad, rather he'd be a 'chill' dad, letting his kid sneak out from the castle, being their partners in crime while Lily would be more strict towards them (even tho she was never an obedient child to begin with😆) Thus both balancing each other😊

Also I can imagine both Kei & Judoh being the stressed out "grand baby sitters", tired of his kid's shenanigans (as if Soo-Won wasn't enough) 😂 poor gramps

Soo won is so pretty...

This aside, I genuinely hope for a good ending for him... I don't want him to just die... it's just too tragic considering everything he had (and still has) to go through. And it wouldn't feel like a proper conclusion to his story in my point of view...

#kusa pls give us a glimpse of their future at the end of the story!! #Soo-Won #king suwon #lily #my thoughts

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Today’s long haired anime guy of the day is:

Soo Won

#the prettiest 💗 #soo-won #suwon #king suwon

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Soo won is so pretty...

This aside, I genuinely hope for a good ending for him... I don't want him to just die... it's just too tragic considering everything he had (and still has) to go through. And it wouldn't feel like a proper conclusion to his story in my point of view...

#I agree #soo-won #king suwon #the prettiest 💗

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Soo Won in chapter 256

As a character he will always be one of my favorites. First the sheer willpower to finish his quest...and then when he heard about the dragon warriors, he changed his decision immediately, since he knew what Yona and Hak were about to do and how important the dragon warriors are to both of them. Typcial Soo Won.

#that's our boy yk❤️❤️❤️ #soo-won #king suwon #akatsuki no yona #ch256

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bro still looks hot when he's sick. it's a superpower!

#can't deny 🥲❤️❤️ #suwon #king suwon #the prettiest man to ever exist❤️

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King woke up (after ages) & chose to make us suffer😭😭😭

#Pls stopppp #wdym there'll be no next time wh..😔 #and NONE CAN EVER REPLACE U okay!! literally NONE😭 #why he's like that damn #I was happy to have my king back but at what cost #btw he looked so gorgeous (as always)❤️🥲 #soo-won #suwon #soo won #king suwon #akatsuki no yona #chap 256