#c: minyeong

[luna-rainbow]

Vincenzo vs Dojun

V: If I did kill, would you cut ties with me? C: It's not so much that, but I'd feel as though you come from a distant world…like a character trapped in an oil painting or a faded newspaper. If this is how other people saw me, I'd probably feel a little sad. V: Maybe I'd rather live a life like a specimen behind glass.

This scene reminded me of the scene from Reborn Rich (episode 15) where Dojun mutters to himself after Mason and Rachel bailed on his celebratory champagne, "Being alone is better after all."

As much as both Vincenzo and Dojun are revenge fantasy protagonists, they're both tragic people, and much of it due to their own making. Neither of them ever really opened their hearts up to anyone. Both of them convinced themselves that they could not display any hint of vulnerability, lest their enemies use that against them, and that included expressions of love. Vincenzo would always live in regret that he never called his mother "mum", and Dojun never managed to sustain a relationship with Minyeong.

I feel like even until the end, we never really saw Vincenzo or Dojun with their masks down. The characters in that world have no idea what the real Dojun is like, or who the real Vincenzo is - and neither do the audience. This isn't a criticism, by the way, just an observation which I think adds to the tragedy of who they are.

Vincenzo, as the show's metaphor says, is like an otherworldly deity, an inhumanly being who came and swept out the scum then left. The monk called him "Damuncheon" (or Vaiśravaṇa according to wiki), a major Buddhist deity whose East Asian folklore does just that - descending upon Earth to purge it of evildoers. And like any non-human figurehead, he has no flaws, no vulnerabilities, and no desire or avenue to show his real personality. Even in raging grief (or grievous rage?), he is poised and cold and unrevealing, because he thinks he can't afford to be anything else. As he says to Chayoung for another incident - the colder your heart is, the higher your success for vengeance.

Meanwhile, Dojun is like a doll, wide-eyed and arched brows and impeccable smiles, decking himself in disarmingly soft cardigans while he plays the family's greed and insecurities against each other. He had just a tad more humanness in him than Vincenzo, mostly around Yangchul's last days, but everywhere else that doll mask stayed firmly on, even before the tender concern of his mother or the promise of support from his father. He never tells them he loves them (even if he cares enough to up his revenge when they're hurt), just as he never tells them how much he's anxious and uncertain, because he thinks he can't afford to. The mask he uses might be different to Vincenzo's but the heart he hides is also self-imposed icy cold.

Ultimately it comes from the script. Vincenzo's script is intentionally comic-like, and all the characters are a somewhat loose collection of characteristics rather than a convincing real person, and Vincenzo is the least real of them all. Reborn Rich rarely gave Dojun the chance to be emotive (which might be why a lot of people found Hyunwoo more interesting), and it never allowed him to discuss his motives and beliefs. In a script where practically every other character was more human and had more believable inner worlds than Dojun, kudos to SJK for propping up his role with sheer charisma and well-placed microexpressions.

#reborn rich #vincenzo #song joong ki #kdrama #vincenzo cassano #jin do jun #meta #long post

[steorralily]

                  this   was   the   hardest   part  .       having   very   little   time   with   minyeong  .       he   was   mostly   to   blame   with   his   increasing   hectic   schedule   that   had   him   up   and   constantly   on   the   go  ,   whilst   she   was   doing   what   she   did   BEST  .       her   music  .       of   which   he   already   concluded   a   long   time   ago   that   she   was   f a r   better   at   him   than   he   could   ever   be  .       that   was   a   reason   why   he   had   taken   such   a   liking   to   her   like   he   did  .       kiah   was   a   cold   person  ,   was   seen   as   such   by   the   public   and   even   had   numerous   scandals   and   rumors   that   pitted   media   against   him   as   he   was   made   to   be   the   BAD   GUY   for   everything   done   in   false   relationships   or   not  .       but   that   couldn’t   c o m p a r e   to   the   time   he   spent   in   her   presence  .       even   if   it   was   only   for   an   hour   each   week  .         ❛         what   are   you   thinking   about  ?         ❜         glance   is   casted   in   her   direction  ,   eyebrows   raised   in   ACTUAL   curiosity  .

      @cheiian    //    plot  :  x

#cheiian #✧*｡ ❝ ❪ RYU KIAH. ﹕ interactions ｡ #✧*｡ ❝ ❪ RYU KIAH. ﹕ with minyeong ｡ #i'm sorry this took forever! #and i hope it's okay too ksdfhj