Ep 219 References
This episode has a LOT of references from the older episodes, including from Quimchee's CC! I thought it should be fun to compare them and go down the memory line! Since Tumblr is an ass for limiting 10 pictures only, I'm going to make a long chain post this time. Beware, it's gonna be long. Anyway, enjoy!
1. Introducing Dieter and Soushi to the runaway Nol/Shinae.
2. Proving Nana right. Nana Supremacy.
3. Nol: Also Shinae:
4. How We Met: Soushi and Dieter Edition
Part 1/5
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Shadows in I Love Yoo
spoilers up ahead!
Specifically with nol, we see a lot of instances where he is in the shadows. Shadows obviously signify darkness and in this case, i find it to be the darkness within one’s self. Us the readers, as well as most characters in ily are introduced to nol as yeong-gi. Yeong-gi is the light; while nol is kept in the dark. But as the story progresses, we notice the appearance of nol slowly creeping up. We see it physically as we see nol in the shadows.
This first panel is from episode 19, and the second is from episode 112.
Not only is nol facing the opposite side of yeong-gi, but he is also facing to the left. 100% this is a reach LMFAO but whenever i notice characters facing different directions, i like to point out what direction they are facing. To us who read left to right, going to the right means progression and the left is the opposite. Nol is alone and in the darkness; he is ultimately stuck with a depreciating mental state while everyone seems to progress with their lives.
Before his trial, nol spoke to yu-jing and stated that “if being a good person means sitting back and watching those i care about be wronged, then i don’t want to be a good person”. Once he said that, we see his face be covered by the shadows once again. Nol is the darkness slowly taking over yeong-gi. While nol as a concept isn’t inherintely bad, he is the other side of himself that he has been suppressing for so long. Nol is reaching his anti-hero moment. If people want to paint him as the bad guy, then fine, he will be the bad guy. Being “good” means being helpless and a pushover, and after so many wrongs, he finds that being “good” is not what he wants to be anymore.
After his fallout with his friends nol is, yet again, in the shadows. The light is so close to hitting him but he chooses to be in the dark so that he doesn’t drag anyone else with him.
With this last instance, nol is in the shadows, but also on a physical lower position than shin-ae. Shin-ae has grown a lot throughout the story, and that growth is what nol wishes to achieve. Within that same chapter, shin-ae speaks positively of nol to min-hyuk. Following those events, we see nol follow shin-ae as she moves upwards. This signifies nol slowly reaching for some sort of growth. These two are mirrors of each other. If shin-ae is capable of growth and contentment, then nol is as well. Him hearing about all the things shin-ae said about him made him believe that he can work towards that growth as well. Lastly, bringing back the talk of direction, we see nol chasing after shin-ae in what appears to be the right. *Right* means progression, *right* means growth. Shin-ae is growing, and nol is finally trying to be on the path that can grow alongside her.
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Ep 215-216 References
There are many references from this episode to the previous ones so I thought it should be fun to compare them and go down the memory line!
1. Things are different now.
2. AITA? Yes Nol, you're the asshole here.
3. Oh no Shinae, you're an ass too.
4. You guys deserve it.
Part 2 is in the reblog!
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Mind Over Matter
Pairing - Nol x Alyssa, Shin ae & Alyssa.
Summary - She hated being the powerless, helpless girl who sacrifices everything for love. She liked being in love, the idea of it at least -who doesn't- but she liked being empowered more.
Love finds her anyway.
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<At the Ball>
I really was hoping for Nol and Shin ae to dance that night but it didn't happen, so I have no choice but to let my mind imagine and draw.
(Background is from quimchee's original panel) ♡
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