#sliding in with my mediocre giffing skills to make an edit for a 2.5 year old series? it's more likely than you think

[pasdetrois]

The vampire is prone to be fascinated with an engrossing vehemence, resembling the passion of love, by particular persons. In pursuit of these it will exercise inexhaustible patience and stratagem, for access to a particular object may be obstructed in a hundred ways. It will never desist until it has satiated its passion, and drained the very life of its coveted victim. But it will, in these cases, husband and protract its murderous enjoyment with the refinement of an epicure, and heighten it by the gradual approaches of an artful courtship. In these cases it seems to yearn for something like sympathy and consent. In ordinary ones it goes direct to its object, overpowers with violence, and strangles and exhausts often at a single feast.

Strangers From Hell, dir. Lee Chang-Hee • Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#strangers from hell #hell is other people #kdrama #kdramaedit #seo moon jo #lee dong wook #yoon jong woo #im siwan #comparatives #parallels #le mien #sliding in with my mediocre giffing skills to make an edit for a 2.5 year old series? it's more likely than you think #I recently finished carmilla and got to that ending quote and had many thôts as a result #yes moon jo is not literally a vampire but you have to admit he has a very vampiric presence in the story #stalking his victims in the shadows; literally consuming them afterwards #seeking out a companion that he molds into his own image (or perhaps chips away at until his image is revealed beneath.. #he calls himself an artist after all). but first he has to essentially drain them of all life #speaking of vampires..now I'm thinking about that lestat quote: 'god kills and so shall we; indiscriminately..' #and now moon jo sauntering in with a 'you can kill. anyone you want to kill. and save anyone you want to save it feels like being a deity' #(even if it was potentially jong woo hallucinating that line shhh it's an in character line regardless) #the 'sympathy and consent' slide was probably the most difficult one to finagle bc well.. moon jo doesn't really care if you're on board lol #if he decides you're going to be his next masterpiece. BUT there were little tells that seemed to indicate his desire to see like mindedness #in his chosen people. and the line 'I can be anything you want me to be.' is an offer to reciprocate #essentially 'I promise to make you special. to make to you like me. and in return I'll be anything you want me to be.' #now you can argue it's just another fabrication to draw someone into his web but there's something to think about there at least! #anyway I think about him a normal amount why do you ask #also I'm sorry for implying kihyuk is ordinary in this set </3 but moon jo is the one who called him a failure so. this ain't about him 🐟 #flashing cw