#they stepped all OVER chae yoon and left her in the aftermath of a fucking SLAUGHTER of which DIDNT need to happen

[abiik]

i think i kind of hit on this in my original post at the very end there when i talk about how "chae yoon makes a living off of those surface level ice breakers, she makes a living off of being insincere in the most sincere ways, because while she truly does want to help, sometimes it's beyond chae yoon's power to do things to help people, it's beyond her control, even if that irks her. even if it makes her skin crawl to have to look u in the eye and lie about what's going to happen." chae yoon's job as a negotiatior is convincing people to do things that they might not want to do, and that includes herself, and her own precinct. her job is to meet in the middle, to compromise, so to speak, for both parties, and to keep shit from spiralling out of control. this takes a WHOLE lot of perseverance on her part because she IS going to be hitting roadblock after roadblock after roadblock if the person/people she's negotiating with is a tough cookie. and if what they want isnt what her superiors want, then she's being tugged BOTH ways, trying to negotiate with both of them, calming the tides of people who give her her pay check & call the shots AND the people who potentially have their life and the life of OTHERS on the line.

chae yoon's main internal conflict is actually based off of this and like. in a way, leads one of the big themes of the movie in my opinion. chae yoon is a little guy, in a way, whose background we know nothing about, who made a name for herself by being nothing but a fucking star at her job. tae gu is similar in this way – coming from nothing, making it big, taking control of his life where he had absolutely nothing but his sister & his name. even her boss, who objectively, is not the best dude in this, got roped in for being a little guy. he needed to pay his wife's medical bills.

chae yoon's internal conflict kind of goes as such, in my eyes like: whose side should she play, as the negotiator? if the big guns who are giving her her pay check are willing to risk innocent lives over a cock fight then whose side should she play? what is it worth having her - a little guy ~nobody~ essentially - as a negotiator if they aren't willing to listen to her? if they aren't willing to let her do her goddamn job?

chae yoon DOES try to give up. she DOES give her notice and she IS willing to sit at home and pretend not to give a damn. but then TAE GU ropes her into it. he even makes it a little more personal for her by dragging in her boss. i think. hm i think kind of in a way, tae gu helped push along chae yoon to keep going during their whole negotiation. while she was trying so hard to keep him from doing what he was going to do & to reason with him, while she was taking the chance he'd given her to change his mind, he was changing HER mind about quitting, about giving up – not that i think she wanted to in the first place, not that i think HE believed she wanted to in the first place. they were both the little guys and i think he wanted to give her something she could actually fight for, bc he knew he couldn't do it, not the way she wanted to, not the 'right' way. and i. AAAAAAAAAA

#h talks. #chae yoon #chae yoon x tae gu #tn #I CANT FUCKING RMEMEBER IF JO OR MAIA ALREADY TOUCHED ON THAT POINT W TAE GU BUT I AM #I THINK THIS IS MAYBE WHAT I WAS THINKING ABOUT HER & PERSEVERANCE THO #like the way that she went home. ready to give up bc what can she really do against these people after hyun ju's death? there's no proof #there's nothing she can do #they just. THERE'S NOTHING #they stepped all OVER chae yoon and left her in the aftermath of a fucking SLAUGHTER of which DIDNT need to happen #and like. ugh the whole. ugh just. the way that. i cannot articulate how fucking furious the higher ups make me. it makes me furious #the corrupt system that they show and the way that the movie protrays pitting 'smaller' ppl against each other #(albeit both chae yoon's boss & tae gu have a lot of power but not as much as the guys in the pent house) #also forgive me i cannot FUCKING remember chae yoon's boss's name FUCK #im gonna go fucking cRAZY #tae gu basically handing this responsibility over to her bc he KNOWS and TRUSTS that she'll follow through that she can do it #bc he cant. he wont be able to. he... also prob doesnt think he can u know #YALL IM GOING FUCKIN APESHIT OVER THESE THOUGHTS IM GOING TO #ILL JUST BE OVER HERE #IM GONNA RIP THROUGH THE WALLS #SORRY BOUT THIS #JUST GONNA #LEAVE THIS #HERE #HAHA #[RUNS AT FULL SPEED INTO A WALL LIKE A FOOTBALL PLAYER. KNOCKING MYSELF OUT] #also did yall catch the pun ;) i do clown myself. & tae gu. constantly. #also sorry if this makes no fucking sense :) i do not ever promise to be co-fucking-herent baby!!! #text heavy #i always get so nervous doing metas bc im like AM I RIGHT??? AM I WRONG???