From Homesick to Awakening
To everyone who refused to let this story fadeโthis is ours.
์ด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์์ง ์๊ธฐ๋ก ํ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ถ๋ค์๊ฒโ์ด๊ฑด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค.
Built from your words. Shaped by your hearts.
์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ ๋ง๋ก ๋ง๋ค์ด์ง๊ณ , ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ ๋ง์์ผ๋ก ๋น์ด์ง ์์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ์์.
Chapter 1: HOMESICK
“BREATH KNUCKLE”
Si-eun became a ghost of who he was.
์์์ด๋ ์์ ์ ์ ๋ น์ด ๋์ด๋ฒ๋ ธ์ด์.
Blue light fills his roomโhis world turned cold.
ํ๋ ๋ถ๋น์ด ๊ทธ์ ๋ฐฉ์ ์ฑ์ ๊ณ โ์ธ์์ด ์ฐจ๊ฐ๊ฒ ์์์ฃ .
He couldn’t sleepโstill trapped in that ring.
๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ค ์ ์์์ด์โ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ทธ ๋ง์ ๊ฐํ ์์์ผ๋๊น์.
Alive, but not living.
์ด์์์ง๋ง, ์ด์๊ฐ์ง๋ ๋ชปํ์ฃ .
Si-eun drowns in Tamas: darkness, inertia, nothingness.
์์์ด๋ ํ๋ง์ค ์ํ์ ๋น ์ก์ด์: ์ด๋ , ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ ฅ, ๊ณตํํจ.
Violence burns insideโthe system taught him stoic silence.
๋ด๋ฉด์ ํญ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ด ํ์ค๋ฅด์ง๋งโ์์คํ ์ ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ์คํ ์ตํ ์นจ๋ฌต์ ๊ฐ๋ฅด์ณค์ฃ .
But inside, violence waitsโjust one spark away from exploding.
ํ์ง๋ง ๋ด๋ฉด์ ํญ๋ ฅ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์์ด์โ๋ถ๊ฝ ํ๋๋ฉด ํญ๋ฐํ ์ค๋น๊ฐ ๋์ด ์์์ฃ .
Si-eunโa newly hatched bird, flightless and afraid.
์์์ด๋ ๋ง ๋ถํํ ์์ฒ๋ผโ๋ ์ ์๊ณ , ๋๋ ค์ ์ต๋๋ค.
The first person he saw was Suho. And that changed everything.
๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ฒ์ ๋ณธ ์ฌ๋์ ์ํธ์์ด์. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฑธ ๋ฐ๊ฟ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
That first being fell into silence.
๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ฒ์ ๋ณธ ์กด์ฌ๋ ์นจ๋ฌต ์์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋ผ์ก์ต๋๋ค.
Suho survives on machinesโtubes, wires, barely breathing.
์ํธ๋ ๊ธฐ๊ณ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํ ์ด์์์ฃ โํ๋ธ, ์ ์ ๋ค, ๊ฒจ์ฐ ์จ๋ง ์ฌ๋ฉด์์.
Si-eun shatters completely.
์์์ด๋ ์์ ํ ๋ถ์์ก์ด์.
In dreams:
๊ฟ์์์๋:
In Si-eun’s dreams, Suho breathes freelyโno tubes, no masks adults put on him.
์์์ด์ ๊ฟ์์์ ์ํธ๋ ์์ ๋กญ๊ฒ ์จ ์ฝ๋๋คโ์ด๋ฅธ๋ค์ด ์์ด ํ๋ธ๋, ๋ง์คํฌ๋ ์์ด์.
The beeps and hisses vanishโreplaced by silence.
๊ธฐ๊ณ์๋ค์ด ์ฌ๋ผ์ง๊ณ โ์นจ๋ฌต๋ง ๋จ์์ฃ .
Just Suho teasing him with that silly tough-guy voice.
๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ํธ๊ฐ ๊ทธ ์ฐ์ค๊ฝ์ค๋ฌ์ด ํ ๋งํฌ๋ก ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ชจ์ต๋ง ์์์ด์.
Pure intimacyโtwo boys existing in their truest form.
์์ํ ์น๋ฐํจโ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ง์คํ ๋ชจ์ต์ผ๋ก ์กด์ฌํ๋ ๋ ์๋ .
Then the music returnsโand Si-eun implodes.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ ์ด ๋์์ค๋ฉดโ์์์ด๋ ๋ด๋ถ์์ ๋ฌด๋์ง๋๋ค.
Dream ends. Reality staysโtubes still control every breath Suho takes.
๊ฟ์ ๋๋๊ณ , ํ์ค์ ๋จ์์ฃ โํ๋ธ๋ค์ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ํธ์ ๋ชจ๋ ์จ๊ฒฐ์ ํต์ ํฉ๋๋ค.
A working-class boy, raised by absence more than parents.
๋ถ๋ชจ๋ณด๋ค๋ ๋ถ์ฌ ์์์ ์๋ ๋ ธ๋๊ณ์ธต ์๋ .
Adults exiled Si-eun to Eunjangโjust another problem to hide away.
์ด๋ฅธ๋ค์ ์์์ด๋ฅผ ์์ฅ์ผ๋ก ์ถ๋ฐฉํฉ๋๋คโ์น์๋ฒ๋ ค์ผ ํ ๋ฌธ์ ํ๋๋ก์.
Si-eun desperately holds Suho alive in the only place he canโhis heart.
์์์ด๋ ์ ์ผํ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๊ณณ์์ ์ํธ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ ค๋๋ ค ํ์ฌ์ ์ด์์ด์โ์์ ์ ๋ง์์์์์.
By finding pieces of Suho in each of them.
์์ฅ ํฌ๋ฃจ๋ค ๊ฐ์์๊ฒ์ ์ํธ์ ์กฐ๊ฐ๋ค์ ์ฐพ์ผ๋ฉด์์.
While waitingโhopingโfor Suho to come back.
์ํธ๊ฐ ๋์์ค๊ธฐ๋ฅผโํฌ๋งํ๋ฉฐโ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ ๋์์.
His mind accepts what his heart can’t: Suho may be gone forever.
๊ทธ์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฐ์๋ค์์ง๋ง ๋ง์์ ๊ฑฐ๋ถํ์ด์: ์ํธ๋ ์์ ๋์์ค์ง ์์์ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋ค๋ ๊ฑธ์.
But his heart keeps calculatingโclinging to even the smallest chance.
ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ์ ๋ง์์ ๊ณ์ ๊ณ์ฐํ์ด์โ๊ฐ์ฅ ์์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์๋ผ๋ ๋งค๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์์.
Season 2 is Si-eun’s love letter to Suhoโwritten in every choice to keep living.
์์ฆ2๋ ์์์ด๊ฐ ์ํธ์๊ฒ ์ด ๋ฌ๋ธ๋ ํฐ์์โ์ด์๊ฐ๊ธฐ๋ก ์ ํํ ๋งค ์๊ฐ๋ง๋ค ์ฐ์ธ ํธ์ง์ฃ .
Sent to his sleeping beautyโthe boy trapped in a coma.
์ฝ๋ง์ ๊ฐํ ์๋ โ๊ทธ์ ์ ์๋ ๋ฏธ์ธ์๊ฒ ๋ณด๋ด์ง ํธ์ง์.
A masterclass in breaking heartsโslowly, beautifully, completely.
์ฌ์ฅ์ ๋ถ์๋ ๋ช ํ ์์ โ์ฒ์ฒํ, ์๋ฆ๋ต๊ฒ, ์์ ํ๊ฒ์.
Chapter 2: BUZZ
“GEUM SEONG-JE”
They mirror each otherโperfectly, painfully.
๊ทธ๋ค์ ์๋ก๋ฅผ ๋น์ท์ด์โ์๋ฒฝํ๊ฒ, ๊ณ ํต์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ์.
Si-eun has built-in violenceโsomething wired into him from birth.
์์์ด์๊ฒ ํ๊ณ ๋ ํญ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ด ์์ต๋๋คโํ์ด๋ ๋๋ถํฐ ๋ด์ฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ด์ฃ .
Violence burns insideโthe system taught him stoic silence.
๋ด๋ฉด์ ํญ๋ ฅ์ด ํ์ค๋ฅด์ง๋งโ์์คํ ์ ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ์คํ ์ตํ ์นจ๋ฌต์ ๊ฐ๋ฅด์ณค์ด์.
But inside, violence waitsโjust one spark away from exploding.
ํ์ง๋ง ๋ด๋ฉด์์ ํญ๋ ฅ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์์ฃ โ๋ถ๊ฝ ํ๋๋ฉด ํญ๋ฐํ ์ค๋น๊ฐ ๋์ด ์์์ด์.
Seong-je let him unleash everything.
์ฑ์ ๋ ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฑธ ํญ๋ฐ์ํค๋๋ก ํ๋ฝํ์ด์.
Watch Si-eun’s eyes during that fightโhe’s enjoying every second.
๊ทธ ์ธ์ ์ค ์์์ด์ ๋์ ๋ด๋ณด์ธ์โ๋งค ์๊ฐ์ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ณ ์์์ด์.
Seong-je is a dopamine addict who never attachesโuntil he found his mirror in Si-eun.
์ฑ์ ๋ ๋๊ตฌ์๊ฒ๋ ์ ์ฐฉ์ ๋๋ผ์ง ์๋ ๋ํ๋ฏผ ์ค๋ ์์์ด์โ์์์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฑฐ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๊ธฐ ์ ๊น์ง์.
Together, they become each other’s permission to burn.
ํจ๊ป, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์๋ก์๊ฒ ํ์ค๋ฅผ ํ๋ฝ์ด ๋์ด์คฌ์ด์.
In Si-eun’s darkness, Seong-je finds the chaos he’s been craving.
์์์ด์ ์ด๋ ์์์ ์ฑ์ ๋ ์์ ์ด ๊ฐ๋งํ๋ ํผ๋์ ์ฐพ์์ด์.
In Seong-je, Si-eun finds brief silence from the demons screaming inside.
์ฑ์ ์ ํจ๊ป ์์ ๋ ์์์ด๋ ๋ด๋ฉด์์ ๋น๋ช ์ง๋ฅด๋ ์ ๋ง๋ค๋ก๋ถํฐ ์ ๊น์ ์นจ๋ฌต์ ์ฐพ์์ฃ .
Their fights aren’t destruction. They’re medication.
๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ธ์์ ํ๊ดด๊ฐ ์๋์์ด์. ์ฝ์ด์์ฃ .
Seong-je doesn’t need a pack.
์ฑ์ ๋ ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
He claims his territory and hunts aloneโno pack, no loyalty.
์๊ธฐ ์์ญ์ ํ์ํ๊ณ ํผ์ ์ฌ๋ฅํด์โ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋, ์ถฉ์ฑ๋ ์์ด์.
Only Seong-je remains mysteriousโhis true intentions hidden.
์ค์ง ์ฑ์ ๋ง ๋ฏธ์คํฐ๋ฆฌ๋ก ๋จ์ต๋๋คโ๊ทธ์ ์ง์ง ์๋๋ ์จ๊ฒจ์ง ์ฑ๋ก์.
Seong-je’s ending was brutal treachery.
์ฑ์ ์ ๊ฒฐ๋ง์ ์์ธํ ๋ฐฐ์ ์ด์์ด์.
And somehow I just thought, ‘Okay. You do you, Seong-je.’
๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ์ด์ฉ์ง ์ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ์ด์, ‘์๊ฒ ์ด, ๋ค ๋ง๋๋ก ํด, ์ฑ์ ์ผ.’
That whole ‘it’s been fun’ attitudeโcold, casual, gone.
๊ทธ ‘์ฌ๋ฐ์์ด’ ๊ฐ์ ํ๋โ์ฐจ๊ฐ๊ณ , ๊ฐ๋ณ๊ณ , ์ฌ๋ผ์ก์ฃ .
No one else could’ve played Seong-je. Jun owned that role completely.
๋ค๋ฅธ ๋๊ตฌ๋ ์ฑ์ ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๊ธฐํ ์ ์์์ ๊ฑฐ์์. ์ค์ด ๊ทธ ์ญํ ์ ์์ ํ ์๊ธฐ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค์์ฃ .
Wolves don’t say goodbye. Seong-je just disappeared.
๋๋๋ ์๋ณ์ธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ํ์ง ์์ฃ . ์ฑ์ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ฌ๋ผ์ก์ด์.
So perfectly Seong-je.
๋๋ฌด๋๋ ์ฑ์ ๋ค์ ์ฃ .
It was a pleasure. That’s all.
์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ ์ด์. ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ค์์.
To quote Seong-je: ‘Stupidly romantic.’
์ฑ์ ์ ๋ง์ ๋น๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด: ‘๋ฐ๋ณด๊ฐ์ด ๋ก๋งจํฑํ๋ค.’
Chapter 3: ANSWER
“EUNJANG CREW”
Season 2 is Si-eun remembering how to breathe.
์์ฆ2๋ ์์์ด๊ฐ ์จ ์ฌ๋ ๋ฒ์ ๋ค์ ๊ธฐ์ตํ๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ์์.
Every friendship is another breath.
๋ชจ๋ ์ฐ์ ์ด ๋ ํ๋์ ์จ๊ฒฐ์ด์์ฃ .
Baku:
From the start, Baku reminded him of Suho.
์ฒ์๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์ฟ ๋ ์์์ด์๊ฒ ์ํธ๋ฅผ ๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ํ์ด์.
Baku is Eunjang’s heartbeatโEunjang is his home.
๋ฐ์ฟ ๋ ์์ฅ์ ์ฌ์ฅ๋ฐ๋์ด์์โ์์ฅ์ ๊ทธ์ ์ง์ด์ฃ .
Eunjang was everything to Bakuโso everyone there mattered.
์์ฅ์ ๋ฐ์ฟ ์๊ฒ ์ ๋ถ์์ด์โ๊ทธ๋์ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ ์๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด ์ค์ํ์ฃ .
Laughing, fearlessโBaku cuts through like Suho did before.
์์ผ๋ฉด์, ๋๋ ค์ ์์ดโ๋ฐ์ฟ ๋ ์ํธ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ซ๊ณ ๋ค์ด์์ด์.
“Treat them well. They’re the ones who’ll stay.”
“๊ฑ๋คํํ ์ํด. ํ์ ๊ฐ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ด์ผ.”
Baku’s father’s wordsโa prophecy.
๋ฐ์ฟ ์๋ฒ์ง์ ๋งโ์์ธ์ด์์ฃ .
Go-tak:
Go-tak is the friend everyone wishes they had.
๊ณ ํ์ ๋๊ตฌ๋ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ดํ๋ ์น๊ตฌ์์.
Loyalty looks like Go-tak.
์ถฉ์ฑ์ฌ์ ๊ณ ํ์ฒ๋ผ ์๊ฒผ์ฃ .
Go-takโloud, bright, impossible to ignore.
๊ณ ํโ์๋๋ฝ๊ณ , ๋ฐ๊ณ , ๋ฌด์ํ ์ ์๋ ์กด์ฌ์.
Go-tak is Season 2’s fresh air.
๊ณ ํ์ ์์ฆ2์ ์ ์ ํ ๊ณต๊ธฐ์์.
In Go-tak’s movements, Si-eun sees Suho again.
๊ณ ํ์ ์์ง์์์ ์์์ด๋ ๋ค์ ์ํธ๋ฅผ ๋ดค์ด์.
Go-tak never expects Jun-tae to fightโthat’s his job.
๊ณ ํ์ ์คํ๊ฐ ์ธ์ฐ๊ธธ ์ ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ํ์ง ์์์ฃ โ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์๊ธฐ ์ผ์ด๋๊น์.
Self-defense lessons fail. Go-tak decides: ‘I’ll just be your shield.’
์๊ธฐ๋ฐฉ์ด ์์ ์ ์คํจํ์ด์. ๊ณ ํ์ด ๊ฒฐ์ ํ์ฃ : ‘๋ด๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋ค ๋ฐฉํจ๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ.’
Jun-tae:
Jun-tae is the truest Weak Hero.
์คํ๊ฐ ์ง์ง ์ฝํ์์ ์ด์์.
Coward? Jun-tae was never that.
๊ฒ์์ด? ์คํ๋ ์ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ ์์์ด์.
It looks like Go-tak protects Jun-tae.
๊ณ ํ์ด ์คํ๋ฅผ ์งํค๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์ด์ฃ .
But Jun-tae’s the one keeping him whole.
ํ์ง๋ง ์คํ๊ฐ ๊ณ ํ์ ์จ์ ํ๊ฒ ์ง์ผ์ฃผ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด์์.
Jun-tae’s the strategistโeveryone sees it.
์คํ๋ ์ ๋ต๊ฐ์์โ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ์์๋ดค์ฃ .
Si-eun’s smarterโJun-tae never feels threatened.
์์์ด๊ฐ ๋ ๋๋ํ์ง๋งโ์คํ๋ ์ํ๋ฐ๋๋ค๊ณ ๋๋ผ์ง ์์์ด์.
Jun-tae admires Si-eun’s mind without jealousy.
์คํ๋ ์งํฌ ์์ด ์์์ด์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์กด๊ฒฝํฉ๋๋ค.
That’s rare and precious.
๊ทธ๊ฑด ๋๋ฌผ๊ณ ์์คํ ์ผ์ด์ฃ .
Same wavelengthโtwo nerds in a school of fists.
๊ฐ์ ํ์ฅโ์ฃผ๋จน์ ํ๊ต์ ์๋ ๋ ๋๋.
Jun-tae tells him what he desperately needed to hear: ‘It’s not your fault.’
์คํ๋ ์์์ด๊ฐ ์ ์คํ ๋ค์ด์ผ ํ๋ ๋ง์ ํด์คฌ์ด์: ‘๋ค ์๋ชป์ด ์๋์ผ.’
Together:
This friendship feels like it could survive anything.
์ด ์ฐ์ ์ ๋ฌด์์ด๋ ๊ฒฌ๋ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ด์.
These four? They’re built to last.
์ด ๋ท? ์ค๋๊ฐ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด์์.
Not toxic. Not fragile. Just… good.
๋ ์ฑ๋, ์ฐ์ฝํจ๋ ์์ด. ๊ทธ๋ฅ… ์ข์์ด์.
Suho’s Guardian Role:
The guardian angel appeared in a windbreaker.
๊ฐ๋์ธ ์์ ค์ ๋ฐ๋๋ง์ด๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณ ๋ํ๋ฌ์ด์.
A wise Yoda figure adding vibrancy.
์งํ๋ก์ด ์๋ค ๊ฐ์ ์กด์ฌ๊ฐ ํ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ํ์ฃ .
Beside his somber gray cardigan.
๊ทธ์ ์ฐ์ธํ ํ์ ๊ฐ๋๊ฑด ์์์์.
Bringing laughter to a boy learning to stand.
์๋ ๋ฒ์ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ ์๋ ์๊ฒ ์์์ ๊ฐ์ ธ๋ค์คฌ์ด์.
For Si-eun, this was first love.
์์์ด์๊ฒ ์ด๊ฑด ์ฒซ์ฌ๋์ด์์ด์.
Then the one who taught him to feel fell silent.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋๋ผ๋ ๋ฒ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅด์ณ์ค ์ฌ๋์ด ์นจ๋ฌตํ์ฃ .
He couldn’t survive losing himโbut he did lose him.
๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์๊ณ ๋ ์ด ์ ์์์ง๋งโ๊ทธ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์์์ด์.
About the conversation with Beom-seok in S2 E7 that left fandom with questions without keys.
์์ฆ2 7ํ์์ ๋ฒ์๊ณผ์ ๋ํ๋ ํฌ๋ค์๊ฒ ์ด์ ์๋ ์ง๋ฌธ๋ค์ ๋จ๊น๋๋ค.
Beom-seok lingers at the edgeโtrying to mend what’s broken.
๋ฒ์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ์๋ฆฌ์ ๋จ์โ๋ถ์์ง ๊ฑธ ๊ณ ์น๋ ค ํ์ฃ .
Si-eun chose to let goโleaving Beom-seok behind.
์์์ด๋ ๋์์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ก ์ ํํ์ด์โ๋ฒ์์ ๋ค์ ๋จ๊ฒจ๋๊ณ ์.
Si-eun releases his handโletting go at last.
์์์ด๋ ๊ทธ์ ์์ ๋จ์ด์โ๋ง์นจ๋ด ๋์์คฌ์ฃ .
He walks forward, leaving guilt where it belongsโin the past.
๊ทธ๋ ์์ผ๋ก ๊ฑธ์ด๊ฐ์ด์, ์ฃ์ฑ ๊ฐ์ ์์ด์ผ ํ ๊ณณ์โ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ ๋จ๊ฒจ๋๊ณ ์.
To grow, you must lose.
์ฑ์ฅํ๋ ค๋ฉด, ์์ด์ผ ํด์.
He learns wounds don’t have to be fatal.
๊ทธ๋ ์์ฒ๊ฐ ์น๋ช ์ ์ผ ํ์๋ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฑธ ๋ฐฐ์ ์ด์.
Scars don’t mean endingโthey mean surviving.
ํํฐ๋ ๋์ด ์๋์์โ์ด์๋จ์๋ค๋ ๋ป์ด์ฃ .
He crosses overโboy no more.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ฑด๋์ด์โ๋ ์ด์ ์๋ ์ด ์๋์์.
He carried the weight of Suho’s stolen yearsโunprepared.
๊ทธ๋ ์ํธ์ ๋นผ์๊ธด ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ฅผ ์ง์ด์ก์ด์โ์ค๋น๋ ์ ๋ ์ฑ๋ก์.
This is what it means to grow: loss becomes your teacher.
์ด๊ฒ ์ฑ์ฅํ๋ค๋ ์๋ฏธ์์: ์์ค์ด ์ ์๋์ด ๋๋ ๊ฑฐ์ฃ .
But both whisper something beautiful too.
ํ์ง๋ง ๋ ๋ค ์๋ฆ๋ค์ด ๊ฒ๋ ์์ญ์ฌ์.
Even when everything’s built to break youโtomorrow still waits.
๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ ๋น์ ์ ๋ถ์๋ ค๊ณ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ก์ด๋โ๋ด์ผ์ ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ด์.
Shattered, scarredโbut walking toward hope anyway.
์ฐ์ฐ์กฐ๊ฐ ๋๊ณ , ์์ฒ ์ ์์ง๋งโ๊ทธ๋๋ ํฌ๋ง์ ํฅํด ๊ฑธ์ด๊ฐ์.
Once someone enters Si-eun’s heart, he loves with everything.
๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ ์์์ด์ ๋ง์์ ๋ค์ด์ค๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฑธ ๋คํด ์ฌ๋ํด์.
Baek-jin:
Baek-jin’s obsession with Baku is something else entirely.
๋ฐฑ์ง์ ๋ฐ์ฟ ์ ๋ํ ์ง์ฐฉ์ ์์ ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฐจ์์ด์์.
He’s a child imitating the monsters around him.
๊ทธ๋ ์ฃผ๋ณ ๊ดด๋ฌผ๋ค์ ํ๋ด ๋ด๋ ์์ด์์.
Sneering at the powerless: ‘What can YOU do?’
๋ฌด๋ ฅํ ์ด๋ค์ ์กฐ๋กฑํ๋ฉฐ: ‘๋ ๋ญ ํ ์ ์๋๋ฐ?’
Baek-jin is quintessential Director Han: a boy copying the cruelty around him.
๋ฐฑ์ง์ ์ ํ์ ์ธ ํ์คํฌ ๊ฐ๋ ์บ๋ฆญํฐ์์: ์ฃผ๋ณ์ ์์ธํจ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ํ๋ ์๋ ์ด์ฃ .
Believing this is what power means.
์ด๊ฒ ํ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ฏฟ์ผ๋ฉด์์.
But he loves his small circle fiercelyโpossessively.
ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๋ ์๊ธฐ์ ์์ ์ํด์ ๊ฒฉ๋ ฌํ๊ฒโ์์ ์์ ๋ณด์ด๋ฉฐ ์ฌ๋ํฉ๋๋ค.
Si-eun’s love meant freedom. Baek-jin’s meant ownership.
์์์ด์ ์ฌ๋์ ์์ ๋ฅผ ์๋ฏธํ์ด์. ๋ฐฑ์ง์ ์ฌ๋์ ์์ ๋ฅผ ์๋ฏธํ์ฃ .
Baek-jin defined Baku’s happinessโwithout ever asking him.
๋ฐฑ์ง์ ๋ฐ์ฟ ์ ํ๋ณต์ ์ ์ํ์ด์โ๋ฐ์ฟ ์๊ฒ ๋ฌป์ง ์๊ณ ์.
Adults choose themselves. Children bleed for it.
์ด๋ฅธ๋ค์ ์๊ธฐ ์์ ์ ์ ํํด์. ์์ด๋ค์ด ๊ทธ ๋๊ฐ๋ก ํผ๋ฅผ ํ๋ฆฌ์ฃ .
Baek-jin and Baku aren’t finished yet.
๋ฐฑ์ง๊ณผ ๋ฐ์ฟ ๋ ์์ง ๋๋์ง ์์์ด์.
Chapter 4: AWAKENING
“SUHO’S RETURN”
Imagine watching your favorite person beaten to near-deathโunable to stop it.
๊ฐ์ฅ ์์คํ ์ฌ๋์ด ๊ฑฐ์ ์ฃฝ์ ๋๊น์ง ๋ง๋ ๊ฑธ ๋ณด๋ ์์์ ํด๋ณด์ธ์โ๋ง์ ์๋ ์์ด์.
Seeing someone you love destroyed on videoโhelpless, horrified.
์ฌ๋ํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด ์์ ์์์ ํ๊ดด๋๋ ๊ฑธ ๋ณด๋ ๊ฑฐ์์โ๋ฌด๋ ฅํ๊ณ , ๊ณตํฌ์ ์ง๋ฆฐ ์ฑ๋ก์.
They sent Suho into darknessโwhat a cruel mercy for him.
๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ํธ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋์ด์โ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์์ธํ ์๋น์ธ์ง์.
Now he’s just broken fleshโnothing invincible left.
์ด์ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋ถ์์ง ์ก์ฒด์ผ ๋ฟ์ด์์โ๋ฌด์ ์ ๋ ์ด์ ์์ด์.
Suho exists for Si-eun alone.
์ํธ๋ ์ค์ง ์์์ด๋ง์ ์ํด ์กด์ฌํด์.
Si-eun had to lose Suhoโit was inevitable.
์์์ด๋ ์ํธ๋ฅผ ์์ด์ผ ํ์ด์โํผํ ์ ์์์ฃ .
Si-eun had to shatter once more to become whole.
์์์ด๋ ์จ์ ํด์ง๊ธฐ ์ํด ํ ๋ฒ ๋ ์ฐ์ฐ์กฐ๊ฐ ๋์ผ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
He had to break to grow. Again.
์ฑ์ฅํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ถ์์ ธ์ผ ํ์ด์. ๋๋ค์์.
The unbearable became realโhe lost him.
๊ฒฌ๋ ์ ์๋ ์ผ์ด ํ์ค์ด ๋์ด์โ๊ทธ๋ ์ํธ๋ฅผ ์์์ฃ .
The Beom-seok conversation left us with unanswered questions.
๋ฒ์๊ณผ์ ๋ํ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ๋ต ์๋ ์ง๋ฌธ๋ค์ ๋จ๊ฒผ์ด์.
To grow, you must lose.
์ฑ์ฅํ๋ ค๋ฉด, ์์ด์ผ ํด์.
The Return:
Suho awakens.
์ํธ๊ฐ ๊นจ์ด๋์.
The show returned his hyungโa gift Si-eun earned.
๋๋ผ๋ง๋ ๊ทธ์ ํ์ ๋๋ ค์คฌ์ด์โ์์์ด๊ฐ ์ป์ด๋ธ ์ ๋ฌผ์ด์ฃ .
“You been alright?”
“์ ์ง๋๋?”
A masterpiece. A community that wouldn’t let go.
๋ช ์ ํ๋. ๋์์ฃผ์ง ์์ ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ ํ๋.
We refused to let this story fade.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง๋๋ก ๋์ง ์์์ด์.
This music story is oursโbuilt from what we felt together.
์ด ์์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฒ์ด์์โ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํจ๊ป ๋๋ ๊ฒ๋ค๋ก ๋ง๋ค์ด์ง ๊ฑฐ์์.
To @asukalonginus3335 and every subscriber who turned comments into poetryโ
@asukalonginus3335๋๊ณผ ๋๊ธ์ ์๋ก ๋ฐ๊ฟ์ค ๋ชจ๋ ๊ตฌ๋ ์๋ถ๋ค๊ปโ
Thank you for building this with me.
์ ์ ํจ๊ป ์ด๊ฑธ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.
๐ TRACKLIST:
Chapter 1: HOMESICK – Acoustic ยท Primary
Chapter 2: BUZZ – Benzamin ยท punchnello
Chapter 3: ANSWER – Benzamin ยท Goopy
Chapter 4: AWAKENING – Die Boy
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