Baek Joon-Hyun, I ‘ve got my eyes on you. Yesterday on OT I brought up the idea that he could be the Writer, and while I had only my gut feeling to go on, it turned out @bbstl and @thetinyl have the same thought. So I wanted to figure out why.

At first I thought Jin Michae was the Writer, because he kept his awareness and knowledge a secret until exposed, and opposed firmly to characters becoming self-aware and trying to change things. He was also always lurking and observing the Stage and the Shadow and it unnerved me. But as the show progressed he did open up bit by bit about his tragic experiences, and he started calling out the Writer as well. The EY writers kept his true story a secret until now for dramatic effect, but our poor fairy is merely the first heartbroken victim of the Writer.

Now, Joon-Hyun is similar to Jin Michae in his Extraordinary You set-up, but we are nearly at the end and the guy is still just “Kyung’s little brother”. We already know that extras have more freedom in the Shadow, so writing himself into the story with little set-up makes controlling a lot easier.

Speaking about control, I seriously underestimated him. We perceive Kyung and his dad as dangerous because they lash out and use violence. It is a knee jerk reaction out of fear to the loss of control. Kyung wants to keep Dan-Oh, his father wants to keep his business. Even Jin Michae looked suspicious because he reacted strongly out of fear whenever changes were about to occur that he could not control. I read somewhere that you should fear a calm and composed villain, because it means that they KNOW they are in full control of everything. Beanies, have you ever seen Joon-Hyun react strongly to anything?

Whenever something happens in both comics, it looks like he forces himself to react to it, as if he knew beforehand or does not care enough. He pleads not to change things and acts like a nice guy to make himself look harmless to others, so that he can keep them in line. His father is the best example. CEO Baek is a man you cannot disobey without getting hurt. There goes Joon-Hyun, physically restraining his dad in the Shadow to protect Kyung (?) and living to tell the tale. Or he gently warns his dad to back off or even distracts him with an innocent look whenever things are getting out of hand. Without ever losing his calm. I had chills when he just went up to Haru and casually threatened him.

It would not surprise me if Joon-Hyun turned his real life world into manhwas. He both seems to love and resent Kyung, and writing your enemy as the despicable main character in your own story seems like a childish but plausible coping mechanism. I admit that a younger version of myself used to do that. As soon as everyone became self-aware in Flower, he decided to write another story, but his time with Kyung more in the background as to not make it too obvious. Unfortunately for him everyone became self-aware again, so he has to quickly wrap up Secret and is forced to recycling and carelessness in the process, as even some characters have pointed out. He even added Haru’s changes to the story!

When he admits to Kyung that he is self-aware, Kyung calls him out for enjoying their family set-up and the fact that it makes him suffer. Joon-Hyun, showing some guilt, replies that he never viewed the situation that way and is sure things will turn out all right. Kyung merely replies that Joon-Hyun was created by the Writer to torture him, and Joon-Hyun looks down like Kyung just exposed him. Is he the Writer? Did he feel guilty about what he was inflicting on Kyung? Or did he start panicking because things were not going the way he wanted them written (again)?

Aw. Don’t be lonely. There are a whole bunch of us, tagging
@mayhemf @msrabbit @azzo1 @13infamyss @chasingbears @gadis @sensationalfantasy – Kyung shippers who liked Baek Kyung because he was so fascinating. Not sure whether they’re still watching…guys, are you still watching? I was very disappointed the episodes that aired after Haru remembered who he was after he came back different. They were repetitions and the Haru-Danoh romance was just so bland. Thank God they had Juda wake up to her true nasty self. She made the episodes bearable. Kyung was flawless as usual, and I got scolded for liking him because he was mean and a bad guy…the thing is, it’s not that I want Danoh to end up with him, it’s that I find his character so fascinating, his character is so layered, and not as one-dimensional as Haru’s. The writer delves so much into his inner psyche I can’t help feeling he’s the writer’s favourite creation.

why would writer even be in the show? he is a real human being..
at max if story must go the cliche route, writer would have created a narrator or a character,who speaks writer’s thought..

but even that character is NOT the writer..

that would be such an illogical angle to the story, if this drama plans to do “reveal” that one of the characters is writer