16 Works by ennui_ing
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Everything loses focus in the months that follow the bombing. His life becomes a blur of camera flashes and self-censorship, of increasing loneliness and dimming hope. He begins to think Yohan was right about him. Maybe his methods are too gentle. Maybe his expectations were too great.
Gaon is struggling. Yohan takes him home.
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"Who decides what is a monster?"
"I don’t know," said Medusa. "Men, I suppose."
— Natalie Haynes, 'Stone Blind'Yoon Jiwon is a competent girl. She avoids trouble, keeps her calm, and treats others with more respect than they deserve.
She is also running out of patience.
(Strangers From Hell but make it female rage.)
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How Much Can You Change Before It's Some Kind of Murder? by ennui_ing
Fandoms: 타인은 지옥이다 | Strangers From Hell (TV)
29 Aug 2023
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Room 303 doesn't run from death, he pursues it. His otherwise apathetic neighbour, Room 304, is at a total loss.
(Jongwoo has no will to live so Moonjo shows him how to. Sure, his methods may involve a little more murder and teeth-pulling than standard therapy, but they get the job done.)
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Moonjo takes pleasure in his classmates' suffering. Jongwoo has reason to punish him for it.
(In which two schoolboys reckon with the death of Min Jieun. Their viewpoints differ. One imagines he's in a revenge thriller, and the other, a push-and-pull romcom.)
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Jongwoo is devastated when his girlfriend tells him he knows nothing about romance. In a bid to impress her, he agrees to play her favourite Otome game, Sugar Love: Reciprocation!, for so-called 'research purposes'.
Still, he never dreamt that the male lead, Seo Moonjo, would abduct him into the pastel world of the dating sim... nor that he would actually learn about love in the process.
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They say the children of abusers cannot comprehend why their parents dislike them. That it is natural for them to blame themselves, see flaws in their own performance as offspring, and try to earn the love of their caregivers with caution and compromise.
But Moonjo understood why his father hated him, and he did not care.(In which Moonjo wants to love and be loved, but he never quite learned how.)
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Jongwoo is embittered by his time in Eden, but reluctant to let go of the experience (or the strangers he met there). This does not bode well for his therapist.
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Hell is Other People (You Burn in Them) by ennui_ing
Fandoms: 타인은 지옥이다 | Strangers From Hell (TV)
20 Jan 2023
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"So, you want me to save you, jagi?"
After one misfortune too many, Yoon Jongwoo seeks refuge in a religious commune. The Order of Eden is a safe haven that opens its doors to all sorts of people; feeding, clothing, and 'inspiring' them. At least, that's what the brochure says.
But what awaits Jongwoo is a strange cult revolving around the whims of its equally strange leader, Seo Moonjo. A man who knows too much, stares too long, and smiles too wide. And his interest in Jongwoo seems less than pious...
(In which faith is less about seeing the light, and more about accepting the dark.)
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“Did I not choose each of you? And yet one is the devil.” He spoke of Judas, the son of Iscariot, for he was going to betray him.
- John 6:67-71Riley's ghost comes back to haunt the Monsignor. He didn't make it to heaven after all.
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Under The Skin by ennui_ing
Fandoms: Joker (2019), Batman - All Media Types, Batman - Fandom
05 Nov 2019
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Childhood is a transient time. For Arthur Fleck, this is a radical understatement.
Following the incarceration of his adopted-mother, the boy is passed around by extended family until his grandparents accept him into their home. Here, in a grand retirement house in Metropolis, young Arthur meets the holidaying Bruce Wayne— a kid rich enough to afford a second mansion. They strike up an unlikely friendship, but all is not as it seems.
Although Arthur may seem ordinary, if not a little awkward, it's only because his scars are hidden under the skin.
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Waylon has lost everything that mattered to him, but he still has Miles. And that's more than enough.
(In which two men struggle to 'live' while one is dead.)
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Jay never explicitly tells Tim he has an eating disorder, but it's not something he can hide. He doesn't say 'I love you' either.
Tim is concerned about both.
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Character study of Alex, Jay, and the less-than-healthy friendship between them. (The farther they run, the smaller their worlds become.)
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Joseph's been in love with Sebastian Castellanos for ten years. At least, as much in love as a man who feels nothing to such an intensity can be.
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A Blemish in the Brain by ennui_ing
Fandoms: The Evil Within (Video Game), Outlast (Video Games)
12 Jun 2016
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Mount Massive Asylum takes anything its dark tendrils can reach, and all Joseph Oda has is his sanity. What begins as an investigation into rumours of patient abuse becomes an exploration of his many flaws; a cruel undoing of everything he thinks he knows. It's torture: a broken reality, sewn together with drugs and pretty 'fixes'.
Variant Sebastian shouldn't be anything more than the poor bastard in cell 497- but then again, Joseph shouldn't be anything less than sane.
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We've all seen Sebastian die a hundred times, but who's to say Joseph hasn't?