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In-ho’s books.

Does anyone who speaks Korean happen to know what it says on his shelves? This is season 1 episode 2. The time stamp is around 28:45. I’ve managed to work these out:

Fiction

Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

Basic Writings of Nietzche

Desire and its interpretations by Jacques Lacan

3 Unknown (appear to be fiction, titles are Korean, sit next to Van Gogh)

1 Unknown (first book from left next to Nietzche’s)

Seminar XI: Four Basic Concepts of Psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan (credit: afterubleedout-blog for finding it)

Visual

Picasso’s Blue and Rose Period

Van Gogh: The Complete Collection

A Claude Monet book (unclear)

Renée Margritte’s Empires of Light (I believe a picture of her paintings is also hanging on his wall)

There is another shelf on the top left with more books but I think it would be virtually impossible to recognize them unless you already knew it by the spines.

BTS 2013-2023 PHOTO COLLECTION #2024BTSFESTA

Don't get me wrong, I like the collective head cannon that Will loves fast food but I also 100% believe Will knows Hannibal's cooking so well that if he was to change even one tiny thing he would notice.

Just because you like garbage doesn't mean you can't appreciate fine foods. I think every time Hannibal brought Will food he was genuinely happy with the dish but also would of happily ate Burger King. He's not ungrateful, he's just not picky.

But after the Fall one time Will aggravates Hannibal somehow. It was small, nothing worth even fighting about but Hannibal is still stewing on it a bit while cooking dinner and decided to just, cook it a bit faster or take a shortcut because he's a little frustrated.

The two sit down and begin to eat:

Will: "You didn't blanch the tomatoes like you usually do..."

Hannibal: *Stops mid bite, and merely raises an eyebrow but internally has to set down the utensil before he breaks down.* "You noticed..."

Will: "I always do." *Casually takes another bite while still looking at him.*

: ̗̀➛ALICE IN BORDERLAND

SHUNTARO CHISHIYA ———————————————————

about Chishiya, since the show watered him down ;p he actually was kind of heartless and never understood the concept of life and wasn't interested in it either. so if you're mad at someone for saying "awful" things he would have do, you're probably the one mischaracterizing him In his backstory (manga-based only), we learn that he was born into a family with no love and affection. his parents never showed interest in him; they only cared about work—actually, that much—that even if they didn't love each other anymore, they pretended to be happy so the hospital where the father worked—his father was the hospital head—wouldn't get into any scandals. chishiya basically grows up in a family with no feelings, and since he never got to know them, he still doesn't know them to this day. he wanted to check if he could feel anything by starting to work in his father's hospital as a student. he wanted to know if he could feel compassion toward any of the patients and if that would help him find an interest in life; guess what, it didn’t help, then he kind of gave up on himself and looking for any sense in life or finding a good in himself

but there was one thing that interested him since he was a child: it was the Mona Lisa painting. we see him looking at it, stating that he couldn't look away and that "everyone wants to be seen for who they are"; it is a reference to his history in various ways. first, the painting, in one of its meanings, is a visual representation of happiness. looking at what he said, it could be interpreted as him referring to his family, who are actually just pretenders and are "painted" happy. the second meaning refers to him, as he always felt different from others and viewed emotional people as stupid. because of that, other people couldn't understand him; he reminded himself of the painting when he tells arisu he just wanted someone to understand him. he said the Mona Lisa, in one theory, has been said to be Da Vinci himself dressed as a woman—which refers to people actually not knowing Da Vinci, just as people do not actually know and understand him.

in Borderland, his first game was 6 of Diamonds - a blackjack. there we could see how intelligent and observant he actually is. he never gambled before and was not only able to pick up the rules through observation but also invented a mathematical card counting method to decide how to bet. other players there couldn’t understand how a young man like him could act so calm and unbothered, but he simply had no concept of living and didn't care if he died or not. from the beginning, he only "helped" others when he saw they might be useful—that's why he helped Karube and gave him information about the beach since he was with Arisu, who he became interested in.

on the beach, he paired with Kuina, but they weren’t friends, as the show depicts; he had from the beginning planned to use her to steal the cards by himself when they were about to steal them together. he needed her to get closer to Arisu—to use him for his plan—he didn't care what was going to happen to them(arisu & usagi). kuina even asked him if he really didn't feel sorry at all, but of course, he doesn’t feel anything. Kuina later in the series even said she hates him just as much as she hates niragi 10 of hearts: after the start of the game, he leaves Kuina behind and is trying to kill Niragi; he says he's pissing him off since Niragi reminds him how awful he also is. both of them don’t care about other lives, killing and betraying them. Chishiya really hated niragi. he knew there was something wrong with him, but he couldn’t change and gave it up already in his backstory. he wants niragi dead so he won’t have to face the thought of how evil he actually is. also, when he learns Arisu is alive, he doesn’t try to solve the game; he knows Arisu will do it and that he doesn’t need to interfere. especially when it’s a heart game, he may be pretty good at them, but he doesn’t really like them since he isn’t good with emotions and never really understood other people's minds.

King of diamonds: there, as usual, Chishiya couldn't care less about his life and gives Kuzuryu the option to kill him. as i said, he never had the concept of life and was only in the borderlands looking for something interesting, like, for example, his beloved Mona Lisa painting. unexpectedly, Kuzuryu decides to sacrifice himself for Chishiya, which actually makes him wonder—how do people decide to sacrifice for others? Why do they do that? He contemplates the concept of empathy. Kuzuryu's sacrifice was like a breaking point for Chishiya because, before, Arisu's will to help others interested him, but what Kuzuryu did for him made him actually think about changing.

Arisu and Niragi: when the shooting started, because of what i wrote above and Arisu's speech before Usagi appears, he decides to take Usagi's bullet. He wants to do something nice in return, something out of character—as he said. he wanted to know how it feels to help others, to do something for someone instead of for himself. he then expressed thoughts about the Mona Lisa, stating he only wanted someone to understand him, and it happened to be Arisu and Niragi. He was glad to meet them and told Arisu his existence was just to show how empty humans can be—“I understand,” he responded. he came to the conclusion that he probably never wanted to learn about others and/or emotions because he was too jealous of them to think of it, viewing them as stupid instead. summarizing all his character: he was selfish, lacking humanity, and disinterested in life. so why, after all, did he decide to go back to the real world and survived the shooting? because of Arisu, Usagi, and Kuzuryu, he finally found a reason to live - to slowly change and try to understand what is humanity - i think that moment - him finding a reason to live - was the most beautiful part of his character. they were his new Mona Lisa, making him interested and causing him to think just like the painting did before; it was what he searched for in the borderland.

This??? Scene???

Sangwoo crying and begging on his knees if you even care.... I get it Ali i would also fold if i saw him like this.

"Are you sure you can't stay?"

"I don't think I would be good company."

"I disagree."

We are not appreciating enough the simplicity and genuineness of this dialogue. Who has made Will feel like he is not good company? His reason for not staying is not "I'm busy" or "I'm not into this kind of things", he says he is not good company. His response is very empathetic if you think about it because he is thinking about how he is perceived by Hannibal and the others.

We couldn't see the whole conversation unfortunately but Hannibal's question implies that he is asking Will to stay for a second time. He had probably asked him earlier, Will had refused without giving a reason but later he brings the bottle of wine to make up for not staying and Hannibal insists that he should stay. And for someone who doesn't have friends and is not invited to stuff, I think it meant the world to Will that Hannibal really meant it. Hannibal really wanted him there. And Hannibal disagrees with him but not out of politeness, he is super genuine. To him, Will is good company. Anyway I will go cry now.

Obsessed with how Will Graham showed up to work twitching, sweating, and visibly distressed, and the entire department is like “This is Will, he just does this sometimes, he’s in perfect shape to go look at some mutilated corpses”

"match my freak!" match my sweetness. match my benevolence. match my empathy. match my ability to feel emotions so deeply it tears me apart from the inside out