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#Borderline #미혹의경계 Why I think Nanjo might actually be the more deceptive and bigger red flag: Before anyone calls me a Mokyeon defender, let’s get address Mokyeon's behavior first: Mokyeon is manipulative. He weaponized Nanjo’s concern for Sunhwa, went behind the back of someone he had known for ten years, repeatedly pushed Nanjo past clearly expressed limits, made decisions on Nanjo’s behalf, and eventually blew up the entire situation because he wanted Nanjo for himself. None of that is excusable. Mokyeon being traumatized, obsessed or genuinely in love does not erase what he did. But Mokyeon’s toxicity is obvious. He has never convincingly pretended to be a healthy or morally upright person. Nanjo is different. Nanjo is constantly treated as the normal, responsible and good one, even though almost everything he does is built on dishonesty, control and an absolute refusal to examine his own motives. >> First, Nanjo willingly entered the original deal with Mokyeon. That does not mean he consented to every single thing Mokyeon later did. Agreeing to an arrangement is not unlimited consent, and Mokyeon is still responsible for every moment in which he ignored Nanjo telling him to stop or saying he could not continue. But Nanjo’s agency in the larger relationship cannot simply be erased. He repeatedly returned, continued meeting Mokyeon behind Sunhwa’s back, maintained the bargain, concealed it and eventually began doing things with Mokyeon that had nothing to do with keeping him away from Sunhwa. Nanjo can be the victim of boundary violations while still being an active participant in the affair, deception and emotional mess. Those things can be true at the same time. >> Second, Nanjo’s supposed love for Sunhwa often looks more like a rescue fantasy than actual love. Nanjo has decided that Sunhwa is someone fragile who needs to be protected from Mokyeon, but he does not tell Sunhwa the truth, does not ask Sunhwa what he wants, does not give him the information he would need to make his own decision. Instead, Nanjo secretly negotiates Sunhwa’s relationships on his behalf. That is is control disguised as protection. Nanjo appears less attached to the real Sunhwa than to the role Sunhwa allows him to perform: provider, protector, responsible adult, savior, caring lover, whatever it may be since we still don't have Nanjo's POV revealed. Even when Sunhwa’s actual behaviour contradicts the innocent image Nanjo has created, Nanjo keeps defending the image. >> Third, the issue is not that Nanjo agreed to a threesome. Consensual non-monogamy is not automatically unhealthy. The red flag is that Nanjo seems to want exclusivity, reassurance and romantic devotion, yet refuses to express any of those needs honestly. He accepts arrangements that clearly disturb him because he would rather remain attached to Sunhwa than risk hearing that Sunhwa does not want the same relationship he does. Instead of communicating, Nanjo suffers, interferes and tries to manage everyone indirectly. No matter how you try to look at it, and where it stems from, it's unhealthy and manipulative behavior. >> Fourth, his relationship with Mokyeon eventually goes far beyond their original deal. Nanjo keeps their meetings secret from Sunhwa. He starts meeting Mokyeon in better places. He eats with him, buys him things, lets him into his home, hugs him, indulges his requests and goes on what is essentially a date with him. At that point, “I am only doing this to protect Sunhwa” no longer explains his behaviour. Nanjo’s feelings toward Mokyeon changed. He simply refused to acknowledge that they had changed. He began cultivating a private relationship with Mokyeon while continuing to use Sunhwa as an excuse for it. This translates into Nanjo eventually leading Mokyeon on, since Mokyeon has noticed that change in Nanjo himself. >> Fifth, Nanjo uses Mokyeon just as surely as Mokyeon uses Nanjo. Mokyeon uses Nanjo’s savior complex and concern for Sunhwa to gain access to him. Nanjo uses Mokyeon’s attraction as a tool for controlling another adult. His bargain is essentially: I will give you access to my body, and in exchange you will regulate Sunhwa’s behaviour for me. Nanjo turns himself into currency and Mokyeon into an instrument. That is not a healthy sacrifice, it is mutual exploitation. >> Sixth, Nanjo does not actually seem incapable of setting boundaries. He can be firm, threatening, aggressive and physically overpowering when he chooses to be. The problem is not that he is too helpless to express himself. The problem is that he selectively avoids the boundaries that would require emotional honesty. He can tell Mokyeon off, punish him and eventually beat him bloody. What he cannot do is tell Sunhwa the truth (whatever that truth might be) and admit that he wants Mokyeon. He cannot acknowledge that his reasons for continuing the arrangement stopped being purely about Sunhwa. He avoids making a decision until someone else creates a disaster, and essentially makes a decision for him, and then responds to that disaster with extreme force. >> Seventh, “I did it for Sunhwa” has become Nanjo’s way of avoiding responsibility for his own desire. Sleeping with Mokyeon was for Sunhwa. Hiding it was for Sunhwa. Continuing to meet Mokyeon was for Sunhwa. Going out with him, indulging him and letting him closer was somehow still for Sunhwa. At some point, Sunhwa stopped being the reason and became the alibi. That is what makes Nanjo such an interesting red flag. His toxicity does not look like Mokyeon’s. It hides behind respectability, self-control, protection and sacrifice. Mokyeon converts love into obsession, possession and coercion, while Nanjo converts love into rescue, denial, bargaining, secrecy and punishment. And now that Mokyeon has said out loud that Nanjo may have wanted Sunhwa removed from the equation, Nanjo’s response is not only anger at Mokyeon’s actions, but rage of someone who has had the ugliest part of his own desire exposed. I keep seeing people argue about which man deserves defending, when the entire point seems to be that all three of them are creating and maintaining this disaster in different ways. Mokyeon is not a misunderstood green flag. And Nanjo is definitely not the morally spotless victim the fandom sometimes makes him out to be. They are unstable, dishonest and destructive in completely different ways. For my assumptions as to why Nanjo might have behaved in the way he did in the latest episode, I'll write another post.

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