We Never Got A Yeong And Eun Sop Reunion And The Fact That Only One Remembers Is Sad. But I Guess When

We never got a Yeong and Eun sop reunion and the fact that only one remembers is sad. But I guess when Eun sop said that his 65th dream was to meet him, Yeong knew that he absolutely meant it... and that is enough for him. 😭

I’m not crying, you are.

Lee Gon has been completely alone in the world of frozen time for months - months without someone to talk to, to touch or someone who would tell him what to do or to comfort him - and this is one of the few times he allows himself to leave and go to see Tae Eul or plant those new memories because otherwise the flute would fall apart completely and he would be lost forever in time, all alone, never seeing her again. 

There is something so deeply intimate about Lee Gon lovingly admiting he loves to watch Tae Eul tying her hair which she does usually only when she means business and turns all no-nonsense. It’s like he is pretty much admiting that he loves when she is mean to him and that he has an obsession with her hair which has always been obvious because he never never stop from caressing them.

He’s been carrying that hair tie the whole time since she left it behind in his palace. That little piece of fabric is together with his memories of her probably the only thing that is keeping him sane in the in-between and he still gives it to her. To have the one excuse to touch her because even that one fleeting touch means everything to him.

Tae Eul doesn’t even flinch when someone is aiming a gun or a knife at her and she can take down a small army on her own; HOWEVER, THE MERE THOUGHT OF LOSING LEE GON, HIS LOVE AND ALL HER MEMORIES OF HIM MAKES HER FALL APART - IT’S THE ONLY THING IN THE WORLD THAT SHE FEARS. She can’t bear the possibility that their love would turn into nothingness and just seeing the first trace of Gon disappearing from her life breaks something inside her and she makes her decision. 

She finally has the answer to the question Gon has been asking her the whole time - can she leave it all behind and be with him? Yes, without hesitation. Previously, TE prioritized her work, only stealing moments with him on parking lots or when they were both investigating and fighting LR, but the possibility of Gon vanishing from her life forever puts it all into perspective and makes the choice, which she’s been postponing for so long, crystal clear to her.

And the symbolism of the moment is so beautiful - she puts on the necklace he gave her, the one bearing the sigil of his house, commits a criminal offense with Luna, gets himself a magical flute AND SHE DOES ALL THAT BECAUSE, AS TE HERSELF TEARFULLY ADMITS, A LIFE WITHOUT GON EQUALS TO DYING AND SHE WILL NEVER LEAVE HIM ALONE EVER AGAIN (since that is what she has always been worried about - him being all alone when the time stops and in the land of the frozen time). AND SHE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT HIM EITHER. Suddenly, her Earth is finally round and her character comes full circle.

Me to the cast of TKEM:

This is a melodrama.