The Regressor’s Personality Training Chapter Completed Discussion

THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE STORIES

It might sounded like a storm of cliches, and it might be a little, but it was done in a very tasteful and enjoyable way.

Lee Danwoo was a little fish being put into a pond for big fishes and he struggled to keep up with the rest in that pond. It cost him a LOT more to do things that others could do easily because they were 'talented' and he might be a bit resentful of that, but ultimately he was someone who focused on what needed to be done. I really like his character and Cha Woowon was really right for him.

Like most other regressor, Lee Danwoo was insanely unreliable as a narrator. Do not trust early chapters flashbacks because it was mostly colored by his depression and bogged down by his pessimism, but as the story goes, more things would be cleared up.

The thing that made him different from most other unreliable narrator regressor was his self-awareness. He wasn't dense. He might have missed a few things in the past, but his main unreliableness as a narrator was entirely self-inflicted. Because he was a pragmatic person who focused on doing what needed to be done, he (rightly) decided to think and remember things a certain way to not be bogged down by silly things like emotions.

It was really telling when more of his plans were successful, he began remembering fonder memories Spoiler

of his time with Cha Woowon instead of their horrible start. By the time he regress, Lee Danwoo already had enough insight to know that while at the beginning Cha Woowon might not have his best interest in mind, but in the end they do love each other. He wasn't exactly in denial of this, but he pushed it out of his mind in favor for the uglier part of their relationship because that affection might destroy him with Cha Woowon dead.

[collapse], because it wouldn't happen again.

I also like Cha Woowon's character as seen through Lee Danwoo's eyes and in his own pov. The past Cha Woowon Spoiler

was a hero but not a gentle one. He had been tempered by loss, so he knew when to get tough. It was a Cha Woowon who, sadly, grew up and matured through grief, so he had sharp edges. Good thing that Lee Danwoo always see through those edges and rougher actions and the present Cha Woowon

[collapse]

Most of all, I love their relationship a lot. They understand and trust each other to frightening degree. It was to the point of idol worship. It wasn't a 'I will trade the world for you' relationship, because they know the other wouldn't like that. But it was a 'I will save the world, because that's what you would want and because there was you in that world'.