These are English translations of DanRim's pair checklist! 🫧
Nanjo and Mok's answers are all from before they met one another, not from the present day. Do bear in mind that this is a fan translation!
Thank you to @SoonChick1210 for all the help! :) #Borderline
@RobinTheBird_ It’s Borderline! Well, I can’t really call it a green flag😭 their relationship starts off in a pretty messed-up way, but the story and its characters are really well developed. S2 is currently ongoing, and I definitely recommend giving it a chance🫶🏻
@SoonChick1210 so the uke never had the security of knowing how he truly felt. He was also insecure and needed reassurance-just like Nanjo. I think one of Mokyeon’s mistakes was also not expressing what he felt to Nanjo, although I understand why he couldn’t do that
@SoonChick1210 Wow, yes, I think so too! It really reminds me of “Accidental Baby.” I read the novel, and although the seme’s actions made it obvious that he loved the uke, he never clearly expressed his feelings, only indirectly, using the baby as an excuse…
We read the story from Mokyeon's perspective, so we know he has feelings for Nanjo, but Nanjo has no way of knowing that Mokyeon feels anything for him other than lust and scorn. No wonder he struggles with his own emotions when he has no idea what's happening in Mokyeon's mind
He really convinced himself that Mokyeon just wanted to see him suffer; it’s only funny when Nanjo feels aroused or irritated while thinking that Mokyeon is just “playing games” with him- lmao
where we see Nanjo admitting his own flaws, but especially affirming what he believes was the origin of their relationship- a “kind of revenge” from Mokyeon.
I think that, from Nanjo’s perspective, it really feels like Mok is just “tormenting” him, “having fun” with him; it’s even more painful when we think that maybe he had already started developing feelings.
And this brings us to chapter 34…
@SoonChick1210 Funny bc the English uses “piss someone off”, so I never associated it with “making someone suffer” like the Japanese translation does. It seems the Korean uses 괴롭히다, which, from what I’ve read, is somewhere in between-not just irritation, but emotional distress too
@SoonChick1210 From what I’ve seen, it seems like the Japanese version stayed closer to the original Korean, while the English version adapted the joke a bit more. It’s really interesting to see how different translators choose to localize the same line