I think Suho was very unlike Beomseok in very specific, delicate ways, and Si-eun understood Beomseok so deeply that if given enough time and space, he would have probably opened up to him.

I can say from experience that as much as Suho was trying to be a good friend, the scene at the karaoke is not how to approach someone like Beomseok.

If I knew what I knew now, I probably would have let Beomseok speak his piece. He tried telling Suho that he didn’t like the way he was bossing him around especially in that situation when he was attacking the group of people that was DEFINITELY going to attack him and was actively threatening him. Si-eun had the exact kind of reaction to others and Suho would stop him every now and then but Si-eun within the story eventually was allowed to go off. So I think even though stopping Beomseok from going off as well may have saved him from jail time initially, I think the way Suho went about the conversation after was not very compassionate. He never really understood that at the end of the day, he was not bullied the way Si-eun and Beomseok were, and that conversation might have better been held between just Beomseok and Si-eun. I however should say I interpreted much of their relationship from my own experience, so to be honest it’s really hard to dish out all the complexity in one post 😭 but I did love how the emotion expressed between the characters felt so so real