Status Updates From Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 3

i am giggling and kicking my damn feet, this manga has no right to be as funny as it is

YONA IS SUCH A BAD BITCH OH MY GOD
and i LOVE that hak is so obsessed with her determination and fierceness too!!!!! in a worse version of this story he’d feel threatened by it or would discourage her from becoming stronger for his own ego’s sake but NOPE. if anything he’s MORE attracted to her when she’s stealing his sword

…gija specifically begging for his master to take him away from the village after the topic of marriage is brought up is suspicious to say the least. and by suspicious i mean gay. this man is gay. i feel very confident that i can and will spread the “every found family is gay” agenda through these characters and gija is the clearest one right off the bat

for the sake of my sanity and mental health i’m going to brush past the reveal that EVERYONE in the village is a descendant of the white dragon, meaning that they’ve been fucking their relatives targaryen-style for hundreds of years to keep the blood as pure as possible. i mean yona had a crush on su-won for years, and he’s her first cousin so. i guess this is just part of these fantasy stories huh

GOD this volume is good too i feel like i’m gonna end up making everything 5 stars on this reread
i definitely mentioned it before but hak is so gojo here if he were more self-pitying. both warrior prodigies who force themselves to be seen as nothing more than protectors and tools. they can’t WANT anything or anyone if they are objects, they can only do their job to the best of their ability with no distractions

i’m so ready to sob at this backstory again!!!!! yun being prepared to die if his plan to steal food backfires but not wanting to hurt anyone else???? he was SO privately relieved to see that ik-su was still alive, so much so that he even used his probably very limited supply of medicine on him. he’s a tough, jaded kid but he’s so GOOD and ik-su sees it immediately

oh sweet naive yona you cannot simply call hak a good boy while petting his head and expect him not to lose his mind (and try to play it off and deflect with teasing of course of course)

okay okay so the priests getting banished was way before yu-hon was set to potentially take the throne (based on ik-su’s age it was around 28 years ago? i think?) but he did still get rid of them bc of his own selfish warmongering reasons nonetheless. maybe one of them also had an early prediction about his reign being a bloody one and he stamped it out before it could spread (but ju-nam heard it anyway)