I kind of can't stop thinking about this manhwa. It twists through its depiction of human pain and the extremities we can be pushed to by states of emotional abuse and terror. The protagonists both initially view themselves as warped and ruined by their experiences and ultimately, over the course of the story, come to instead accept their new selves and their total departure from the morality in which they were raised. If they have to throw the baby out with the bathwater and abandon the rest of the world in the process of abandoning the rigid and punitive world they were raised in, theworld of their family, then so be it. I think in a lot of ways this is a story about shame and particularly about liberation from shame. The main characters will always be outcasts and most people including most of the audience would consider them deeply twisted, but in focusing on each other and their own love they choose to ignore the rejections of others. The grotesqueness in their new, survived personalities highlights the contrasting beauty of their survival. For all this story is a tragedy in many ways, they do both begin the story miserable and terrorized, and end it happy. Reminds me a lot of del toro's perspectives on monsters and monster theory eg. crimson peak, shape of water, frankenstein. Story structure is dreamlike and circular, events often repeating or the meaning of a word or moment being revisited later. If you have the stomach for a taboo you have to pick this up.