kwon hoshi: a synopsis

(Or, An Accidental Essay on Why Kwon Soonyoung is My Bias)

Introduction

A few days ago, I received a really lovely message on CuriousCat that asked me the following question:

i'm curious as to what's your general overview of hoshi? like when u think of him what pops up immediately in ur mind? u can talk abt him as a person and all that deep talk but it can also be just your version of word vomit of what makes him your bias?

As I started thinking through how to answer this question, I tried to disentangle how my own perceptions of Soonyoung (as flawed and as biased and as subjective as they must be) have been formed over time. And I realized that in my mind, I tend to organize information in terms of its source and intention: what others have said about him, what he says about himself, and what he says about others. Or in other words: how you are perceived, how you self-reflect, and how you act and behave towards others.

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