Overconfidence Kills
Working-Class Mr. Ahn's Unscheduled Visits to Dr. Yeon's Clinic continues...
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Warning: this post deals with some heavier psychological topics and dark fictional elements. Everything here is totally fictional.
Running Commentary — Mr Ahn's Cold
Jennie:
I. Mr Ahn's Stuffy Nose This is totally the scene that reflects our deep imaginings about Dr Yeon's obsessive paranoia over Suho's health. Picturing Suho shirtless sitting on the bed edge, obediently still like a child while Dr Yeon does whatever he says... it's too adorable. Weirdly enough, my headache already vanished from this first sentence hahahaha. Suho shirtless in just grey sweatpants sitting on the bed edge... how on earth do you paint these pictures, chef?!
II. The Defibrillator Teaching Session In our deluluverse, Dr Yeon is generously wasting his medical knowledge and skills on his favorite person in the world. Too lovely... Having a young doctor with cult-level surgical skills as your personal physician... Why is all this simultaneously adorable AND sexy? Suddenly remembered that line from early Yeon Clinic series about Dr Yeon not charging his favorite patient a single penny, not even a dime, and I laughed out loud hahaha.
III. Mr Ahn the Ill-Behaved Student Listen... Mr Ahn seems like such a well-behaved 'child'... When Dr Yeon uses that stern voice saying 'open your mouth wide so I can see how swollen your throat is' he'd go 'yessss' and go ahhhhh with his mouth wide open... This well-muscled guy all over his upper body, following every word from this handsome doctor without a single complaint... Come to think of it, this whole clinic setting is basically you and me living out our fetishes hahaha.
IV. Defibrillator Paddles: Creative Techniques Isn't Suho too cute? Dr Yeon's teaching the defibrillator usage in this serious attitude and tone, and when there's a particularly difficult part to understand, Suho makes a candy bulge in his cheek by pushing his tongue, or when he gets told off for fiddling with seonsaengnim's belt 'buckle' he pouts his lips out... Potato must've looked so cute like a hotteok pancake. If I ever get the chance to have the raw steak version about the paddles' creative techniques, I'd die happy. Suho 'receiving' Dr Yeon's creative techniques was probably hugging Dr Yeon tightly while facing him as he sat on the bed edge. With that adorable chin resting on Dr Yeon's shoulder. Every time he gets disciplined, he'd nuzzle that fox-like chin into Dr Yeon's neck, and whether Dr Yeon found Mr Ahn so cute that he 'properly' disciplined him all the way through remains a mystery. He'll probably never learn how to use it until he dies.
V. Dr Yeon Spoiled This Child When it comes to his own safety, Dr Yeon completely spoiled this child... implanting this concept of 'my hero will appear like Superman and rescue me somehow.' Since whenever he acts whiny when he's slightly sick, Dr Yeon forgives and overlooks everything. Really spoiled him rotten — at least in this department Dr Yeon completely buttoned the first button wrong. Of course, Suho's whining when sick has no expiration date.
VI. Maybe Si-eun Wishes Suho Would Stay Sick Maybe somewhere in Si-eun's unconscious mind, he's wishing Suho would stay sick... because it's the moment when Suho needs him most. Of course, Si-eun himself doesn't even know this underlying unconscious. Since he's a kid who's been obsessed with being 'needed' since childhood... this kind of obsessive notion formed from very early on. No matter how much Suho tells him 'I love you for you,' some unconscious part keeps tormenting Si-eun that he can only be loved if he's needed. It's a stupid unconscious but he can't fix it.
VII. Drawers One to Five Toys go at the very bottom, naturally hahaha. But he had cleared them out to make space for Dr Yeon's neuroses — there's no need for Dr Yeon to keep a separate place when he comes over every day to sleep together anyway. In Bricklayer's Interior Design, Suho's two-story house near Anguk Station was already set up as their honeymoon spot when Dr Yeon returns from Iraq. The happy deluluverse where all imagination becomes reality.
VIII. Dr Yeon's Wardrobe Right, Si-eun has OCD, and the concept of a doctor who can't cure his own OCD has always seemed sexy to me. I'm infinitely grateful that this soup was specially catered by chef to satisfy my subtly specific fetishes. Already those big eyes looking at him must be full of affection when Dr Yeon gazes at him, and even his actions are all aligned solely for Suho, so I think Suho's feeling the happiness of being 'loved without gaps.' I read on a tweet that if you look at Si-eun's study schedule from Byeoksan days, there are no 'gaps' and every study action plan is broken down by the minute. It's really an incredible obsession. But the tweet said 'Si-eun who poured all his energy into studying started pouring energy into knowing and studying Ahn Suho' and I totally agree. Given Si-eun's nature, even his object of affection is something his 'brain' needs to study. In the Yeon Clinic deluluverse, Mr Ahn has slightly more fashion sense — Si-eun would've just worn whatever achromatic clothes his parents bought him. He's the type who doesn't want to waste energy picking out clothes. He could've kept that mushroom hair and Yeon Clinic would still have a line of nurses wanting to apply hahaha.
IX. Socks with No Separation of Ownership If it's Dr Yeon, he'd totally create a mini-clinic in Suho's second-floor living space and have plenty left over. Even after setting that up, he'd check if the labels are properly attached to quickly locate those tools in emergencies. He has the 'brain' capacity to spend energy on that and have plenty to spare. People might think Si-eun would say 'don't wear my underwear' but in reality, he's 'not picky' enough to share underwear and socks with his live-in partner without distinction, which is so very Si-eun-like. Or maybe he's originally picky but sharing stuff with Suho feels totally natural. For socks, you'd be the head nurse and I'd be the trainee — but this eagle-eyed trainee definitely wouldn't be me because I'm really dense about this stuff. I'd definitely be one of the Yeonnies waiting for new hot gossip hahaha.
X. The Blue Porcelain Dish No space, and they need to grab them easily when excited, so keeping them in the wardrobe would be inefficient hahaha. Yeah, they need to be openly piled on the blue porcelain dish to be 'easily' usable? Wondering where Si-eun got the truncheon. Online? Yeah, probably ordered online. During office hours. When there were no patient appointments. While watching out for the nurses. The clients are innocent, they just received recommendations from this harmlessly handsome tile specialist Mr Ahn hahahahaha.
XI. Ten Minutes of Auscultation The act of auscultation being this long and sexy, who knew. 10 minutes of auscultation feels like Dr Yeon's putting way too much personal interest into this. Imagining two otters clinging close together — happy. Right, at the police station he apologized to Beom-seok right away saying "You were right. Suho was really in danger." I remember that line.
XII. Overconfidence Kills This 'what if' scenario will follow Si-eun until he dies. Even though the original sin wasn't his, he can't escape the guilt of feeling like he's the original sin because of this scenario. Right, Si-eun never forgives himself, so I imagine how tormented he must've been while Suho was in a coma. At least when Suho woke up, he could somewhat escape that guilt. Suho can't possibly miss the gloom rising in Si-eun's eyes during auscultation even though he can't hear the grim recitation happening inside...
XIII. I Swear You're Just Trying to Play with My Nipples Brain-canon wise, I think Suho made that playful joke after sensing Si-eun's grim inner vows. It's a cute joke but the narrative's too sad. When he makes this joke, I don't think Suho's face would've gotten red at all, which makes it so cute. He's good at making jokes, but when they actually start happy time with toys, I think it's Suho whose face turns bright red.
XIV. The Cornucopia of Toys Right, Suho couldn't have missed Si-eun's gloomy heart... But he was quietly glad for Mr Ahn's interjection. His guardian had yanked him out of a spiraling whirlpool of self-doubt.
XV. The Old-School Thermometer I don't use this stick thermometer anymore either.
XVI. Walking Through the Darkness "I've got to prepare for work," Dr Yeon answered — and in my head, he walked quietly through the darkness, guided by the thinnest thread of light, careful not to wake Suho. The original says he 'shuffled' — but somehow this felt more Si-eun to me.
XVII. The Bathroom Door Rule Oh my god, right, this is also true. Lots of people get concussions from slippery bathroom floors. This is actually a fact rather than just Dr Yeon's neurosis. There's actually an emergency protocol in homes with chronic conditions recommending not locking bathroom doors. I live alone but removed the pin from my bathroom doorknob just in case.
XVIII. They're Really Like an Old Married Couple They're really like an old married couple hahaha.
Who is Jennie? Bricklayer. Local correspondent for the Yeon Clinic deluluverse. A sous chef who checks whether the soup actually tastes like Seoul. A specialist who designs this kitchen to hold more than Suho's coma — philosophy, history, society, culture, stacked one recipe at a time.
Who is Asuka? Head nurse and main chef of the Yeon Clinic. A Scheherazade who sings the Song of Achilles she found shelved next to a book on Zen Buddhist masters. Fluent in several languages, conversant in single malts and the precise emotional damage of Weak Hero Class 1. Signs off as ASL. (Always starch linen.)
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This post was originally published on Jennie's blog in the autumn of 2025. The original blog has since moved to Blogger due to hosting changes — welcome to the new home.
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