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So, I got a lot of nice comments, but also some other telling me how they find this artwork to be "too dark", that "the face doesn't suit jumin" or even calling my concept "creepy".
Well, I'd like to explain why I did things this way but it includes spoilers
So don't read if you haven't played Jumin, Zen and 707's routes and after endings.

------[spoiler ahead]------------

Jumin had to deal with stuff during his childhood; his father's mistresses being the main issue and having to be perfect all the time to feel he was worth his existence. Since he was a kid, Jumin knew that being rich and having a powerful father would make things easier for him always (not emotionally tho), and that even if he messed up, no one would ever tell him that he did something wrong. Instead of taking advantage of this, he decided to actually earn the compliments because he IS good at what he does, he didn't want to earn fake medals, he decided to be perfect so no one would lie by saying he did nothing wrong. Growing up, he becomes a successful business man, becomes his father's right hand and also one of the country's most eligible millionaire bachelors.

Having no time for anyone except the cat that his best friend V's girlfriend Rika, gave him, Jumin became obsessed with this cat and projected his unrequited love for Rika (V's girlfriend) in Elizabeth the 3rd, the cat. No one is aware of this, the other members of the RFA consider Jumin to be a stone cold heartless selfish robotic man that cares about absolutely no one but him and his cat, but these perspectives change if you play Jumin, Zen and 707's routes.

In the after ending we see Jumin taking care of the RFA after his childhood/best friend dies, he becomes the main pillar of the organization and will protect everyone without hesitation. Everyone, including the killer of his best friend who is also the brother of one of the members. Jumin protects Saeran because it's important to Saeyoung. He finds out the only woman he ever loved wasn't dead, instead she was crazy and is the main culprit of his best friend being murdered. He takes care of her too.
He wants the best for everyone, yet no one ever asked him if he was alright after all this happened.

So, this artwork is my tribute to Jumin as the whole character he is, not the man he would become depending on the route you take.
Someone on tumblr reblogged this and commented almost exactly my thoughts on what I intended to say with this artwork, so I'll paste it here (thank you very much serensama, I'm not good with words):

"It literally feels to me how people treat Jumin, like they can pull at him and manipulate him however they want to get what they want; but for the most part, he stays steadfast and stays true to himself, even if he is alone with just a glass of wine for company."

Blue hydrangeas have a lot of meanings depending on the culture, but they can go from gratefulness for understanding, a symbol of silent devotion, coldness and heartlessness, boastfulness and vanity, pride and unrequited love.

So, yeah...

I think he's way more than just the "cool type" character. There's so much pain inside him that no one cares about that yeah, he's standing still but even a character so strong would have a melancholic expression after everything he has lived so far.

WOW that's long.

TL;DR: jumin 3deep5me

sorry if there are any typos lol

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Description
So, I got a lot of nice comments, but also some other telling me how they find this artwork to be "too dark", that "the face doesn't suit jumin" or even calling my concept "creepy".
Well, I'd like to explain why I did things this way but it includes spoilers
So don't read if you haven't played Jumin, Zen and 707's routes and after endings.

------[spoiler ahead]------------

Jumin had to deal with stuff during his childhood; his father's mistresses being the main issue and having to be perfect all the time to feel he was worth his existence. Since he was a kid, Jumin knew that being rich and having a powerful father would make things easier for him always (not emotionally tho), and that even if he messed up, no one would ever tell him that he did something wrong. Instead of taking advantage of this, he decided to actually earn the compliments because he IS good at what he does, he didn't want to earn fake medals, he decided to be perfect so no one would lie by saying he did nothing wrong. Growing up, he becomes a successful business man, becomes his father's right hand and also one of the country's most eligible millionaire bachelors.

Having no time for anyone except the cat that his best friend V's girlfriend Rika, gave him, Jumin became obsessed with this cat and projected his unrequited love for Rika (V's girlfriend) in Elizabeth the 3rd, the cat. No one is aware of this, the other members of the RFA consider Jumin to be a stone cold heartless selfish robotic man that cares about absolutely no one but him and his cat, but these perspectives change if you play Jumin, Zen and 707's routes.

In the after ending we see Jumin taking care of the RFA after his childhood/best friend dies, he becomes the main pillar of the organization and will protect everyone without hesitation. Everyone, including the killer of his best friend who is also the brother of one of the members. Jumin protects Saeran because it's important to Saeyoung. He finds out the only woman he ever loved wasn't dead, instead she was crazy and is the main culprit of his best friend being murdered. He takes care of her too.
He wants the best for everyone, yet no one ever asked him if he was alright after all this happened.

So, this artwork is my tribute to Jumin as the whole character he is, not the man he would become depending on the route you take.
Someone on tumblr reblogged this and commented almost exactly my thoughts on what I intended to say with this artwork, so I'll paste it here (thank you very much serensama, I'm not good with words):

"It literally feels to me how people treat Jumin, like they can pull at him and manipulate him however they want to get what they want; but for the most part, he stays steadfast and stays true to himself, even if he is alone with just a glass of wine for company."

Blue hydrangeas have a lot of meanings depending on the culture, but they can go from gratefulness for understanding, a symbol of silent devotion, coldness and heartlessness, boastfulness and vanity, pride and unrequited love.

So, yeah...

I think he's way more than just the "cool type" character. There's so much pain inside him that no one cares about that yeah, he's standing still but even a character so strong would have a melancholic expression after everything he has lived so far.

WOW that's long.

TL;DR: jumin 3deep5me

sorry if there are any typos lol

707:

-
twitter.com/Tatouji
www.facebook.com/tatouji/
tatoujiji.tumblr.com/