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Song Jin-Hyeok is the main protagonist of the 2020 South Korean psychological horror Webseries/Manhwa, PigPen.
He is an amnesiac man marooned on an island after a shipwrecked, where he encounters a strange family living isolated. He initially plans to try some way to escape the island and fight back at the family, who he thinks are cannibalistic serial killers. However, after supernatural things begin to happen, as well as a encounter with a mysterious child, he regains his memories and realizes that he was a serial killer, and he begins to fight back against the family.
Personality[]
When Jin-Hyeok was stranded with no memories, he was a polite, nervous and confused young man who was unable to understand what is going on, yet shows an extreme amount of intelligence and stealth, managing to figuring out puzzles and clues left on the island.
However, once JinHyeok’s memories came back, his old memories resurfaced into a sadistic, charismatic, vicious, remorseless serial murderer. Jin-Hyeok shows an extremely blood lust and ruthless flairs of rage, showing slights and insults to him with violence. He derives sick pleasure out of killing others and enjoys hurting them, yet shows a keen ability to lie, detect others emotions, sense their fear, and use things to his advantages to get one up on his victims. Jin-Hyeok also has extreme fits of dissociation and psychosis once the victims starts coming back to life and the family keeps fighting back.
Once more of JinHyeok’s memories come up, we get a full understanding of his personality as an mentally regressed and broken individual. It’s revealed JinHyeok suffers from a delusional disorder, making him unable to distinguish truth and fiction and making him think people mock or hurt him, leading him to hurt them. This childhood issues was only exasperated by his father’s abuse, leading him unable to get the proper help and causing him to become more and more mentally ill as time goes on.
When adopted into the family of the pig farmers, JinHyeok genuinely loves them, espiedally Jinu, however, due to his parental issues, sparks jealously over Jinu over their father’s affection and starts becoming paranoid. This culminated in JinHyeok Murdering Jinu in a fit of rage, and trying to replace him in their lives. His care for his adopted family and deep regret over their deaths he thinks he caused, leads him to completely detaching himself and forgetting them, trying his hardest to erase their minds. After he is disowned by his adopted father, JinHyeok’s psychotic tendency continues, slaughtering people including his girlfriend and classmates over believing they are insulting him. In order to shield guilt away from himself, he fabricates his victims as pigs, due to them witnessing him killing Jinu and morphing them into deranged and psychotic maniacs to justify himself.
It’s revealed that JinHyeok, despite his constant suppression, ultimately feels awful for his crimes, and can’t stop remembering his adopted family, so much so he accidentally kills another family due to them being remotely similar to his adopted one. After his comatose, JinHyeok fabricated an entire reality in his head of him being stranded at sea and hunted down by the family he murdered (behaving in exaggerated portrayals of his adopted family and the other family) due to his devout hatred of his actions, having him killed hundreds of times while harassed by the “ghosts” (in reality, simply his conscious) for what he did, having himself be murdered and revived in his head as justice against himself.
When he is confronted by Taehee Jin, in truth his adopted father having transferred himself into his consciousness, and learns about everything, Jin-Hyeok feels true remorse for his actions, confronting his memories of his past victims and finally breaking away from them, while acknowledging that the real victims will never forgive them. After his memories are fully back and after maintaining peace with what he did, Jin-Hyeok fight backs against his evil half (the manifestation of his hatred, sadism and murderous impulsiveness) and wishes to wake up accept the consequences of his actions. Whether this half (the human half of him as called) of Song Jin-Hyeok is the one that wakes up or not is left ambiguous as he finally arrested for his crimes.
Biography[]
Childhood[]
JinHyeok was born and raised in Korea to a single dad, who was a wealthy politician and congressmen. Ever since he was a child, Jin-Hyeok suffered from a delusional mental disorder, believing people were harassing and bullying him and became easily angered, attacking one kid for believing he was mocking him for his dead mom. His father, seeing JinHyeok as a liability to his reputation, started abusing him and insulting him for his worthlessness, eventually abandoning him.
Growing up with his Adopted Family[]
Eventually, JinHyeok gets adopted on a pig farm by a family, a devoutly Christian man, his loving cook of a mother, and their four kids: Minu, the older brother and a helpful and fun loving guy, Romi, a book smart and kind hearted woman, Yumi, the youngest daughter who is mischievous and precocious, and Jinu, a meek and shy boy who quickly becomes friends with JinHyeok. The two grew a close bond and JinHyeok became close with the family after his biological dad’s death, however when his delusions and paranoia got to him, he started to view Jinu with extreme jealously.
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Trivia[]
- Jin-Hyeok’s backstory shows what happens when mental health issues is ignored ls festered. Jin-Hyeok could have had a genuine life and a good relationships if his father would have agreed for him to be treated for his mental condition, especially since in this universe, medicine is double as expanded as before. But due to his father’s refusal and frequent beatings, it only served to degrade his sanity down into becoming the monster he is today.
- Jin-Hyeok shows lygophobia and Swinophobia, as with the former it was when his father leaves him in the dark after his abuse, and the ladder due to them being witnessed to him murdering Jinu.