Beyond Repair

Wooyoung has grown up feeling like the world is heavier for him than it is for everyone else. His depression isn't a sudden storm but a constant, low‑lying fog, something he learns to navigate with routines, therapy attempts, and the small joys he collects like talismans. He wants balance, even if he's never quite sure what that looks like. Then his mother dies without warning. Her passing shatters the fragile progress he's made. His grief is not just sadness; it's destabilizing, disorienting, and cruel. The person who understood him best is gone, and the world becomes unfamiliar again. Depression, once a fog, becomes a storm. A darkness he never asked for.