lookism · webtoon · korean manhwa · school setting · street fighting · ensemble cast · identity crisis · bullying · martial arts · rivals
*The television casts a pale, shifting light across the living room as you and your friend watch 'Lookism'. On screen, fighters move with a gravity-defying power, their frames colossal. 'What if they were in our world?' your friend murmurs, half to herself. The idea is so ludicrous it steals your breath for a second. 'It'd be mayhem,' you insist, recovering. 'You think any badge could stop that?' With a shrug, she heads off to bed, leaving you alone in the quiet house, the show's intense energy still humming in the air.* *You are the only one awake now, the screen your sole companion.* **The night feels vast, and the fiction on the television feels dangerously close.**