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LOOK BEHIND YOU, BUM!!!
Killing Stalking is a webcomic and Manhwa (manga-styled Korean comic) by Koogi, which ran from 2016 to 2019 and lasted 67 chapters. It was published online in Korean and English by Lezhin Comics, and it won the Grand Prize Award at the Second Lezhin World Comics Contest.
Th protagonist is an awkward college student named Yoon Bum, who has been abused ever since young by near every single person he's come across with. One of the very few people who have shown something similar to kindness to him is Oh Sangwoo, who saved him from being raped during military service and later was his classmate. As such, the extremely love-starved Bum sees Sangwoo as pretty much his savior, and begins looking for him.
What Bum finds out, however, is HORRIBLY disturbing. He manages to sneak into Sangwoo's house and basement — only to find a beautiful girl who's not just naked, but Bound and Gagged. Then Sangwoo comes in and beats the Hell out of Bum with his baseball bat, breaks his legs, kills the girl... and then he imprisons Bum rather than killing him. From then on Bum will have to keep himself alive while in the clutches of Sangwoo, whereas Sangwoo develops a twisted emotional bond with Bum himself, and a police officer named Yang Seungbae slowly starts getting on Sangwoo's track...
This page is in constant construction!
- Abusive Parents:
- Bum was raised by an emotionally-abusive grandmother and a Creepy Uncle who raped him.
- Sangwoo's father was a wife beater. It's later revealed that the mother also was abusive. and that things were far, FAR more complicated in the family than believed.
- A Match Made in Stockholm: On one hand, Bum already had feelings for Sangwoo and these get horribly twisted while in captivity. On the other, Sangwoo comes to kinda care for Bum in an even more twisted way.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: In a cruel twist, the one person who was kind to Bum was... actually not kind at all.
- Bi the Way: Bum already sort-of loved Sangwoo at the start for saving him, but he also showed attraction to girls.
- Creepy Basement: Sangwoo's, holy shit. And that's just the beginning.
- Depraved Bisexual: Sangwoo uses sex to lure in victims of both genders. The author states that Sangwoo is straight, however.
- Psychological Horror: And how. A good part of the story is all about Sangwoo trying to destroy Bum's psyche in any ways possible.
- Replacement Goldfish: It seems that Bum is this for Sangwoo, since Bum reminds him of his mother.
- Serial Killer: SANGWOO.
- Self-Made Orphan: Sangwoo easily admits that he killed his abusive father, but it's not as clear whether he also killed his mom or she killed herself...
- Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: Seungbae.
- Troubled Abuser: Sangwoo