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* HomoeroticDream: Jo has one of Ian after seeing him. Realizing he's having one of him without even knowing his name comedically makes Jo think of himself as a pervert and question his sexuality.
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* FamilyOfChoice: TJ calls Ian his family to Jason when he tells TJ to get married, build a foundation, and have kids. When Jason tells TJ that's not a real family, TJ retorts that Jason was the one who said Ian was family in the first place. The two used to call each other BloodBrothers and have known each other for 19 years and eventually became lovers, after all.
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* FamilyOfChoice: TJ calls Ian his family to Jason when he tells TJ to get married, build a foundation, and have kids. When Jason tells TJ that's not a real family, TJ retorts that Jason was the one who said Ian was family in the first place. The two used to call each other BloodBrothers brothers and have known each other for 19 years and eventually became lovers, after all.
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* EroticDream: Jo has one of Ian after seeing him. Realizing he's having one of him without even knowing his name comedically makes Jo think of himself as a pervert and question his sexuality.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Jo masturbates to Ian after their meteor shower date. He slaps himself after and wonders how he's going to face him now.
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* MoreExperiencedChasesTheInnocent: Ian, who's had many hookups with men, and Jo, who's never been with a man and commits for a long time whenever entering a relationship. At first Ian asks Jo to get a beer with him with the intent of having a one-night stand with him, but Jo obliviously turns down Ian's offer to come back to his place and they become closer after. [[spoiler:After asking Jo if this is his first time with a man, Ian tells him he'll be gentle. And when Jo asks to [[{{Seme}} put it in]], Ian asks him if he knows how, with Jo retorting that he's 27, not a teenager, and knows how guys do it.]]
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''Wet Sand'' (웻샌드) is a Korean webtoon created by Doyak.
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''Wet Sand'' (웻샌드) is a BoysLove Korean webtoon created by Doyak.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Jo masturbates to Ian after their meteor shower date. He slaps himself after and wonders how he's going to face him now.
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* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:After talking about how Ian plays around with his one-night stands, Jo tells Ian he's ''not'' comfortable around him and doesn't want him to be comfortable around him either, and leans in to kiss him.]]
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* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:After talking about how Ian plays around with his one-night stands, stands and Ian brings up that he first approached Jo only to have a one-night stand but they became closer and he's only telling Jo this because he's gotten comfortable with him, Jo tells Ian he's ''not'' comfortable around him and doesn't want him to be comfortable around him either, and leans in to kiss him.]]
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* LoveConfession: [[spoiler:Jo to Ian after Ian tells him he's gotten comfortable with him and not to involve himself with guys like him, telling Ian he's ''not'' comfortable with him at all, with his palms getting sweaty and heart loudly pounding because he likes him so much, and doesn't want Ian to be comfortable around him either, leaning in to kiss him.]]
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* LoveConfession: [[spoiler:Jo to Ian after Ian tells him he's only telling him he intended to have a one-night stand with him at first but became closer with and gotten comfortable with him and not to involve himself with guys like him, telling Ian he's ''not'' comfortable with him at all, with his palms getting sweaty and heart loudly pounding because he likes him so much, and doesn't want Ian to be comfortable around him either, leaning in to kiss him.]]
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* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:After talking about how Ian plays around with his one-night stands, Jo tells Ian he's ''not'' comfortable around him and doesn't want him to be comfortable around him either, and leans in to kiss him.]]
* LoveConfession: [[spoiler:Jo to Ian after Ian tells him he's gotten comfortable with him and not to involve himself with guys like him, telling Ian he's ''not'' comfortable with him at all, with his palms getting sweaty and heart loudly pounding because he likes him so much, and doesn't want Ian to be comfortable around him either, leaning in to kiss him.]]
* MistakenForRomance: A clingy one-night stand of Ian's asks Jo if he's Ian's boyfriend when Jo grabs him to let go of Ian. Jo, despite not being it, states that he ''is'' Ian's boyfriend to the surprise of the one-night stand, Ian, a ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments passing dog]]'', and Jo himself when he immediately realizes what he said.
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* WorkOffTheDebt: For leaving K35, Ian has been paying off a debt to Jason charging him two years' prison protection plus interest. It's why he takes up a job from the gang to pick up drugs and drop them off. Jason has been keeping all the money untouched, and tells Ian to take it after his funeral.
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* WorkOffTheDebt: For leaving K35, Ian has been paying off a debt to Jason charging him two years' prison protection plus interest. It's why he takes up a job from the gang to pick up drugs and drop them off. Jason has been keeping all the money untouched, and tells Ian to take it after his funeral.funeral.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Jo to Ian, after telling Jo that he's good unlike him who [[ReallyGetsAround plays around with people]], not caring for his hookups' names or jobs.
-->'''Jo:''' I don't think you know yourself that well. The Ian I've seen is gentle and kind. And people like that need to be around good people.
-->'''Ian (thinking to himself):''' No, you don't know. You have no idea what life I've lived. Or what I've run from.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Jo to Ian, after telling Jo that he's good unlike him who [[ReallyGetsAround plays around with people]], not caring for his hookups' names or jobs.
-->'''Jo:''' I don't think you know yourself that well. The Ian I've seen is gentle and kind. And people like that need to be around good people.
-->'''Ian (thinking to himself):''' No, you don't know. You have no idea what life I've lived. Or what I've run from.
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* RefreshinglyNormalLifeChoice: Ian was a gang boss who left the life of a gangster because of how morally tiring it was, to the point he became disturbed by how he felt nothing after killing someone contracted to kill him in self-defense, ending up working a manual labor job and paying off a debt charged for leaving the gang, with it said that he could have become rich enough to have a vacation home in Manhattan had he stayed.
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* RefreshinglyNormalLifeChoice: Ian was a gang boss who left the life of a gangster because of how morally tiring it was, to the point he became disturbed by how he felt nothing after killing someone contracted to kill him in self-defense, ending up working a manual labor welding job and paying off a debt charged for leaving the gang, with it said that he could have become rich enough to have a vacation home in Manhattan had he stayed.
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* CareerEndingInjury: 11 years ago [[{{Yandere}} TJ]] paid two guys to restrain Ian which accidentally ended up with him falling from the balcony of a bar, shattering his right leg and stopping him from moving to LA do to motocross. Although if he rehabilitated well he could've came back in 1-2 years and found sponsors, Ian never made it to Malibu.
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* ShutUpKiss: Ian gave one to TJ before he was about to tell him he hired the men who caused him to fall from a balcony and break his leg, stopping him from moving to LA to do motocross, because if he said it they'd be over and Ian wouldn't know if he could stand himself for [[EasilyForgiven forgiving him too easily]].
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Ian left K35 despite being one of its bosses due to how tiring the gang work became on his conscience, saddling him with a debt for leaving that he's been paying Jason. He intends on leaving the city as soon as he fully pays it off and disappearing for three to four years, thinking it'd be the best for him and TJ to move on from each other.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Ian left K35 despite being one of its bosses due to how tiring the gang work became on his conscience, saddling him with [[WorkOffTheDebt a debt for leaving that he's been paying Jason. Jason]]. He intends on leaving the city as soon as he fully pays it off and disappearing for three to four years, thinking [[DestructiveRomance it'd be the best for him and TJ to move on from each other.other]].
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* FriendsWithBenefits: Ian and TJ. They've known each other for a long time and have had an ongoing sexual relationship for many years, but Ian has had hook ups with other men and even told TJ about his beer date with Jo. When asked by Jo if there's ever been someone he's liked or loved, he thinks of TJ and states that there ''[[FirstLove was]]'' but now they're just friends.
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* FriendsWithBenefits: Ian and TJ. They've known each other for a long time and have had an ongoing sexual relationship for many years, but Ian has had hook ups with other men and even told TJ about his beer date with Jo. When asked by Jo if there's ever been someone he's liked or loved, he thinks of TJ and states that there he ''[[FirstLove was]]'' had]]'' someone like that but now they're just friends.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Jo masturbates to Ian after their meteor shower date. He slaps himself after and wonders how he's going to face him now.
* FightClubbing: TJ was an great illegal fighter in matches at nineteen, increasing the stakes a lot after just a few matches. He was good enough for Jason to want TJ under him.
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* WorkOffTheDebt: For leaving K35, Ian has been paying off a debt to Jason charging him two years' prison protection plus interest. It's why he takes up a job from the gang to pick up drugs and drop them off.
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* WorkOffTheDebt: For leaving K35, Ian has been paying off a debt to Jason charging him two years' prison protection plus interest. It's why he takes up a job from the gang to pick up drugs and drop them off. Jason has been keeping all the money untouched, and tells Ian to take it after his funeral.
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* FriendsWithBenefits: Ian and TJ. They've known each other for a long time and have had an ongoing sexual relationship for many years, but Ian has had hook ups with other men and even told TJ about his beer date with Jo. When asked by Jo if there's ever been someone he's liked or loved, he thinks of TJ and states that there ''was'' but now they're just friends.
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* FriendsWithBenefits: Ian and TJ. They've known each other for a long time and have had an ongoing sexual relationship for many years, but Ian has had hook ups with other men and even told TJ about his beer date with Jo. When asked by Jo if there's ever been someone he's liked or loved, he thinks of TJ and states that there ''was'' ''[[FirstLove was]]'' but now they're just friends.
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* LoveTriangle: A long-standing relationship or a new relationship. Ian, a retired gangster, has to choose between TJ, a notorious capo he's known for almost two decades and enjoys the dangerous life Ian wants to leave behind, and Jo, a younger amateur photographer who jumps into that dangerous life to try and free Ian from the despair.
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* LoveTriangle: A [[FirstLove long-standing relationship relationship]] or a [[SecondLove new relationship.relationship]]. Ian, a retired gangster, has to choose between TJ, a notorious capo he's known for almost two decades and enjoys the dangerous life Ian wants to leave behind, and Jo, a younger amateur photographer who jumps into that dangerous life to try and free Ian from the despair.
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* FriendsWithBenefits: Ian and TJ. They've known each other for a long time and have had an ongoing sexual relationship for many years, but Ian has had hook ups with other men and even told TJ about his beer date with Jo. When asked by Jo if there's ever been someone he's liked or loved, he thinks of TJ and states that there ''was'' but now they're just friends.
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* StarGazingScene: Jo and Ian star gaze on Ian's apartment building rooftop before the meteor shower after Jo's car is stolen. Jo tells him the story of the constellation Orion and they talk about their past relationships. Jo ends up falling asleep on Ian's shoulder, with Ian seeing a meteor despite the bright city lights and trying to wake Jo up when he sees it, forgetting to make a wish.
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* RefreshinglyNormalLifeChoice: Ian was a gang boss who left the life of a gangster because of how morally tiring it was, ending up working a manual labor job and paying off a debt charged for leaving the gang, with it said that he could have become rich enough to have a vacation home in Manhattan had he stayed.
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* RefreshinglyNormalLifeChoice: Ian was a gang boss who left the life of a gangster because of how morally tiring it was, to the point he became disturbed by how he felt nothing after killing someone contracted to kill him in self-defense, ending up working a manual labor job and paying off a debt charged for leaving the gang, with it said that he could have become rich enough to have a vacation home in Manhattan had he stayed.
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* OneLastJob: Ian takes up one last job picking up drugs at a club and dropping them off to help pay off his remaining debt to Jason, asserting that he's done after it.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Ian left K35 despite being one of its bosses due to how tiring the gang work became on his conscience, saddling him with a debt for leaving that he's been paying Jason. He intends on leaving the city as soon as he fully pays it off and disappearing for three to four years, thinking it'd be the best for him and TJ to move on from each other.
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* ButNotTooForeign: Jo is half-Korean and half-Italian.
* CameraFiend: Jo. A talented amateur photographer who accidentally snaps a photo of Ian in the first chapter, and even takes pictures of trash that fell out of a ripped garbage bag.
* ChristmasCake: GenderInverted. Jason gives TJ flack for being in his mid-thirties and unmarried, telling him that he needs to get married soon and have a family with children, planning on setting him up for dates with girls. TJ tells him that he [[FamilyOfChoice does have family – Youngwoo]].
* ClosetKey: Having an EroticDream of Ian makes Jo, who hasn't dated anyone since he broke up with his last girlfriend a while ago, wonder if he has a thing for men he's been unaware of.
* CrazyJealousGuy: TJ. He asks Ian how he met the guy he was about to bring over to his place and got pissed off when he moved and couldn't reach him. Jo also gets him pissed off from talking with Ian and making him smile while TJ is spying on him.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Ian. He grew up with his mom's physically abusive boyfriends and one day found her on the toilet completely out of it after he saw her boyfriend dead from overdosing. After calling an ambulance, he was bounced from foster home to foster home. He blamed himself for her dying in prison, became a drug addict as well, going to rehab, and joined the gang K35, which he [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere eventually left because the work became too exhausting for his conscience]].
* DudeMagnet: Ian. He's able to easily get guys to casually hook up with him, has a girl at the club try to get his number, and is the shared object of Jo and TJ's attraction.
* CameraFiend: Jo. A talented amateur photographer who accidentally snaps a photo of Ian in the first chapter, and even takes pictures of trash that fell out of a ripped garbage bag.
* ChristmasCake: GenderInverted. Jason gives TJ flack for being in his mid-thirties and unmarried, telling him that he needs to get married soon and have a family with children, planning on setting him up for dates with girls. TJ tells him that he [[FamilyOfChoice does have family – Youngwoo]].
* ClosetKey: Having an EroticDream of Ian makes Jo, who hasn't dated anyone since he broke up with his last girlfriend a while ago, wonder if he has a thing for men he's been unaware of.
* CrazyJealousGuy: TJ. He asks Ian how he met the guy he was about to bring over to his place and got pissed off when he moved and couldn't reach him. Jo also gets him pissed off from talking with Ian and making him smile while TJ is spying on him.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Ian. He grew up with his mom's physically abusive boyfriends and one day found her on the toilet completely out of it after he saw her boyfriend dead from overdosing. After calling an ambulance, he was bounced from foster home to foster home. He blamed himself for her dying in prison, became a drug addict as well, going to rehab, and joined the gang K35, which he [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere eventually left because the work became too exhausting for his conscience]].
* DudeMagnet: Ian. He's able to easily get guys to casually hook up with him, has a girl at the club try to get his number, and is the shared object of Jo and TJ's attraction.
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Ian. After seeing him smoking on his balcony in a bathrobe Jo, who's only been with women up until then, has an EroticDream of Ian that makes him [[ClosetKey wonder if he's had a thing for men that he's been unaware of]].
* FamilyMan: Jo puts his family first, helping out with his aunt's restaurant after quitting his job and going into a dangerous neighborhood demanding to a gangster to see his cousin Chris and bring him home.
* FamilyMan: Jo puts his family first, helping out with his aunt's restaurant after quitting his job and going into a dangerous neighborhood demanding to a gangster to see his cousin Chris and bring him home.
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* {{Gayngster}}: TJ is a boss of K35 and bisexual, having dated women and been Ian's lover for years. Ian, who often invites guys over to his place, is a former Gayngster, having left K35.
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* InnocentBlueEyes: Jo has bright blue eyes, representing his youth and bright innocence that Ian craves.
* InSeriesNickname: Joseph "Jo" Landi.
* InSeriesNickname: Joseph "Jo" Landi.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Ian. He's seen having just casually hooked up with a guy in the first chapter and is about to bring a different guy over to his place before he sees TJ is in his apartment. He also intends on having sex with Jo after they get a beer together, inviting him over to his place.
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* RuggedScar: TJ is a tough gang boss and has a prominent scar on his face and one across his abdomen to show for it.
* SmokingIsCool: Ian, the main character considered handsome by many, is often seen smoking a cigarette.
* TheStoic: Ian is a quiet guy who doesn't show many emotions.
* TallDarkAndHandsome:
** Ian has dark hair, stands at 184 cm, and is considered good-looking by Jo, a guy he's about to hook up with, Alex, and people who see him at the club.
** Jo has black hair, is slightly taller than Ian with a height of 186 cm, and is noted by Ian to be handsome and fit, thinking it'd be a shame to not have sex with him.
* TattooedCrook: TJ is a gang capo and has many tattoos, with visible ones when not unclothed on his neck and hands. Ian, a retired gangster, has some but they aren't visible when he's dressed.
* SmokingIsCool: Ian, the main character considered handsome by many, is often seen smoking a cigarette.
* TheStoic: Ian is a quiet guy who doesn't show many emotions.
* TallDarkAndHandsome:
** Ian has dark hair, stands at 184 cm, and is considered good-looking by Jo, a guy he's about to hook up with, Alex, and people who see him at the club.
** Jo has black hair, is slightly taller than Ian with a height of 186 cm, and is noted by Ian to be handsome and fit, thinking it'd be a shame to not have sex with him.
* TattooedCrook: TJ is a gang capo and has many tattoos, with visible ones when not unclothed on his neck and hands. Ian, a retired gangster, has some but they aren't visible when he's dressed.
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The comic is available via [[https://www.tappytoon.com/en/comics/wet-sand Tappytoon Comics]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[LoveTriangle What will his choice be...?]]'']]
''Wet Sand'' (웻샌드) is a Korean webtoon created by Doyak.
Jo accidentally takes a picture of Ian smoking on his balcony. Jo can't stop thinking about the handsome stranger next door, and tries to get to know him better. However, he doesn't know that Ian used to work for one of the region's biggest, most dangerous gangs and is the lover of one of its bosses.
The comic is available via [[https://www.tappytoon.com/en/comics/wet-sand Tappytoon Comics]].
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!!''Wet Sand'' contains examples of:
* AgeGapRomance: Downplayed. Ian is 34 and Jo is 27, with Ian calling him a kid and disappointedly humored that a younger guy turned down his invitation to come over to his place.
* ButNotTooForeign: Jo is half-Korean and half-Italian.
* CameraFiend: Jo. A talented amateur photographer who accidentally snaps a photo of Ian in the first chapter, and even takes pictures of trash that fell out of a ripped garbage bag.
* ChristmasCake: GenderInverted. Jason gives TJ flack for being in his mid-thirties and unmarried, telling him that he needs to get married soon and have a family with children, planning on setting him up for dates with girls. TJ tells him that he [[FamilyOfChoice does have family – Youngwoo]].
* ClosetKey: Having an EroticDream of Ian makes Jo, who hasn't dated anyone since he broke up with his last girlfriend a while ago, wonder if he has a thing for men he's been unaware of.
* CrazyJealousGuy: TJ. He asks Ian how he met the guy he was about to bring over to his place and got pissed off when he moved and couldn't reach him. Jo also gets him pissed off from talking with Ian and making him smile while TJ is spying on him.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Ian. He grew up with his mom's physically abusive boyfriends and one day found her on the toilet completely out of it after he saw her boyfriend dead from overdosing. After calling an ambulance, he was bounced from foster home to foster home. He blamed himself for her dying in prison, became a drug addict as well, going to rehab, and joined the gang K35, which he [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere eventually left because the work became too exhausting for his conscience]].
* DudeMagnet: Ian. He's able to easily get guys to casually hook up with him, has a girl at the club try to get his number, and is the shared object of Jo and TJ's attraction.
* EroticDream: Jo has one of Ian after seeing him. Realizing he's having one of him without even knowing his name comedically makes Jo think of himself as a pervert and question his sexuality.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Ian. After seeing him smoking on his balcony in a bathrobe Jo, who's only been with women up until then, has an EroticDream of Ian that makes him [[ClosetKey wonder if he's had a thing for men that he's been unaware of]].
* FamilyMan: Jo puts his family first, helping out with his aunt's restaurant after quitting his job and going into a dangerous neighborhood demanding to a gangster to see his cousin Chris and bring him home.
* FamilyOfChoice: TJ calls Ian his family to Jason when he tells TJ to get married, build a foundation, and have kids. When Jason tells TJ that's not a real family, TJ retorts that Jason was the one who said Ian was family in the first place. The two used to call each other BloodBrothers and have known each other for 19 years and eventually became lovers, after all.
* {{Gaydar}}: Ian states that he has a good one and has never been wrong before when he's wondering why Jo turned down his invitation to come over to his place. He's right -- Jo isn't straight and is attracted to him, he had to leave because his cousin [[MomentKiller called about the house flooding]].
* {{Gayngster}}: TJ is a boss of K35 and bisexual, having dated women and been Ian's lover for years. Ian, who often invites guys over to his place, is a former Gayngster, having left K35.
* TheGentlemanOrTheScoundrel: Jo, the younger, good-natured family man is the Gentleman to TJ's aggressive, cunning gang boss Scoundrel for Ian.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Jo has bright blue eyes, representing his youth and bright innocence that Ian craves.
* InSeriesNickname: Joseph "Jo" Landi.
* LoveTriangle: A long-standing relationship or a new relationship. Ian, a retired gangster, has to choose between TJ, a notorious capo he's known for almost two decades and enjoys the dangerous life Ian wants to leave behind, and Jo, a younger amateur photographer who jumps into that dangerous life to try and free Ian from the despair.
* NaturalizedName: Being Korean-American immigrants, Ian was born Shin Youngwoo and TJ Oh Taejoon. They call each other by their Korean names.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Jo wants to clear up with Ian that he didn't meant to take a picture of him when he accidentally took one of him when getting a picture of the night sky. Jo clears it up with an unaware Ian when he comes by to his family's restaurant.
* ReallyGetsAround: Ian. He's seen having just casually hooked up with a guy in the first chapter and is about to bring a different guy over to his place before he sees TJ is in his apartment. He also intends on having sex with Jo after they get a beer together, inviting him over to his place.
* RefreshinglyNormalLifeChoice: Ian was a gang boss who left the life of a gangster because of how morally tiring it was, ending up working a manual labor job and paying off a debt charged for leaving the gang, with it said that he could have become rich enough to have a vacation home in Manhattan had he stayed.
* RuggedScar: TJ is a tough gang boss and has a prominent scar on his face and one across his abdomen to show for it.
* SmokingIsCool: Ian, the main character considered handsome by many, is often seen smoking a cigarette.
* TheStoic: Ian is a quiet guy who doesn't show many emotions.
* TallDarkAndHandsome:
** Ian has dark hair, stands at 184 cm, and is considered good-looking by Jo, a guy he's about to hook up with, Alex, and people who see him at the club.
** Jo has black hair, is slightly taller than Ian with a height of 186 cm, and is noted by Ian to be handsome and fit, thinking it'd be a shame to not have sex with him.
* TattooedCrook: TJ is a gang capo and has many tattoos, with visible ones when not unclothed on his neck and hands. Ian, a retired gangster, has some but they aren't visible when he's dressed.
* WorkOffTheDebt: For leaving K35, Ian has been paying off a debt to Jason charging him two years' prison protection plus interest. It's why he takes up a job from the gang to pick up drugs and drop them off.
[[caption-width-right:350:''[[LoveTriangle What will his choice be...?]]'']]
''Wet Sand'' (웻샌드) is a Korean webtoon created by Doyak.
Jo accidentally takes a picture of Ian smoking on his balcony. Jo can't stop thinking about the handsome stranger next door, and tries to get to know him better. However, he doesn't know that Ian used to work for one of the region's biggest, most dangerous gangs and is the lover of one of its bosses.
The comic is available via [[https://www.tappytoon.com/en/comics/wet-sand Tappytoon Comics]].
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!!''Wet Sand'' contains examples of:
* AgeGapRomance: Downplayed. Ian is 34 and Jo is 27, with Ian calling him a kid and disappointedly humored that a younger guy turned down his invitation to come over to his place.
* ButNotTooForeign: Jo is half-Korean and half-Italian.
* CameraFiend: Jo. A talented amateur photographer who accidentally snaps a photo of Ian in the first chapter, and even takes pictures of trash that fell out of a ripped garbage bag.
* ChristmasCake: GenderInverted. Jason gives TJ flack for being in his mid-thirties and unmarried, telling him that he needs to get married soon and have a family with children, planning on setting him up for dates with girls. TJ tells him that he [[FamilyOfChoice does have family – Youngwoo]].
* ClosetKey: Having an EroticDream of Ian makes Jo, who hasn't dated anyone since he broke up with his last girlfriend a while ago, wonder if he has a thing for men he's been unaware of.
* CrazyJealousGuy: TJ. He asks Ian how he met the guy he was about to bring over to his place and got pissed off when he moved and couldn't reach him. Jo also gets him pissed off from talking with Ian and making him smile while TJ is spying on him.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Ian. He grew up with his mom's physically abusive boyfriends and one day found her on the toilet completely out of it after he saw her boyfriend dead from overdosing. After calling an ambulance, he was bounced from foster home to foster home. He blamed himself for her dying in prison, became a drug addict as well, going to rehab, and joined the gang K35, which he [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere eventually left because the work became too exhausting for his conscience]].
* DudeMagnet: Ian. He's able to easily get guys to casually hook up with him, has a girl at the club try to get his number, and is the shared object of Jo and TJ's attraction.
* EroticDream: Jo has one of Ian after seeing him. Realizing he's having one of him without even knowing his name comedically makes Jo think of himself as a pervert and question his sexuality.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Ian. After seeing him smoking on his balcony in a bathrobe Jo, who's only been with women up until then, has an EroticDream of Ian that makes him [[ClosetKey wonder if he's had a thing for men that he's been unaware of]].
* FamilyMan: Jo puts his family first, helping out with his aunt's restaurant after quitting his job and going into a dangerous neighborhood demanding to a gangster to see his cousin Chris and bring him home.
* FamilyOfChoice: TJ calls Ian his family to Jason when he tells TJ to get married, build a foundation, and have kids. When Jason tells TJ that's not a real family, TJ retorts that Jason was the one who said Ian was family in the first place. The two used to call each other BloodBrothers and have known each other for 19 years and eventually became lovers, after all.
* {{Gaydar}}: Ian states that he has a good one and has never been wrong before when he's wondering why Jo turned down his invitation to come over to his place. He's right -- Jo isn't straight and is attracted to him, he had to leave because his cousin [[MomentKiller called about the house flooding]].
* {{Gayngster}}: TJ is a boss of K35 and bisexual, having dated women and been Ian's lover for years. Ian, who often invites guys over to his place, is a former Gayngster, having left K35.
* TheGentlemanOrTheScoundrel: Jo, the younger, good-natured family man is the Gentleman to TJ's aggressive, cunning gang boss Scoundrel for Ian.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Jo has bright blue eyes, representing his youth and bright innocence that Ian craves.
* InSeriesNickname: Joseph "Jo" Landi.
* LoveTriangle: A long-standing relationship or a new relationship. Ian, a retired gangster, has to choose between TJ, a notorious capo he's known for almost two decades and enjoys the dangerous life Ian wants to leave behind, and Jo, a younger amateur photographer who jumps into that dangerous life to try and free Ian from the despair.
* NaturalizedName: Being Korean-American immigrants, Ian was born Shin Youngwoo and TJ Oh Taejoon. They call each other by their Korean names.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Jo wants to clear up with Ian that he didn't meant to take a picture of him when he accidentally took one of him when getting a picture of the night sky. Jo clears it up with an unaware Ian when he comes by to his family's restaurant.
* ReallyGetsAround: Ian. He's seen having just casually hooked up with a guy in the first chapter and is about to bring a different guy over to his place before he sees TJ is in his apartment. He also intends on having sex with Jo after they get a beer together, inviting him over to his place.
* RefreshinglyNormalLifeChoice: Ian was a gang boss who left the life of a gangster because of how morally tiring it was, ending up working a manual labor job and paying off a debt charged for leaving the gang, with it said that he could have become rich enough to have a vacation home in Manhattan had he stayed.
* RuggedScar: TJ is a tough gang boss and has a prominent scar on his face and one across his abdomen to show for it.
* SmokingIsCool: Ian, the main character considered handsome by many, is often seen smoking a cigarette.
* TheStoic: Ian is a quiet guy who doesn't show many emotions.
* TallDarkAndHandsome:
** Ian has dark hair, stands at 184 cm, and is considered good-looking by Jo, a guy he's about to hook up with, Alex, and people who see him at the club.
** Jo has black hair, is slightly taller than Ian with a height of 186 cm, and is noted by Ian to be handsome and fit, thinking it'd be a shame to not have sex with him.
* TattooedCrook: TJ is a gang capo and has many tattoos, with visible ones when not unclothed on his neck and hands. Ian, a retired gangster, has some but they aren't visible when he's dressed.
* WorkOffTheDebt: For leaving K35, Ian has been paying off a debt to Jason charging him two years' prison protection plus interest. It's why he takes up a job from the gang to pick up drugs and drop them off.
