Ayeon and Yeonhwa
Song Ayeon is mercilessly bullied every day at her Catholic school until one day, a mysterious, white-haired girl stands up for her. Her name is Baek Yeonhwa but she's not exactly selfless. Yeonhwa has a penchant for beautiful girls she can use as playthings. Those she has saved from the hands of bullies may describe her as a guardian angel but she has some dark secrets. She takes what she wants when she wants and she is not too fond of those who get in her way. Maybe she's not much of an angel after all...
White Angels Have No Wings
is a Korean Girl's Love comic created by Gado. There is a follow-up series called White Angels Get No Rest that has more Explicit Content.
This webcomic provides examples of:
- Aloof Big Sister: Inverted between the Yangs. Dahye is resistant to Minhye's attempts to reach out to her.
- Big Bad: Yeonhwa is the closest thing to a central antagonist that the story has. She is the one who starts the initial conflict by meddling with Dahye and her manipulations are what drive the plot further until eventually everyone is up against her to stop her.
- Big Sister Instinct: Minhye will do anything to help her sister when she realizes what Yeonhwa is doing to her.
- Black-and-Gray Morality: Yeonhwa vs. Dahye. While Dahye is a bully who backstabbed someone who considered her a friend, she at least has a Freudian Excuse that explains why she does this even if it doesn't excuse her actions. She isn't a sexual predator/abuser like Yeonhwa, who does what she does for no reason other than the enjoyment of having control over others.
- Blackmail: Yeonhwa uses the video of Dahye smoking to get her to do her bidding.
- *Bleep*-dammit!: The censoring of swearing in the translation tends to be rather inconsistent, even within the chapters. It almost begs the question as to why they bothered in the first place.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Yeonhwa seems to have a preference for bustier girls. Ayeon is obvious, but she also enjoys Dahye's breasts. And one of the first things she notices about her sister Minhye is that she has huge boobs.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Minhye calls out her strict father for being too harsh with Dahye just as he was with her.
- Cigarette of Anxiety: Dahye took up smoking to relieve herself of her stress.
- Closet Key: It seems that Yeonhwa finally opened up the idea of Ayeon being gay to her. She ends up with Sohwa, showing that it is her true preference.
- Cool Big Sis: Minhye does everything she can to help Dahye with Yeonhwa. Even Dahye's friends call her "unnie" or big sister.
- Decoy Protagonist: The covers and the first chapter make it seem like Ayeon will be the protagonist as the current object of Yeonhwa's affection. Instead, while Ayeon is a major character, Dahye's character arc gets more focus as the one being tormented by and trying to expose Yeonhwa. The fact that she is the main character of White Angels Get No Rest shows this. Ayeon doesn't even appear in that series.
- Deliberate Injury Gambit: When first saving Yoonseo from the hands of the bullies, Yeonhwa hurts herself to make the bullies look even worse in the eyes of the teachers.
- Desperately Craves Affection: Yoonseo clings to anyone who shows her the slightest bit of affection. This is why she is so desperate for Yeonhwa's attention and gets jealous of Ayeon and Dahye. And even though she knows Minhye is only being nice to her for Dahye's sake, she still will take it even if it's fake.Dahye: You don't care as long as you have someone to lean on.
- Divide and Conquer: Yeonhwa manages to turn the Yang sisters against each other and further exacerbate their strained relationship. Especially since both are keeping secrets from each other.
- Education Mama: Minhye's father. While of course, not a mama, he still places grades and test scores above everything else.
- Enemy Mine: Despite the fact that Sohwa stole Songyi's wallet, she still decides to help her hide from Yeonhwa only because she hates the latter more than the former.
- Everyone Has Standards: As willing as Songyi and her friends are to bully others, they do have some lines they won't cross:
- Notably, Songyi stops Dahye from killing Yoonseo in a blind rage simply when the latter won't give them the combination to her phone that holds the blackmail material.
- They are disgusted with Yeonhwa when the full extent of her sexual abuse of Sohwa and Dahye is revealed.
- Extreme Doormat: Ayeon is very reserved and doesn't often stick up for herself even as she's being mocked or beaten. Part of why Dahye hates her is because of this, finding her kindness condescending and her passiveness weak. Part of the story is Ayeon growing to be more assertive.
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Yeonhwa seemed to be nice at first but behind her kind actions are less than kind motivations.
- For Your Own Good: The reasoning behind Minhye's father choosing her major for her.
- Friends with Benefits: Yoonseo and Yeonhwa. The "friendship" part is pretty one-sided though.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Dahye, Songyi, and their friends all smoke as a way to identify them as delinquents.
- Hands-On Approach: Yeonhwa loves to get touchy-feely with Ayeon. She sits Ayeon on her lap to teach her how to fish and generally uses any excuse she can to touch her.
- Happiness in Slavery: Yeonwha sees Yooseo as a slave but Yooseo loves Yeonwha and is desperate to gain her affection by any means.
- The Hedonist: Yeonhwa loves to be amused and uses other people for her own entertainment.
- Incest-ant Admirer: Sohwa does not reciprocate the extent of her sister's love towards her. Not that it stops Yeonhwa.
- I Shall Taunt You: Yeonwha provokes Dahye because "she is cute when she's mad".
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Dahye in the final act. She is instrumental in making sure Yeonhwa gets what she deserves. She even makes friends with Sohwa to comfort her. However, she simply used Sohwa as bait for Yeonhwa and never wanted to hang out with her at all.
- Lecherous Licking: One of Yeonwha's favorite tactics to use against those she does not like. She especially likes Dahye and her sister's ears.
- Light Is Not Good: People often comment on how Yeonhwa looks like an angel.
- Living Emotional Crutch: Yoonseo uses Yeonhwa and later Minhye for emotional support.
- Manipulative Bitch:
- Yeonhwa is a master of making people her puppets. For the entire first half of the series, everyone around her is expertly under her thumb.
- It seems that Dahye has picked up some of those tendencies. So much so that she's able to get the drop on Yeonhwa.
- Misplaced Retribution: Dahye abuses Yoonseo simply for being the owner of the phone that held the blackmail material, despite the fact that it was Yeonhwa who did this to her.
- The Napoleon: Songyi is a foul-mouthed, chain-smoking bully and is the shortest person in her class. Maybe she's compensating for something.
- No Sense of Personal Space: Yeonhwa does not know how to keep her hands to herself.
- Not What It Looks Like: When Minhye confronts Yeonhwa on the street for turning Dahye against her, Ayeon believes that she's unfairly attacking her, earning the older woman a backpack to the face. It doesn't help that Yeonwha plays into this narrative.
- Official Couple: In the epilogue, Sohwa and Ayeon start a relationship. Art by Gado from the second series shows this.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Why Dahye becomes Yeonwha's target.
- Pietà Plagiarism: One of the more subtle examples of this trope. Take a second look at the page image, up above.
- Psycho Lesbian: Yeonhwa uses blackmail to sexually harass Yang Dahye. She also assaults her sister, Sohwa.
- Sadist:
- Yeonhwa often tells Dahye that she loves to watch her suffer. Confirmed by Sohwa, and she was one of her victims.
- Dahye also falls under this, though unlike Yeonhwa she buries it under a lot of self-righteousness.
- Shown Their Work: Yeonhwa's albinism and its other symptoms (i.e., sensitivity to light, poor eyesight) are portrayed accurately.
- Shrinking Violet: Heo Yoonseo is painfully shy due to the bullying she endured. She seemingly talks to only Yeonhwa and occasionally Ayeon.
- Stronger Than They Look: Yeonhwa is often seen as fairly frail and in ill health but in reality, she's quite strong and overpowers several characters in the story. When she's on the phone with Dahye a glimpse of her room is seen with her workout equipment showing that even though she skips gym she trains on her own time. She's strong enough to pull the lockers down in the abandoned building to rescue Yoonseo, stop Dahye, and beat up her cohorts with incredible speed and agility. One of the bullies calls her a street fighter.
- Successful Sibling Syndrome: Everyone thinks Dahye is an only child because she never brings up her sister. Dahye is the top student in her class but she feels like she will never be able to live up to her parent's expectations and she lives in her sister's shadow forever. Her father comparing her to Minhye definitely does not help matters.
- Token Religious Teammate: Despite the setting being in a Catholic school, it is noted that few of the students are genuinely Catholic. Dahye mentions that Ayeon is one such student, and the only one in the main cast.
- Troubled Abuser: Dahye abuses others due to her own feelings of insecurity.
- Villainous Breakdown: After she finds Sohwa, she starts to lose her grip on being the charismatic manipulator she had been throughout the series. When Ayeon starts to question her about her sister, she loses her cool. After the breakup, Dahye hands her Sohwa on a silver platter and she devolves into a hungry predator who is going to take Sohwa back by force.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Yeonhwa has white hair which is usually sported by moral characters but she is definitely not the pinnacle of goodness.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Yeonhwa pretends to be frail so no one expects her to have superior physical abilities.
