Hyun Cha's soul

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Hyun Cha Soul is a major antagonist of *Sweet Home* and is Hyun's entity that attempts to transform him into a monster.

## Appearance

The Inner Monster typically takes the form of Hyun, however, it is devoid of all color and appears all white with a black outline. Additionally, it does not possess any eyeballs. It is capable of stretching its body to long proportions when needed.

In the Netflix Adaptation, however, the monster is not white and colored, like normal Hyun.

## Personality

Hyun's soul's sole purpose is to turn Hyun into a monster. It is remarkably persistent in its goal and will seize any opportunity to try to break Hyun's will. This includes pandering to his desires, creating a false reality, and making Hyun believe the only way to succeed is through him. It is aware of Hyun's thoughts and actions at all times. It enjoys taunting Hyun over his failures and reminding Hyun that he will have to go through more trauma and failure the more he resists being a monster.

Eventually, when Hyun's soul learns that it is actually Hyun's soul, it is ecstatic. It sees itself as Hyun's salvation. It redoubles its efforts to convince Hyun to turn and it eventually succeeds by taking advantage of the imminent dangers Hyun and his friends are in. However, despite its malicious and torturous acts, the soul does have a degree of respect towards Hyun's strong will, and while its ultimate goal was self-serving, did provide a solution to help Hyun's friends live.

## Plot

Initially, Hyun's soul was simply a voice tempting Hyun into giving in to his desires. As Hyun's monsterification progressed, the soul took on physical form, visible only to Hyun. It eventually created an imaginary reality in an attempt to get Hyun to reveal its desires and turn into a monster. However, Hyun was able to see through the deception and confront his soul. Neither Hyun nor his soul knew what the soul actually was at this point. However, the soul replies that it feels like it is saving Hyun in some way. It warns Hyun that he will suffer more if he doesn't turn.

This is later proven true when Hyun fights Mr. Kim, as he sees Jayhun's corpse. The soul was nearly able to turn Hyun, but Jisu Yoon snapped him out of it. Later, as criminals take over the apartment, Ihyun Jo's soul is somehow able to contact Hyun's soul. To help break Hyun's will, his soul tells Ihyun's soul about the Infant Monster. Hyun's soul later tries to monsterize Hyun when he tries to save Jisu, but Jisu once again snaps him out of it.

When a Mysterious Man approaches and makes contact with Hyun, his soul realizes exactly what he is and why he is trying to monsterfy Hyun. Hyun's soul gleefully reveals that he is Hyun's soul and the monsterfication apocalypse is the revolution of all of humanity's souls to supposedly free themselves from their destructive ways. He pressures Hyun into giving in and even recreates his family. He points out that despite Hyun's anger against his family abandoning him, Hyun still loves them. He is completely shocked when Hyun resists.

However, the soul remains persistent in its attempts to turn Hyun. It first attempts to tempt Hyun into turning by portraying itself as the only option Hyun has to fight back against a monsterfied Dusik Hahn, but Hyun resists that attempt. The monster again attempts to talk Hyun into turning when Hyun prepares to confront a horde of monsters. Hyun's soul commends Hyun for his strong will and notes that Hyun would retain control long enough to save his friends. It nearly succeeds, but Hyuk Lee's arrival interrupted and distracted Hyun. The soul finally succeeds in convincing Hyun to turn when Hyun has to fight a monsterfied Joon Shin. Joon proved too powerful for the survivors to fight off alone, and Hyun finally agreed with his soul that it was his time to turn.

## Abilities

* **Shared Knowledge:** As Hyun's soul, and therefore a part of Hyun's conscious, the entity sees what Hyun sees, knows what Hyun knows, etc. It uses this to its advantage in an effort to get Hyun to turn into a monster.
* **Imagination Manipulation:** It shares limited control of Hyun's consciousness and can manipulate Hyun's imagination. During times when Hyun is unconscious, it attempts to drag Hyun into this realm where Hyun can satisfy all his desires. Hyun's experience within this world are near realistic. However, the soul's ability to create such a world is limited to the extent of Hyun's imagination, and it cannot create aspects of the world that would have relied on other people's knowledge. For example, one of Hyun's deepest desires is to see a new anime movie. Because Hyun did not know what the director wrote for the movie and did not have the imaginative ability to create a feasible plot of similar quality, Hyun's soul could not create such a movie in the imaginary world and was forced to use a recollection of a previous movie. This created a weakness in the imaginary world, and thanks to Hyun's strong sense of self-awareness, Hyun saw the discrepancy with reality and break out of the imaginary world.
* **Body Contorting:** Hyun's soul is able to elongate its limbs and move its joints without the natural physical limitations at will.
* **Monsterization:** Like all other human souls, Hyun Cha's soul presumably has the ability to mutate Hyun into a monster once it traps Hyun in a fantasy world. This monster's abilities would be based on Hyun's inner desires. However, its ability to turn Hyun is dependent on Hyun's will to resist it and his awareness of what's going on. Due to Hyun's awareness of the monster's scheme, Hyun is generally able to see when his soul is trying to get him to turn and resist it. Strong emotional shocks, however, can weaken Hyun's will and make it easier for his soul to do its work. This goes both ways, and another emotional shock as Hyun is monsterizing can push him to resist monsterification.

## Trivia

* Hyun's soul has taken on three appearance changes. Initially, the soul was portrayed as a mass of eyes on a tumor-like growth within Hyun's body. Then it was portrayed as a white-out version of Hyun with pupils. Finally, it appeared as an eye-less, version of Hyun.