Hwan Seok

* Season 1
* Season 0

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**Hwan Seok** is the protagonist of "***Reawakened Man***" and one of the main protagonists of "***Terror Vs. Revival***". A rather laidback man, he is unemployed as a result of his own hotheadedness and sense of justice, getting him into trouble wherever he works; as a result, he's forced to live in a slummy apartment building. However, he's fatally stabbed while protecting Yerin Cha from a group of thugs, Hwan discovers that he possess the abilities of a Revivalist, allowing him to resurrect back in his bed three days after he's killed.

## Appearance

In season 1, Hwan is a young man with a lean yet muscular build and a handsome face. He initially has dark brown/black hair, but later dyes it a crimson red; his hair itself is rather short and slightly spiky with his front bangs usually covering one of his eyes.

Hwan is often seen wearing his blue Hanlim Gym tracksuit with black pants but can also been seen wearing other attire, such as an all-black outfit with a leather jacket and a maroon red trench coat taken from the psycho killer; or, during one job interview, he can be seen in a borrowed formal suit with his hair combed and styled properly while at home initially, Hwan can usually be found in old, worn, dirty clothing with unkempt facial hair.

In season 0, he looks mostly the same but younger. He had also change his hair to red initially during his time at Punishment Dream, but changed it back to normal once it was disbanded. As a child, he's somewhat similar with much shorter spiky hair and a rounder face.

ChildNatural HairHoboInterview SuitLeather AttireFuneral Suit**All Works**

His appearance is pretty much the same as in Reawakened Man. In some scenes, Hwan is depicted as having more orange hair, although that's probably because of the lighting. As Terror Man, he's dressed in Jungwoo's black suit and signature Black Wing Gas Mask

He basically has the same appearance, just in Boichi's art style. He has his signature red hair and wears the Hanlim Gym sweatsuit.

## Personality

Hwan Seok is a hot-blooded and impulsive young man, who doesn't hesitate to get violent when he's angered; however, more often then not, he doesn't put much thought into his actions and winds up hurting the wrong person, as seen when he punched Yerin's Teacher.

He's also quite rebellious and fond of defying the system, evident by his actions of intentionally failing his university entrance exams and flipping off his potential employers during a job interview. Hwan has a one-track mind and, in order to accomplish his goals, he'll not hesitate to use any and all means within his power. He also cannot tolerate people who profit off others and will use his fists to show his dissatisfaction.

However, despite his many flaws, Hwan is a genuine and caring man; as demonstrated throughout the story, he protects Yerin Cha to the best of his ability and is willing to singlehandedly go to war with the Dowon Group who endanger her and everyone they know.

## Plot Overview

* *Note: The below plot overview is in chronological order and thus may contain heavy spoilers. Please proceed at your own risk.*

### Past

At birth, Hwan Seok had actually died. However, in order to save him, his mother, Yeonhwa Hae sacrificed herself, passing on her Revivalist abilities to him to bring him back to life. Hwan's father raised him on his own and when Hwan Seok is in first-grade, he died in a car crash. Hwan revived after 3 days, waking up just as his father came back from the funeral. Hwan first apologize for sleeping late (not knowing he was killed) and then saw his father crying in front of him. His father then tell him about the "Curse of the Revivalist" which was that people will always come after it. However, at a young age, Hwan didn't understand it and forgot about it until much later in life.

One day, the Bishop set a factory on fire and Hwan's father went in to save 5 people and ended up losing his life and since Hwan was admitted into Apricot Orphanage, where the Bishop (under the guise of Sohee) had been preparing him in order to steal his ability. There he lived for seven years. Hwan was later a student in Dochang Middle School and was famous at fighting. He graduated and after a month from then, he went to Geumgang Highschool as freshman and challenged Yeongha Jeon, a senior to a fight.

### Reawakened Man (Season 0)

#### Punishment Dream Vs. White Snake

He arrives right on time to save Yeongha Jeon who was dropped down the building by Geumsan Koo and proceeds to fight Geumsan. He defeats Geumsan with a fully activated Silent Annihilation and falls to the ground, vaguely seeing the silhouette of the Bishop, mistaking her for Sohee Jin.

#### Epilogue

Hwan sees a child running and a car approaching her, so he rushing in to save her. That little girl turns out to be Yerin Cha.

### Reawakened Man (Season 1)

Hwan applies for college and his exams, he marks all the same answers as a form of rebellion, but still got admitted into college. However, because of student loans, he takes on various jobs. However, he is not able to keep any job, as he does not tolerate rude people and uses violence on them, resulting in him losing his job and accumulating more debt.

#### Reveal of a Revivalist

At an apartment complex, **Hwan Seok**, an unemployed 29 year old, was playing video games when he hears someone at the door. He opens to see Yerin Cha, a high school student, demanding the water payment he owes but he doesn't have the money. She then leaves. Hwan arrives to his 33rd interview, he flicks them off with his middle finger. After, he drinks with Yeongha Jeon as the latter berated him that being nearly thirty years old without anything is difficult. He then returns back to his apartment to find gangsters wanting Yerin. A short fight broke up with Hwan being killed when he was stabbed. Simultaneously, Yerin sees the whole thing. The gangsters then dumped his body to the sea. As he dies, he remembers when his father, Junghyeon Seok, was alive; admiring him and his sacrifice to save people at a burning factory. Three days after, Hwan revived believing it was a dream. Yerin arrived as both was confused of the situation. Hwan brought her to a place to pay the water fee but was reprimanded for his misuse of his credit score. Then she buys him food before she encourages him to work as she leaves. As she walks, the gangsters from earlier catches her but was confronted by Hwan. They ran away from Hwan until he catches and fights with one but it caused an accident that kills them. He revives again and again believes it was a dream but finds it was real.

#### Fighting Against Inwan Capital

Just then, a call was made to inform him that he was hired at the CYT Korea and asks to come over. He arrives and been given a tour by Mina Sung, an employee, and gives him the contract. He was confused as to why he was hired despite his failed interview but was explain that the president admired his behavior as he dislike how unfair and intense the work force is like in Korea. He gracefully accepts and went back to his apartment to see a teacher from Yerin's high school was wondering where was Yerin.

### Terror vs Revival (Main Dimension)

Hwan has been searching for a job countless times but messes up. He discovers MUNT and joins the interview. During there, he punches a terrorist but was an employee as a test. He was then shot by Lilia telling him that he is employed. Three days later, he arrives but is explained of who they are. They meet with Lilia and Hwan doesn't want to join but is persuaded when there was money involved. During their drive, White goons attacks by Hwan defeats one of them and grabs the machine gun and fires back.

Attack On MUNT
Meeting Suki Kang
MUNT's Preparation
Hwan trains with Lilia and Suki to awaken the abilities of the Prophet. However, Lilia and Suki just end up beating on Hwan, and in one uppercut, Hwan ends up biting his own tongue. For that reason when Hwan, Lilia and Suki are meeting up with Miho, Suki has to help translate for Hwan as his speak is muddled.

Changhyuk's Plan

## Abilities & Equipment

### Revivalist

Seok Hwan has the power of a Revivalist, this allows him to resurrect 3 days after he's been killed. At first, it caused him to always respawn back at his apartment, but after it was destroyed, Hwan would revive in the last place he slept.

At one point in the story, he was fully convinced that his power is cursed after he was told that [every time he revived] someone close to him would also die. However, that was later proven to be false and merely used as a means to trick him; the true curse of the power is that someone will actively seek it out for themselves, although whether this is meant to be taken literally or figuratively is currently unknown.

#### Limitations

However, his revival abilities have three key limitations: Firstly, the time it takes for him to revive is three days, meaning Hwan has no control or knowledge of anything happening in the world during that period of time; secondly, Hwan is unable to choose the location of his revival, with it being limited to the last place he slept the night before; and last but not least, while he is immortal, Hwan's Revivalist abilities do not provide him with eternal youth, thus he still grows old and will likely die of old age like anybody else.

### Silent Annihilation

There are two stages. When activated, his eyes turn bright red.

* **Semi-Awakening** - The power to become a superhuman for a limited time. This power is activated when the user believes that death is imminent and that knowing that people close to the user is hurt or killed can increase the chance for the power to activate. This power makes his pupils turn red but the irises can be seen and gives him enhanced abilities:
	+ Enhanced Strength - Has the possbility to kill a person in one shot. However, it seems to depend on the user's mood and/or control as Taewon Jang was hit but was not killed while Seonggyu Choi was hit with a bat and is immediately killed.
	+ Enhanced Durability - for the period of activation, the body can take large amounts of damage. When shot or stabbed, there will be little to no blood.
	+ Enhanced Speed and Agility -
	+ Enhanced Senses - His perception against attack are very fast; the motion of the attack seems to be in slo-mow, allowing to dodge easily.
	+ Pain Suppression - During the activation, there is no sense of pain. Such as being stabbed,

* **Full Awakening** - A power that depends on life force. The user's eye will glow bright red with a fiery aura. It can be activated accidentally without the user's knowledge. It pretty much an increased and limitless version of the semi-awakening. It can easily decimated a huge bunch of people as there seems to be no time limit besides needing life force.
	+ Instant One Shot Kill - It would seem that anyone that is hit by the user, regardless of the force of the hit, is instantly killed.
	+ Nullification - Large attacks like explosions are nullified and absorbed by the annihilaiton. However, this will decrease the state of being in full awakening.

#### Limitations

Though Silent Annihilation provides a huge boost in power and resistant to pain, there are some limitations:

* **Semi-Awakening**:
	+ This power is said to only last for up to a minute but it is seen lasting for what seems to be less than that.

* **Full Awakening**:
	+ Side effects includes intense headache, mood swings, and death.
	+ It will only be activated for a short time.
	+ It depends on the accumulated life force. Can only use half of it. Furthermore, if the user is female and pregnant, she is forced to use her baby's life force, killing it.
	+ It does not heal wounds, thus, if there was severe injury before the activation, there is a high risk of death after the effects wear off.
	+ When users of Silent Annihilation fight each other, the one with weaker mental strength will be on the losing and is able to feel pain caused by the other user.

### Transfer of Power

It is revealed that the user of the revivalist has the ability and choice to pass down the powers to someone that they deem precious or important enough. The passing is relatively quick. However, the previous user will die like a sacrifice as they dissipate into thin air the moment the exchange is complete.

**Other Abilities**

* High Pain Tolerance - He could take many punches, and sometimes brush off stab wounds, (Although this maybe because of his power)
* High Combat Ability - Although he's more into dog fight and not martial arts, He's his own league and an expert at battle.
* Moderate Battle IQ - After experiencing a lot of battles, Although not as knowledgeable as Yeongha Jeon, still knows a thing or two.
* Footwork Skills - Taught by Gwangcheon through tapdancing. This allows Hwan to easily dodge attacks almost instinctually.
* Battle Sense - Fought against the bounty hunter, he learns to be patient in a way as he anticipates knife attacks.

**Equipment**

Many of Hwan's weapons and equipment were crafted by him from junk that he finds:

* Barbed Bat
* Crafted Explosive Molotov
* Crafted Armor plating
* Propane Tank
* Small Melee Weapons: Hammer, Kitchen Knife, Wrench, and Metal Clippers
* Duct Tape
* Lighter Fluid and Lighter
* Skidpits
* Armored Truck
* Crafted Cola Grenade
* Revolver
* Two Handguns

**All Works**

**Abilities**
**Revivalist (Complete Form)** - It has been revealed that after Bishop gave her power to Hwan, he has become a complete form of the Revivalist, certainly. It is also revealed, he is a half prophet as the Revivalist is a Prophet. However, he doesn't have immortal & eternal youth as he is a complete Prophet. Regardless, he has gain newly given powers and abilities as well as discovering and enhancing other abilities:
* Constant Revival - Usually, once he dies, he has to wait for three days. However, after Bishop's help. He has the ability to instantly revive after death at the same location as he had died. Allowing him to use his death offensively and evasively. However, he has a limit of 11 times and each death increasingly drains him of stamina. Unfortuantely, after passing some of his power to Jungwoo Min, this ability is disabled.
* Revival Spawn Point - After death, he is forced to spawn back in places he had slept. However he can freely spawn anywhere he can under one condition. The condition is that the user must feel comfortable or safe; somewhere it is precious to the user. Unfortuantely, after passing some of his power to Jungwoo Min, the abilty to freely spawn anywhere is disabled.
* Affinity Against Black Wing Clan - Due to him being a half prophet, his power is inherently a weakness to Black Wing Clan but what is it exactly is uncertain.
* Transfer of Power - just like every Revivalist, he can pass on his powers to whoever he chooses and apparently can do so partially, as he passes on some of his power to the Jungwoo of another dimension. Although he lives, the cost is any other abilities are disabled except reviving.

**Limitations**
* Prophet's Requirements - How one to be a full prophet is currently unknown. Thus, a half prophet only has immortality but not eternal youth thus can die of old age.
* Death After Fourth Day - It was implied by Suki that his power forcibly makes the user to revive only on the third day. If it after the third day, he would permanently die.

**Equipment**
* Distant Sky Paper

## Relationships

**Main Work**

**Family**

* Junghyeon Seok (father) -
* Yeonhwa Hae (mother) -

**Allies**

* Yerin Cha (lover)
* Mina Sung
* Seolhui
* Huijae Kang (Temporary Ally) -
* Unnamed Bounty Hunter

**Hanlim Gym**

* Yeongha Jeon
* Gwangcheon Lim
* Gwansu Jang

**Punishment Dream**

* Jaehong Kwon
* Kangyoon Ji - Admires his raw strength.
* Yang Kim
* Jiwoo Park - noticed that Jiwoo temper is worse than his.

**Enemies**

* Minhyeok Kim
* Inwan Jeong
* Seonggyu Choi
* Jinho Cho
* Siho Cho
* Unnamed Glasses Assassin
* Jiyeol Park
* Yongwoo Hwang

**White Snake (Enemies)**

* Geumsan Gu -
* Taewon Jang -
* Sangyu Ma -
* Jinho Hong -
* Yohwan Lim -
* Taehyun Nam

**Apricot Orphanage**

* Sohui Jin
* Mukho Baek
* Orphanage Children
* Mrs. Jang -

**Others**

* Jaeho - Hwan's father's friend who lived in the same neighborhood where Hwan grew up. Hwan addresses him as uncle (honorary title, not family).
* Myunghoon Park -
* Injeong Sa -
* Jinsoo Song -
* Hyungseok Cha -
* Cheonlang IT Principal -

**All Works**

**Team Terror**
* Jungwoo Min -
* Suki Kang -
* Nikolai II
* Van
* Deokman Jang

**Team Revival**
* Lilia Podkopayeva -
* Miho Won
* Yak

**Others**
* Revivalist
* Seokyoung Min
* Dae-il Kim

**MUNT**
* Heesoo Cha - Hwan's direct supervisor when he joins MUNT.
* Yegun Choi -
* Hoyeon Jung - Manager in MUNT who is Heesoo's superior.

**Enemies**
* Obeid Al-Dosari
* Atrahasis
* Gorilla

**Marco Polo's Travel to the Multiverse**
**Allies**
* Miho Won
* Suchan Jang
* Kawooka
* Suki Kang
* Super String Team - being part of the Super String Team, apart from the members above, he probably has some level of relationship with all the other members, but not much is shown of their interaction at the moment.

**Enemies**
* Leoco

## Trivia

* According to the Ylab's official website, his hobby is worrying about Yerin Cha and he was born on 3/26 with the star sign "Aries."
	+ Assuming our timeline and his official birth date is correct, he is likely born on March 26, 2000.
* In the upcoming "Reawakend Man Movie," the actor will be "Gyo-Hwan Gu." There seems to be no change compared to the webtoon.
* In Blue String Webtoon "***Get Schooled***," Hwan Seok appeared as an Easter egg when a girl explains her webtoon about a man who revives after 3 days as he fight zombies. Following afterwards, Hanlim Lim, a character in ***"Get Schooled"*** and "Hanlim Gym" mentioned that that the red hair looks familiar, alluding that a Blue String version of Hwan Seok exists.
* Hwan has his own theme song titled "Cheer Up, Reawaken." Made by Gubeom Yang, Juno Kim and Jeongim Han.
	+ Hwan's Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6gSX\_lHDNs
* He is 183cm tall.
* Unofficial English Readers dislike that despite having many opportunities to kill Minhyeok, he doesn't due to being gullible or situational reasons.
* He used to have 2TB of porn but was burned from the attack of Dowon Group.
* A common occurrence/gag where he is told that he is very handsome, at least in Reawakened Man.
* His Naver email is: stonehwan@never.com
* In Super String Mobile Game:
	+ His bat, wrench, are items for Hwan.
	+ His leather outfit is an alt. costume that can be acquired.
	+ One of his skills is using a propane tank which is a reference when he attempted to blow up Dowon Group with one.
	+ Silent Annihilation is referenced in his move set if used the A.T. Ignition Bat.
	+ Although he doesn't use his skidpits in his move set, it had only appeared once in a cutscene during the campaign.
	+ He is voiced by voice actor *"Kim Hye-seong."* He is known to dub Genji from *"Overwatch,"* Inasa Yoarashi from *"My Hero Academia,"* and Chipp Zanuff from *"Guilty Gear."*
* Supposedly, Hwan Seok will meet a French Character as stated by Inwan Youn in an article. This statement is not clear however, in the release of Gold String, one of the protag "Joan of Arc" is revealed to have similar power to Hwan, which may suggest he and she will meet.
* Korean readers find him similar to the main character of Mr. Nightingale, a webtoon by Jaehan Kim. Comments of episode 1, joke that Hwan Seok is now a doctor and turn his life around.

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## References

1. ↑ Reawakened Man, Season 0, Ep.15
2. ↑ Reawakened Man, Ep. 1
3. ↑ Terror vs Revival, Ep. 1
4. ↑ Reawakened Man, Season 0, Ep. 75
5. ↑ Reawakened Man, Season 1, Ep 56
6. ↑ Terror Vs. Revival Ep. 11
7. ↑ Reawakened Man, Season 0, Ep. 66
8. ↑ Reawakened Man, Season 0, Ep. 67
9. ↑ Reawakened Man, Season 0, Epilogue
10. ↑ Terror Man, Season 1, Epilogue
11. ↑ Reawakened Man, Season 1, Ep. 1
12. ↑ Reawakened Man, Season 1, Ep. 1
13. ↑ Reawakened Man, Season 1, Ep. 3
14. ↑ Reawakened Man, Season 1, Ep. 4
15. ↑ Terror vs Revival, Ep. 26
16. ↑ Reawakened Man, Ep. 39
17. ↑ Reawakened Man, Season 0, Ep.50
18. ↑ Terror vs Revival, Ep. 39
19. ↑ Terror vs Revival, Ep. 11
20. ↑ Reawakened Man, Season 1, Ep 56
21. ↑ Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse (Webtoon), Ep.24
22. ↑ Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse (Webtoon), Ep.24
23. ↑ Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse (Webtoon), Ep.24
24. ↑ Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse (Webtoon), Ep.24
25. ↑ Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse (Webtoon), Ep.24
26. ↑ Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse (Webtoon), Ep.24
27. ↑ http://ylabcomics.com/bbs/board.php?bo\_table=02\_01\_eng#0
28. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EB%B6%80%ED%99%9C%EB%82%A8(%EC%98%81%ED%99%94)#s-6.1
29. ↑ True Education, Ep. 89
30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%84%9D%ED%99%98#s-10
31. ↑ https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/025/0003219715?sid=103