by real one im guessing you mean the dominant one? the main personality we’ve been seeing is considerate, kind, and modest- which is the day hyung, while the night hyung is the aggressive and manipulative “hidden” side
he didn’t create the nice side, it was always a part of him but he intensively hid the night hyung in order not so scare jisung off/not hurt him. every instance that side of himself was shown, he thought it was pushing jisung away. night hyung didn’t die off in the end, both sides of them assimilated into one personality. to sum it up, the hyung realized jisung will love him no matter what and accepts the dark parts of him. finally understanding that, the hyung embraces his negative traits (possessiveness/aggression)
I guess by "real" I meant the "original", since the green hair cousin mentioned the "real" hyung he had always known since young is closer to the night hyung. While he is unfamiliar with the day hyung who's kind. So I got confused like....if the night hyung is the "original" personality green hair is familiar with, and we know hyung is being kind to not scare jinsung, so got me thinking the "kind" day hyung was the result of him splitting, hiding his "real/original" personality (night hyung) away.
And in addition, I dont think he only has 2 personalities in general. In the dream sequence stuff, it looks like he has created multiple other personalities (i.e., when he mentioned he can act as a brother, a father figure, etc) that he has since "killed" since they no longer serve a purpose, therefore got me wondering if the "kind" hyung was just one of those personalities that just took over completely and consuming the "original" night hyung, which was why there was that fight between them for control.
But then the story read as if day hyung was the original and then I just got confused. Or did I interpret it completely wrong cuz I'm just wanting to know who's original.
hopefully this doesn’t confused you any further, and not to state the obvious, but day hyung was always his original personality just like night hyung and the other “dead selves” he killed off. i didn’t mention the other selves from his dream because your og question was only asking about day vs night hyung, but they also didn’t have anything to do with his current self when taking over his body
the nightmare was an allegory that he always masks himself in order to people please (mainly jisung) or show others his rougher sides (the cousin) based on who he gets along/clashes with. since he’s such a people pleaser and perfectionist, the extremes of his personality supposedly split until he could create the most acceptable version of himself. but by suppressing his desires so much, it’s caused him to create vastly different and conflicting selves that he ended up creating multiple different people internally, to cope with the intrusiveness and desire. so the dead parts of him don’t matter in this case, because those parts exist in the day hyung and night hyung and were categorized in either one- at least that’s how i interpreted it. both personalities are the original, but because of these things, they both believed they had a right to take over when they were two sides of the same coin. one always existed with the other, night hyung was suppressed the most though
....so...which personality is the real one??? I got confused after all that dream stuff started happening and cant tell whose dialogues belonged to who because these mfs look exactly alike and the dialogues didnt differentiate night vs day hyung. I was under the impression the more straightforward harsh personality was the "real" one and he created the "kind" version to interact with jinsung but the story kept reading as if the "kind" version is the "real" version and night hyung was just one of the other versions that's gonna die like the rest of them....and like wth is happening. Idk all that sequence about dreams and nightmare really lost me for some reason. Someone just give it to me straight pls, I'm not tryna reread this lol thanks ♡