Gehan

Gehan is the ruler of Gehenna, a sovereign of the infernal realm whom Bambam identifies as the destination of Y/N’s abduction and whom Jinyoung glosses as the figure humans call the ruler of Hell. His authority is presented spatially as well as verbally: he appears seated on a throne, commands the ritual chamber, and treats the gates of his realm as an extension of his own power. Yet his first self-introduction turns sovereignty into a grotesque family claim. He calls himself Gehan, Ruler of Gehenna, and invites Y/N to call him “Dad,” making fatherhood another instrument of possession rather than a source of protection.

Identity and Introduction

Gehan enters the story at the end of a chain of forced movements. Y/N is taken to him by Bambam, who says they are going to Gehan, while Jinyoung explains that Gehenna is what humans call Hell. The exchange establishes Gehan as more than an enemy hidden in an unfamiliar location: he is the governing power of an entire hostile world, and the journey toward him functions as an approach to the center of that power. Y/N’s question about whether he is Satan registers the scale of the threat, but the narrative does not simply equate him with a single religious figure. It defines him through rulership, blood, captivity, and an intimate claim over Y/N.

His title is immediately followed by the paternal name he demands. The contrast is central to his characterization. “Dad” sounds intimate, but Gehan has not created a relationship of care; he has arranged Y/N’s confinement and is preparing to use her body in a supernatural ceremony. The familial language therefore intensifies the violation. He presents domination as belonging, turning the authority of a ruler and the supposed authority of a father into overlapping forms of control.

The Grievance Against Y/N

When Y/N asks why Gehan wanted to kill her, he answers that he wanted a boy and that she became a girl instead. His explanation reduces her existence to a failed expectation about sex. The phrase “What a shame” makes the judgment especially cold: Gehan treats Y/N not as an autonomous person but as an unacceptable result of his desired birth. Y/N’s immediate protest that there is nothing wrong with being a girl rejects the premise on which his violence rests.

This motive also clarifies the contradiction in Gehan’s claim to be Y/N’s father. A parent might be expected to recognize the child as an individual, but Gehan values an imagined son over the daughter in front of him. His use of “Dad” is consequently exposed as conditional and possessive. He wants the privileges of paternal identity without accepting Y/N’s actual identity, and his disappointment becomes a justification for attempted murder.

The Blood-Moon Ritual

Gehan begins the ceremony from his throne. After Y/N’s body freezes, he sits down and announces that the ritual will begin while unseen objects rattle around her. The scene makes the throne a control point: Gehan does not need to approach Y/N physically in order to direct what happens to her. Her immobility and his elevated position establish an extreme asymmetry between the captive body and the ruler who has arranged its transformation.

A restraint tightens around Y/N’s neck before a red light falls over her. The light reveals a blood-red moon, an image that joins celestial power to bodily violence and blood. The moon is not merely scenery; it marks the ritual’s timing and gives the ceremony a mythic scale. Gehan’s procedure places Y/N in a threshold state, suspended between resistance and possession while the authority of Gehenna attempts to convert her latent power into something he can command.

The ritual does not end in Gehan’s control. Y/N asks whether he would like to return to Hell, and Gehan insists that he is its ruler and can come back. She then declares that she will lock the gate to Hell. The exchange reverses the hierarchy that Gehan has established. He defines himself through unrestricted return and territorial mastery, while Y/N answers by targeting the boundary that makes his sovereignty possible.

Y/N takes a glass ball from one of Gehan’s pockets and pushes him away. Concentrating, she imagines the gates of Hell into existence, and the resulting rumbling signals that her power has moved from potential to action. The object in Gehan’s pocket becomes a material trace of the power struggle, while the gates become its decisive site. His confidence falters when he realizes what Y/N is attempting, and the ruler’s authority is displaced by the captive’s ability to reshape the passage into and out of his domain.

Conflict, Possession, and Aftermath

Gehan’s encounter with Y/N is not only an external battle. Assiah later explains that Y/N had been possessed by her own power, a revelation that changes the meaning of the ritual’s climax. Gehan awakens or provokes a force that temporarily overwhelms Y/N’s control, but the resulting danger cannot be identified solely with his will. His ceremony releases a power that becomes unstable and turns against the structure he is trying to preserve.

The aftermath shows that Gehan’s influence extends beyond his direct confrontation with Y/N. Bambam is left with a hole through his chest after trying to stop her, and Assiah finds Gehan’s mark on Bambam’s wrist. Assiah says that all of them have been under this curse for far too long and works on the mark by concentrating on its energy flow. The mark therefore links Gehan’s rule to a continuing bodily curse, transforming his authority into something inscribed on his followers or captives even after the ritual scene has passed.

The appearance of Y/N’s mother in a blue, bubble-like form further complicates Gehan’s place in the story. After the gates and the confrontation, the form changes into a human figure and Y/N’s mother appears, worried and asking whether the girl is Y/N. This maternal image stands against Gehan’s counterfeit fatherhood. His version of family is expressed through rejection, restraint, and ritual violence; the mother’s appearance introduces recognition and concern, even though the circumstances remain supernatural and unresolved.

Narrative Function and Significance

Gehan concentrates several recurring structures of the story: abduction, confinement, blood-based power, the transformation of the body, and the struggle over who may define Y/N’s identity. His rule depends on fixed categories—ruler and subject, father and child, desired son and rejected daughter, Hell and the world beyond its gates. Y/N defeats the logic of those categories by refusing the identity he assigns her and by turning the gates of Gehenna against him.

His importance lies in the way he makes personal rejection inseparable from cosmic authority. Gehan is not dangerous only because he rules Gehenna; he is dangerous because he converts that rule into a claim over Y/N’s birth, body, and future. The blood moon and throne give his demand a ceremonial grandeur, but the stated reason for his hatred is painfully narrow. The contrast exposes the emptiness beneath his title: a ruler who expects obedience, yet cannot accept the person produced by the world he claims to govern.