Cha Hyun-Su is the main protagonist of the Sweet Home live action.
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Appearance[]
Similar to his appearance in the manhwa, Hyun wears a black hoodie along with his undershirt and dark pants. When he is first introduced, he has longish black hair which is notably untidy in appearance. In a later episode, he cuts it to a shorter length and changed of clothes from the waist to up.
Background[]
He is a loner high school student, who always played games online and didn't get along to well with his family. During a car crash he lost his complete family and is left all by himself. Therefore, he moves to Green Home Mansion Apartment, where he gets a new flat and strange stories happen to him.
ALL SEASON ONE APPEARANCES[]
Episode 1[]
A month before September 2020 Cha Hyun-Su, arrives at Green Home Mansion Apartment. Alone and shy, acting standoffish with the security guy outside cutting the lawn. All settled in his apartment, he sits in darkness contemplating whether he should just die or not, Hyun-Su eventually heads up to the rooftop and looks over the edge. However, he’s distracted by Lee Eun-Yu, who advises him not to die as it would cause a lot of problems for everyone else in the building. Later, Hyun-Su learns that he’s been selected as a tester for an upcoming new video game, but the day he was supposed to try this new video game coincides with his scheduled suicide date, 25th August.
One evening, Hyun-Su finds his delivery parcel all over the corridor outside, leading directly to his starving neighbor’s blood-soaked room, where he saw the bloody collar of the owner's cat. He cowers back to his room, but she promptly arrives at his peephole after he has locked himself inside his apartment. She tells him that her cat has gone and pleads with him to open up his door. Hyun-Su says he will call the police, but no-one answered, and he checked back on his nextdoor neighbor, secretly the Starving Monster. She begs for food, and this hit Hyun-Su like a lightbulb, making him suspicious of her eating her own pet cat. When he asks to see her arms to check if there is blood on her hands, she completely goes crazy, and yells for him to open his door, screaming "I'm hungry! Hungry! Hungry...". She hears Sang'Wook approaching, and in fear, scurries away as blood oozes from her nose. As he heads outside to look for the woman, he finds Sang-Wook who’s standing in the hallway and passes out right in front of him.
Later while Hyun-Su looks at the burning city from his apartment window, his nose starts bleeding.
Episode 2[]
Hours later, after fainting, Hyun-Su wakes up and is hungry. He opens the door to see if the food package is still in the doorway, but upon opening the door, the Blind Monster walks inside the apartment, reaching out, saying he "can't see" but he has very good hearing. It was a close call, because moments later, after Hyun-Su reached slowly to grab a mop, the Blind Monster heard him and stumbles toward the noises, saying: "I hear you". In fear, Hyun-Su stops dead in his tracks, paralyzed from fear of the Blind Monster finding him. Hyun-Su quickly covers his mouth to silence his breathing, making it harder to hear him, his eyes wide. As the Blind Monster is a heartbeat away from finding Hyun-Su, it walks out, still unable to see.
Later, Hyun-Su thinks he should kill himself before he turns into a monster, but he hears one man and his two children. He cautiously peeks from his window and spots the man telling his kids he'll be back with food to feed them all. But before he gets two steps, his kids scream "Monster, daddy! MONSTER!" and the dad looks over his shoulder, seeing a huge eyeball monster. It surprises the father, causing him to fall from the 12th floor. The Eye Monster goes into the kids' apartment, and the sister screams for it to leave them alone. In shock, Hyun-Su grabs a computer and throws it on the monster. It looks up at him, and Hyun-Su dives into his room, but the Eye Monster quickly follows him. It ties up Hyun-Su with its long body and tightens itself, nearly killing him by suffocation. But a bullet goes through the air and kills the Eye Monster, freeing Hyun-Su. He watches it turn to stone, and he checks what did it. Outside, he sees a neighbor armed with a rifle. The man grabs a poster and writes in Korean: "Those things don't die. Now, do you want to save the kids?" Hyun-Su nods, agreeing with the message. Hyun-Su grabs a mere mop and ties a kitchen knife to it, and opens his neighbor's door. His name is Han Du-Sik, a weapon engineer in a wheelchair. Du-Sik improves Hyun-Su's "weapon", making it capable of electrocuting and stunning monsters by pressing a button. Being thankful, Hyun-Su goes to rescue the children two floors below.
A while later, Hyun-Su meets up with the Blind Monster, but manages to stun it by shocking it with the electrocuting spear. He finally reaches the kids and tells them that Du-Sik will take care of them, but since the kids don't know him, he refers to Du-Sik as "the man". When they exit the apartment, Hyun-Su's nose starts to bleed, and he tells the kids to escape, shutting a door behind them.
Episode 3[]
Hyun-Su has a flashback about his family's car accident, and his inner monster starts making people around him disappear in a city square. After he gets away from the flashback, the Muscle Monster attacks him and breaks down the door, knocking Hyun-Su to the ground. He said "Protein" and that scared the kids. The two kids beg for Hyun-Su to wake up, but Hyun-Su doesn't wake up in time, but he is able to grab the Muscle Monster's leg, giving the kids time to escape. Hyun's eyes are completely black at the moment. As they get away, the monster retaliates by throwing him into a wall, but Jae-Heon arrives and stops the Muscle Monster. They both rescue Hyun-Su and escape.
When the kids meet the Blind Monster, they cover their mouths as quick as possible, remembering a flashback: "Along the way, you might meet a monster who's half-headed and can't see, but he has really good hearing, despite his sliced off right ear. If you see him, cover your mouths, and don't move."
Later, when the two kids, named Kim Su Yeong (the sister) and Kim Yeong Su (the little brother), find Hyun-Su again, he takes them to Han Du-Sik.
Episode 4[]
Hyun-Su joins the group on the first floor, and on their way downstairs, his new aquaintances talking about a man who died recently. Inside a hole above the corpse, a Speed Monster knocks Hyun-Su off the stairs, and he falls down several floors, landing with an awful crack in front of Eun-Yu.
A couple hours later, Hyun-Su wakes up near the First Floor Group, talking about what to do with him. Store owner Seok-hyeon Kim wants Hyun-Su out immediately, but Eun-Hyeok suggests they vote. Eun-Hyeok thinks a private vote would be safer, but Kim Seok-Hyeon wants a public vote. But more people agreed with a private vote, so Eun-Hyeok started handing out papers. When the voting ended, one half of the residents voted for Hyun-Su to stay, but the other half wanted Hyun-Su out. The last paper had both on it, and X over an O. However, it was invalid, so the person who wrote it voted an X to let Hyun-Su stay. Not wanting to accept this, Seok-Hyeon's nose bleeds, and everyone stares. Hyun-Su picks up an O card, saying, "If I cast my vote, will he be kicked out too?". Angered, Seok-Hyeon tries to object, but by now, Hyun-Su's eyes are black, shocking everyone in the room.
When a beaten up man is locked inside a room along with Hyun-Su, he asks how to be like him and to resist his inner monster.
Episode 5[]
When Pyeon-Wook and Hyun-Su go upstairs to bring Han Du-Sik to the First Floor Group, Hyun-Su feels a monster in the stairs and tells Pyeon-Wook, with black scleras. Hyun-Su opens the door, but Pyeon-Wook hits him to make him conscious of his actions. But a hand from inside an indoor shed-like room grabs Pyeon, and Hyun-Su tries to help, but meets another Speed Monster. Before the monster smacks Pyeon over the head, Hyun punches an arrow into the Speed Monster, making it flee. Yu-Ri and An Gil-Seob come down the stairs and spot Hyun-Su with Pyeon-Wook, who is unconscious at the moment. Yu-Ri and An help. As soon as Pyeon-Wook wakes up, he leaves, and after that, An tries to threaten Hyun-Su into leaving, but later jokes, saying he wants to help the children too. He joins Hyun-Su to find Du-Sik.
Episode 6[]
In episode six, Hyun-Su encounters the Speed Monster upstairs, but he manages to get back downstairs.
When a monster covered with hair enters the main room, Hyun-Su hears Seon-Young chopping something with a hammer. As he comes down to see the commotion, he realizes it's Seok-Hyeon Kim, the Green Home store owner, but in monster form. He walks past Seok-Hyeon, looking down at him briefly.
Needing food supplies, Eun-Hyeok sends Cha Hyun-Su down to the basement to fix the camera in there, but as soon as he does, the Spider Monster catches him, flipping the camera over. Eun-Hyeok, Wook Pyeon, Jae-Heon, and Ji-Su go to rescue him. While they are on their way, they see the Speed Monster asleep and decide not to wake it, knowing there would be big trouble. They find Hyun-Su and free him, but while they are returning to the first floor, the Speed Monster attacks them.
Episode 7[]
When everyone gets back, Hyun-Su recovers and sees the Spider Monster. As it's about to attack everyone, Hyun-Su takes it on, killing it with the electric spear. He gets up, his eyes black, and walks to the cell. But as he is about to go inside, the residents of Green Home let him decide to stay in the cell or to be free. He chooses to be free, and walks away from the cell.
Yu-ri gets an appendix problem and Eun-hyeok needs Hyun-su, Sang-wook, and Yu-ri.
When they come out, Hyun-su states that this was the day he planned to kill himself. It started one cloudless day when new kid Kim Do-hun stands in front of a vending machine. Hyun-su offers him a couple coins, trying to be nice, but granted, Do-hun calls him arrogant. Many days follow with Do-hun beating Hyun-su up, turning his friends on him. He states that "anyone who talks to Hyun will be killed". Later, when Hyun's father comes to the school, the bullying stopped. Do-hun is later seen bullying Hyun's friend, saying that if he jumps into the street when a car comes, he will pay for his mother's surgery. But Hyun-sy stops Do-hun by pushing him into the street instead in an attempt to kill him, but the car stops just in time, and Hyun's father is fired the day directly after. The friend visits Hyun's house the next day, saying that Hyun-su killed his mother by pushing Do-hun into the street. That all added up to the biggest reason Hyun-su wanted to commit suicide.
After the flashback, the Muscle (Steroid) Monster who survived the fall attacks them and knocks the car onto its back.
Episode 8[]
Cha Hyun-su tries to kill the monster, but is stopped. Yi-kyung attacks the Muscle Monster with a fire truck and pushes it into an unfinished construction site, and the monster is trapped under a burning object.
More to come!