I think its less about grooming and more about position of power/authority. Obviously MC has the power in this situation, she is raising the ML as a mother figure. Coming from a position of power (providing food, roof, clothes etc) she has a positive influence on this child and is in a position to influence them. Obviously MC isn't trying to groom him but as someone with the power in this dynamic she should be responsible to not return those feelings & she should understand that ML may like her bc she was his sole provider (kinda adopted them). I think stories like this are very much in the grey area
i think she is oblivious towards it since she only sees him as a child but that's my point of view, sort of a one sided love
God I hope so but knowing stories like this she will probably fall for him. She might not technically be grooming him but in my opinion I find it creepy if she accepts his love.. everyone is diff tho
very true but at the end of the day it's up to the author to decide. At least they are not related ;-;
i really don't care if there is a ship or not but to people who keep on throwing the word "grooming" please search the word up if you don't know what it means because in this story none of that is going on, do I ship the ml with the queen? I honestly do not care and if you do cool that's your opinion