The rape one is what really annoys me. Nowhere in this story is the rape romanticized and seen as a foundation of a relationship. It is rightfully portrayed as a traumatic experience, and the victim continues to suffer what looks like PTSD from it. It is used to drive the story forward, and the first one was the catalyst for the main story. In the second rape, both characters are actually nonconned, as one was possessed. (Although there is only so many times you can excuse rape as being necessary for the plot, and I’m hoping Mojito doesn’t cross that line.) If you didn’t realize this about the rapes, please reread the story.
About the story being confusing, I understand why it might be because a lot of information and characters motives are implied or rely on backstories, but if you read it carefully once or twice it will make sense.
Either way, this is not one of those simple, feel good BLs where you can skim the story to get to the sex and still kinda understand the plot. The BL isn’t even the main focus really, for season 1 at least. Don’t read it if you expect it to be so.
THIS WHOLE THREAD !!
I totally agree with you.
*COMMENT MAY BE SLIGHTLY SPOILERY*
I’m both happy that this webtoon is gaining more attention bc it deserves it, and also annoyed that the crowd it is attracting is only here bc of the BL they see on the cover. This story has much more than just two guys getting it on, like a solid plot, complex characters and motives, and gray morality among other things. But just because the main couple aren’t having sex in the first couple chapters, people don’t like it or they skip through just to get to the sex and miss a ton of context/plot. These are the kinds of people who get angry at this story for “romanticizing rape” or are completely confused and say this story doesn’t make sense when THEY are the ones who aren’t bothering to read carefully.