Maxi is flawed as well but Riftan treating her like a convenient hole, telling her that her dreams are impossible, treating her like a child but fucks her when he feels like it, judging her for being scared of him and assuming she lived like a fairy without asking her what she was like in childhood, cutting her off when she's about to say something about her feelings are signs of a narcissist douchebag
Like his POV in novel can't even erase my frustration with him in the early chapters! Also the manga readers here haven't completed the novel yet so of course they are judging Riftan in the present.
Yeah, I get you and other readers' frustration as well. although I'm not as frustrated, if i were to be very honest i think Riftan was kinda douchey since the very beginning, at least that was my first impression since i have a soft spot for soft spoken/anxious characters like Maxi. I dont read the novel either but I just heard that Riftan's character development or redemption will come sooner or later so I'm just kinda enjoting the ride right now heh
Well yeah I'm staying because I'm curious for Maxi's development and how her powers are going to grow, Riftan pisses me off but I can't choke his thick ass neck. He still stays as an overprotective douchebag but not that much since their communication improved after like 250 plus chapters hahaha. I'm gonna wait for like 3 years to come.
I actually have the opposite feelings. I didn't like Riftan at the beginning and while now it's not that it changed, I can understand him better and now I find myself tired of Maxi.
I know riftan's character arc right now is frustrating, but i think most ppl forgot that this story's theme is (i kinda forgot the exact wording myself but its something along the line of-) the perfect(?) love story of the imperfect (pls correct me lol)
So the thing is both maxi and ruftan are written as very flawed characters. While riftan's affection was swoonworthy in the early arc, there will come a point where that alone is not enough for a healthy relationship and his flaw which is his overprotectivenss and paranoia come to surface (which is right now), and he will be working on it albeit in a very, painfully, excruciating slow burn.
I do have my moments of wanting to pull my hair on their lack of deep communication, but all in all, im REALLY enjoying the show