like and his face of regret at the end? so what if you "feel bad" after raping someone, no one gives a fuck abt what you feel when the guy you just raped is sobbing in the next room to his hospitalized grandfather. I have to ask the author what the point of showing his face looking sad. I can only assume they put that in to humanize him and make us go "aww he feels bad," ugh I just hate when they try to force redemption arcs down my throat
I love a good redemption arc personally, but some actions (i.e. Rape) are just not redeemable in my mind, except for in extremely specific circumstances (that even then are really more technicality based than actual rape based). It's more “does that really constitute as rape” and not so much “well it's ok because”. For example: yeah, it's rape but the mc is into that, he said so in the past, so although he's saying “no”, he's thinking “keep going”. I still have issues with that because in my mind no means stop. Immediately. But I'm not someone with that kind of kink and if the mc doesn't consider it rape, should I? (Still yes imo, but I'm hoping you see what I mean.) My issue stems at the junction pertaining to abuse/kink. If mc doesn't consider it rape, but everyone around him does, then that mean it's abuse and mc is only ok with it because they don't realize their being abused and it's all part of the manipulation? Have they been previously manipulated and therefore think they like someone because they've been programmed to think they like it so it was easy to be abused; and now in this new relationship are ok with being raped because they were so thoroughly abused in the past they took on their diminution as a personality and their abuse became a kink? In most cases we can't possibly know the answer to these questions because we're shown a tiny portion of the bigger picture.
All this said, in this particular situation, he said no. He even seemed to realize his “liking” of anything was physiological and afterwards lashed out. Which we'll yeah. I just don't understand the rapist. What the fuck was he expecting!?!?
Oh and my last paragraph of my other comment said “you don't get to be safe...” when it was supposed to say “you don't get to be sad”. So yes.
I'm just so angry. I also feel like no matter where this goes, the rapist is just a poorly written character.
You guys warned me. I figured I still had hope left. I'm sorry but he had an entire lifetime to learn his lesson. He said he wanted to test him right this time. I wanted to believe him. He had enough time. I'm out.
Good luck to those still holding out hope he might actually change this lifetime. I'll check back every ounce in awhile to see if he's even tried.
And no sir, you don't GET to be safe about RAPING the man you claim so passionately up live. You don't do this to the ones you love.