Meat Boy is getting a lot of hate, but...

uneclipsd April 4, 2024 11:43 pm

I'm positive the way he's acting is because he thinks he's more serious about her than she is about him. We primarily get the story from her perspective so it's easy to say that he's being cavalier and annoying. But...if you think about it from his POV, he's the the one initiating everything from their first kiss to their confession and she's constantly blowing him off or running away. He even indicates that he was sure she already knew that he loved her. She thinks he's being flippant and teasing her when he says stuff, but he's probably being sincere. She just doesn't believe him because she already think he's a playboy, even though we haven't seen any indication of that beyond him bringing in a crowd of women to his shop. TT.TT

He has a lot of ambition, but he also has a shit ton of books that would help him if they ever got married and he had to inherit or help with the business. And yeah, he doesn't contact her after their love confession, but she doesn't either. She says she loves him and is hopeful for their future, but she's also always waiting on him to make the move first.

Just to be clear, I like all these characters. I think this story is very sweet and they feel like real people. I just feel the need to defend the ML because for someone reason people really hate him when he's not actually done anything bad lol.

Fish Boy is cute too, but I think this is just a case where the both of the main characters are underestimating how the other feels.

Responses
    jubds April 5, 2024 9:59 pm

    I agree 100% with you! It also annoys me how she doesn't do anything, doesn't iniciate anything at all and just... complains. Even the thing with her own father, like PLEASE woman up and tell him to stop that, tell him you don't want the fish boy

    Ilo@ April 6, 2024 8:31 am

    Thanks, I don’t understand why people don’t like him when actually he didn’t do anything, on the contrary he puts effort into the hope of this relationship, the only annoying one here is the protagonist who does nothing, even talk i don’t know if she knows to do that