It's impossible to give them any leeway for anything when the intention is for them to always end up together so even if they make the rape scene "traumatic" instead of "romantic" they're still saying yes I do acknowledge its rape but it's super romantic to fall in love and live happily ever after with your rapist
No but this is such a normal occurrence within BL stories. So at least the author isn’t glorifying it. She’s making us see how sad it actually is (or he). They’re very clearly making a character who’s a bad guy. A loan shark and murderer etc so why should we expect him to be any different? If the author wants to write about a bad seme they will. It’s the glorifying that I personally hate. “Oh they raped me but it’s okay because he loves me and I enjoyed it towards the end” . Nah not okay. Or “he raped me and hurt me but it’s okay because he’ll make me fall in love with me and oh my look how many time I orgasm”. That stuff is weird. Here the author showed you it was sad and the uke wasn’t okay with it. Even the next chapter the uses like “I’m going to the police because I like you and so I never want to see you again”.
It’s so common for this to happen that I’m unsure why we’re all so surprised? However there is something I will say….i don’t think the author was trying to make this “hot”. I never once saw this and thought it was hot. The authors other smex scenes have been very spicy and “hot” this however just felt sad so for that I guess thankyou? But also not thankyou. I’d have preferred the author to have had him choose any other method than this to get the uke to hate the seme. It almost doesn’t feel real…like this isn’t the character we’ve grown to know but I guess that’s the whole point?