the crazy thing about this one is that, by the end, it’s actually painfully and almost unbearably clear how much they love and care about each other. like i read the final few chapters and i’m like holy shit how did we even land here…???? this series is really REALLY fucked up but it’s written so well the characters genuinely feel human
the seme in this one was ACTUALLY abusive for a large portion of the story but the way the author wrote his Hashtag Growth was so realistic it kind of disturbed me a little. usually the change feels too sudden or out of character but this story reaaally makes sense even though it does actually feel impossible to read sometimes because of … Everything…
Damn I might have to try reading it (づ￣ ³￣)づ
Y’all got me curious now I do love me a lil realism when it comes to development
if u decide to go through with it, definitely major content warning because it is honestly a difficult read… even so, it was really interesting and i couldn’t make myself stop, lol. there’s definitely a sense of trauma bonding between mc and ml (again, ml was cruel—CRUEL—to mc) but in the end you can understand how they ended up so attached to each other. the character writing in this is incredible, and it really made sense to me Why certain characters acted the way they did… they weren’t cruel for no reason at all, but they didn’t always have a particularly honorable reason either. they were flawed in a way that felt real and couldn’t be easily written away, but still with the capacity to gradually change
Everytime i see some uber toxic violent mafia semes that act like they live on a different planet than everyone else, by the end of the series i tend to think like do these ppl even love each other? Like can they sit down and talk about their hobbies, friends? Anything other than just have sex. Ik its not supposed to be wholesome and whatnot and it’s not just this one ya know just the whole archetype just makes me feel bad..mainly for the uke ESPECIALLY the historical ones like steel under silk and potn.
Also I haven’t even read this lol I just wanted to talk about the trope