I’ve previously alr made a review on this, but I once again, find myself harping about this story once again because I keep getting roped into reading this again and again.
I’m not saying ‘Stranger’ might be the best BL out there, but I’m saying it might be one of the better ones. Woojung is a character I FULLY and can CONFIDENTLY state feels like a real adult. The beginning of the two leads’ romance is quite frankly disastrous, and I would even say, unconventional and bizarre, weird, off-putting, etc, because a grown man picks up a barely legal teenage boy off the streets, offered him a place to stay, money to spend. This obviously wouldn’t translate well on paper, especially when said adult decides to sleep with the teenager who freshly turned eighteen, almost instantaneously. There’s no way to argue there aren’t any wrongful moral implications.
Any adult with morales would immediately deny it. Yes, Woojung is a freak for that decision. He works in the legal sphere and knows the implications. HOWEVER, it kinda pains me to see that a story about overcoming trauma, learning security and finding the ability to allow yourself happiness when you’ve been so hurt and neglected, is being dropped because I genuinely feel that this manhwa knows how to weasel emotions out of you.
Woojung is a grounded male, almost parental and adult-like figure that Jiho needed in his life, and after being treated so well by this adult, I can believe it’s only inevitable that Jiho might begin to cultivate feelings. You could say there’s some power dynamics at play in the beginning, but imbalances in relationships, power dynamics means that someone has the upper hand over the other, which in this case, Woojung has neither because he likes Jiho. I mean, what kind of prosecutor would dare say he wouldn’t even send an alleged suspect to jail even if his allegations were true? Woojung said that just for Jiho! If he wanted this dynamic to continue, he wouldn’t have sent Jiho to college, even help him develop his own standing. He waited until they became equal—grown independent men—before he proposed.
The way these two build a connection with each other, being consistently present with one other even in turmoil, gives me enough conviction to think they’re one of the BL couples that you can believe will stay with each other for a long time and I’m happy both of them achieved their satisfactory ending after all their hurdles.
So I truly recommend Strangers if you want a good BL to spend your time on!! Plus the legal stuff, albeit little, was interesting to read. Strangers is always in the top three of my BL recommendations (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
I’ve previously alr made a review on this, but I once again, find myself harping about this story once again because I keep getting roped into reading this again and again.
I’m not saying ‘Stranger’ might be the best BL out there, but I’m saying it might be one of the better ones. Woojung is a character I FULLY and can CONFIDENTLY state feels like a real adult. The beginning of the two leads’ romance is quite frankly disastrous, and I would even say, unconventional and bizarre, weird, off-putting, etc, because a grown man picks up a barely legal teenage boy off the streets, offered him a place to stay, money to spend. This obviously wouldn’t translate well on paper, especially when said adult decides to sleep with the teenager who freshly turned eighteen, almost instantaneously. There’s no way to argue there aren’t any wrongful moral implications.
Any adult with morales would immediately deny it. Yes, Woojung is a freak for that decision. He works in the legal sphere and knows the implications. HOWEVER, it kinda pains me to see that a story about overcoming trauma, learning security and finding the ability to allow yourself happiness when you’ve been so hurt and neglected, is being dropped because I genuinely feel that this manhwa knows how to weasel emotions out of you.
Woojung is a grounded male, almost parental and adult-like figure that Jiho needed in his life, and after being treated so well by this adult, I can believe it’s only inevitable that Jiho might begin to cultivate feelings. You could say there’s some power dynamics at play in the beginning, but imbalances in relationships, power dynamics means that someone has the upper hand over the other, which in this case, Woojung has neither because he likes Jiho. I mean, what kind of prosecutor would dare say he wouldn’t even send an alleged suspect to jail even if his allegations were true? Woojung said that just for Jiho! If he wanted this dynamic to continue, he wouldn’t have sent Jiho to college, even help him develop his own standing. He waited until they became equal—grown independent men—before he proposed.
The way these two build a connection with each other, being consistently present with one other even in turmoil, gives me enough conviction to think they’re one of the BL couples that you can believe will stay with each other for a long time and I’m happy both of them achieved their satisfactory ending after all their hurdles.
So I truly recommend Strangers if you want a good BL to spend your time on!! Plus the legal stuff, albeit little, was interesting to read. Strangers is always in the top three of my BL recommendations (๑•ㅂ•)و✧