I genuinely loved this, and I have very little shame in it. Firstly, I think it’s important to separate good story telling from ‘likeable characters’ a character and story doesn’t have to be likable for the story to be good, the two aren’t mutually exclusive. From romance perspective, if you like romance BL, I wouldn’t recommend this. But, as someone who really likes psychological manga and yaoi (MADK being my fav for reference,) this was SO good. The characters' convictions are done really well, their behaviors make sense, their personalities are consistent, and their motivations are well fleshed out.
I loved the way that Aiji and Seiji’s trauma reflected itself in their relationships with each other, and subsequently the other omegas that Aiji was hiring for them both, it makes logical sense, and it’s so good from a psychology standpoint. What happened between Aiji and Seiji was an accident, and Seiji felt responsible for ‘caging’ Aiji. In the sense that, in omegaverse, Alpha’s can have many pairs, but omega’s can’t, and there is usually some major backlash for breaking a pair, or it’s just not possible (kinda depends on the authors discretion.) And thus Seiji felt a responsibility to stay by Aiji’s side, and Aiji knew that, and felt like he was a burden in response, thus him suggesting they should start keeping omegas, and hoping to find someone for Seiji to ‘properly’ bond with that wasn’t…y’know his brother. I also really loved that’s it’s the opposite from what we usually see in omegaverse, the alpha, Seiji, was much more gentle, affectionate, like the flowers, and had more typical ‘omega-like,’ traits, and Aiji, the omega, was much more aggressive. It was a breath of fresh air as far as ABO dynamics go.
Would it have worked if they weren’t brothers, yes, absolutely! Sure, there maybe would have been less of a feeling of responsibility from Seiji, and so he wouldn’t have felt the need to stay with Aiji, but even before that their relationship was muddy. In any case, the incest was for sure just an added taboo by the author, but adding it did make more sense to why they would be so truly codependent and terrified of opening up to others.
Ultimately, the story was unarguably well written! Yes, you can absolutely argue the moral and ethics of both the characters and the author, and the incest, until you’re blue in the face. It's not my thing by any means, but I do think in this story it was useful in explaining the twin's behaviors towards others and how they approached their relationship with Towa. You can say that all the characters are terrible awful people, but they’re not inconsistent characters, and that doesn’t make the writing bad!
It is also (unfortunately) one of the only 3p manga’s that’s TRULY a 3p where they all are equally romantically and sexually involved with each other, and it's not just two tops feigning over one bottom, but the tops don’t actually like each other at all.
I genuinely loved this, and I have very little shame in it. Firstly, I think it’s important to separate good story telling from ‘likeable characters’ a character and story doesn’t have to be likable for the story to be good, the two aren’t mutually exclusive. From romance perspective, if you like romance BL, I wouldn’t recommend this. But, as someone who really likes psychological manga and yaoi (MADK being my fav for reference,) this was SO good. The characters' convictions are done really well, their behaviors make sense, their personalities are consistent, and their motivations are well fleshed out.
I loved the way that Aiji and Seiji’s trauma reflected itself in their relationships with each other, and subsequently the other omegas that Aiji was hiring for them both, it makes logical sense, and it’s so good from a psychology standpoint. What happened between Aiji and Seiji was an accident, and Seiji felt responsible for ‘caging’ Aiji. In the sense that, in omegaverse, Alpha’s can have many pairs, but omega’s can’t, and there is usually some major backlash for breaking a pair, or it’s just not possible (kinda depends on the authors discretion.) And thus Seiji felt a responsibility to stay by Aiji’s side, and Aiji knew that, and felt like he was a burden in response, thus him suggesting they should start keeping omegas, and hoping to find someone for Seiji to ‘properly’ bond with that wasn’t…y’know his brother. I also really loved that’s it’s the opposite from what we usually see in omegaverse, the alpha, Seiji, was much more gentle, affectionate, like the flowers, and had more typical ‘omega-like,’ traits, and Aiji, the omega, was much more aggressive. It was a breath of fresh air as far as ABO dynamics go.
Would it have worked if they weren’t brothers, yes, absolutely! Sure, there maybe would have been less of a feeling of responsibility from Seiji, and so he wouldn’t have felt the need to stay with Aiji, but even before that their relationship was muddy. In any case, the incest was for sure just an added taboo by the author, but adding it did make more sense to why they would be so truly codependent and terrified of opening up to others.
Ultimately, the story was unarguably well written! Yes, you can absolutely argue the moral and ethics of both the characters and the author, and the incest, until you’re blue in the face. It's not my thing by any means, but I do think in this story it was useful in explaining the twin's behaviors towards others and how they approached their relationship with Towa. You can say that all the characters are terrible awful people, but they’re not inconsistent characters, and that doesn’t make the writing bad!
It is also (unfortunately) one of the only 3p manga’s that’s TRULY a 3p where they all are equally romantically and sexually involved with each other, and it's not just two tops feigning over one bottom, but the tops don’t actually like each other at all.