Readers: Oh it's an immortal lady and a kid. IT'S THAT TROPE AGAIN. THIS IS GROOMING.
For goodness' sake. ┑(￣Д ￣)┍ how uneducated are y'all not to know what grooming is? did she lead him? the boy is growing up. Let him grow up!
*lead him on?
Fr.
she raised him bro stop defending ts
He technically raised his own self. There's no way you read that and thought she actually raised a child? That's hardly raising someone. That's just the tad bit remaining ounce of humanity she left.
She saw him grow up, and she will see him grow old and die. The point ain't about raising who or not. It's the misuse of grooming. There is no point in the story suggested grooming. Study the term and use it appropriately. That's the issue.
Agree. It is 100% safe content and in no way grooming if the child in question isn't being physically, verbally, or emotionally abused. She very literally saved him from abusers?? She also derives zero sexual gratification from their relationship and neither acknowledges nor humors his romantic interest. The kid has a crush on her of his own free will and people are using buzzwords to shit on her as though younger boys don't develop innocent crushes on older women all the time in the world. People finna watch Gachiakuta with a straight face while calling this story grooming. Media literacy is dead.
Seriously damn ahh readers who always mistaken grooming (real) with kid having a crush on an adult. Like bruh, imagine your teacher just doing their job and you have a crush on them. They did nothing special, treat every kid the same way, maybe gave some advice when you had a hard time and all up to code. You can't call that grooming, much like how you can't call any age gap grooming. It's all about context you nimrods.
Yeah though I do understand why people would be uncomfortable
I wouldn’t be comfortable reading about an adult knowing a kid then later on the line dating them.
People need to distinguish "grooming" to actual romance buildup. Harvey is falling in love with her, why? Nielis would also like to ask that question, certainly, because she seemed oblivious to that. She did not groom her or anything, for goodness' sake. That trope that everyone is so keen on emphasizing is not even as typical for it to happen in this story. She's not even acknowledging him as anything aside from being a "palladin" or someone she hurt or killed her. She also definitely did not adopt her nor shown him enough care to make him fall for her. I personally saw Harvey as a typical lackey butler for a witch.
The boy fell in love on his own—at least give him credit for that. Know the difference before bickering or complaining. Reading the story, it's not even heavily focusing on Harvey and Nielis' romance. The plot is interesting on its own.
Again, grooming and other unbelievably common used terms nowadays, should be use correctly and appropriately. It's not Nielis' fault that she agreed to have him tag along. They never established any relationship close to being a family or sorts. It's their excuse to not come off as weird and to protect Nielis from being found out.
PEOPLE, STOP USING WORDS THAT YOU DO NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND. Do not ignore Harvey's feelings just because y'all are conditioned into thinking that he's always a kid. （￣へ￣）