Wow. Obviously there's a lot of blackmail, rape, coercion, stockholm syndrome, and questionable affection wrapped up in this red flag of an MC, but somehow he's actually (as he himself states) learning to be a human being.
This story focuses heavily on love and confinement, but so far has only glanced over how deeply traumatic it is to be raised as an awakened (wow is he traumatized), and how utterly insane this government is. That the nonawakened people are living normal lives with regular ideals and norms, juxtaposed to this brainwashed authoritarian branch of the government seems very, very wrong.
I'm waiting for this story to transition from the black rom com that it is into an apocalyptic anti-government action adventure it needs to be. Because otherwise I can't imagine them having any kind of happily ever after that I'm desperately wishing for.
Wow. Obviously there's a lot of blackmail, rape, coercion, stockholm syndrome, and questionable affection wrapped up in this red flag of an MC, but somehow he's actually (as he himself states) learning to be a human being.
This story focuses heavily on love and confinement, but so far has only glanced over how deeply traumatic it is to be raised as an awakened (wow is he traumatized), and how utterly insane this government is. That the nonawakened people are living normal lives with regular ideals and norms, juxtaposed to this brainwashed authoritarian branch of the government seems very, very wrong.
I'm waiting for this story to transition from the black rom com that it is into an apocalyptic anti-government action adventure it needs to be. Because otherwise I can't imagine them having any kind of happily ever after that I'm desperately wishing for.