Finally someone said it, well more than even I had thought of, but I see tons of comments complaining about what we all know is going to happen, so I really liked reading this kind of comment for once.
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Very weel said ! Couldn't say it better. (●'◡'●)ﾉ
THANK YOU
THIS!
Tbh I don't think they will end up together. When someone asked the author if they were gonna have a happy ending, BD said "in their own way", which I interpret as a no
I'm aware of this interview and I guess each person interprets differently. For me seems yet another confirmation that they will be happy together and the way the author replied sounds to me like the closest she could say without plainly saying 'yes'.
It is possible that the author don't make them endgame? Sure. It's just that, for me, the whole combination of how the story is ticking on the milestones of a well defined formula plus the way the author herself promotes the ship as happy and resolved in the official art makes me believe that it's unlikely that this is one author that would use the bait & switch. The official art has become more and more 'happy couple' as the story progresses and I just don't feel this author inflating that illusion for shippers if she didn't mean to deliver on it.
Let's see, maybe I'm wrong.
I agree. If the author has answered "yes", maybe the readers would say : "well, I will wait till it's finished to read in one shot because it hurts so much. Now that I know ot's a good ending, I just have to wait" (or something like that).
Plus, even if the author implies they would end together, they can face many problems till this happy ending. I am a regular reader of Finder and the author said one day in an interview that the MCs will have a life of delights but I can affirm we are all in despair NOW because of the drama and this happy ending seems very far away...
This is a very interesting explanation and to be honest, I really want to let myself get convinced... yet, I can't stop thinking that the answer BD gave us was a hint that they wouldn't make them endgame. Amongst all the answers she could have given us to confirm that they would end up together, there could have been a "certainly", "probably", "only future can tell us", or any other kind of approximate answers like these. But she chose to say "In their own way", which means that they will find happiness, but most definitely not into each other. That would also be the most realistic kind of ending, according to me.
We will most certainly find out more as the store progresses. In my view, the point of these stories is exactly not to be realistic but indulge into alternative reality, escapism through fiction. The very premise of rape plot trope in Yaoi (and to be fair, almost all Yaoi with their uke-seme rigid structure and countless tropes) already puts all these stories in 'this is not intended to be realistic or seen as standard for real life relationships'.
I'm glad Yaoi has many choices of stories -- some that do try to portray couples in healthier or more realistic standard --- and the non normative ones that don't follow rules of realistic endings. I just can't relate to expecting realistic endings in classic tropes that by the very definition are non normative to begin with.
In any case, thank you for your feedback. Let's hope that whichever the ending the author chooses, it's well written. Cheers!
Seungho x Nakyum are endgame and they will have a fairly happy ending.
This will not end in tragedy.
This is as classic as Yaoi as they get and I wish people stopped acting as if POTN had to be something else they expect just because they decided to read something because it's popular even knowing it was a rape Yaoi plot with very known formula.
Every Yaoi reader knows recognize the classic tropes on this story:
- Seungho is the bad guy but he also is shown to care. This implies he will get redemption. Seungho is hardly the only 'bad but still human' trope in this story. Both Jihwa and the fanservice character Tarzan also are on this trope.
- The MCs are monogamous or even if they don't start as monogamous, they become as the story progresses. Seungho starting as promiscuous and then giving up all and any other partner because he only wants Nakyum. Classic endgame set up.
- Nakyum is classic innocent uke. Seungho is his first and only man he will have sex with through the story. Seungho is the man Nakyum jerk off to. All again, classic endgame.
- Seungho is both the initial abuser and the final protector of Nakyum. Classic trope where a bully torments the uke and then gradually becomes his fierce protector. This is not even only in Yaoi. Shounei Ai bully-to-lover uses the exact same formula. This story never hid or fooled anyone that it was anything else but a Yaoi rape to love trope so it's a bit frustrating imagine that readers will get to the end of this complaining as if they were fooled or promised something else when all the read flags are blaring from the first chapter.
- The author. I never saw a more explicit, even aggressive advertisement that the MCs are a ship. While the story progresses in snail pace development and we can't see how, the official art and merch hypes, promises and sells the idea and dream of a happy relationship. Anyone following the official art sees that it's not the smut but a romance that is being portrayed. Now, could it be that this is one author that would pull the rug from under the readers feet and is doing a bait & switch where all that she hypes and inflates in the official art as happy romantic ending is nothing but a ploy to entice readers to stick to the end just to deliver a horrible ending to one of them? Could be but I think authors usually don't like to fool readers this way.
The good news is that most readers really care more about watching characters being happy that care about getting revenge to satisfy their personal taste so if the author manages to actually make Nakyum happy with Seungho I believe there will be very few that will be bitter to the end getting the end they knew it was coming.