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tbh seeing ML's relationship with his sisters make me think about how MC's relationship with his brother had so much potential, and i'm not saying my opinion is better than what the author chose to do with it, but i just can't help but wish they took a deeper route w MC and his brother.
imagine how fire things would've been if the MC's brother wasn't going to spiral into that deranged obsessive trope. i honestly think doomed relationships are so well done when it doesn't focus on smth like objectification or a type of possessiveness based on that, because those things make their relationship kinda boring since that ultimately means that relationship was always toxic and not smth i'd root for if they lived another life. bc we can see that the brother had a sense of overwhelming selfishness from the start, but it was never really balanced out with a sincere sense of love for MC, or at least anything emotionally deep for MC, so i don't gaf about their past relationship or their current one now, or how the brother's betrayal would feel or even MC's since the brother has never been a good influence on his life. like the brother is such a 2D villain who has no ounce of redeemable interactions with MC, that there's no emotional turmoil as the reader. it' unlike how we understand taeoh's anger towards his sisters, the sisters' coldness towards each other, and the dad's mental and behavioral spiral, as well as how tragic that they turned out so strained and toxic to each other despite the reality that they only turned out this way due to the cards that they were dealt with.
tragic relationships, especially between childhood family bonds are always SO good when you can tell there was always a genuine sort of intimacy between them, and how good they could've been for each other if their lives were still overlapping, but due to circumstances they just cannot be together in any way. especially when it comes to siblings. idk, i just feel like. the brother being a piece of shit even before the betrayal just made me have 0 emotional investment in him, and his reason for being upset was MC leaving him behind made him SO boring bc wdym ur last thoughts were about MC not following your orders?? like bro ure dying, ur brother is clearly going to be TRAUMATIZED by this, and you are in deep shit and so are your friends because of you, and that's all you can think of? like i get that it points to him being a shitty and irredeemable character, but those characters aren't the ones that we are going to care about because there's nothing to be invested in. there's no potential positive networth to his interactions with anyone in this story, and we don't like him enough to care if he ruins his own life, that i just wish the author went a different root with him. like if the brother had insanely complicated feelings of remorse, regret, but also anger and guilt for what he got MC into and what he and MC did to each other would've made me so investedddddd.