Her personality has been consistent, i think the difference is now she doesnt know the future. And honestly her reluctance to cut off the traitors in her family would make more sense had the story fleshed out her relationship with them more. Cause at most, we know how much she cherishes her brother, but outside of that the rest of the family is kinda a blank, even the parents. The betrayal of that part of their family isnt interesting bc it isnt fleshed out. Had it been this arc would seem cooler. Like with ole boy in 95, had we seen him more instead of just going off of kaylas vague ass memory if him, this would seem more intense.
I also think because Kayla has been consistent is whats making this fall flat. She has shown no impactful growth, a good time to have done more development would have been during her time preparing her family to stay nuetral, having her interacting more with her family outside of meeting and mements with the brought up family members like the traitors and dropping tid bits of foreshadowing to them would have built reader tension better and grown more emotional depth in all the characters. The premise its self isnt boring, its poorly executed. Her family feels disposable to the reader but theyre trying to make her this 'for my family' kind of girl, but thats only well done when the readers see how attached the character is and why theyre close in the first place for a third party to root for the Mc's belief. On another note, she seems weak because she has the same strength as she did at the beginning of the story and yet the trials she face now are more difficult. This makes her weak overall and makes her lack of growth very obvious. Having the ML help her discover her strength isnt a bad thing, especially considering the bloodline thing, however, it would have been more endearing if at some point before the princes return she had another 'upgrade' that involved her brother in this universe to show that she can grow outside the prince but also that she didnt just cast him off to his wife when all was said and done (considering the start of this was heavy with the regret she had when ignoring her brother from the ogworld).
This is getting long so ill stop here, but those are my bigger peeves.
Hmm.... If so, then maybe I read her character wrong in the first & 2nd season
I can't explain it very well, but during those seasons, her character seemed to be the type to continuously improve and develop herself.
Like, to me, she was portrayed in the earlier seasons as someone who doesn't "skirt the sidelines" & is able to identify when she should start getting "proactive" in politics.
Her political savvy at that time seemed to have disappeared in this season, which is disappointing really.
And if I'm right, that means it WAS out of character for to not have impactful growth.
But, either way, I definitely agree that this story was poorly executed
Makes me wonder if the novel went more in depth with ther extended family
I didnt see her character as one that was continuously improving, she had one goal and that was to save her brother, outside of her brother she didnt really have any other goal besides staying out of the way. She only got involved when if it meant getting her brother out of harms way. Honestly thats the only real reason she sought improvement. Now she has achieved that goal and the only one is to stay out of the fight. So does it really not make sense she is constantly pulling herself to the side line?(really its the ill runaway and everything will be fine trope lol) She never had any passion to be a leader, she is only the head to keep her brother safe and keep them out of the fight.
Thats why i said that they needed to flesh the family out more, cause then it would make her need to protect her family not feel so forced. She has always been indecisive when it came to her own matters, so im not surprised she is still like that. She just seemed like she was successful bc she knew the majority of the plot in the story. I mean,after the princes grandpa died, all the scenes after feel rushed and vague, all those scenes she comes off as weak. Those are also all the scenes where she can no longer fully predict what will happen. The only thing she knew was that there would be a fight for the throne.
In the beginning of the story i personally didnt really see her as politically savvy, the best thing she does politically is change her home dynamic by taking the sword instead of her brother and again that was when she had the goal to protect him. Other than that she was more of a i do ny duties worker bee type, not some political savant. Or maybe thats just me. I do see your point in how she could be seen that way and how it comes off as a failure of her character instead.
This is what you get when you want a big size difference but also want a hunk bottom lol, oh how bl has progressed (kinda lol).
I dont want woori to get hurt however our bottoms has been super honest about everything when it comes to his situationship with the hair dresser and 2nd lead is knowingly getting mixed up despite that. So while im not usually for the bottom sleeping around I think im kinda rooting for our bottoms Slut era. Let woori get a piece of that ass. Our bottom deserves to be a hoe truly he does.
The artist drew ml hands reaching for the gun intentionally, to show him actively moving the gun. Lots of suicide survivors who try to shoot themselves live specifically bc they moved their hands ever so slightly, out of hesitation, that all it does is lasting damage instead. This looks like a .45, you dont even need to move it a full inch to change the trajectory enough for it to only be a deep graze. Think just a smidgen bigger thank a quarter in length, so not entirely small - small enough that a knuckle size of movement makes a massive difference (my uncle is a gun fanatic so I've been taken to the range a few times but ofc im no expert) none of this includes recoil and there will be recoil if this is a .45 and him using one hand, hell there's recoil if you use two hands.
Anyway outside of that, it's an interesting parallel between the two men who obsesse over Mc. How they both cling to him so desperately because he is essentially the physical embodiment of their humanity. For blondie the Mc is the humanity he longed for bc it seems even as a kid he never really had much to began with, so it's like a curiosity that became an obsession. Where as for our ML, the Mc is what is left of his humanity. Like he is protecting what is left of his inner child, so saving the Mc is like saving what's left of his humanity.
Whoa this is like the first time I have read such a great analysis on yaoi and you know so much man have you thought abt getting a phd in yaoiology
Jajaja ill make sure to add that to my resume "cant read the room worth a shit but is surprisingly great at reading the subtle not so subtle sexual tension between the big ceo and his assistant" ill just need to make sure i have some savings so i can take a vacation during the chase arc
The only thing i think about when I read this sometimes is
"I'm not upset with y'all because I know you're mentally ill, which is why one day Im gonna open up a hospital..."
I'm pretty sure this is set in America? So Andrew's concern about Luke not being ok with the gay is hilariously ironic bc Luke is in theater. And as someone from the SOUTH of America, if there was ever a place to find queers or allies, it's in theater class lol.
It doesn't matter what grade either, yer gonna have a gaggle of queers in theater class/club. And this looks to be after flip phones so you're definitely gonna find out in the open queers. And theyre in college so theyre in a bigger city cause no college in tim bucket two is gonna have a community college with dorms. I think Andrew comes from a really unfortunate situation of a conservative household in a not so conservative state, those type of households tend to shelter you from how open minded the rest of the world actually is. (I get he has trauma and no one needs to explain why it is uncertain I know i get it, as a queer in the south if anyone is gonna understand, I just find it kinda funny lol). If Luke is the only gay in that theater class it's unrealistic lol at least one other is questioning or doesn't use labels lol.
Yes i thought the same hahaha it is a lil funny but like i get it.. my guess too is that there is at least one girl who is lesbian, someone else who is bi like Luke and definitely a gay guy but I’m thinking it’s just normal as it should be and nobody really cares or talks about it because it’s just who they are and doesn’t need to be talked about
Yeah theyre in college so it i dont expect them to talk about it as much cause most of them have probably gotten out of their system. When the queer is really loud and open is usually middle school or high school lol. Any stragglers like Luke who realize it as an adult tend to try to figure things out quietly.
Yes so true hahaha
Curling up and crying bc gramps doesn't get to meet the babies but the goodbye was so warm and melancholy. Uurrg
I’m begging you for a link to the raws… I need my heart ripped out before I go to work…
You’re my hero thank you
This is one of those stories where you'd wanna get mad at the Mc for being so dense but there are so many people giving him the wrong information that it makes sense why he is assuming the ml doesn't like him.
And the Ml is like ones of those letters that say "do you like me □yes □no" except the dumb ass who wrote it only wrote "□yes □no" and is confused why he isn't getting an answer when in reality he never asked it.
The MC it's a certified idiot and somehow all the characters around him fall below the idiot line landing a bulls eye between dumbass and Jackass. They all have the emotional compacity of a monkey who eats his own turds.
That fox is hard at work trying to get both of them to realize they wanna stay together after the babies are born. On another not i also think he just wants are snake boy to stay bc he misses his friend, probably thinks its two birds one stone kinda thing uf he gets him to stay.