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.
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.
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.
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.
Curling up and crying bc gramps doesn't get to meet the babies but the goodbye was so warm and melancholy. Uurrg
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.
I think our MC has suicidal tendencies bc of his low self worth. I think he had them before his heart operation and still has them. One of the most common forms of this that isn't the obvious like actually trying to kill ur self, is reckless behavior.
It's Passive Suicidal ideation, he has nothing to live for and feel like a burden so the idea of doing dangerous thing like this doesn't bother him. For him it seem he made this choice because he will either succeed in helping them or he will die doing so. This makes him feel like his life is worth something until he does die. More evidence is how willing he was to let himself drown. And I have a feeling the accident he was in that got him the heart transplant was likely caused by this behavior as well.
Clicked this bc I thought it'd be a masc x masc GL not gonna lie. I like the art sorta as well and the skeletons. Having a not ashy black character is definitely a plus however bro has Vegeta's hair line ong. Well the premise o far isn't unique but it kinda is for the BL genre. I'll stay tuned
In the most recent chapter it shows grandpa dreaming about crossing over to our boys dead parents and a snake stopping him and i think that's snakes way of keeping grandpa alive. Honestly i hope that grandpa stays alive long enough to meet his "great grandkids". My mom always told me about how her grandma always talked about staying alive until i was born. So when I was she stayed alive just long enough to hold me and died a few days after. And I hope his grandpa gets the same opportunity.
I read the raws and honestly the blank staring personally begins to look less blank and more contemplative. It's hard to explain honestly, it is either like he is trying to figure out how he is feeling or like an obsession is slowly developing. And it's not like the stare itself is changing but it's his shift in actions. He is still sporadic in his fits of agression but now there is random wants for affection shoved in and during that affection it zooms in on his stares as if he is realizing something or thinking about something.
Or I might be reading into it but I'd like to think there is a reason we keep getting panels of his blank stares and that it's something to keep an eye on (budumpssst ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶)
I personally have some mild critiques but that is simply bc I'm an artist myself. Such as the incomplete hairlines. And when the artist adds blue it's contrast comes off high compared to the warm colors and that throws off the color palette. Cool colors on a warm palette already stand out so having them higher contrast throws the harmony off a bit and washes out the colors around them. (The contrast difference is honestly what bothered me the most i could ignore the lack of hairline bc a lot of 80's Shojo manga had vague hairlines as well lol and that to this day is a beloved art style).
On a more positive note, the style itself reminds me of "The Siren: Becoming the villains family" which has beautiful art, very whimsical. And because of that is separated its self style wise especially in the BL genre. Gotta love when they have a unique art style. Not that a lot dont have a style but it's like whenever you can tell an artist draws hentai lol just something about it shows in it and many BL art like that yk? This gives BL mixs with Villianess reincarnated/reverse time vibe arts iykyk.
I also appreciate an attempt to add more diverse characters. Freckles? Braids? Fantastic we love it.
As for the story the dialog is corny and I'm not sure if this is their first comic but it gives that vibe. I appreciate it none the less we all start somewhere.
In BDSM emotions and having the correct mind set are very important in the play.
I'm willing to have some leniency with my annoyance for both our Dom and sub if we consider these things.
This is MC first bdsm relationship, and he has also technically never been in a real relationship. That type of communication is usually developed with experience.
This is a complicated issue with the simple solution of communication. However some ppls biggest mistake when they see a complicated/difficult issue is they expect a complicated answer.
MC needs to nut up and ask but he isnt obligated to share his feeling especially in a contracted relationship which this essentially is(one as dom/sub and the agreement didnt include a romantic relationship). It is not unreasonable for him to separate himself from the contracted relationship when something that disrupts that contract/agreement emerges, but he needs to communicate that, explain their agreement no longer satisfies him and that is why he is leaving. But bro is in his early 20's so he is still developing that EQ, there are some 20 year olds who already have that EQ but he is obviously not one of them lol.
ML as the dom who is teaching/older/more power needed to sooner rather then later teach that the emotional aspect is just as important. MC's only experience is the ML and watching videos, as the more experience of the two the fault lies on the Dom with that, however, it seems like this is the first time he is teacher/leading a Sub so it's understandable he wouldn't be experienced in the teaching aspect. ppl often forget that just because you're well educated in a subject doesn't mean you qualify to teach.
They're both learning so these mistakes are expected and inevitable. It likely also doesn't help that the communication style commonly used in many cultures is subtly and not direct confrontation. Personally I can't imagine that communication style but I'm sure there are plenty of ppl who couldn't imagine being direct the way I am either.
I guess we will just get to wait and see.