
Like its actually ridiculous how dumb the uke is. I cant in good faith like him it bothers me so much
I also don't like when Authors use characters as a device to move the plot along but at the expense of their IQs, it's funny and all but I felt like it's been overused. It's the same as "I never had sex, lemme practice on you" trope, I honestly don't know how does that work.
Wooju is cute and all but the Author had overuse that clueless and blindsided attitude of him— just so he could open this plot points into the story. He could be trusting and naive but he's also fierce which is contradictory to his overall character. It's like he gives off a reliable college student with a bit of attitude to stupidly naive and dumbass person in the room.
How could he have sex with his childhood friend? How could he drink something he doesn't know of? There could be many reasonings to lead up to this but it's an obviously shitty and stupid choices in the end.
Wooju was brought up to be trusting and to always see the good in people, so he wasn't capable of imagining people doing weird shit to him. So of course he'd be innocent and take things at face value. Now of course, the drug's making his self awareness lower and his memory's not on point, but this is also because he blindly trusts his childhood friend to want the best for him (which we obviously know isn't true). He has a limited understanding of how humans can harm one another and sure, if you wanna call that low IQ or him being dumb that's your opinion, but it's honestly just the psychological backround he has being protected as a kid
I would agree with this to some extent had he not gone through an incredibly traumatizing experience of being KIDNAPPED and held hostage. He has more than enough understanding about how humans can harm others. That's besides the point. I'm not calling him dumb for trusting his childhood friend or taking the medicine. I'm calling him dumb because quite literally every decision he has made outside of that has just been a headache. On top of that hes inability to see the professor is an absolute weirdo is blowing me away. So yeah I think hes being dumb
Guy's it's not real. "Why does nobody care that Taeju is a rapist!?" because its not real. He's not real. Nobody in this is real. It was a plot device for conflict and to get them together like please get over yourselves. Yes, rape is bad, we know that. This is just not real. Its a sandbox, let people get the enjoyment they want from it. It is a safe way to engage in themes we dont normally do and dont condone irl. You hooting and hollering from the rooftops about character 9474834 committing a crime against lines isnt gonna stop people from having fun and enjoying the story and what not. Let it go
I feel like it’s people just being moral warriors. Yes, it’s normal to be uncomfortable by rape and dark themes. It wasn’t romanized, Taeju was written to feel so much guilt over it. And no one is forcing these people to read this series, they could easily just click away and read anything else lol
Then forget that Euihyun raped Taeju back.... Yes, Taeju may not consider it rape but it was rape. Taeju wanted to separate himself from Euihyun due to guilt but Euihyun drugged him and triggered his rut...
Does this dissolve his wrongdoings? No. But this is also like beating a dead horse since Euihyun would rather have Taeju be tied to him anyways.
The author literally could have omitted the rape part and nothing would have changed the plot. It served no purpose to the plot. So why write it in??? Readers need to protest these rape plots more vigorously, so authors & artists can cut that shit out. Its not cute, real or not