Was hoping hyung was the omega. Now it’s the exact same as 99.9% of other omegaverse stories. Also the story telling feels jumbled.
That the ML only noticed MC and wanted to hang out with him because he looks like an anime character ML jerks off to, just leaves a bad taste. It’s such an unnecessary plot point too bc it never comes up again. This whole thing just had a vague feeling of fetishization, at least imo.
This was the fastest a story let me know “don’t bother”. But hey, if you’re into gangrapes by faceless mob characters or you loved No Reason, this one is for you.
Buying a woman for breeding purposes, physically abusing your wife and children for two decades, institutionalizing your wife for 10 years after completely breaking her with your abuse and causing the death of one of your children with your neglect is not forgivable in my books. And I could not give less of a fuck if Endeavor is sorry now after ruining the lives of his wife and his children in major ways.
The past does not die. Mentally healthy victims of abuse just decide to move on from it, since they know their abusers don't deserve any more parts of their life than they have already taken by force and with violence. If you hurt someone the way Endeavor did, chances are your victims will never forgive you.
But considering Rei is nothing more than a plot device in this story who has been relegated to Endeavor’s caretaker, who had less lines than any of his other victims, it doesn’t matter. It makes me so mad that him being a good fighter and just doing his duty as number 1 hero was enough for people. He still got everything he wanted. Public respect as the #1 hero, a protege son who is definitely going to forgive him, and if they can keep a literal husk alive, there’s no way his body can’t be repaired over time. I’m forever going to be salty that the only in world repercussions Endeavor got for over 2 decades of abuse was 1 kid he didn’t know, never cared to know, and had no investment in cut contact… kind of.
ALSO Endeavor’s mentality be like:
One of his children dying? No problem. Driving his wife to a breakdown and institutionalizing her? She was just a breader anyway. Shoto completely hating him? Just teenage rebellion. Becoming #1 hero and All Might saying “not cool bro”?
Maybe, maybe abuse IS bad? Are my kids… people? Mind. Blown. (Still no thoughts about the wife though, he forgot all about her until she barged in)
ALSO also, him only caring about some “vague” atoning bothers me too. So he doesn’t want or care for their forgiveness. Just “atonement”. But if not actively working for their forgiveness what is that? Existing around them and NOT abusing them? That’s it (not like he’s gonna start donating to battered women and children shelters). Even up until the end he doesn’t care about how his victims feel. Forgive or not forgive, he doesn’t care so long as he feels HE’s doing his best by “atoning”. How his family feels about said atonement is irrelevant. Which is why he didn’t give a shit, didn’t shed a single tear, when one of his kids said they were going no contact. He’s working on how he feels toward his family, not how they feel toward him.
I liked Endeavor in concept and as a character, but this shonen “everything turns out alright” ending toward a domestic abuse subplot really bothers me. (Also bringing back a literal pile of cinders just for cheap closure)
Rei not divorcing him will forever leave a bad taste in my mouth. I STILL think he got off easy. Wish instead of retiring a beloved hero, he was banned from being a hero after the abuse to his family was revealed. This should have been a more ambiguous ending for the Todoroki’s instead of the happy go lucky, he’s definitely 100% getting forgiveness eventually, even Dabi cracked at the end
Note: as a survivor of abuse, I’m biased against Endeavor
Low Tide in Twilight really spoiled me for omegas who do more than just cry and take with 0 attempts at resistance. So tired of the “I should resist… but it feels so good” trope. Like if you wanna just draw porn, draw porn. No need to waste our time with a forgive the rapist plot line bc “he’s a little nice now” knowing the rape will be brushed under the rug and no real repercussions will befall the rapist. So tired of MLs who fundamentally see nothing wrong with rape. They only slightly feel a little bad about it after they start to like the person they’ve been raping, not because they grew and think rape is bad.
I think the car hijacking part is just badly written. So the blondie is so good at stealing expensive foreign cars that he was able to turn it into a career. He’s been doing it for years and never been caught. So it should be that hijacking and finding his sister are the only things he takes seriously. BUT apparently for hijacking there is no prep work, no scoping out a mark, no checking who it belongs to and coming up with a plan. He just… just finds a random expensive car and breaks in? No cap or face coverings, getting his dna all over the car and letting his very striking appearance be exposed? He also apparently doesn’t recognize cars he’s seen before.
If the car thing never comes up again, fine I’ll let it go. It just bothers me, personal nitpick, when an author gives someone a unique hobby or “career” but then obviously put no thought into it other than “that’s different”. This says nothing about the overall arching story btw, it could still be good, just this one particular writing choice bothers me.
Being into risky or more hardcore sex is fine and all, that’s not why. But he’s treating the uke like nothing more than an object and purposefully being cruel, not in a fetish way but in a “I’m only dating you to shut you up” way. They’ve been dating like 1 day and he already soft pressured the uke into public sex. No actual non sex related dates. His backstory doesn’t help either. He treats the uke badly because he thinks he’s with him just for his looks or something? But the Uke didn’t really know his looks before and even explained it was because he witnessed the seme’s acts of kindness. Also his inner thoughts in the latest chapter reveal he doesn’t REALLY love uke and lying about loving someone is one of the most emotionally manipulative things you can do in a relationship.
Read the raws, short story with a dead dove ending.
Basically MC learns he never had a brother and the whole thing was made up to trick him into obeying and enduing the psycho’s abuse. After finding out all his suffering was for nothing, his brain breaks and he continues to be an ash tray. That’s it. That’s all that happens. Not really worth the read imo. This was ripe for a revenge plot.
Really hate when the author has the person who was sexually assaulted apologize to the person who assaulted them because they… fought back? Like it’s normal and they SHOULD apologize. And then just brush it under the rug.
They’re playing it for laughs but the father basically put out a rape-hit on his own son. All for a grandkid. It’s such an unnecessary plot element too, could have just as easily had it be whoever marries his son, not forcefully impregnates him. Kind of hard to enjoy the “comedy” manga when we know the father’s vile actions are going to be forgiven and laughed off because muh grandkids. Ugh
Nakwon planning to isolate and purposefully get Mokwha drunk in order to have sex is rape. He’s planning a vacation centered entirely around the idea of raping Mokwha. What happened to his growth? This shows that he hasn’t really changed. He still thinks he can do whatever he wants to Mokwha, justifying it by thinking anything non-violent is fine. Really, really hope Mokwha beats some sense into Nakwon and everything comes crashing down around him. He only sees his past actions as wrong because he did them to someone he likes now. He still does not, at his core, think violently raping someone is wrong. Only that now his violent past is standing in the way of his current goals.
Going to continue reading because the writing does give me some small amount of hope that karma will come back to bite him and Mokwha will dump him for good. (Or at least for a long time)
They really went the route of making MC be the one to apologize and comfort the garbage ML who HAS been treating MC like trash. I cannot understand what enjoyment anyone could get out of this story or its characters. This chapter proves there will be no reverse chasing arc and MC will always be the one who puts in the most effort. This is such a frustrating read and I hope anyone who decides to engage with this garbage knows to respect themselves more than MC. I’m honestly surprised he was able to chase after ML for so long considering he has no spine.
ML became unredeemable the moment he raped MC. No dubious consent, this was a “sleep with me or your brother will be hanged” situation. Him raping her was not for her own protection, it did not further his political goals, it was done purely to satisfy his own lust and desire to own MC. He does not love her, he does not see her as her own person. She is an object, at best a pet, that can potentially deliver him a vague feeling of happiness.
Best analogy: ML is a fucking Burgan who eats trolls. A monster who, after discovering a source of happiness, would fucking eat it and destroy it forever just for a fleeting high, instead of trying to understand the source of said happiness and nurture it. He’s a monster and the FL staying with him basically rewrites her character as a dumb girl who will forgive anything for a pretty face.
I sympathize with his past, but he’s self-sabotaging AND trampling all over the seme’s feelings. He gives the man 0 consideration and even knows the way he treats seme hurts him. This isn’t a lack of communication, this is actively ignoring any attempts to communicate and lashing out at the person who tries. This crossed the line from trauma response meant to protect, and into a petty pity-party. Would love for the seme to fully give up on uke. Maybe give him a piece of his mind and a wake up call… but that isn’t going to happen. This is going the: the seme is a doormat and keeps coming back to uke until the uke eventually gets over himself.
Very worried they’re going the “dad gets away with everything” route and is forgiven. The borederline comedic way they handled his “my bad” to torturing children makes me wish the author had chosen a lighter topic for their past if all they really wanted to focus on was pretty top beefy bottom porn. (Should have guessed tho when mc’s fear of dogs is also mostly used as a comedic gag even after the reveal of why)
How they’re eventually going to sweep under the rug that at his core, the ML is the type of guy to blackmail someone into sleeping with him (aka rape). Even if he seriously falls for MC and treats him “better”, it doesn’t change the type of man he is.
I will remove this comment and even apologize and praise author if it goes another way. (If there are consequences for rape or if the ML realizes his actions are wrong bc rape is wrong, and not just cause he likes MC now)
I feel like an incel would read this to confirm everything they think about women.