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I just really am not sure what the expectation was here.
A scammer jumps in to scam what’s basically a sketch family. Gets into a sexual relationship as meatsack talisman to save his skin. Sees they are getting too close despite telling himself the whole time it’s for show/he’ll dip as soon as he finds an opening and he’s always been fully aware there’s a fiancée. Tells dude who he is getting Love Stick from that he doesn’t want others to get the Big L vibes from them so he needs to back off. Dude proceeds to go back to treating him like an object (in a very obvious Making A Point Out of Confused Angsty Man Pain way) and he’s like whoa why are you acting like this??
Tell me if I’m missing the link because while I’m not saying it’s cool, I see where every domino fell.
First, he never said "Backoff" he just said "Hey, people might get the wrong idea, and you have a fiancee so I dont think this is right", very different message to just "Back off".
Also, not sn excuse to act like an asshole. Like I get that top is mad because actually like bottom, but he has no right getting mad. He has a fiancee for fucks sake, and he says bottom he can not let anyone touch him, but he has a fiancee? Wtf.
He is getting mad bottom was to make distance between them, but he has shown no indication to actually want a relationship with bottom, again, he jas a fiancee. Yeah, it is arranged, but it is still a fiancee.
Anyway, I actually like both characters, it just annoys me a little that he is acting like the one being rejected when he is about to get married and keeps calling bottom "My talisman" like he is just an object for him.
Uh, okay. Let me try this.
I was simplifying. His words/actions indicated the intention was for ML to back off with his orbiting of the MC as they were becoming like lovers, not contractor and employer, which they entered as.
We can’t really shift all the blame to the ML because neither has addressed the shift that is clearly happening and they both seem to desire.
ML clearly shows no regard for fiancée, who is a puppet and MC KNOWS fiancée isn’t a real relationship, so to act like ML has some real lover he’s forcing the MC to put up with while MC can’t be touched is not a thing. While nothing the context MC IS HIS EMPLOYEE. MC was a scammer who AGREED to this situation. Under duress? Maybe. We could chalk it up to the consequences of his actions.
Regardless, he agreed to basically be his sexual partner talisman so you can’t say ML barring third party sexual relations regardless of who ML sleeps with would be unfair (that’s not even the case here, I’m just making the point of their contractual obligations.)
As for the ML being an ass, I already said it doesn’t make it okay, I said I see how every action led to this point. Dominos. I’m sure the author will show MLs consequences for his actions in THIS chapter in the following chapters.
I also love these characters and can see how the author has built their arc to be something complex (the art is also stunning) so I understand your frustration.
I dont agree that ML "has shown no interest in the fiancee" we have not seen him interact that much with her. For all MC knows he may actually like her, he doesn't know, we don't know. So expecting MC to understands that ML does not care about her is not realistic to me.
The contract they have NEVER said anything about ML having a say on who MC desides to sleep with or not. He just agreed to be his talisma, nothing else, never said anything about being his exclusive property or something.
Anyways, agree to disagree. ML is larguely at fault here. MC also has some fault 100%, but ML is acting like MC is to blame for his actions, which is asshole behavior to me.
Why do authors make up names in their works like Maythan, Rudius, Leticiel, Zythalomus or CARNE (I’m looking at you JBA). Like, are the authors not able to do research into whichever culture they’re basing their plot in/on to find names that exist? Or would ya’ll consider this more creative and give kudos. Genuine question, sometimes it works for me, other times it doesn’t fit with the story at ALL and pulls me out of the immersion because it looks/sounds ridiculous depending on the setting.
carne means meat in Italian. dunno if its relevant but it exists
Till from Alien Stage- I LOVE TILL but why is the name Till? It could've been anything
till (the end). isnt that the song he wrote and sang in his first round? i think its p cool because they connected it to that
Wait, isn't the song name Unknown? And if you're correct, that's pretty cool. I have no problem with it now
yup, its unknown (till the end)
Still can't get over the fact that the main villain in sakamoto days is called slur...
lmao reminds me of that one female lead named blondina... because she's blonde
It’s meat in Spanish too which is why it’s fucking dumb no matter what
STOP this is such a good example
Be sTILL my heart
So edgy lmao
I mean its also meat in Italian. Most of the names of the characters from pt 5 are Italian food names anyways (shout out to my boy prosciutto) so it's not really surprising. Araki is justa little quirky like that
I think the author maybe doesn't even know what it really means. He probably just thought it was a cool sounding English word
Is he a fucking idiot? Genuinely the biggest plot hole in this is having Rian do this for a living and yet being a giant dumbass.
Why would he not think his SIGNATURE vehicle wouldn’t be tagged or posted up for him to return to just like his house would be. It’s like every move he makes is stupid and having a “superior psycho” up against a ditzy bimbo takes the interest out of reading this. Totally not what this seemed to promise from reading Candy.
Totally agree with you and he was supposed to be top agent but all he does is being a dumbass bottom. I like uno but his story is kinda meh