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This had the ingredients needed for a recipe that would make a good yaoi... until it was ruined with the non-con. It makes it difficult to like the Seme when he is constantly strong-arming the Uke.
All those good ingredients- humor, misunderstanding trope, contrasting personality of introver vs extrovert, dual animal lovers.... and then the undercooked meat is the apparent necessity to have non-con sex served up consistently. Why?! There was an actual chance and laid out set up to have these two bond normally. Instead it goes the direction of having Seme come across as both sex crazed and boundry breaking. He has traits that should be likeable simply shattered by his behavior.
It feels like the writer was too impatient to flesh out a scenario where the two characters could have consensual sex, and resorted to forced non-con to "get the plot moving."
I wanted to enjoy this. I even started to envision the ways this could have gone. Instead of that, I was met with disappointment as soon as it went the forced route, and became fed up when it resorted to sticking to it. Now all I can envision this story ending up as is the miserable trope of a forced Uke suddenly "getting hooked on sex" and giving in to the bully Seme, with a forced "happy ending" at the end that is supposed to be believable- when in reality that's not how things work. I get that it's fiction, sure. But that kind of overplayed and heavy handed plotline is too brain numbing for me to want to continue.