
The masked guy kind of reminds of me the grim reaper dude from https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/shinigami_wa_korosenai/

Kael is just pissing me off sm. He's so damn clingy and his personality is just bad. He ignores the main character's wishes every chance he gets, mc will say to his face to get lost yet he can't even take, not a hint, but an obvious statement. It's been 6 years dude. Have you ever thought that maybe he's not playing hard to get, maybe you're just hard to want?

I had mixed feelings about this but I actually kind of like it. I thought it would be stockholm syndrome porn, the type of stories I hate most where the plot is just an excuse for the heavy violent themes of porn, but suprisingly it's actually much more poetic. The characters don't have to be morally righteous for the story to be good (at least for me). I like the morally grey characters that are thought provoking, ones where you can't specifically box them into anything
I thought I wouldn't like this bc everyone low-key sucks so far and has horrible personalities (I haven't caught up yet) but I actually kinda fw it. I'm so used to seeing mc's either be outright snobby trash or playing hero/crybaby 24/7. It's actually kind of nice to see a mc act like a snake behind closed doors. Having horrible inner thoughts and a selfish personality
It's kinda even better that everyone just honestly has a nasty personality
I mean aside from (taesan?) the kid being bullied. He's a nice person I kinda feel bad for him tbh
tbh it’s literally just the first time an MC actually takes a moment to THINK and can read a room. While he’s a complete bitch, its actually quite refreshing
Yes I agree. "Tops" with a nasty personality have been so outplayed and badly written, esp when only one of them is a horrible person coz then the mc will always just be a naive idiot and that's BORING. (lol)
It's nice to see the mc have a horrible personality, completely aware, and not being naive.
/or the author poorly trying to write them out to be more than they actually are.. (egotistical idiot, outright narcissistic etc).
Because every time I see smt like that the "top" always has to outclass him and be more deranged. It's so edgy (and just bad) whenever I see that happen
I also like the fact that he's quiet about his true nature and doesn't show his bad personality outright on the surface. I feel like that opens up a lot more writing opportunities and better scenarios /or more interesting ig
I will always love morally grey characters *if* they are written correctly
Right. MC is written well enough for the reader to actually understand empathise with his decisions even if we personally don’t agree. Like you said, I think a lot of bl writers have done easy cop outs with stock standard personalities (and without any proper justification).