Gunner’s inferiority complex nuked their relationship. It wasn’t about being on equal footing, he just wanted to switch places to be the one with more money, connections, and prestige. He projected his obsession with superficial markers of success onto Theo, who would have happily dated him and supported him if he was a cashier for the rest of his life. He did it all for himself, and now he’s mad that Theoisnt interested in the person he became
Honestly can’t get over how obnoxiously useless Jaina’s mother was. Not saying her dad doesn’t have to own up to his bs (who tf even casts a sociopath spell on themselves anyway?!).
So dragons can only be born out of love, and she told Diarmuid this. She found out she was dying and to avoid traumatizing her lover over it, her grand plan was to make him think she was cruelly manipulating him the whole time, then pretend she tried to murder him since she got bored? Because that’s not traumatic at all.
And it’s even worse because she was pregnant. Whether she knew before the fake betrayal or after she’s still unbelievably shitty. The lie she told basically means that there’s no way Diarmuid would accept or believe he’s the father. If she found out after she left, she could have visited or sent him a message to at least try to explain.
She knew her relatives were shitty and wouldn’t actually care for a “halfbreed”, but she didn’t come up with any plan b to make sure her kid was at all protected or cared for. She also knew that as a half dragon magician it would be extremely difficult to live safely among regular humans or magicians.
She really just threw her kid to the wolves just to make sure her ex wouldn’t feel sad about her dying.
So creepy manager basically pushed Ren into a fraudulent and risky identity ruse to artificially create a dependency and create vulnerabilities that could be exploited to both prevent Ren from leaving him and force him to rely on gross manager. Barf. (╬￣皿￣)凸
He’s been maneuvering ren into an isolated corner since he was a child so he could take advantage one day. Yeet his ass into jail!!!
Bella is so annoying. Nobody ever hated or even disliked her. She just wasn’t the most popular girl in the kingdom. These people were still friends with her until she decided to self isolate, and even then they were legitimately concerned for her until she joined hands with the demon king. What pick me
I’m kind of over how stale the “romantic” developments are. Oh gee, another fl who is completely clueless about the numerous “romantic” gestures she receives and never gets irritated when they’re overbearing or selfish on the part of the MLs. How original! This reads like a male concept of what a guy thinks a female fantasy. The interpersonal characterization is so stale
Imagine if this entire sequence of events including the escape and wedding were all another illusion (⊙…⊙ )
Ok I thought the reason Doha “betrayed” would be like him being afraid to come out or some teenage bs, but damn, Shiwoon was pushing out red flags en masse! Completely nuts, yeah most people wouldn’t be able to put up with that level of obsession, dependence, and instability. Siwoon holdong a grudge for a chain of events that was entirely his fault and could have been prevented with actual communication that long is yet another red flag.
Way to blame the victim. So all the conflict is Martin’s fault for resisting being used as a sex slave and breeding stock?! I bet redhead would feel different if it was him or his daughter being told to endure the same
This reads like one of those delusional male fantasies… the progression, the dialogue, just ridiculous (●￣(ｴ)￣●)
I’m out of this one. I’m so sick of comics that try to justify abusive, controlling, harmful, and quite literally criminal behaviors towards the bottom, but then has the universe magically align so no matter what bullshit “consequences” the top receives they still get everything they wanted in the end. I’m just sick of it. There are so many ways to write conflict or problems in a relationship without crossing the line.
Kind of over the premise tbh. If he was being altruistic he didn’t have to force her to marry him, and if he just wanted to use her, he could have made a mutually beneficial deal that was advantageous to him. I’m just tired of the abused puppy fl imprinting on the first person to show “kindness” trope, and the “he’s actually really kind if you ignore his unkind behavior” trope
Brother: hires Hakyung to pretend to be a girl to ingratiate himself into the family, act as his brother’s fiancée, and scam his grandfather into giving a more favorable inheritance to him (the brother)
Hakyung: literally just does the job he was hired to do, but ends up feeling guilty, catching feels, and getting into a real relationship
Grandfather: literally dying
Brother: forces Hakyung to leave while he’s barely out of a hospital bed and tells his brother he DIED after the car accident (where his brother was the driver)
Also brother to Hakyung: I can’t believe you’re so shameless, everything is your fault. My brother got depression and tried to commit suicide because you followed my orders and di$ what I said, but it’s clearly not my fault for orchestrating everything!
And it’s going to be impossible to really get meaningful understanding because he has no way of explaining anything without looking like a liar or crazy
Has anyone else noticed that in the common naive x manipulative dynamic, the “cuteness” of the character is used as a distraction from the reality of how problematic the manipulative character is? Manipulators are often considered cowards who don’t have the courage to actually shoot their shot, but that’s not it at all. This type of character does not acknowledge or respect the autonomy of their love interest.
They lie to, manipulate, gaslight, harm, and isolate their love interest rather than directly confess their feelings or ask them out because they don’t care about their opinion or emotions. Kiel has no interest in forming a genuine relationship. He only cares about facilitating Asha’s cooperation in providing him the personal gratification he wants. If Asha said no for any reason, it would be irrelevant to Kiel who would continue with trying to force the relationship.
They don’t ask because they don’t actually care about the answer, he knows that forcing a relationship on an unwilling person will be problematic and cause Asha and others to have animosity towards him, which he does not want to deal with.
It’s even worse in this case because of the age gap, power balance, and very obvious grooming. Even if they were both kids at the time, Kiel was several years older, so the imbalance is real. It’s also very clear that Kiel lied about rules and the norms of social interactions to get Asha closer to him.
I’m just very sick of seeing horrible stuff like this romanticized.
Sick of gilded trashcan love interests. Mediocre at best
Eh, kind of a letdown. Another series where the fl randomly falls in love with the ml and devote her life to him for no reason. There has to be at least something in the plot or character dynamics to justify the level of commitment she is giving. She was fully planning to leave him after he told her she could, but suddenly she’s all in because he passed out from hunger on the training ground. Prince dumbass has access to food, so he’s only got himself to blame. ML has stereotypical abused backstory to broody pessimist personality, and FL is a classic smart, capable character who randomly does dumb, out of character things that are obviously designed to manufacture an opportunity for the ML to ingratiate himself.