
Okay so development in multiple directions to unpack:
1) Seems like our assumption of Tae following whims is a tad baseless (like 70:30) cause he clearly cares about Rion as seen in this last ep, and actually I was thinking this before, but I think Tae is just one of those easy going types that's like "Meh ion wanna....butttt, yea okay sure we ball" which is honestly not that common (in my opinion ALLEGEDLY) within Yaoi in particularly which is why everyone feels it's more forced than not. I understand what they're saying, but as someone who has what we call a Clusterfuck Group of weirdos with all over the place personalities including myself, this is a pretty normal personality trait for me at least, so yea.
2) His father is a piece of shit undoubtedly and a child abducter among other things, but I'm glad the plot doesn't necessarily ignore this but is more like "Okay, this happened. You're a fucked up piece of bastardous ass shit. We know. What will you do to fix the mess YOU created." Which I like, cause ngl as a victim of many, MANY things in life my trauma aside, dwelling on the past will not help but worsen situations. So I see this as growth (again personally, in my opinion ALLEGEDLY).
3) (Totally unrelated btw) why the hell do I lowkey want a collar??? I-

They better continue after the genderbender stops bending and just turns into a rainbow cause this was the second manga I started here on Mangago and I refuse to accept it's ending. I just can't. I'd love Shion regardless of his gender because at the end of the day, I fell in love with him as a person, not what's vetween his legs. But damnit I need moreeeee. Like not a "side story" but an entire sequel with adopted children and idek what else but I want ALLLLLL the fuckin fixins.

I knew from the very beginning when his eyes glowed he was either a werewolf or vamp. Thats why I was so confused about the tags since it wasn't tagged fantasy anywhere. And I figured those bites would make him calm with the situation too cause tbh if I had a spot somewhere that pulsed every time something happened between me and another person, only them, and id lost my conscious memories, I'd be like "hmm....yea my subconscious knows there's some shit going on" cause you cant actually lose memory so much as your brain stores it in a different we'll say "file cabinet" of you recollection. And if you "library" is extensive as everyone's is, some of those memories basically go to the back of it as if it's infinitely long so it ends up collecting dust. Thus why you can dream things youve consciously forgotten cause your REM cycles are still able to bring forth those old memories. Point is, I think his reaction is justified lmao

Bruh me talking to the guy ive liked for over a decade while simultaneously reading this is making me cry and ideky im crying ....please send hugs

I've been confessed and he's like my soulmate so proximity means nothing to us. Idk our relationship is weird I was just emotional cause it was simultaneously happening. I dont consciously feel many emotions period so its that was just a autoresponse to the matter. I dont actually need hugs or anything I just needed to get myself together
For everyone saying he's a homophobe I dont think he ever was tbh and just put on a front of being so for whatever reason we haven't yet seen in the story. I thought it was weird from the very beginning, but I really do think he's actually queer of whatever type and is doing his police job as a coverup of that for someone else, which may not make sense, but you'd be surprised what blackmail, obligation, etc could make someone do.
I think he is bi but never acted on it. He denied it until he fell in love for the first time.