
Everyone hates the top in this, but I don’t! Because I don’t mind young people growing up with bad behaviours! We all have shitty sides and insecurities and bad coping habits, and teens especially need to be allowed to screw up.
The crocodile tears is a coping mechanism as much as it is sly and manipulative. It’s a literally a cry for attention. In this case, there was only one person that he wanted attention from, sprinkle growing up in love with your best friend drama. Idk I think friends keeping secret crushes on each other in their teen years is normal. And also gay boys are allowed to be dramatic, since the world itself raises everyone to have internalized isms.
I love the art ofcourse, and ofc I would scold the top for lying about an innocent girl being a stalker, BUT THEY ARE STILL YOUTH AND THEY ARE ALLOWED TO MAKE STUPID MISTAKES.
I love projecting humanity onto characters.

For sure the top doesn’t even know what wrong with himself, probably thinks he has a sociopathic tendencies, but it looks more like a Borderline personality disorder, he sees the bottom as an extension of himself, hence the desire to control, so really the conflict of this series lies in the fact that the bottom has no idea how dependent the top is.
It’s interesting
KEEPING AN EYE OPEN FOR THE FOURTH COUPLE?????
this is the third in a linked series, each couple has a season, this one is fall!
We’re looking for a winter couple or maybe we’ll get a fourth book with extra chapters of all the couples in the winter book! lol