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I'll get so many dislikes for this but I've seen so much "rape" and "rapist's child" and "he was raped!!" Going around that I had to go reread the og manhwa just to make sure I remember correctly and yes, as I've remembered, it wasn't... Uhm.. exactly as brutal as people make it.
Was Hyesung out of his mind? Yes, he was on his heat. Should Dojin have fought him harder and rejected him with more resolve? Yes. However, it's not like Dojin pinned him down against his will. I know consent at this time was very dubious, near lacking, due to the pheromones, but come on. Dojin wasn't actually taking advantage of him with malicious intent. He tried stopping him (not the first time to try stopping him when he's in heat) and even when he caved in he immediately wore a condom to prevent causing him harm, they were just unlucky. Even the reactions between them afterwards wasn't that of a rape incident. Hyesung was throwing a tantrum as usual but mostly out of embarrassment that he jumped Dojin in the middle of the night.
I'm also gonna say this even tho I'll be called slurs but this is a fantasy setting, guys, the pheromones and heat cycles and shit probably affect them more than we can fathom because we base attraction, desire, and the willpower to push off someone coming on to us on human references and feelings and experiences. I'm not saying Hyesung's strong heat pheromones are an excuse for Dojin to lose control of his resolve to push him away and instead take advantage of him, but I'm saying it played a factor. I'll never understand people making Dojin out to be a demon here when he's just made mistakes that he himself admitted and atoned for like any normal person. It's not like being jumped constantly when you're trying to sleep and having your dick sucked when you didn't ask for it isn't harassment too. What are you gonna say guys? Ooooh Hyesung was in heat he couldn't help it? Oh Hyesung was out of it he couldn't hear his protests? OH DOJIN LOWKEY WANTED IT THAT'S WHY HE DIDN'T PUSH HIM OFF WITH ENOUGH FORCE?
you know how that will sound?
So just say the pregnancy was a mistake none of them wanted due to a night both had when they were not thinking straight, acknowledge Dojin never actually intended to take advantage of him or rape him and was also subjected to his advanced, pheromones, and begging for a child and sex, and move on. We have other shit to actually hold them all accountable for and you're holding on to the one incident and making it seem like Dojin was a demon. The word "Rape" is used so lightly these days.