but like rape and non-consent is really common in the yaoi genre, and even so, this chapter was still really hard for me to read. i don’t know how to explain it, but it felt a lot more real than others? the unbalanced power dynamic, the way seth was reacting the whole time. it was just hard to see
Rape through blackmail...also osiris was willing to kill his own son while seth was the one saving him even if he wasn't the actusl father....osiris also hurting both nephthys and isis.
Damn, osiris is despicable.
I seriously hate osiris is portrayed as most r@post are, he’s like gaslighting and pretends to be good
preach.
Rape to advance or add substance to the plot and rape for the sake of porn is different after all...
Haha, tbh to me all those "rape"in usual yaoi looks more like rape roleplay sex scenes.
But here we see Seth,a victim actually suffering and not just him but also others and its not potrayed as something romantic and Seth is NOT enjoying it. I really love it when stories potray rape and rapist like how it actually is.. horrifying, painful experience and is Disgusting. Even tho its painful to watch and i wish these scenes aren't long and shown so explicitly.. its necessary i suppose..
very true. it’s the most real, heart-wrenching depiction i’ve seen so far in any yaoi manga/manhwa. no sugar coating, no weird sexualization of it. just a heinous act committed by an evil man.
yeah that’s what it is, very few times is rape in yaoi treated seriously or as a real plot point. so many times it just obviously comes off as a weird sexualized version of it, or some kind of role play, because like halfway through the person being assaulted will get “into it”. and this obviously isn’t the case here. i think that’s why it’s so easy to be “numb” to rape or non-consent in most yaoi, and it’s more shocking when it’s portrayed realistically like this.
that cat looks just like kyo from fruits basket
What a throwback jeez
Does that make the snake Ayame then? Ayame also had the habit of hiding in people's clothes.
not watching the reboot then?
Nah... feels like I’ll see something that’s very upsetting... I’ll stick to rewatching the old one
that’s completely true. Akito’s actions in the second season will piss you off if you ever watch it.
but there’s cute scenes as well ^^
you’re all excusing the past by bringing up the future. i don’t know if that makes sense but basically there are a lot of comments that are kind of brushing what osiris did to seth off because of everything seth has done since. “y’all didn’t blink when he tried to rape horus” “oh but you didn’t care when he killed all those humans” yes we did. do you know why it was difficult to stay mad at seth for the horus situation? because he’s the one who was assaulted in the end. no one actually wanted seth to rape horsy, of course not. and in the end he didn’t, because horus (as a result of sekhmet) flipped the tables. and why did seth kill all those humans? most human women who looked like isis, why? because isis betrayed him.
let me clear this up: THIS IS NOT A JUSTIFICATION.
but i feel like brushing off this flash back because “oH bUt sEtH waS gOnNa dO iT tOo!” kind of missed the entire point that this is a FLASHBACK. everything seth has done since this is BECAUSE of these traumatic events. it’s because osiris raped him. it’s because his wife betrayed him and he found out his son wasn’t his. it’s because his sister isis still cursed him and his wife and everyone involved despite the fact that they were victims, and she still defends osiris.
nothing seth has done since was okay. not the attempted rape, not the killing of thousands of humans, and not the angry dictatorship. but this flashback is telling you WHY this has happened. how this happened. it’s telling you that there is more than one villain in this story, that almost everyone’s hands are stained with sin and violence, and that (aside from horus) there isn’t a clear good guy anymore either.
these are gods. they are selfish, self-important, and most of all right now they’re all hurt by their actions and the consequences of those actions.
so in conclusion (sorry this was long as hell), yes what seth tried to do to horus was wrong, but the least you could do is show some sympathy for the seth from the past who just wanted a family and to make his wife happy, because he didn’t deserve what osiris did to him...but maybe that’s just me ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
exactly!!! some people here have zero reading comprehension i swear
Yeah!!! That's what im tryin to say!! Like how can isis defend orisis and curse all of them after witnessing how seth beg for anubis life and being raped... Like what the fuck why is she blaming and takin revenge on seth when she knew what happened that day like this is so fucked up.
Exactly.....
After witnessing her husband raping Seth passionately, she cursed Seth.. escaped him.. collected Osiris's body parts.. had HONEYMOON with him.. conceived his child....
WOW what a character!
Right!!!! So annoying
that he’s so concerned about her getting a boyfriend, i don’t know it just made me laugh a little. if he wasn’t such a horrible father i would have thought it was sweet.
i came here in the middle of reading because of that line! “an emperor is never late. everyone else is simply early.” because either the author or the translators are fans of The Princess Diaries! if not it’s a wonderful coincidence, either way that’s what that reminded me of lol, that’s all :)
aside from the brother who i still think is a bit sus, the plot of this has been pretty cute so far. i find myself cheering iori on a lot and i think their relationship is very sweet! it’s a nice light read that makes me feel a little better sometimes :)
i pretty much caught up to all of this in one go and all i have now are more questions ╥﹏╥