once you get to the unhinged, morally questionable decisions from MLs that were explicitly written and introduced as morally questionable, you see:
-the normal ones who read synopsis/ content warnings & enjoy the story they signed up for. occasionally makes impassioned gripes about the plot but is obviously having fun with the messy drama
-the average pearl-clutching "Bad ML in the Bad ML genre??? How dare-!?!?! I'm dropping thissss! Watch me walk away! Watch me!!!"
-and the weird, "Bad ML in the Bad ML genre??? How dare-!?!?! I'm gonna stay for 60 more chapters and keep pointing out the Bad people in the comments for liking Toxic Red Flag Narcissist (insert more misused psychology terms in an armchair diagnosis) MLs!"
edit: someone just created a new whole ass account to creep on me after getting blocked i thought that only happened in movies nowadays. boy, we're really ruffling some feathers on the fictional puritans fandom with this one.
how neglectful and hypocritical of a parent do you have to be to make a slave trader look marginally more ok in comparison?
and reviews are gonna be like, 'i like the childhood scenes so much it's bittersweet, but why do the adult actors suck lmao'
honestly i can only picture this being satisfying with 2 conclusions: it airs to high acclaim, then MC's flashback scenes end, ratings immediately plummet while exposing the talentless leads and they gotta beg his agency to have him come back to the set or promote it
OR midway through production this all comes out and the two leads get kicked out for being messy af & replaced w/decent actors before the drama airs
the misunderstanding spilling out into the open, i mean :') my god, this webtoon knows how to dance around the issue in the most hilarious ways
my toxic trait is imagining rashta learns her lesson and saves her kid before running away to establish her independence far from any royal drama. and somehow fate still tries to set up a meetcute between her and sovieshu but this time she fucks him up and tries to actually ally with navier and express her idolization of her in a healthier manner. maybe some GL down the line. who said that?
(edit: fun fact, people with piss poor reading comprehension will never read below this line)
specifically fanfic because we all know narrative-wise it would be impossible and 99% says if given the chance to regress, rashta would be more of a menace than she had been.
this ending tugged at heartstrings and made us contemplate her upbringing, yes, but it doesn't erase the fact that rashta only ever starts to regret anything when her neck is on the line. given a little leeway, she bounces right back to abusing others with little to no character development. even in her last moments, she gives in to paranoia and stabs the maid who turns a blind eye to her escape. it's the same shit you see people in high-stress jobs do to customer service workers. are they pitiful in their predicament? sure. but does it give them an excuse to take out their trauma and frustration on someone else more defenseless than them? nah.
Who gives a shit? She's literally absolute garbage and you simps need mental help. She wasn't a helpless person in all this, and she'd even probably still be empress if she wasn't so cruel and petty. Y'all have excuses for anything with a vagina.
this just in: motherfucker beholds one sentence and overloads their capacity for reading comprehension & parsing moral ambiguity, more at ten
That really is a toxic trait, go outside and touch grass.
tfw someone clearly chronically online uses this phrase lmao
The author wrote a side story with 8 chapters named “if Rashta went to Navier”. In the official translation (on Yonder), it’s ss56-63. I think you will like it.
'Wasn't helpless'? She came from nothing, she was treated less than human. Will that not drive anyone to be bitter and resentful?
Sure, she was daft but doesn't that make it all the more tragic?
so there has GOT to be some sleeping drugs in there somewhere and eating less portions weakens the quantity... who wants to bet he's gonna wake up in the middle of getting his ding donged
his situation is one where you're only fucked if you fuck yourself over. he literally could've went, "bye, i'm out" the minute he regressed. given his knowledge of not just future events but modern society as well, he could've been his own powerhouse and pursued FL on his own terms.
FL wouldn't hate him if he was honest from the start, even before regression. and after regression he could've atoned properly by helping her and letting her be happy, but he continues to antagonize her and the people she clearly cares about.
sure, for pre-regression jiho, i have a smidge of sympathy for. he was literally ripped apart from everyone and everything he knew, immediately shackled down and manipulated in power struggles he had no inkling of, and forced to continuously risk his life for aristocrats in an unfamiliar kingdom that actively ostracized him and looked down on him as an uncultured savage as he faced demons and dragons in the frontline. his sins towards the FL in the prev timeline were unforgivable, but ultimately his choices were still deeply rooted in his desperate struggle to survive.
but THIS jiho????
mf'er could've chosen a million different things after regression that would have benefited both him and his goals better, but he continues to pick dumb after dumb crap because he wanted a shortcut and to remove any autonomy from FL. and now he's BigMad about the situation he landed himself in like, homie be forreal.
his really shet, I read some comments I can't confirm so don't quote me on that, but jiho really was going to abandon FL on first TL but regret it and changed his mind but its too late, and then here we are 2nd TL and his just being a possessive little bastard and a stupid idiot
(spoiler)
he didn't change his mind, sadly. he actually was fully in on the plan to abandon her.
the question in the series is if the sister and father were lying about jiho casting her away and replacing her with her sister... FL (and the readers) still had the tiniest bit of hope that it was a misunderstanding and both jiho and FL were tricked in the past timeline...
(more spoilers)
BUT NOPE. jiho was offered the plan to divorce her and he 100% agreed because even during their marriage, they both continued to struggle with noble society. it benefited him to marry the sister, who had a more favorable impression and a stronger sway with the nobles compared to FL. what he didn't anticipate however is the Fl would choose to end her life. he somehow had the delusion that FL would probably feel hurt but then eventually meekly accept her fate. once he got more status/power, he can then try to compensate FL's pain.
except the FL self-exited which kinda traumatized jiho. it made him go a little obsessed & insane, enough for him to finally find a way to turn back time and he made it so that FL kept her memories to finally break free of her father.
and you know what? it would have been great if he stopped there. but unfortunately jiho began to recall his past memories too while in the battlefield and once he saw FL alive and well, he couldn't help it. his hubris and greed came back full force, and he began to obsess over how only HE can truly give the FL a happy life, that this time for sure against all odds he will (whether she liked it or not
that son of a bitch! its worst then I initially thought!
Fr and considering that Jiho even knows how to read the stars and know agriculture and armory, isn't that mean he's actually kinda smart? Or is Jiho someone who's just book smart but actually dumb in real life situations? Like boy is literally a walking Wikipedia at this point lol
IDK but with his modern mind and OP physical strength plus having the regressor cheat, I think he can at least think any other better way to live in this new world right? But NO he decided to be a full pledge loser
maybe his only books smart, not street smart
As a korean modern man, he used all of his time in cram school and tutors probably lol no one teaches him some common sense
i appreciate how this went, "writer's block? inability to conclude a conflict in a satisfactory way? perish the thought! THIS IS DEADPOOL I CAN DO WHATEVER AND YOU CAN'T TELL ME ANYTHING *ends it on a page404*"
it's not just the ML but us readers too who want to scream it
LEAVE OURPUPPERS ALONE !!!!!
i'm friggin dying, i saw the next 2 raws and i wanna go in there and rip their scalps off, like how dare you hurt this sweet baby boy
OH DEAR SAVIOR OF MINE PLEASE SPOIL ME
idk if this will work or if mangago will remove it but here's a link
newtoki464comwebtoon42897022?toon=BL%2FGL
just switch out with a dot and with a slash
bit of assault TW.: once a drugged and barely coherent Heesung wakes up in a motel, the orange-haired assface who bought him then enters the room & mocks MC. he goes as far as getting on top of him, shoving his finger in MC's mouth, slapping MC when his fingers gets bitten & bloody, then he gets as far as taking off MC's pants.
then some commotion happens in the building and Heesung manages to escape in his puppy form- but not before getting hurt and caught in the stampede of people trying to get out of the building just absolutely friggin heartbreaking events all around. it doesn't help that the next chapter is a FLASHBACK OF MC'S DEPRESSING CHILDHOOD AAAAA
NAAHHH THE AUTHOR IS DESTROYING US CAUSE THAT'S STRAIGHT UP DEPRESSING. THANK YOU SO MUCHHH