i rlly enjoy the world building but one thing i don’t like is how they try and claim that the male leads aren’t brainwashed. they’re having their emotions heightened, exaggerated and controlled without their consent. even if they have personal beliefs, needs or desires that happen to be compatible with its effects (for example i think the ex fiancé has some insecurity that has him wanting to compete with remi), his emotions are still being manipulated and accelerated.
i think every person has at least a few unreasonable thoughts or emotions. we can’t help things such as envy, frustration or even uncomfortabality towards others, but it’s important to recognize these thoughts are unreasonable and not take it out on someone who’s literally doing nothing wrong. except how are you supposed to be able to control those unreasonable thoughts if they’re being controlled, accelerated, provoked and influenced by someone else without your knowledge or consent?
its kind of like yuri in ddlc where her love/obsession was heightened to the point she went insane. its mind control, or at the very least manipulation, and they’re still victims.
i kind of feel bad for eclise i’m ngl, penelope plays a huge part as to why he becomes the way he does. she buys him while he’s severely traumatized, then neglects him and only visits him to flirt with him basically. all of this is a perfect mix for an unhealthy obsession and dependability to form.
not saying that she’s a bad person for it ? since she obviously has her reasons, but i just can’t help but feel like she especially fucked him over. since the beginning i thought it would’ve been better if she hadn’t gotten involved so the crown prince got a hold of him instead, where there was hope for normalcy for him. poor dude.
she trusted damien before she trusted her parents or even becky!! i was rlly worried that their relationship was extremely one-sided and purely artificial for anya (for her dads mission and all), BUT THIS PROVES ME WRONG!! she IS getting attached to him!
i KNEW THIS BITCH WOULD SEE THE MARKS AND INSTEAD OF BEING CONCERNED HE’D FEEL COMPETETIVE AND SEE IT AS FREE GAME TO DO THE SAME. I CALLED IT. ME. I DID.
anyway this comics trash im dropping it. this shit is not okay, it’s not cute, and it’s even more insulting that they’re trying to romanticize it and frame it as it being okay because mc is in denial about it feeling good, and implying that when he comes to terms with the fact that he enjoyed it, suddenly these assholes are redeemed. they’re not!
while i enjoy seeing the school plot more than the intense plots, i rlly hate that they have anya so committed to plan b and she’s not allowed just be a kid. all her actions are influenced by lloids wants and plans and it’s getting a bit overdone for me, i want to see HER wants and needs in social settings yk? idk
abigail’s insecurity is rlly being stretched out, goddamn, it’s to the point that it’s frustrating. he almost leaned in to kiss you that time and ur like “nah im making things up ╥﹏╥ i don’t deserve love boohooo.” like girl… stand up…
also why are they trying to pair blanche and verite together? just let them be friends #－.－) idc if he’s technically “two” years old, he mentally feels old enough to play a convincing adult, giving him a child appearance doesn’t suddenly make it fine to pair him with a child, and just bc he has some childlike innocence as a result of being in the mirror, it doesn’t exactly = being on the same brain development that a human child is at. it just too weird and it felt extremely out of character for him to be like “ur the beautiful one ヾ(☆▽☆)” after he’s expressed annoyance over having to repeatedly monitor her and humor abigail’s obsession with calling her pretty. like who is this???
they would’ve been better off as friends, or if he took on an uncle role since he’s seen as a little brother figure to abigail.
this felt very raw and realistically written, im always pleasantly surprised when i find content like this. it isn’t like OVERLY edgy and overdone like missing love (well, outside of cole’s moments where he’s straight up insane at times). other comics that gives me this raw, realistic vibe is j no subete (major trigger warning for graphic child abused for that one), and stigma.
idk how to explain it other than this just feels believable. maybe it’s the american themes that are done extremely well with these stories? im not sure, i think the execution for that, the dialogue and interactions are amazing though.
can we get this bitchass duke out of our faces alrdy he’s been here for majority of the updates, i might drop this from how goddamn frequent they show his insufferable ass and keep trying to develop tension. mc’s like
i saw criticism for the prince and how he’s leading his fiancé on when he’s falling for mc but isn’t his wife doing this same with the villainess?? why is he the only one getting dragged for that… or am i mistaking the situation (its possible since i’ve just been keeping up with the updates so im kind of forgetting the situation)
its one of the few shounen ai i rlly enjoyed, i feel like they don’t make these type nowadays which sucks, (all i see is historical, poorly made ones or ones that go on for like 100+ chapters). im sad that the second couple was kind of rushed and didn’t have a satisfying conclusion, it was more so hinted at. i wish there were more chapters haha, i miss them alrdy
at the rate this is going it’s going to pull a “will the roasted beans sprout” (another bl) and they’ll all have a competition about who can most violate mc best to the point he gets a stockholm syndrome thing going on or to where he’s forced to take pity on them bc “their love is just so misunderstood.”
as much as i’m rooting for the prince, i deadass wont be surprised if he somehow finds out about the hickey’s and thinks it’s free game to mark his territory out of competitiveness, mc’s consent or not (which we know mc won’t be giving so..)
im calling it. IM CALLING IT
ugh i hate flashbacks in comics, i dont rlly care abt what happened that led up to current events, i just want the current events to progress alrdy
its also frustrating since they’re faces don’t change so other than the tiniest hair difference, so it’s hard to see what’s happening in the present and the past. anyone wanna hmu when they’ve finished with the flashbacks?
who’s gonna tell female mlm authors that sexual assault isn’t a cute and quirky misunderstood way of flirting
i was wondering if that was how her name is supposed to be written, her real name, ania, but with the careless orphanage that didn’t even have her papers, loid just assumed it was spelled anya.
everyone was right, NO one here is good for the beta i was hoping the alpha would be a bit better only for him to be just as bad, if not worse than the omega. these aren’t quirky mistakes that can be redeemed, these are the most degrading, violating crimes that could ever be committed and has NO justification for it.
we need to leave this trope of treating sexual abuse as a minimal drama/ conflict back in the 2000’s yaoi days, where they treated s/a like misunderstood flirting. im dropping this, i tried to ignore it for the sake of finding some beta content, but i think i prefer the bs plot where they turn beta’s into omega’s more than this. (that’s a lie, both are bad, pls burn both of these to the ground, ty)
i literally don’t get the appeal of these psychotic love interests or why it’s a big trend for yaoi authors to do this.
all the hate for the alpha is making me root for him ngl lmfao
think abt it, bro’s biggest crime is setting firm boundaries and needing time to think abt his feelings , like yeah, he may be a bit insistent and pushy, but that’s nothing compared to the omega drugging the beta.
im just glad a beta is finally being appreciated the way they deserve, im fine with whoever he ends up with but i was rooting for the alpha a bit lol