The couple was really cute and I really like this author's works, but this trope is one that I always find super depressing . . .
Idek why, but the indebted idiot being coerced into sex work is an idea that just makes my heart sink and really taps into my empathy for some reason and genuinely makes me think about how in that situation I'd rather just throw myself off a bridge.
I think I'm just really afraid of debt.
I already feel powerless enough in my life just trying to get by as a slave to capitalism, the idea of just accidentally occuring a large amount of debt of no real fault of your own is terrifying, even in fiction. You'd lose what little power you had over your life and have to work ten times as hard forever not just to get by, but to pay off this debt. Plus, it'd be a thousand times worse if your debtor dictates the kind of work you do to pay it off (especially if it's something as vulnerable and potentially traumatizing as forced sex work)
The thought of how hopeless that situation feels and how powless I'd be makes me sick to my stomach and I'm already too mentally unstable to bother trying to endure that kind of shit. I would 100% off myself.
It hurts but I really relate to both characters so much because they really do care about each other so much but they're both too in their heads to have the hard conversations they need to have (and the hard conversations are never actually a hard as your anxiety convinces you they'll be)
Specifically Joon is getting a lot of hate because he isn't telling Doha about how he's going to go abroad
But I remember being similar in my first relationship, there was something important that could very negatively affect my relationship with my girlfriend at the time but I was so scared to hurt her or distract her during finals that I convinced myself it'd be better to wait and then convinced myself it'd be better to just never tell her and try to cope on my own because I was always afraid of pushing her over the edge and her spiralling.
My situation was different ofc, but so so similar in so many ways at the same time it's insane
It's giving "Caressing the nipples of my sleeping bear" vibes. (For those who don't know, title of another manga)
I genuinely think this is direct inspiration from that because there's the "I raised you as a small child then you went away and grew up the rest of the way so it's not weird I promise, but I still feel guilty as a character which is telling" trope and then there's the bear with big tits.
So this is basic just fanfiction at this point, but what if instead of being fucking stupid, the royal family actually publicly revealed the truth about Amaryllis having been a homunculus and the origins of the prophecy, and lets pretend it actually manages to convince the majority of people, leaving only a small sect of religious fanatics, convinced that the kingdom is doomed by the darkness that has consumed the royal family, unless they bring back the light. This gives birth to Amaryllis' "final form" as a villainess: a religious symbol, revered as a savior (which she already supposedly was on a level, but somehow all the plot leads tied to her really were just dropped) that needs to be risen from the dead. The real fanatics accept that she was a homunculus and take it upon themselves to make new homunculi in her image and have the ultimate goal of overthrowing the royal family to purge the palace of the darkness.
Meanwhile the royal family gets to be tormented by the face of their enemy being the face of the daughter and sister that they loved and lost, back now to haunt them and destroy them for their incompetence.
She's finally leaving which is great; I just wish she'd done it way sooner, consequences be damned
I mean, her family won't even tell the truth about Amaryllis and the prophecy because they still care more about Amaryllis' peace in death than they do for Ashtarte's who is still alive.
Don't get me wrong, I pity Amaryllis' situation. Even tho she was a bitch, she got worse than she deserved, but she's dead now. That's the peace she gets. Yet they still won't clear Ashtarte's name to the best of their ability because they're selfish.
I'm so glad she got out of there and away from her family that literally would never put her first, even if it was the only reasonable or logical option.
I feel like amaryllis was set up well from the beginning to be a victimized pawn. She was definitely a bitch with an awful personality but I felt like it was made clear that her actions, while malicious, weren't done with a greater plan in mind. So there was only so far she could go as a villain herself when someone else was pulling the stings.
Her death was sudden but I'd blame the chapter limit the author was given more than anything.
I do really like how ashtarte thinks of amaryllis at the end tho, kind of acknowledging how while she was evil, she was definitely used. She was created to be used and thrown away.
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Hhhhh this feels like it's almost something I'd really enjoy, but why can't we just avoid taking advantage of vulnerable women??
I love the idea of her finding a healing relationship with a guy who genuinely loves her and prioritizes her pleasure but this just doesn't feel like that and instead it just feels like he's taking advantage of the situation she's in. Instead of helping her and showing her actual love and support (creating a situation where one thing leads to another and she genuinely and enthusiastically wants to be with him sexually), he basically just starts molesting her every opportunity he gets.
I thought I'd like it at the beginning but it's just not for me I guess
How can you manage to hold on to such a childish and petty mindset all the way into adulthood???
Something is wrong with her
Ugh I swear, I'm still not over how much of a POS Dami has been ( ￣皿￣)凸
Like, if they had been a group of girls in hs, the "friendship dynamic" between Dami and Joon would have been obviously identified as bullying. I mean, constantly insulting and trying to exclude Joon while talking bad about him to Doha and trying to get him to stay away from him.
But since they're boys it's fine. Since they're boys they're friends and that's just how friends are sometimes ig
It's just so fucking toxic and annoying ("it" being that Dami mf)
This was so cute and wholesome
The comments are a little weird but they're old so idk whatever
Idk if I'm going to finish this one . . .
Personally, the writing feels kind of juvenile - The characters don't really have distinct or interesting personalities and behave kind of childishly. The "drama" feels very low-stakes (so I'm not exactly itching to see how it resolves) but over dramatized and not in a fun way but in like a gloomy way. There's nothing really compelling about them or their romance so far that makes me want to root for them or finish reading their story to see how it ends. And a lot of the plot points seem kind of pointless, nonsensical, or just kind of unrelatable.
These are just my opinions of course, and I was wondering if anyone has other thoughts or is seeing something in this comic that I'm just missing.
It's probably just not my cup of tea but I'd still like to know what others think
Okay so I've read to ch 182 so definitely spoilers for those reading only on Mangago
So I'd read spoilers that Killian does find out about the terrible future/Daisy original life that she lived and I had hoped that there would be some scene where she is actually opening up about it and he's comforting her and all that sappy nonsense that I live for
But she made it back to her timeline with the blonde guy and all we get is one panel and one text box basically saying "she told Killian what happened in the bad version of the future", which is really only referring to how the blonde guy helped her because she was trying to save him from Killian after he tells him about the illegitimate guy that he's been protecting.
So I'm wondering if the scene I've been holding out for and was expecting is still yet to come or if someone misinterpreted that one panel to mean she explained EVERYTHING (which doesn't make sense in the context imo) and would still be kind of an anticlimactic way of going about it if she really had explained everything right then.
Anyway, if anyone knows if they actually have a conversation about all that happened to Daisy with Allen and all that please let me know, because even though I still love this story, I really do just feel disappointed :(
Ah yes, nothing like a man's blatant homophobia to make you fall head over heals in love
Tf
I will say the second couple was pretty cute
Guess the onions are going to come in handy sooner than he might have thought -u-
