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As I said before there is a dissonance between the content and the mood of this story and characters therein.
The MC enduring a violent and bloody rape. Why in the world is the he acting like this? His character has been already established to be fairly quick-tempered and prideful. That would have destroyed his pride in such a profound way. But he acting like he was only beaten and then had rough sex? It doesn’t make sense.
Also it’s really strange how rare the use of the term rape is in BL even though it is a prevalent occurrence/plot device in the stories. It’s annoying.
Call a spade a spade it’d be far more interesting to see and explore how someone could possibly grow to forgive or actively disassociate to cope with another character doing something so heinous to them. Instead so many story just chalk it up to rough sex and it’s a tired trope.
Plus as a queer man it is really weird to have so many stories depict gay sex this way, as if all men have a fucked up sense of what consent is or that sexual trauma doesn’t effect us. It’s really weird