this was one heck of a read!
I decided to try this out to see what kind of story it was. I wanted to compare it to the comments I've seen comparing this to stories like Obey Me and Warehouse...heck, I wanted to compare it to comments people were making when they compared Sangwoo to Seungho from Painter of the Night.
So what do I think?
I think this is one of those stories you can't make fair comparisons for because it's so well written and the root reason for the relationship between Sangwoo and Bum is on a totally different level simply because of Sangwoo himself.
He's not gay.
He's not obsessed with Bum romantically.
When he lashes out at Bum, it's not Bum he's looking at. Every action Sangwoo takes is eclipsed by the trauma his mother put him through. So he doesn't see anything as what it is. He can't process his thoughts that way.
For Sangwoo, Bum is a conflation of his mother as well as a pet who can also be used like a girl when needed.
Warehouse's main plot was a guy getting revenge on another guy by locking him up in some building and raping him....all because neither party could get their feelings cleared up.
Obey Me is over the top ridiculousness. I don't like "torture porn," stories. I couldn't continue reading it, so I dropped it.
Painter of the Night is a historical romantic drama featuring a bi-polar noble who is told his homosexuality is a disease, and a talented painter who grew up in a brothel and was told by his admired tutor that the homosexual nature of his depictions were indecent. (I'm still invested in this story because I really like it.)
Killing Stalking is not a romance. And while yaoi moments do happen, Sangwoo doesn't do it because he wants Bum. He does it because "its" there. A hole.
Sangwoo's end was interesting. While his mother didn't succeed in smothering him when he was small, someone else did it for her after he became an adult. And though she spoke of a painful death, he did die emotionally and physically alone.
Now do I believe Bum died at the end? I couldn't care, really. I don't think the point of that ending is his death, but his refusal to stop his obsession to follow Sangwoo.
Love this! I agree. I wonder what your thoughts are on Blind Play.
Blind Play...
while I started reading it and stopped after the "blind" guy's session with the author...I'm not real sure yet.
When it comes to stories about dangerous situations, my impression is for the main character to not go back once it's done. So my impression, up to that point, is for the guy to quit that job, change his hairstyle, and pretend he earned enough to get surgery so he can see again...because the last thing he should be doing is going back to being a blind callboy who just might be subjected to that author's sick habits again.
But where would the story be if he made a clean break, right?
The one point that made Killing Stalking work was that both guys were in situations they couldn't, nor can't, get themselves out of. They were damaged before the story began.
OMG.......Seungho.....daaaaaaaang man. Why you so freakin HOT!?!
And NOW he's working his inner smooth talker by romancing Na-Kyum. Niiiiice!
I see Shoto in regards to Hawks, I swear it's like he's simping.
I can't unsee it, it's Kohei's fault! I'm down for Shoto x Hawks...or at least Shoto just crushing on the guy.
???? Shōto is still a kid bro
Dude keeps staring at hawks like he just met a demigod, I can see hawks asking for shoto's hand like "can't marry my hero? no prob I'll be his son in law XD"
He's 16 going on 17.
Right!?! Hahaha, why can I see this!?! lol
in the last panel. I thought his last name is Lee, not Min? I thought Min was the beady-eyed guy who got punched by Seungho when he exposed him liking Na-Kyum and convinced Jihwa to hire that assassin and even continue to conspire with Jihwa in order to get a piece of Na-Kyum? Could have sworn he was Min....
I'm getting the feeling that dude always had a thing for the guy in glasses since high school considering he outed him when they were alone. That's probably why he kissed him like he did.
here we go with the comments again.
But, hey, if it makes you guys feel better about reading this by exposing yourselves on here, fine. Just remember it's not really a safe space for your to share past trauma without criticism, ok?
I don't mind the story. Saitou got caught up in his feelings about Yusuke and stopped what he was doing because he truly does love him. Meanwhile Yusuke transformed his feelings of betrayal into a memory that concluded that it may as well have been assault.
I don't think these guys are broken. Broken would mean that these guys are too sick to overcome what makes them toxic and a threat to those around them. No. I see this as a story of misconceptions and unspoken feelings hurting the perceptions of two innocent people. But in the end it was cleared up and they were able to be together, no hate involved. So there's nothing "broken" about this.
Like, the hardcore pixel edits are way too much and get in the way of reading. There's no way Sweet Moans would do something like that. So to the uploader, why didn't you just contact Sweet Moans and ask them to upload the chapter instead? This is such a bad upload.
I had to read chapter 70 again, and I think Seungho is about to let Na-Kyum go.
It's looking like that pattern where a character does something to make up or apologize to someone they harmed and then let them go because it's the best they can do.
In this sense, Seungho is "attending" to Na-Kyum. The fact that he decided to do this and to try to win him over by being attentive that very night...it actually makes me anxious for what he's about to do the next day.