Why are mcs always the dumbest characters in bls

Ngl like half of the shitty storylines wouldn’t even work if the mc had more than 2 brain cells anyways   reply

Usually that just means the author's not that good oop- If you need your mc to be an idiot for a plot to work, or for everyone except the mc to be an idiot/cartoonishly evil in ordet to make the mc look like a genius/angelic good person, then that means you aren't capable of writing something with more nuance. I said what I said   1 reply

the ml in yaoi is somehow always stronger and smarter than the mc it does pmo so i'm asking for recs TT one manhwa where the mc is smart and wins over those who fucked him over is "missing love: a married man". the ml is green flag so they're not rivals. i guess i could say "mission save the hunter" is one but ml is also green flag so it's not wi......   reply

Because people are stupid, all that pick me ass bullshit from straight, BL, Yuri, its a damn disease. To the point where when a character says they want to avoid somebody and they actually take up shop and leave, and go 6 years with avoiding that person I'm genuinely shocked. And I have to say that the sick grandparent tropes etc I feel aren't enou......   reply

And even if they're meant to be smart, the male lead will one-up them in a different way and be smarter somehow   reply

Because authors made them like that . It's their preference I guess which is weird ngl   reply