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you took the words right out of my mouth.
the author also put it in for the mc to realize his own feelings, but same thing, still used as a cheap plot device with no real consequences.
it's unfortunate actually, considering how sweet and non-typical omegaverse the story between the mc and ml was going until this chapter.
I hate hate hate when authors use sa/attempted sa as a plot device (especially when they've already shown that it's a legitimate fear that character has). It's almost always used as a cheap, lazy way to fast track any relationship development or to introduce conflict between them and it never has any kind of meaningful impact on the story or the characters. Like if what you wanted to do was just establish that the ml was starting to feel unsure of whether his feelings for the mc were real or just because he's an omega, then you could have done that without the sa. If you completely remove the sa scene and just have the ml and another character (NOT the r*pist Jesus christ) having this conversation, then literally nothing about the outcome of that situation has changed. The mc isn't shown to be negatively affected by the attempted sa, the sa-ing characters aren't shown to have any kind of shift in mindset or have any real consequences for their actions. It literally only happened so that the ml could have this one specific doubt. And you had the mc's would be r*pist be the one to bring it up? And you really had the ml take what the R*PIST character said seriosuly?? Are you kidding me???
TL;DR
Please stop sa-ing your characters for plot progression it's cheap and overused and lazy and poor storytelling.